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13261
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Overview

Eric Rivard is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and conducts extensive research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their scholarly work focuses on key areas such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry, covering topics like Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and the synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds.

Their research portfolio includes publications in notable venues, with frequent contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database, Dalton Transactions, Chemistry - A European Journal, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Eric Rivard has collaborated often with several researchers including Michael J. Ferguson, Yuqiao Zhou, Alvaro A. Omaña, and Brandon L. Frenette.

Recent published papers include:

  • "Molecular Main Group Metal Hydrides" (2021) in Chemical Reviews
  • "A Stable Homoleptic Divinyl Tetrelene Series" (2021) in Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "Frustrated Lewis Pair Chelation as a Vehicle for Low-Temperature Semiconductor Element and Polymer Deposition" (2020) in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Access to adducts of parent iminoborane isomers, HBNH and NBH2, using frustrated Lewis pair chelation" (2021) in Chemical Communications
  • "Frustrated Lewis Pair Adduct of Atomic P(−1) as a Source of Phosphinidenes (PR), Diphosphorus (P2), and Indium Phosphide" (2023) in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Multiple bonding in heavier element compounds stabilized by bulky terphenyl ligands.

    Eric Rivard;Philip P. Power

  • Molecular Main Group Metal Hydrides

    Matthew M. D. Roy;Alvaro A. Omaña;Andrew S. S. Wilson;Michael S. Hill

  • Pushing Chemical Boundaries with N-Heterocyclic Olefins (NHOs): From Catalysis to Main Group Element Chemistry

    Matthew M. D. Roy;Eric Rivard

  • Small inorganic rings in the 21st century: from fleeting intermediates to novel isolable entities.

    Gang He;Olena Shynkaruk;Melanie W. Lui;Eric Rivard

  • Synthesis and Characterization of the Homologous M−M Bonded Series Ar‘MMAr‘ (M = Zn, Cd, or Hg; Ar‘ = C6H3-2,6-(C6H3-2,6-Pri2)2) and Related Arylmetal Halides and Hydride Species

    Zhongliang Zhu;Marcin Brynda;Robert J. Wright;Roland C. Fischer

  • Marriage of heavy main group elements with π-conjugated materials for optoelectronic applications

    Sarah M. Parke;Michael P. Boone;Eric Rivard

  • A Zinc–Zinc‐Bonded Compound and Its Derivatives Bridged by One or Two Hydrogen Atoms: A New Type of ZnZn Bonding

    Zhongliang Zhu;Robert J. Wright;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Eric Rivard

  • Stabilization of the heavy methylene analogues, GeH2 and SnH2, within the coordination sphere of a transition metal.

    S. M. Ibrahim Al-Rafia;Adam C. Malcolm;Sean K. Liew;Michael J. Ferguson

  • Intercepting low oxidation state main group hydrides with a nucleophilic N-heterocyclic olefin

    S. M. Ibrahim Al-Rafia;Adam C. Malcolm;Sean K. Liew;Michael J. Ferguson

  • Preparation of Stable Low‐Oxidation‐State Group 14 Element Amidohydrides and Hydride‐Mediated Ring‐Expansion Chemistry of N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes

    S. M. Ibrahim Al-Rafia;Robert McDonald;Michael J. Ferguson;Eric Rivard

  • Donor/acceptor stabilization of Ge(II) dihydride

    Kelsey C. Thimer;S. M. Ibrahim Al-Rafia;Michael J. Ferguson;Robert McDonald

  • Coaxing Solid‐State Phosphorescence from Tellurophenes

    Gang He;William Torres Delgado;Devon J. Schatz;Christian Merten

  • Addition of Hydrogen or Ammonia to a Low‐Valent Group 13 Metal Species at 25 °C and 1 Atmosphere

    Zhongliang Zhu;Xinping Wang;Yang Peng;Hao Lei

  • Addition of H2 to distannynes under ambient conditions

    Yang Peng;Marcin Brynda;Bobby D. Ellis;James C. Fettinger

  • Tl2[Aryl2P4]: a thallium complexed diaryltetraphosphabutadienediide and its two-electron oxidation to a diaryltetraphosphabicyclobutane, aryl2p4.

    Alexander R. Fox;Robert J. Wright;Eric Rivard;Philip P. Power

  • Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of the Polyphosphinoboranes [RPH−BH2]n (R = Ph, iBu, p-nBuC6H4, p-dodecylC6H4): Inorganic Polymers with a Phosphorus−Boron Backbone

    Hendrik Dorn;José M. Rodezno;Björn Brunnhöfer;Eric Rivard

  • A new high-yield synthesis of Cl(3)P=NSiMe(3), a monomeric precursor for the controlled preparation of high molecular weight polyphosphazenes.

    Bin Wang;Eric Rivard;Ian Manners

  • The marriage of metallacycle transfer chemistry with Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling to give main group element-containing conjugated polymers.

    Gang He;Le Kang;William Torres Delgado;Olena Shynkaruk

  • Group 14 inorganic hydrocarbon analogues

    Eric Rivard

  • Accessing Zinc Monohydride Cations through Coordinative Interactions

    Paul A. Lummis;Mohammad R. Momeni;Melanie W. Lui;Robert McDonald

  • Trapping the parent inorganic ethylenes H2SiGeH2 and H2SiSnH2 in the form of stable adducts at ambient temperature.

    S. M. Ibrahim Al‐Rafia;Adam C. Malcolm;Robert McDonald;Michael J. Ferguson

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Ferguson
Michael J. Ferguson University of Alberta
Robert McDonald
Robert McDonald University of Alberta
Philip P. Power
Philip P. Power University of California, Davis
James C. Fettinger
James C. Fettinger University of California, Davis
Karthik Shankar
Karthik Shankar University of Alberta
Jonathan G. C. Veinot
Jonathan G. C. Veinot University of Alberta
Norihiro Tokitoh
Norihiro Tokitoh Kyoto University
Marilyn M. Olmstead
Marilyn M. Olmstead University of California, Davis
Yang Peng
Yang Peng Soochow University
Peter Müller-Buschbaum
Peter Müller-Buschbaum Technical University of Munich

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