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Overview

Fook S. Tham is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with particular expertise in materials chemistry.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis

Fook S. Tham's recent publications demonstrate a contribution to crystallographic databases and organometallic chemistry, including work published in reputable venues. Recent papers include:

  • Investigating intermediates in the CCC-NHC pincer ligand metalation/transmetalation to Rh sequence, an improved stoichiometric synthesis of CCC-NHC pincer Rh complexes, 2022, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
  • CCDC 2101948: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2022, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 2239569: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2023, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 2239570: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2023, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 2239571: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2023, The Cambridge Structural Database

Their frequent coauthors, with whom they have collaborated on multiple publications, include:

  • Enock D. Amoateng
  • Julio Zamora-Moreno
  • G. Kuchenbeiser
  • B. Donnadieu
  • Virginia Montiel-Palma

Fook S. Tham's work is primarily published in The Cambridge Structural Database, where they have contributed to twelve entries, and the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. Their scientific contributions span organic and inorganic chemistry within the context of materials science, indicating a multidisciplinary approach combining chemical synthesis with structural analysis techniques.

Best Publications

  • Designing Ionic Liquids: Imidazolium Melts with Inert Carborane Anions

    Anna S. Larsen;John D. Holbrey;Fook S. Tham;Christopher A. Reed

  • SELECTIVE SUPRAMOLECULAR PORPHYRIN/FULLERENE INTERACTIONS

    Peter D. W. Boyd;Michael C. Hodgson;Clifton E. F. Rickard;Allen G. Oliver

  • Supramolecular fullerene-porphyrin chemistry. Fullerene complexation by metalated "jaws porphyrin" hosts.

    Dayong Sun;Fook S Tham;Christopher A Reed;Leila Chaker

  • Crystallographic Evidence for a Free Silylium Ion

    Kee-Chan Kim;Christopher A. Reed;Douglas W. Elliott;Leonard J. Mueller

  • Resonating Valence-Bond Ground State in a Phenalenyl-Based Neutral Radical Conductor

    S. K. Pal;M. E. Itkis;M. E. Itkis;F. S. Tham;F. S. Tham;R. W. Reed;R. W. Reed

  • Polynitrogen chemistry. Synthesis, characterization, and crystal structure of surprisingly stable fluoroantimonate salts of N5+.

    Ashwani Vij;William W Wilson;Vandana Vij;Fook S Tham

  • Porphyrin-fullerene host-guest chemistry

    Dayong Sun;Fook S. Tham;Christopher A. Reed;Leila Chaker

  • Isolating Benzenium Ion Salts

    Christopher A. Reed;Kee-Chan Kim;Evgenii S. Stoyanov;Daniel Stasko

  • Air- and water-stable catalysts for hydroamination/cyclization. Synthesis and application of CCC-NHC pincer complexes of Rh and Ir.

    Eike B. Bauer;G. T. Senthil Andavan;T. Keith Hollis;Ramel J. Rubio

  • Perhalogenated Carba‐closo‐dodecaborate Anions as Ligand Substituents: Applications in Gold Catalysis

    Vincent Lavallo;James H. Wright;Fook S. Tham;Sean Quinlivan

  • Novel weak coordination to silylium ions : formation of nearly linear Si-H-Si bonds

    Stephan P. Hoffmann;Tsuyoshi Kato;Fook S. Tham;Christopher A. Reed

  • Identification and mechanism of ABA receptor antagonism

    Karsten Melcher;Yong Xu;Ley-Moy Ng;Ley-Moy Ng;X Edward Zhou

  • Two-Component Control of Guest Binding in a Self-Assembled Cage Molecule

    Puhong Liao;Brian W. Langloss;Amber M. Johnson;Eric R. Knudsen

  • Metal ion-induced self-assembly of functionalized 2,6-oligopyridines. 2. Copper-containing double-stranded helicates derived from functionalized quaterpyridine and quinquepyridine: redox state-induced transformations and electron communication in mixed-valence systems

    Kevin T. Potts;Majid Keshavarz-K;Fook S. Tham;Hector D. Abruna

  • Extending supramolecular fullerene-porphyrin chemistry to pillared metal-organic frameworks

    Dayong Sun;Fook S. Tham;Christopher A. Reed;Peter D. W. Boyd

  • Resonating Valence Bond Ground State in Oxygen-Functionalized Phenalenyl-Based Neutral Radical Molecular Conductors

    Swadhin K. Mandal;Satyabrata Samanta;Mikhail E. Itkis;Dell W. Jensen

  • Synthesis and characterization of a free phenylene bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) and its di-Rh complex: Catalytic activity of the di-Rh and CCC–NHC Rh pincer complexes in intermolecular hydrosilylation of alkynes

    Gurusamy Thangavelu Senthil Andavan;Eike B. Bauer;Christopher S. Letko;T. Keith Hollis

  • Toward a general method for CCC N -heterocyclic carbene pincer synthesis: Metallation and transmetallation strategies for concurrent activation of three C–H bonds

    Ramel J. Rubio;Gurusamy Thangavelu Senthil Andavan;Eike B. Bauer;T. Keith Hollis

  • Superacidity of Boron Acids H2(B12X12) (X=Cl, Br)

    Amy Avelar;Fook S. Tham;Christopher A. Reed

  • C-F activation of fluorobenzene by silylium carboranes: evidence for incipient phenyl cation reactivity.

    Simon Duttwyler;Christos Douvris;Nathanael L. P. Fackler;Fook S. Tham

  • Polynitrogen Chemistry. Synthesis, Characterization, and Crystal Structure of Surprisingly Stable Fluoroantimonate Salts of N5+.

    Ashwani Vij;William W. Wilson;Vandana Vij;Fook S. Tham

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Haddon
Robert C. Haddon University of California, Riverside
Christopher A. Reed
Christopher A. Reed University of California, Riverside
Mikhail E. Itkis
Mikhail E. Itkis University of California, Riverside
Richard T. Oakley
Richard T. Oakley University of Waterloo
Bruno Donnadieu
Bruno Donnadieu University of California, Riverside
Guy Bertrand
Guy Bertrand University of California, San Diego
Karl O. Christe
Karl O. Christe University of Southern California
Christopher J. Bardeen
Christopher J. Bardeen University of California, Riverside
Ralf Haiges
Ralf Haiges University of Southern California
David C. Martin
David C. Martin University of Delaware

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