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Glenn P. A. Yap is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of materials science and chemistry. Their work spans multiple subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and molecular biology.

Their research has been published frequently in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Organometallics.

Yap's recent papers encompass a range of topics related to coordination cages, porous salts, and frameworks for gas storage and detection. Notable papers include:

  • A Charged Coordination Cage-Based Porous Salt (2020) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks Based on Endless-Stacked Amides for Iodine Capture and Detection (2023) in Advanced Functional Materials
  • Tuning the Porosity, Solubility, and Gas-Storage Properties of Cuboctahedral Coordination Cages via Amide or Ester Functionalization (2020) in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Ligand-Based Phase Control in Porous Zirconium Coordination Cages (2020) in Chemistry of Materials
  • Elaboration of Porous Salts (2021) in Journal of the American Chemical Society

The main research topics covered by their publications include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts include Eric D. Bloch, Michael R. Dworzak, Tiow-Gan Ong, Alexandra M. Antonio, and Joel Rosenthal. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse and continuous output of publications in their areas of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Synthesis, Properties, and Hydroboration Activity of the Highly Electrophilic Borane Bis(pentafluorophenyl)borane, HB(C6F5)21

    Daniel J. Parks;Warren E. Piers;Glenn P. A. Yap

  • Nickel-Catalyzed Cross Couplings of Benzylic Ammonium Salts and Boronic Acids: Stereospecific Formation of Diarylethanes via C–N Bond Activation

    Prantik Maity;Danielle M. Shacklady-McAtee;Glenn P. A. Yap;Eric R. Sirianni

  • Bimetallic nickel aluminum mediated para-selective alkenylation of pyridine: direct observation of eta2,eta1-pyridine Ni(0)-Al(III) intermediates prior to C-H bond activation

    Chung-Chih Tsai;Wei-Chih Shih;Cyong-Hui Fang;Chia-Yi Li

  • Life and Death of an Active Ethylene Polymerization Catalyst. Ligand Involvement in Catalyst Activation and Deactivation. Isolation and Characterization of Two Unprecedented Neutral and Anionic Vanadium(I) Alkyls

    Damien Reardon;Françoise Conan;Sandro Gambarotta;Glenn Yap

  • Constructing a stable carbene with a novel topology and electronic framework

    Patrick Bazinet;Glenn P. A. Yap;Darrin S. Richeson

  • The shortest metal-metal bond yet: molecular and electronic structure of a dinuclear chromium diazadiene complex.

    Kevin A. Kreisel;Glenn P. A. Yap;Olga Dmitrenko;Clark R. Landis

  • A New Class of Functionalized Polyoxometalates: Synthetic, Structural, Spectroscopic, and Electrochemical Studies of Organoimido Derivatives of [Mo6O19]2-

    Joseph B. Strong;Glenn P. A. Yap;Robert Ostrander;‡ Louise M. Liable-Sands

  • A highly reactive uranium complex supported by the calix[4]tetrapyrrole tetraanion affording dinitrogen cleavage, solvent deoxygenation, and polysilanol depolymerization.

    Ilia Korobkov;Sandro Gambarotta;Glenn P. A. Yap

  • A photochemical synthesis of functionalized trans-cyclooctenes driven by metal complexation.

    Maksim Royzen;Glenn P A Yap;Joseph M Fox

  • Catalytic Construction and Reconstruction of Guanidines: Ti-Mediated Guanylation of Amines and Transamination of Guanidines

    Tiow-Gan Ong;Glenn P. A. Yap;Darrin S. Richeson

  • An Unconventional Intermolecular Three‐Center N–H …︁ H2Re Hydrogen Bond in Crystalline [ReH5(PPh3)3]·indole·C6H6

    Jeremy Wessel;Jesse C. Lee;Eduardo Peris;Glenn P. A. Yap

  • Intramolecular C ? H Activation by an Open‐Shell Cobalt(III) Imido Complex

    Daniel T. Shay;Glenn P. A. Yap;Lev N. Zakharov;Arnold L. Rheingold

  • High-Molecular-Weight Atactic Polypropylene from Metallocene Catalysts. 1. Me2Si(9-Flu)2ZrX2 (X = Cl, Me)

    Luigi Resconi;Robert L. Jones;Arnold L. Rheingold and;Glenn P. A. Yap

  • Participation of the α,α‘-Diiminopyridine Ligand System in Reduction of the Metal Center during Alkylation

    Hiroyasu Sugiyama;Ghazar Aharonian;Sandro Gambarotta;Glenn P. A. Yap

  • The interconversion of formic acid and hydrogen/carbon dioxide using a binuclear ruthenium complex catalyst

    Yuan Gao;Joshi K. Kuncheria;Hilary A. Jenkins;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Chiral Crown Conformation of Rh2(S-PTTL)4: Enantioselective Cyclopropanation with α-Alkyl-α-diazoesters

    Andrew DeAngelis;Olga Dmitrenko;Glenn P. A. Yap;Joseph M. Fox

  • Palladium Aryl Sulfonate Phosphine Catalysts for the Copolymerization of Acrylates with Ethene

    Kirill M. Skupov;Pooja R. Marella;Michel Simard;Glenn P. A. Yap

  • Expanding the Ligand Framework Diversity of Carbodicarbenes and Direct Detection of Boron Activation in the Methylation of Amines with CO2.

    Wen-Ching Chen;Jiun-Shian Shen;Titel Jurca;Chun-Jung Peng

  • Silolyl Anions and Silole Dianions: Structure of [K([18]crown-6)+]2[C4Me4Si2−]

    William P. Freeman;T. Don Tilley;Glenn P. A. Yap;Arnold L. Rheingold

  • The Ability of the α,α′‐Diiminopyridine Ligand System to Accept Negative Charge: Isolation of Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic Trianions

    David Enright;Sandro Gambarotta;Glenn P. A. Yap;Peter H. M. Budzelaar

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnold L. Rheingold
Arnold L. Rheingold University of California, San Diego
Louise M. Liable-Sands
Louise M. Liable-Sands University of Delaware
Klaus H. Theopold
Klaus H. Theopold University of Delaware
Darrin S. Richeson
Darrin S. Richeson University of Ottawa
Sandro Gambarotta
Sandro Gambarotta University of Ottawa
Joseph M. Fox
Joseph M. Fox University of Delaware
Marcus A. Tius
Marcus A. Tius University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ibon Alkorta
Ibon Alkorta Spanish National Research Council
Swiatoslaw Trofimenko
Swiatoslaw Trofimenko University of Delaware
Richard J. Puddephatt
Richard J. Puddephatt University of Western Ontario

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