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Overview

Kim R. Dunbar is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Materials Science, with a primary focus on Materials Chemistry. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Spectroscopy, Inorganic Chemistry, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The main research topics covered in their work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Organic and Molecular Conductors Research
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions

Kim R. Dunbar's publication record shows frequent contributions to several prominent venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (52 publications)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (8 publications)
  • Chemical Communications (3 publications)
  • Dalton Transactions (3 publications)
  • Chemical Science (2 publications)

Their recent scholarly papers include the following:

  • Extraordinary electrochemical stability and extended polaron delocalization of ladder-type polyaniline-analogous polymers, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Trigonal Prismatic Cobalt(II) Single-Ion Magnets: Manipulating the Magnetic Relaxation Through Symmetry Control, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Enhanced Single-Chain Magnet Behavior via Anisotropic Exchange in a Cyano-Bridged MoIII-MnII Chain, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Probing the Axial Distortion Effect on the Magnetic Anisotropy of Octahedral Co(II) Complexes, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Geometrical control of the magnetic anisotropy in six coordinate cobalt complexes, 2020, Chemical Communications

Collaboration is a marked aspect of their career, with a number of frequent co-authors contributing to their scientific output. Notable collaborators include:

  • Haomiao Xie
  • Kuduva R. Vignesh
  • Dimitris I. Alexandropoulos
  • Mohamed R. Saber
  • Junjie Huang

Best Publications

  • Anion-π interactions

    Brandi L. Schottel;Helen T. Chifotides;Kim R. Dunbar

  • Chemistry of Transition Metal Cyanide Compounds: Modern Perspectives

    Kim R. Dunbar;Robert A. Heintz

  • Anion-π interactions in supramolecular architectures.

    Helen T. Chifotides;Kim R. Dunbar

  • Interactions of metal-metal-bonded antitumor active complexes with DNA fragments and DNA.

    Helen T. Chifotides;Kim R. Dunbar

  • New Insight into the Nature of Cu(TCNQ): Solution Routes to Two Distinct Polymorphs and Their Relationship to Crystalline Films That Display Bistable Switching Behavior

    Robert A. Heintz;Hanhua Zhao;Xiang Ouyang;Giulio Grandinetti

  • Molecular magnetic materials based on 4d and 5d transition metals.

    Xin-Yi Wang;Xin-Yi Wang;Carolina Avendaño;Kim R. Dunbar

  • Anion template effect on the self-assembly and interconversion of metallacyclophanes.

    Cristian Saul Campos-Fernández;Brandi L. Schottel;Helen T. Chifotides;Jitendra K. Bera

  • Anion-π interactions as controlling elements in self-assembly reactions of Ag(I) complexes with π-acidic aromatic rings

    Brandi L. Schottel;Helen T. Chifotides;Mikhail Shatruk;Abdellatif Chouai

  • Chain compounds based on transition metal backbones: new life for an old topic.

    Jitendra K. Bera;Kim R. Dunbar

  • Cyanide‐Bridged Complexes of Transition Metals: A Molecular Magnetism Perspective

    Michael Shatruk;Carolina Avendano;Kim R. Dunbar

  • Molecular cube of Re(II) and Mn(II) that exhibits single-molecule magnetism.

    Eric J. Schelter;and Andrey V. Prosvirin;Kim R. Dunbar

  • A trigonal-bipyramidal cyanide cluster with single-molecule-magnet behavior: Synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties of ([MnII(tmphen)2]3[MnIII(CN)6]2)

    Curtis P. Berlinguette;Derek Vaughn;Cristina Cañada-Vilalta;José Ramón Galán-Mascarós

  • Properties of Prussian Blue Materials Manifested in Molecular Complexes: Observation of Cyanide Linkage Isomerism and Spin-Crossover Behavior in Pentanuclear Cyanide Clusters

    Mikhail Shatruk;Alina Dragulescu-Andrasi;Kristen E. Chambers;Sebastian A. Stoian

  • Reversible switching from antiferro- to ferromagnetic behavior by solvent-mediated, thermally-induced phase transitions in a trimorphic MOF-based magnetic sponge system.

    Mario Wriedt;Andrey A. Yakovenko;Gregory J. Halder;Andrey V. Prosvirin

  • Cellular Toxicity Induced by the Photorelease of a Caged Bioactive Molecule: Design of a Potential Dual-Action Ru(II) Complex

    Mark A. Sgambellone;Amanda David;Robert N. Garner;Kim R. Dunbar

  • A charge-transfer-induced spin transition in the discrete cyanide-bridged complex [[Co(tmphen)2]3[Fe(CN)6]2].

    Curtis P Berlinguette;Alina Dragulescu-Andrasi;Andreas Sieber;José Ramón Galán-Mascarós

  • Control of charge transfer in a series of Ru2(II,II)/TCNQ two-dimensional networks by tuning the electron affinity of TCNQ units: a route to synergistic magnetic/conducting materials.

    Hitoshi Miyasaka;Natsuko Motokawa;Satoshi Matsunaga;Masahiro Yamashita

  • DNA binding and photocleavage in vitro by new dirhodium(II) dppz complexes: correlation to cytotoxicity and photocytotoxicity.

    Alfredo M. Angeles-Boza;Patricia M. Bradley;Patty K.-L. Fu;Sara E. Wicke

  • A One-Pot, High-Yield Synthesis of a Paramagnetic Nickel Square from Divergent Precursors by Anion Template Assembly.

    Cristian S. Campos-Fernández;Rodolphe Clérac;Kim R. Dunbar

  • Ligands effects on the magnetic anisotropy of tetrahedral cobalt complexes

    Mohamed R. Saber;Kim R. Dunbar

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Turro
Claudia Turro The Ohio State University
Rodolphe Clérac
Rodolphe Clérac Paul Pascal Research Center
F. Albert Cotton
F. Albert Cotton Texas A&M University
José Ramón Galán-Mascarós
José Ramón Galán-Mascarós Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Eric J. Schelter
Eric J. Schelter University of Pennsylvania
Xin-Yi Wang
Xin-Yi Wang Nanjing University
Hitoshi Miyasaka
Hitoshi Miyasaka Tohoku University
Larry R. Falvello
Larry R. Falvello University of Zaragoza
Curtis P. Berlinguette
Curtis P. Berlinguette University of British Columbia
George Christou
George Christou University of Florida

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