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M. Frederick Hawthorne

M. Frederick Hawthorne

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Chemistry

D-Index
86
Citations
29123
World Ranking
2511
National Ranking
879

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1963 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

M. Frederick Hawthorne is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Materials Science, with a particular focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Materials Chemistry.

Their main topics of work cover:

  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Boron Compounds in Chemistry

Hawthorne's recent publication includes the paper titled Amphiphilic DTPA Multimer Assembled on Icosahedral Closo-Borane Motif as High-Performance MRI Blood Pool Contrast Agent, published in 2021 in the journal ACS Applied Bio Materials.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hawthorne are:

  • Lalit N. Goswami
  • Shatadru Chakravarty
  • Quan-Yu Cai
  • Erik M. Shapiro
  • Lixin Ma

Hawthorne's work is typically published in venues such as ACS Applied Bio Materials.

In 1963, they were recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • The Role of Chemistry in the Development of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy of Cancer

    M. Frederick Hawthorne

  • .pi.-Dicarbollyl derivatives of the transition metals. Metallocene analogs

    M. Frederick Hawthorne;Donald Clifford Young;Timothy D. Andrews;David V. Howe

  • Applications of Radiolabeled Boron Clusters to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer

    M. Frederick Hawthorne;Andreas Maderna

  • Carbametallic Boron Hydride Derivatives. I. Apparent Analogs of Ferrocene and Ferricinium Ion

    M. Frederick Hawthorne;Donald C. Young;Patrick A. Wegner

  • Preparation and characterization of the (3)-1,2- and (3)-1,7-dicarbadodecahydroundecaborate(-1) ions

    M. Frederick Hawthorne;Donald Clifford Young;Philip M. Garrett;David A. Owen

  • Dicarbaundecaborane(13) and Derivatives

    Robert A. Wiesboeck;M. Frederick. Hawthorne

  • Recognition of Electron-Donating Guests by Carborane-Supported Multidentate Macrocyclic Lewis Acid Hosts: Mercuracarborand Chemistry

    M. Frederick Hawthorne and;Zhiping Zheng

  • Synthesis and hydrogen sorption properties of carborane based metal-organic framework materials.

    Omar K. Farha;Alexander M. Spokoyny;Karen L. Mulfort;M. Frederick Hawthorne

  • Electrical or photocontrol of the rotary motion of a metallacarborane

    M. Frederick Hawthorne;Jeffrey I. Zink;Johnny M. Skelton;Michael J. Bayer

  • Multidentate carborane-containing Lewis acids and their chemistry: mercuracarborands

    Timothy J Wedge;M.Frederick Hawthorne

  • Rigid-rod molecules: carborods. Synthesis of tetrameric p-carboranes and the crystal structure of bis(tri-n-butylsilyl)tetra-p-carborane

    Xiaoguang Yang;Wei Jiang;Carolyn B. Knobler;M. Frederick Hawthorne

  • Coordination-driven self-assemblies with a carborane backbone.

    Hershel Jude;Hendrik Disteldorf;Sonja Fischer;Tim Wedge

  • A Critical Assessment of Boron Target Compounds for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy

    M. Frederick Hawthorne;Mark W. Lee

  • Facile Electrophilic Iodination of Icosahedral Carboranes. Synthesis of Carborane Derivatives with Boron-Carbon Bonds via the Palladium-Catalyzed Reaction of Diiodocarboranes with Grignard Reagents

    Zhiping Zheng;Wei Jiang;Alfred A. Zinn;Carolyn B. Knobler

  • “[12]Mercuracarborand‐4”, the First Representative of a New Class of Rigid Macrocyclic Electrophiles: The Chloride Ion Complex of a Charge‐Reversed Analogue of [12]Crown‐4

    Xiaoguang Yang;Carolyn B. Knobler;M. Frederick Hawthorne

  • Auracarboranes with and without Au−Au Interactions: An Unusually Strong Aurophilic Interaction

    David E. Harwell;Mark D. Mortimer;Carolyn B. Knobler;and Frank A. L. Anet

  • The Amine Complexes of Aluminum Hydride. II

    John K. Ruff;M. Frederick Hawthorne

  • New horizons for therapy based on the boron neutron capture reaction.

    M.Frederick Hawthorne

  • Host-Guest Chemistry of a New Class of Macrocyclic Multidentate Lewis Acids Comprised of Carborane-Supported Electrophilic Mercury Centers?

    Xiaoguang Yang;Carolyn B. Knobler;Zhiping Zheng;M. Frederick Hawthorne

  • Chemistry of the polyhedral species derived from transition metals and carboranes

    M. Frederick Hawthorne

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn B. Knobler
Carolyn B. Knobler University of California, Los Angeles
William J. Evans
William J. Evans University of California, Irvine
Zhiping Zheng
Zhiping Zheng Southern University of Science and Technology
Saeed I. Khan
Saeed I. Khan University of California, Los Angeles
Omar K. Farha
Omar K. Farha Northwestern University
Melvyn Rowen Churchill
Melvyn Rowen Churchill University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Todd B. Marder
Todd B. Marder University of Würzburg
William N. Lipscomb
William N. Lipscomb Harvard University
William J. Evans
William J. Evans University of California, Berkeley
Youngkyu Do
Youngkyu Do Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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