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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1990 - Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, Royal Society of Canada
  • 1984 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Michael D. Fryzuk is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and process chemistry and technology.

The main topics covered in Fryzuk's work include:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis
  • Asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Metal-organic frameworks: synthesis and applications
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Synthesis of a T-Shaped Cobalt(I) Complex and Its Dinitrogen Adduct," 2020, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Enantiopure P-Chiral Secondary Phosphines (P*HRR') from the Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of PC Bonds," 2024, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Forays into rhodium macrocyclic chemistry stabilized by a P2N2 donor set. Activation of dihydrogen and benzene," 2020, Dalton Transactions
  • "Heterobimetallic complexes stabilized by the P2N2 macrocyclic ligand system: synthesis and reactivity of a rhodium-copper system that activates molecular hydrogen," 2021, Dalton Transactions
  • "CCDC 2005436: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination," 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database

Frequent collaborators in Fryzuk's research include Corey A. Sanz, Alyssa Yeo, Siyuan L. Xie, Tatsuya Suzuki, and Keisuke Fujimoto.

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Dalton Transactions, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Awards received include the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada in 1990, designation as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1984, and election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1997 under the Academy of Science category.

Best Publications

  • Dinitrogen Coordination Chemistry: On the Biomimetic Borderlands

    Bruce A. MacKay;Michael D. Fryzuk

  • ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS. PRODUCTION OF OPTICALLY ACTIVE AMINO ACIDS BY CATALYTIC HYDROGENATION

    M. D. Fryzuk;B. Bosnich

  • The continuing story of dinitrogen activation

    Michael D Fryzuk;Samuel A Johnson

  • Transformation of Coordinated Dinitrogen by Reaction with Dihydrogen and Primary Silanes

    Michael D. Fryzuk;Jason B. Love;Steven J. Rettig;Victor G. Young

  • Asymmetric synthesis. An asymmetric homogeneous hydrogenation catalyst which breeds its own chirality

    M. D. Fryzuk;B. Bosnich

  • Examining the relationship between coordination mode and reactivity of dinitrogen

    Richard J. Burford;Michael D. Fryzuk

  • Amides of the platinum group metals

    Michael D. Fryzuk;Craig D. Montgomery

  • Side-on end-on bound dinitrogen: an activated bonding mode that facilitates functionalizing molecular nitrogen.

    Michael D. Fryzuk

  • Activation of Molecular Nitrogen: Coordination, Cleavage and Functionalization of N2 Mediated By Metal Complexes

    Michael P. Shaver;Michael D. Fryzuk

  • New mode of coordination for the dinitrogen ligand: formation, bonding, and reactivity of a tantalum complex with a bridging N(2) unit that is both side-on and end-on.

    Fryzuk;Johnson Sa;Patrick Bo;Albinati A

  • Synthesis and Reactivity of Side-On-Bound Dinitrogen Metal Complexes

    Erin A. Maclachlan;Michael D. Fryzuk

  • NEW MODE OF COORDINATION FOR THE DINITROGEN LIGAND : A DINUCLEAR TANTALUM COMPLEX WITH A BRIDGING N2 UNIT THAT IS BOTH SIDE-ON AND END-ON

    Michael D. Fryzuk;Samuel A. Johnson;Steven J. Rettig

  • Halide, hydride, alkyl, and dinitrogen complexes of bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)hafnium

    D. M. Roddick;M. D. Fryzuk;P. F. Seidler;G. L. Hillhouse

  • Hydroboration of coordinated dinitrogen: A new reaction for the N2 ligand that results in its functionalization and cleavage

    Michael D. Fryzuk;Bruce A. MacKay;Samuel A. Johnson;Brian O. Patrick

  • Stereoselective formation of rhodium and iridium hydrides via intramolecular hydrogen bonding

    Michael D. Fryzuk;Patricia A. MacNeil;Steven J. Rettig

  • The hydride route to the preparation of dinitrogen complexes.

    Joachim Ballmann;Rui F. Munhá;Michael D. Fryzuk

  • End-on versus side-on bonding of dinitrogen to dinuclear early transition-metal complexes

    Michael D. Fryzuk;T. S. Haddad;Murugesapillai Mylvaganam;David H. McConville

  • Hydrosilylation of a dinuclear tantalum dinitrogen complex: cleavage of N2 and functionalization of both nitrogen atoms.

    Michael D. Fryzuk;Bruce A. Mackay;Brian O. Patrick

  • Catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of imines. Use of rhodium(I)/phosphine complexes and characterization of rhodium(I)/imine complexes

    Adam G. Becalski;William R. Cullen;Michael D. Fryzuk;Brian R. James

  • The 1992 Alcan Award Lecture Excursions around the periodic table: ligand design in inorganic chemistry

    Michael D. Fryzuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Rettig
Steven J. Rettig University of British Columbia
Brian O. Patrick
Brian O. Patrick University of British Columbia
William R. Cullen
William R. Cullen University of British Columbia
Brian R. James
Brian R. James University of British Columbia
Warren E. Piers
Warren E. Piers University of Calgary
Michael J. Zaworotko
Michael J. Zaworotko University of Limerick
Leonard R. MacGillivray
Leonard R. MacGillivray University of Iowa
Laurent Maron
Laurent Maron Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Felix Studt
Felix Studt Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Luis F. Veiros
Luis F. Veiros Instituto Superior Técnico

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