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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1989 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Richard F. Jordan is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Materials Science, with a detailed emphasis on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology, and Pharmaceutical Science.

The topics that constitute the core of their work include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Catalysis, N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry.

Richard F. Jordan has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Erik D. Reinhart
  • Qian Liu

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Synthesis and Ethylene Reactivity of Dinuclear Iron and Cobalt Complexes Supported by Macrocyclic Bis(pyridine-diimine) Ligands Containing o-Terphenyl Linkers, 2020, Organometallics
  • Copolymerization of Ethylene and Vinyl Fluoride by Self-Assembled Multinuclear Palladium Catalysts, 2020, Polymers
  • CCDC 1991376: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 1991378: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 1991379: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database

The frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organometallics
  • Polymers

Throughout their career, Richard F. Jordan received recognition including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1989

Best Publications

  • Chemistry of Cationic Dicyclopentadienyl Group 4 Metal-Alky I Complexes

    Richard F. Jordan

  • Ortho-phosphinobenzenesulfonate: a superb ligand for palladium-catalyzed coordination-insertion copolymerization of polar vinyl monomers.

    Akifumi Nakamura;Timo M. J. Anselment;Jerome Claverie;Brian Goodall

  • Ethylene polymerization by a cationic dicyclopentadienyl zirconium(IV) alkyl complex

    Richard F. Jordan;Chandrasekhar S. Bajgur;Roger. Willett;Brian. Scott

  • Cationic Aluminum Alkyl Complexes Incorporating Amidinate Ligands. Transition-Metal-Free Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts

    Martyn P. Coles and;Richard F. Jordan

  • Reactive cationic dicyclopentadienyl zirconium(IV) complexes

    Richard F. Jordan;William E. Dasher;Scott F. Echols

  • Zirconium-catalyzed coupling of propene and .alpha.-picoline

    Richard F. Jordan;Dennis F. Taylor

  • Synthesis and Structures of Mono- and Bis(amidinate) Complexes of Aluminum

    Martyn P Coles;Dale C Swenson;Richard F Jordan;Victor G Young

  • Synthesis and Structures of Cationic Aluminum and Gallium Amidinate Complexes

    Samuel Dagorne;Ilia A Guzei;Martyn P Coles;Richard F Jordan

  • Chemistry of cationic zirconium(IV) benzyl complexes. One-electron oxidation of d0 organometallics

    Richard F. Jordan;Robert E. LaPointe;Chandrasekhar S. Bajgur;Scott F. Echols

  • Reversible Ethylene Cycloaddition Reactions of Cationic Aluminum 'beta'-Diketiminate Complexes

    Catherine E Radzewich;Martyn P Coles;Richard F Jordan

  • Copolymerization of ethylene and alkyl vinyl ethers by a (phosphine- sulfonate)PdMe catalyst.

    Shuji Luo;Javier Vela;Graham R. Lief;Richard F. Jordan

  • EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS OF CHIRAL ANSA-METALLOCENES BY AMINE ELIMINATION. SYNTHESIS, STRUCTURE, AND REACTIVITY OF RAC-(EBI)ZR(NME2)2

    Gary M. Diamond;Richard F. Jordan;Jeffrey L. Petersen

  • EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS OF RAC-(ETHYLENEBIS(INDENYL)ZRX2 COMPLEXES VIA AMINE ELIMINATION

    Gary M. Diamond;Stephan Rodewald;Richard F. Jordan

  • Synthesis, Structures, and Reactivity of (R6-acen)ZrR'2 and (R6-acen)Zr(R')+ Complexes (R = H, F; R' = CH2CMe3, CH2Ph)

    Erik B. Tjaden;Dale C. Swenson;Richard F. Jordan;Jeffrey L. Petersen

  • Copolymerization of ethylene and vinyl fluoride by (phosphine-sulfonate)Pd(Me)(py) catalysts.

    Wei Weng;Zhongliang Shen;Richard F. Jordan

  • Group 4 metal dicarbollide chemistry. Synthesis, structures, and reactivity of electrophilic alkyl complexes (Cp*)(C2B9H11)M(R), M = Hf, Zr

    Donna J. Crowther;Norman C. Baenziger;Richard F. Jordan

  • Cationic Aluminum Alkyl Complexes Incorporating Aminotroponiminate Ligands

    Andrey V. Korolev;Eiji Ihara;Ilia A. Guzei;Victor G. Young

  • Synthesis, Structures, Bonding, and Ethylene Reactivity of Group 4 Metal Alkyl Complexes Incorporating 8-Quinolinolato Ligands

    Xiaohong Bei;Dale C. Swenson;Richard F. Jordan

  • .beta.-Agostic interactions in (C5H4Me)2Zr(CH2CH2R)(PMe3)+ complexes

    Richard F. Jordan;Prudence K. Bradley;Norman C. Baenziger;Robert E. LaPointe

  • Three-Coordinate Cationic Aluminum Alkyl Complexes Incorporating β-Diketiminate Ligands

    Catherine E. Radzewich;Ilia A. Guzei;Richard F. Jordan

Frequent Co-Authors

Dale C. Swenson
Dale C. Swenson University of Iowa
Ilia A. Guzei
Ilia A. Guzei University of Wisconsin–Madison
Victor G. Young
Victor G. Young University of Minnesota
Jeffrey L. Petersen
Jeffrey L. Petersen West Virginia University
Changle Chen
Changle Chen University of Science and Technology of China
Jack R. Norton
Jack R. Norton Columbia University
Roger D. Willett
Roger D. Willett Washington State University
Robin D. Rogers
Robin D. Rogers University of Alabama
Charles P. Casey
Charles P. Casey University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bernhard Rieger
Bernhard Rieger Technical University of Munich

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