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Richard J. Puddephatt

Richard J. Puddephatt

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Chemistry
Canada
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
25823
World Ranking
2927
National Ranking
63

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Richard J. Puddephatt is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a strong focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Their research contributions span various subfields including Inorganic Chemistry, Oncology, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientific work of Richard J. Puddephatt covers numerous topics, which include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms

Richard J. Puddephatt's notable recent papers include:

  • "Self-assembly of the smallest and tightest molecular trefoil knot," 2024, Nature Communications
  • "Photoswitchable organoplatinum complexes with an azobenzene derivative of di-2-pyridylamine," 2020, New Journal of Chemistry
  • "Cycloneophylpalladium(IV) Complexes: Formation by Oxidative Addition and Selectivity of Their Reductive Elimination Reactions," 2020, Organometallics
  • "Oxidative addition of halogens to a Cycloneophylplatinum(II) complex and evidence for C-H bond activation at Platinum(IV)," 2020, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
  • "Supramolecular organometallic chemistry: the platinum(iv) paradigm," 2022, Dalton Transactions

Frequent collaborators within Richard J. Puddephatt's body of work include:

  • Mahmood Azizpoor Fard
  • Paul D. Boyle
  • Ava Behnia
  • Johanna M. Blacquiere
  • Anwar Abo-Amer

The prominent venues for their research publications are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
  • Inorganica Chimica Acta
  • Organometallics

Best Publications

  • Chemistry of bis(diphenylphosphino)methane

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  • Ligand dissociation as a preliminary step in methyl-for-halogen exchange reactions of platinum(II) complexes

    John D. Scott;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Luminescent gold(I) macrocycles with diphosphine and 4,4′-bipyridyl ligands

    Marie-Claude Brandys;Michael C. Jennings;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Oxidative Addition Reactions of Organoplatinum(II) Complexes with Nitrogen-Donor Ligands.

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  • Luminescent Gold(I) Acetylides: From Model Compounds to Polymers

    Michael J. Irwin;Jagadese J. Vittal;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Macrocycles, catenanes, oligomers and polymers in gold chemistry.

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  • Reactivity and mechanism in oxidative addition to palladium(II) and reductive elimination from palladium(IV) and an estimate of the palladium methyl bond energy

    Peter K. Byers;Allan J. Canty;Margarita. Crespo;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • 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

  • Gold(I) Macrocycles and Topologically Chiral [2]Catenanes

    Christopher P. Mcardle;Steve Van;Michael C. Jennings;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Self-assembly in palladium(II) and platinum(II) chemistry: the biomimetic approach.

    Zengquan Qin;Michael C. Jennings;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Alkyl(hydrido)platinum(IV) Complexes: The Mechanism of Pt-C Bond Protonolysis

    Geoffrey S. Hill;Louis M. Rendina;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Pt-Re clusters and bimetallic catalysts

    Jianliang Xiao;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • COORDINATIVELY UNSATURATED TRIPALLADIUM AND TRIPLATINUM CLUSTERS : MODELS FOR REACTIONS ON METAL SURFACES

    Richard J. Puddephatt;Ljubica Manojlovic-Muir;Kenneth W. Muir

  • Coordination polymers: polymers, rings and oligomers containing gold(I) centres

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  • Macrocyclic and lantern complexes of palladium(II) with bis(amidopyridine) ligands: synthesis, structure, and host-guest chemistry.

    Nancy L. S. Yue;Dana J. Eisler;Michael C. Jennings;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Competition between intramolecular oxidative addition and ortho metalation in organoplatinum(II) compounds : activation of aryl-halogen bonds

    Craig M. Anderson;Margarita Crespo;Michael C. Jennings;Alan J. Lough

  • Molecular Topology: Easy Self-Assembly of an Organometallic Doubly Braided [2]Catenane.

    Christopher P. McArdle;Jagadese J. Vittal;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Self-assembly of chiral coordination polymers and macrocycles: a metal template effect on the polymer-macrocycle equilibrium.

    Tara J. Burchell;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Rigid-Rod Polymers and Model Compounds with Gold(I) Centers Bridged by Diisocyanides and Diacetylides

    Michael J. Irwin;Guochen Jia;and Nicholas C. Payne;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Organometallic polymers with gold(I) centers bridged by diphosphines and diacetylides

    Guochen Jia;Richard J. Puddephatt;John D. Scott;Jagadese J. Vittal

  • Oxidation of dimethylplatinum(II) complexes with alcohols: Synthesis and characterization of alkoxoplatinum(IV) complexes

    Patrick K. Monaghan;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Cationic intermediates in oxidative addition reactions of alkyl halides to d8 complexes: evidence for the SN2 mechanism

    Margarita. Crespo;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • Self-Assembly Using Dynamic Coordination Chemistry and Hydrogen Bonding: Mercury(II) Macrocycles, Polymers and Sheets

    Tara J. Burchell;Dana J. Eisler;Richard J. Puddephatt

  • An efficient binuclear catalyst for decomposition of formic acid

    Yuan Gao;Joshi Kuncheria;Richard J. Puddephatt;Glenn P. A. Yap

  • Platinum(II) complexes of dimethyl sulfide

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Frequent Co-Authors

Michael C. Jennings
Michael C. Jennings University of Western Ontario
Jagadese J. Vittal
Jagadese J. Vittal National University of Singapore
Jianliang Xiao
Jianliang Xiao University of Liverpool
George Ferguson
George Ferguson University of Guelph
Kenneth R. Seddon
Kenneth R. Seddon Queen's University Belfast
Glenn P. A. Yap
Glenn P. A. Yap University of Delaware
Sujit Roy
Sujit Roy Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
John S. Tse
John S. Tse University of Saskatchewan
Robin J. H. Clark
Robin J. H. Clark University College London
Alan J. Lough
Alan J. Lough University of Toronto

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