Robert H. Morris

Research.com Recognitions

• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
• 1991 - Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, Royal Society of Canada

Overview

Best Publications

• Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges in Biochemical and Chemical Catalysis of CO2 Fixation

  Aaron M. Appel;John E. Bercaw;Andrew B. Bocarsly;Holger Dobbek

  2225
  Citations

• Mechanisms of the H2-hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation of polar bonds catalyzed by ruthenium hydride complexes

  Sean E. Clapham;Alen Hadzovic;Robert H. Morris

  1459
  Citations

• Reactions of transition metal dihydrogen complexes

  Philip G. Jessop;Robert H. Morris

  922
  Citations

• Asymmetric hydrogenation, transfer hydrogenation and hydrosilylation of ketones catalyzed by iron complexes.

  Robert H. Morris

  799
  Citations

• Mechanism of the hydrogenation of ketones catalyzed by trans-dihydrido(diamine)ruthenium II complexes.

  ‡ Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid;Sean E. Clapham;Alen Hadzovic;Jeremy N. Harvey

  580
  Citations

• Using nature's blueprint to expand catalysis with Earth-abundant metals

  R. Morris Bullock;Jingguang G. Chen;Jingguang G. Chen;Laura Gagliardi;Paul J. Chirik

  538
  Citations

• Amine(imine)diphosphine iron catalysts for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones and imines.

  Weiwei Zuo;Alan J. Lough;Young Feng Li;Robert H. Morris

  525
  Citations

• Fundamentals and applications of photocatalytic CO 2 methanation

  Ulrich Ulmer;Thomas Dingle;Paul N. Duchesne;Robert H. Morris

  448
  Citations

• Exploiting Metal–Ligand Bifunctional Reactions in the Design of Iron Asymmetric Hydrogenation Catalysts

  Robert H. Morris

  437
  Citations

• Getting Down to Earth: The Renaissance of Catalysis with Abundant Metals.

  Paul Chirik;Robert Morris

  417
  Citations

• Highly Efficient Catalyst Systems Using Iron Complexes with a Tetradentate PNNP Ligand for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Polar Bonds

  Christine Sui-Seng;Friederike Freutel;Alan J. Lough;Robert H. Morris

  399
  Citations

• Catalytic cycle for the asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral ketones to chiral alcohols: direct hydride and proton transfer from chiral catalysts trans-Ru(H)(2)(diphosphine)(diamine) to ketones and direct addition of dihydrogen to the resulting hydridoamido complexes.

  Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid;Michael Faatz;and Alan J. Lough;Robert H. Morris

  396
  Citations

• Switching On and Off a New Intramolecular Hydrogen-Hydrogen Interaction and the Heterolytic Splitting of Dihydrogen. Crystal and Molecular Structure of [Ir{H(.eta.1-SC5H4NH)}2(PCy3)2]BF4.cntdot.2.7CH2Cl2

  Alan J. Lough;Sunghan Park;Ravindranath Ramachandran;Robert H. Morris

  352
  Citations

• Iron(II) Complexes Containing Unsymmetrical P–N–P′ Pincer Ligands for the Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines

  Paraskevi O. Lagaditis;Peter E. Sues;Jessica F. Sonnenberg;Kai Yang Wan

  317
  Citations

• Dihydrogen with Frequency of Motion Near the 1H Larmor Frequency. Solid-State Structures and Solution NMR Spectroscopy of Osmium Complexes trans-[Os(H··H)X(PPh2CH2CH2PPh2)2]+ (X = Cl, Br)

  Patricia A. Maltby;Marcel Schlaf;Martin Steinbeck;Alan J. Lough

  310
  Citations

• Efficient asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones catalyzed by an iron complex containing a P-N-N-P tetradentate ligand formed by template synthesis.

  Alexandre Mikhailine;Alan J. Lough;Robert H. Morris

  308
  Citations

• Catalytic Homogeneous Asymmetric Hydrogenation: Successes and Opportunities

  Chris S. G. Seo;Robert H. Morris

  295
  Citations

• Brønsted–Lowry Acid Strength of Metal Hydride and Dihydrogen Complexes

  Robert H. Morris

  284
  Citations

• An Acidity Scale for Phosphorus-Containing Compounds Including Metal Hydrides and Dihydrogen Complexes in THF: Toward the Unification of Acidity Scales

  Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid;Tina P. Fong;Bronwyn Greaves;Dmitry G. Gusev

  275
  Citations

• Iron nanoparticles catalyzing the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones.

  Jessica F. Sonnenberg;Neil Coombs;Paul A. Dube;Robert H. Morris

  274
  Citations