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Roger A. Lalancette is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on materials science and chemistry, with a significant concentration in materials chemistry and organic chemistry. Additional areas of specialization include inorganic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, and oncology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several key topics within their fields. These topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, catalytic cross-coupling reactions, N-heterocyclic carbenes in organic and inorganic chemistry, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, luminescence and fluorescent materials, and the crystal structures of chemical compounds.

Their publication record spans numerous respected scientific journals and databases. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Organometallics
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Roger A. Lalancette has collaborated with several researchers recurrently. Frequent coauthors are:

  • Ivan Bernal (63 publications)
  • Roman Szostak (49 publications)
  • Michal Szostak (49 publications)
  • Elwira Bisz (31 publications)
  • Frieder Jäkle (29 publications)

Recent significant papers authored include:

  • "Near-Infrared-Absorbing B-N Lewis Pair-Functionalized Anthracenes: Electronic Structure Tuning, Conformational Isomerism, and Applications in Photothermal Cancer Therapy" published in 2022 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "New Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) Complexes Based on Pyrrole Schiff Bases: Synthesis, Characterization, X-ray Structure, and Anticancer Activity" published in 2020 in ACS Omega
  • "IPr# - highly hindered, broadly applicable N-heterocyclic carbenes" published in 2021 in Chemical Science
  • "L-Shaped Heterobidentate Imidazo[1,5-a]pyridin-3-ylidene (N,C)-Ligands for Oxidant-Free AuI/AuIII Catalysis" published in 2023 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Enhancing the Acceptor Character of Conjugated Organoborane Macrocycles: A Highly Electron-Deficient Hexaboracyclophane" published in 2020 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Structure and function of an acetylcholine receptor.

    J. Kistler;R. M. Stroud;M. W. Klymkowsky;R. A. Lalancette

  • Nanoscale Atoms in Solid-State Chemistry

    Xavier Roy;Chul Ho Lee;Andrew C. Crowther;Christine L. Schenck

  • B–N Lewis Pair Functionalization of Anthracene: Structural Dynamics, Optoelectronic Properties, and O2 Sensitization

    Kanglei Liu;Roger A. Lalancette;Frieder Jäkle

  • Reversible Twisting of Primary Amides via Ground State N–C(O) Destabilization: Highly Twisted Rotationally Inverted Acyclic Amides

    Guangrong Meng;shicheng shi;Roger A Lalancette;Roman Szostak

  • Highly electron-deficient and air-stable conjugated thienylboranes.

    Xiaodong Yin;Jiawei Chen;Roger A. Lalancette;Todd B. Marder

  • Luminescent Main-Chain Organoborane Polymers: Highly Robust, Electron-Deficient Poly(oligothiophene borane)s via Stille Coupling Polymerization

    Xiaodong Yin;Fang Guo;Roger A. Lalancette;Frieder Jäkle

  • Ground-State Distortion in N-Acyl-tert-butyl-carbamates (Boc) and N-Acyl-tosylamides (Ts): Twisted Amides of Relevance to Amide N-C Cross-Coupling.

    Roman Szostak;Shicheng Shi;Guangrong Meng;Roger Lalancette

  • π‐Expanded Borazine: An Ambipolar Conjugated B–π–N Macrocycle

    Pangkuan Chen;Roger A. Lalancette;Frieder Jäkle

  • Tuning the Structure and Electronic Properties of B-N Fused Dipyridylanthracene and Implications on the Self-Sensitized Reactivity with Singlet Oxygen

    Kanglei Liu;Roger A Lalancette;Frieder Jäkle

  • N-Acylsaccharins: Stable Electrophilic Amide-Based Acyl Transfer Reagents in Pd-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling via N-C Cleavage.

    Chengwei Liu;Guangrong Meng;Yongmei Liu;Yongmei Liu;Ruzhang Liu

  • Structures of Highly Twisted Amides Relevant to Amide N−C Cross‐Coupling: Evidence for Ground‐State Amide Destabilization

    Vittorio Pace;Wolfgang Holzer;Guangrong Meng;Shicheng Shi

  • MOLECULAR STRUCTURES, ELECTRONIC SPECTRA, AND ESR SPECTRA OF BIS(4,4′,5,5′-TETRAMETHYL-2,2′-BIIMIDAZOLE)COPPER(II) DINITRATE AND BIS(4,4′,5,5′-TETRAMETHYL-2,2′-BIIMIDAZOLE)ZINC(II)0.90COPPER(II)0.10 DINITRATE

    E. E. Bernarducci;P. K. Bharadwaj;R. A. Lalancette;K. Krogh-Jespersen

  • Molecular structures, electronic spectra, and ESR spectra of bis(4,4',5,5'-tetramethyl-2,2'-biimidazole)copper(II) dinitrate and bis(4,4',5,5'-tetramethyl-2,2'-biimidazole)zinc(II)0.90copper(II)0.10 dinitrate

    Ernest E. Bernarducci;Parimal K. Bharadwaj;Roger A. Lalancette;Karsten Krogh-Jespersen

  • Acyl and Decarbonylative Suzuki Coupling of N-Acetyl Amides: Electronic Tuning of Twisted, Acyclic Amides in Catalytic Carbon–Nitrogen Bond Cleavage

    Chengwei Liu;Guangchen Li;Shicheng Shi;Guangrong Meng

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling of N-Mesylamides by N-C Cleavage: Electronic Effect of the Mesyl Group.

    Chengwei Liu;Yongmei Liu;Yongmei Liu;Ruzhang Liu;Roger Lalancette

  • New Palladium II and Platinum II Complexes Based on Pyrrole Schiff Bases- Synthesis, Characterization, X‑ray Structure, and Anticancer Activity

    Simon N. Mbugua;Simon N. Mbugua;Nicole R.S. Sibuyi;Lydia W. Njenga;Ruth A. Odhiambo

  • Characterization of apical copper(II)-thioether bonding. Structure and electronic spectra of bis(2,2-bis(5-phenyl-2-imidazolyl)propane)copper(II) diperchlorate and bis(1,3-bis(5-phenyl-2-imidazolyl)-2-thiapropane)copper(II) diperchlorate

    Hans J. Prochaska;William F. Schwindinger;Michael Schwartz;Mark J. Burk

  • Lewis Pairs as Highly Tunable Dynamic Cross-Links in Transient Polymer Networks

    Fernando Vidal;John Gomezcoello;Roger A. Lalancette;Frieder Jäkle

  • Applying the Oligomer Approach to Luminescent Conjugated Organoboranes

    Pangkuan Chen;Roger A. Lalancette;Frieder Jäkle

  • Synthesis and Lewis acid properties of a ferrocene-based planar-chiral borenium cation

    Jiawei Chen;Roger A. Lalancette;Frieder Jäkle

  • Preparation and Characterization of [rac-5, 7, 7, 12, 14, 14, -Hexamethyl-1, 4, 8, 11-Tetraazocyclotetradecane]Copper(II) o-Mercaptobenzoate Hydrate, [Cu(tet b)(o-SC6H4CO2)].H2O, a Complex with a CuN4S (Mercaptide) Chromophore

    Joseph L. Hughey;Timothy G. Fawcett;Steven M. Rudich;Roger Lalancette

  • Metal-Mediated [6 + 2] Cycloadditions of Alkynes to Cycloheptatriene and N-Carbethoxyazepine

    Karen Chaffee;Pei Huo;John B. Sheridan;Anthony Barbieri

Frequent Co-Authors

Frieder Jäkle
Frieder Jäkle Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Harvey J. Schugar
Harvey J. Schugar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michal Szostak
Michal Szostak Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael L. Steigerwald
Michael L. Steigerwald Columbia University
Colin Nuckolls
Colin Nuckolls Columbia University
Xavier Roy
Xavier Roy Columbia University
Philip Kim
Philip Kim Harvard University
Chul Ho Lee
Chul Ho Lee Seoul National University
Theo Siegrist
Theo Siegrist Florida A&M University - Florida State University College of Engineering
Louis E. Brus
Louis E. Brus Columbia University

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