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Victor G. Young is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions in materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. The body of work also extends into electronic, optical, and magnetic materials as well as physical and theoretical chemistry.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties

Prominent recent papers authored by Victor G. Young showcase a range of chemical topics and methodologies, including structural and photochemical studies. These include:

  • "Ring-Fused 1,4-Dihydro[1,2,4]triazin-4-yls through Photocyclization," 2020, Organic Letters
  • "Effect of Spin-Orbit Coupling on Phonon-Mediated Magnetic Relaxation in a Series of Zero-Valent Vanadium, Niobium, and Tantalum Isocyanide Complexes," 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Partial Dehydration of Levothyroxine Sodium Pentahydrate in a Drug Product Environment: Structural Insights into Stability," 2020, Molecular Pharmaceutics
  • "One-electron bonds in copper-aluminum and copper-gallium complexes," 2022, Chemical Science
  • "Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Functional Group Interconversion in the [closo-B10H8-1,10-X2]2- (X = CN, [OCRNMe2]+, OCOR, and [OH2]+) Derivatives," 2020, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Victor G. Young are:

  • Piotr Kaszyński
  • Anna Pietrzak
  • William W. Brennessel
  • Brendan J. Graziano
  • Thais R. Scott

Victor G. Young's work has been published across several scientific journals, with the largest number of publications appearing in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (26 publications)
  • Chemistry - A European Journal (2 publications)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (1 publication)
  • Chemical Science (1 publication)
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Reversible cleavage and formation of the dioxygen O-O bond within a dicopper complex.

    Jason A. Halfen;Samiran Mahapatra;Elizabeth C. Wilkinson;Susan Kaderli

  • A highly active zinc catalyst for the controlled polymerization of lactide.

    Charlotte K. Williams;Laurie E. Breyfogle;Sun Kyung Choi;Wonwoo Nam

  • Making and breaking covalent bonds across the magnetic transition in the giant magnetocaloric material Gd5(Si2Ge2)

    Wonyoung Choe;Vitalij K. Pecharsky;Alexandra O. Pecharsky;Karl A. Gschneidner Jr.

  • O2 activation by nonheme iron complexes: A monomeric Fe(III)-Oxo complex derived from O2.

    Cora E. MacBeth;Adina P. Golombek;Victor G. Young;Cheng Yang

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

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

  • Polymorph screening: influence of solvents on the rate of solvent-mediated polymorphic transformation.

    Chong Hui Gu;Victor Young;David J.W. Grant

  • Structural, Spectroscopic, and Theoretical Characterization of Bis(μ-oxo)dicopper Complexes, Novel Intermediates in Copper-Mediated Dioxygen Activation

    Samiran Mahapatra;Jason A. Halfen;Elizabeth C. Wilkinson;Gaofeng Pan

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

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

  • Iron Chemistry of a Pentadentate Ligand That Generates a Metastable Fe(III)-OOH Intermediate.

    J.G. Roelfes;M Lubben;K. Chen;R.Y.N. Ho

  • Dioxygen Activation at a Single Copper Site: Structure, Bonding, and Mechanism of Formation of 1:1 Cu−O2 Adducts

    Nermeen W. Aboelella;Sergey V. Kryatov;Benjamin F. Gherman;William W. Brennessel

  • A sensitive probe for the detection of Zn(II) by time-resolved fluorescence.

    Maksim Royzen;Alexander Durandin;Victor G. Young;Nicholas E. Geacintov

  • A thiolate-bridged, fully delocalized mixed-valence dicopper(I,II) complex that models the CuA biological electron-transfer site

    Robert P. Houser;Victor G. Young;William B. Tolman

  • Metal-alane adducts with zero-valent nickel, cobalt, and iron.

    P. Alex Rudd;Shengsi Liu;Laura Gagliardi;Victor G. Young

  • Glyme−Lithium Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide and Glyme−Lithium Bis(perfluoroethanesulfonyl)imide Phase Behavior and Solvate Structures

    Wesley A. Henderson;Fred Mckenna;Masood A. Khan;Neil R. Brooks

  • Utilization of hydrogen bonds to stabilize M-O(H) units: synthesis and properties of monomeric iron and manganese complexes with terminal oxo and hydroxo ligands.

    Cora E. MacBeth;Rajeev Gupta;Katie R. Mitchell-Koch;Victor G. Young

  • The Crystal Structure of a High-Spin Oxoiron(IV) Complex and Characterization of Its Self-Decay Pathway

    Jason England;Yisong Guo;Erik R. Farquhar;Victor G. Young

  • Cationic Aluminum Alkyl Complexes Incorporating Aminotroponiminate Ligands

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

  • Crystal Structure Analysis of a Synthetic Non‐Heme Diiron ? O2 Adduct: Insight into the Mechanism of Oxygen Activation

    Yanhong Dong;Shiping Yan;Victor G. Young;Lawrence Que

  • Crystal structure of a synthetic high-valent complex with an FE2(μ- O)2 diamond core. Implications for the core structures of methane monooxygenase intermediate Q and ribonucleotide reductase intermediate X

    Hua Fen Hsu;Yanhong Dong;Lijin Shu;Victor G. Young

  • Proton- and reductant-assisted dioxygen activation by a nonheme iron(II) complex to form an oxoiron(IV) intermediate.

    Aurore Thibon;Jason England;Marlène Martinho;Victor G. Young

  • Binucleating Ligand Structural Effects on (μ-Peroxo)- and Bis(μ-oxo)dicopper Complex Formation and Decay: Competition between Arene Hydroxylation and Aliphatic C−H Bond Activation

    Samiran Mahapatra;Susan Kaderli;Antoni Llobet;Yorck-Michael Neuhold

Frequent Co-Authors

William B. Tolman
William B. Tolman Washington University in St. Louis
William W. Brennessel
William W. Brennessel University of Rochester
David J.W. Grant
David J.W. Grant University of Toronto
Lawrence Que
Lawrence Que University of Minnesota
Timothy P. Hanusa
Timothy P. Hanusa Vanderbilt University
Wesley A. Henderson
Wesley A. Henderson United States Army Research Laboratory
Richard F. Jordan
Richard F. Jordan University of Chicago
Ilia A. Guzei
Ilia A. Guzei University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wayne L. Gladfelter
Wayne L. Gladfelter University of Minnesota
Dale C. Swenson
Dale C. Swenson University of Iowa

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