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Victor W. Day is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a particular focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Victor W. Day include:

  • "Redox-Inactive Metal Cations Modulate the Reduction Potential of the Uranyl Ion in Macrocyclic Complexes" (2020), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Revealing the Influence of Diverse Secondary Metal Cations on Redox-Active Palladium Complexes" (2022), published in Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "Vanadyl as a Spectroscopic Probe of Tunable Ligand Donor Strength in Bimetallic Complexes" (2023), published in Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Controlling the Reactivity of a Metal-Hydroxo Adduct with a Hydrogen Bond" (2021), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Mapping out the Relative Influence of Hydrogen and Halogen Bonds in Crystal Structures of a Family of Amide-Substituted Pyridines" (2020), published in Crystal Growth & Design

Victor W. Day has frequent co-authors that include:

  • James D. Blakemore
  • Allen G. Oliver
  • Wade C. Henke
  • Julie A. Hopkins Leseberg
  • Kristin Bowman-James

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (132 publications)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (8 publications)
  • Chemistry - A European Journal (4 publications)
  • Organometallics (4 publications)
  • Dalton Transactions (4 publications)

Victor W. Day has contributed to book publications as well, with one known title published by Internet Archive: "The Church at the Turning Points of History" (2021).

Best Publications

  • Metal Oxide Chemistry in Solution: The Early Transition Metal Polyoxoanions

    Victor W. Day;Walter G. Klemperer

  • Where are the protons in H3V10O283

    V. W. Day;W. G. Klemperer;D. J. Maltbie

  • Cryptand-like anion receptors

    Sung Ok Kang;José M. Llinares;Victor W. Day;Kristin Bowman-James

  • A high resolution structure of an inhibitor complex of the extracellular nuclease of Staphylococcus aureus. I. Experimental procedures and chain tracing.

    A. Arnone;C.J. Bier;F.A. Cotton;V.W. Day

  • Crystal structure and moleculsr stereochemistry of .mu.-oxo-bis[.alpha.,.beta.,.gamma.,.delta.-tetraphenylporphinatoiron(III)]

    A. B. Hoffman;D. M. Collins;V. W. Day;E. B. Fleischer

  • Synthesis and characterization of a soluble oxide inclusion complex, [CH3CN.cntnd.(V12O324-)]

    V. W. Day;W. G. Klemperer;O. M. Yaghi

  • Large metal ion-centered template reactions. A uranyl complex of cyclopentakis(2-iminoisoindoline)

    Victor W. Day;Tobin J. Marks;William A. Wachter

  • Dodecatitanates. A new family of stable polyoxotitanates

    V. W. Day;T. A. Eberspacher;W. G. Klemperer;C. W. Park

  • Insertion of carbon monoxide into metal-nitrogen bonds. Synthesis, chemistry, structures, and structural dynamics of bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) organoactinide dialkylamides and .eta.2-carbamoyls

    Paul J. Fagan;Juan M. Manriquez;Sarah H. Vollmer;Cynthia Secaur Day

  • Manipulation of organoactinide coordinative unsaturation. Synthesis, structures, and reactivity of thorium hydrocarbyls and hydrides with chelating bis(tetramethylcyclopentadienyl) ancillary ligands

    Carol M. Fendrick;Larry D. Schertz;Victor W. Day;Tobin J. Marks

  • Molecular building blocks for the synthesis of ceramic materials: [Si8O12](OCH3)8

    V. W. Day;Walter G. Klemperer;V. V. Mainz;D. M. Millar

  • Synthesis and Properties of a New Class of Highly Reactive Trivalent Actinide Organometallic Compounds. Derivatives of Bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)uranium(III)

    Paul J. Pagan;Juan M. Manrsquez;Tobin J. Marks;Cynthia S. Day

  • Oxygen atom transfer from O2 to a coordinated olefin: a new route to oxametallacyclobutanes

    V. W. Day;Walter G. Klemperer;S. P. Lockledge;D. J. Main

  • Solution structure elucidation of early-transition-metal polyoxoalkoxides using 17O nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

    V. W. Day;T. A. Eberspacher;W. G. Klemperer;C. W. Park

  • A case for molecular recognition in nuclear separations: sulfate separation from nuclear wastes.

    Bruce A. Moyer;Radu Custelcean;Benjamin P. Hay;Jonathan L Sessler

  • Structure of methylguanidinium dihydrogenorthophosphate. A model compound for arginine-phosphate hydrogen bonding.

    F. A. Cotton;V. W. Day;E. E. Hazen;S. Larsen

  • Synthesis, characterization, and interconversion of the niobotungstic acid Nb2W4O19H3- and its anhydride and alkyl/silyl esters

    V. W. Day;W. G. Klemperer;C. Schwartz

  • Fe2(.mu.2-E2)(CO)6 (E = sulfur, selenium, and tellurium) as reagents for the preparation of mixed-metal chalcogenide clusters

    Victor W. Day;David A. Lesch;Thomas B. Rauchfuss

  • Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Organoactinides. Trivalent Uranium Organometallic Chemistry and the Unusual Structure of Bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)uranium Monochloride

    Juan M. Manriquez;Paul J. Fagan;Tobin Jay Marks;Sara H. Vollmer

  • Induced molecule self-organization

    Victor W. Day;Walter G. Klemperer;Omar M. Yaghi

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristin Bowman-James
Kristin Bowman-James University of Kansas
Walter G. Klemperer
Walter G. Klemperer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tobin J. Marks
Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University
Earl L. Muetterties
Earl L. Muetterties Cornell University
Barbara N. Timmermann
Barbara N. Timmermann University of Kansas
Jeffrey Aubé
Jeffrey Aubé University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul J. Fagan
Paul J. Fagan DuPont (United States)
Scott D. Larsen
Scott D. Larsen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Roberta O. Day
Roberta O. Day University of Massachusetts Amherst
Wayne L. Gladfelter
Wayne L. Gladfelter University of Minnesota

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