Whitmire, Kenton H. - Rice University - Department of Chemistry

个人简介

B.S. (1977) Roanoke College M.S. (1978) Northwestern University Ph.D. (1982) Northwestern University

研究领域

The Whitmire research group has a range of interests in synthetic, structural and mechanistic inorganic and organometallic chemistry. A long term effort has been aimed at understanding how the incorporation of p-block elements into transition metal clusters affects their structure, bonding and reactivity patterns. These studies bear on catalysis and materials chemistry applications. The group is attempting to create larger nuclearity species that will bridge the gap between molecular compounds and nanoparticles. An outgrowth of this work is study of conversion of these clusters into important magnetic materials. Homometallic and heterometallic alkoxo-, carboxylato- and oxo-complexes of the heavy main group elements are also being actively examined. These compounds find application in sol-gel processing of oxide materials. A subarea of this field is the production of high oxidation state, alkoxide and/or oxide stabilized compounds that may find use in stoichiometric or catalytic oxidations. As with the case of the metal cluster compounds, larger discrete molecular oxide compounds are targeted for applications in nanoscience and nanotechnology applications. Some of these complexes also have biological activity.

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M. J. McClain; A. E. Schlather; E. Ringe; N. S. King; L. Liu;A. Manjavacas; M. W.Knight; I.Kumar; K. H. Whitmire H. O. Everitt; P. Nordlander; N. J. Halas, Aluminum Nanocrystals. Nano Lett. 2015, 15, 2751-2755; 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00614. I. Kumar; P.Bhattacharya; K. H. Whitmire, Structural diversity in phenyl bismuth(III) bis(carboxylate) complexes. J. Organomet. Chem. 2015, 794, 153-167; 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2015.06.023. I. Kumar; P. Andrews; K. H. Whitmire, The Unexpected Isolation of Bismuth Tris(carboxylate) Hydrates: Syntheses and Structures of [Bi(Hsal)3(H2O)] and [Bi(Hanth)3(H2O)] (H2sal = 2-OH-C6H4CO2H, Hanth = 2-NH2-C6H4CO2H). Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 2015 (4), 605-608; 10.1002/ejic.201403019 Davidovich, R. L.; Marinin, D. V.; Stavila, V.; Whitmire, K. H., Structural chemistry of fluoride and oxofluoride complexes of titanium(IV). Coord. Chem. Rev. 2015, 299, 61-82; 10.1016/j.ccr.2015.04.002. I. Kumar; P. Bhattacharya; K. H. Whitmire, Facile One-Pot Synthesis of Triphenylbismuth(V) Bis(carboxylate) Complexes, Organometallics 2014, 33, 2906-2909, 10.1021/om500337z. T. D. Boyd; I. Kumar; E. E. Wagner; K. H. Whitmire, Synthesis and structural studies of the simplest bismuth(III) oxo-salicylate complex: [Bi4(μ3-O)2(HO-2-C6H4CO2)8]·2Solv (Solv = MeCN or MeNO2), Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 3556-3559, 10.1039/c4cc00056k. R. L. Davidovich; D. V. Marinin; V. Stavila; K. H. Whitmire, Stereochemistry of fluoride and mixed-ligand fluoride complexes of zirconium and hafnium, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2013, 257, 3074-3088, 10.1016/j.ccr.2013.06.016. T. Ould-Ely; D. Prieto-Centurion; I. Rusakova; K. H. Whitmire, Wet chemical synthesis and characterization of polypodal In2O3 nanoparticles, CrystEngComm 2013, 15, 6918-6922, 10.1039/c3ce41264d. S. R. Walsh; I. Rusakova; K. Whitmire, H., Rock Salt vs. Wurtzite Phases of Co1-xMnxO: Control of Crystal Lattice and Morphology at the Nanoscale, CrystEngComm 2013, 15, 775 - 784, DOI:10.1039/c2ce26440d. Colson, A. C.; Chen, C.-W.; Morosan, E.; Whitmire, K. H., Synthesis of Phase-Pure Ferromagnetic Fe3P Films from Single-Source Molecular Precursors. Adv. Func. Mater. 2011, accepted, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201102386, DOI: . 10.1002/adfm.201102386 Mandal, T.; Piburn, G.; Stavila, V.; Rusakova, I.; Ould-Ely, T.; Colson, A. C.; Whitmire, K. H., New Mixed Ligand Single-Source Precursors for PbS Nanoparticles and Their Solvothermal Decomposition to Anisotropic Nano- And Microstructures. Chem. Mater. 2011, 23, 4158-4169. Colson, A. C.; Whitmire, K. H., Synthesis of Fe2-xMnxP Nanoparticles from Single-Source Molecular Precursors. Chem. Mater. 2011, 23, 3731-3739. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm201435b Whitmire, K. H., Molecular donuts and donut holes. Science 2010, 327, 38-39. Stavila, V.; Whitmire, K. H., (N,N-dimethylformamide-κ,O)bis(3-hydroxypicolinate-κ2N,O)phenylbismuth(III). Acta Crystallogr., Sect. E Struct. Rep. Online 2010, E66, m1547-m1548. Stavila, V.; Whitmire, K. H., Hexaaquacobalt(II) and hexaaquanickel(II) pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylatobismuth(III) dihydrates. Acta Cryst. 2010, C67, m65-m68. Davidovich, R. L.; Stavila, V.; Whitmire, K. H., Stereochemistry of lead(II) complexes containing sulfur and selenium donor atom ligands. Coord. Chem. Rev. 2010, 254, 2193-2226. Colson, A. C.; Whitmire, K. H., Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of the Heterometallic Dinuclear μ-PH2 and μ-PPhH Complexes FeMn(CO)8(μ-PH2) and FeMn(CO)8(μ-PPhH). Organometallics 2010, 29, 4611-4618. Bochmann, M.; Brookhart, M.; Gladysz, J. A.; Lichtenberger, D. L.; Liebeskind, L. S.; Marks, T. J.; Schrock, R. R.; Sweigart, D. A.; Whitmire, K. H., Dedication to the Special Volume for Dietmar Seyferth. Organometallics 2010, 29, 4647. Stavila, V.; Whitmire, K. H.; Rusakova, I., Synthesis of Bi2S3 Nanostructures from Bismuth(III) Thiourea and Thiosemicarbazide Complexes. Chem. Mater. 2009, 21, 5456-5465. Stavila, V.; Thurston, J. H.; Whitmire, K. H. "Selective Arylation Reactions of Bismuth-Transition Metal Salicylate Complexes," Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 6945-6951.