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    As a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow:

  1. Cappillino, P.J.; Miecznikowski, J.R.;  Tyler, L.A.; Lo, W.; Krzyaniak, M.D.; McCracken, J.L.; Armstrong, W.H.; Caradonna, J.P.  “Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Iron(II) and Iron(III) Compounds with fac-N2O1, cis-N2O2, and N2O3 Donor Ligands:  Models for the 2-His 1-Carboxylate Motif of Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Enzymes.”  Inorganic Chemistry, manuscript submitted, 2008.

    As a Graduate Student:
  2. Appelhans, L.N.; Zuccaccia, D.; Kovacevic, A.; Chianese, A.R.; Miecznikowski, J.R.; Macchioni, A.; Clot, E.; Eisenstein, O.; Crabtree, R.H.  “An Anion-Dependent Switch in Selectivity Results from a Change of C-H Activation Mechanism in the Reaction of an Imidazolium Salt with IrH5(PPh3)2.”Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2005, 127, 16299-16311.

  3. Miecznikowski, J.R.; Crabtree, R.H. “Transfer Hydrogenation Reduction of Ketones, Aldehydes and Imines Using Chelated Iridium(III) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes.”  Polyhedron, (invited, special issue dedicated to Malcolm Green), 2004, 23, 2857-2872.

  4. Mata, J.A.; Chianese, A.R.; Miecznikowski, J.R.; Poyatos, M.; Peris, E.; Faller, J.W.; Crabtree, R.H.  “Reactivity Differences in the Syntheses of Chelating N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Rhodium are Ascribed to Ligand Anisotropy.”  Organometallics, 2004, 23, 1253-1263. 

  5. Miecznikowski, J.R.; Crabtree, R.H. “Hydrogen Transfer Reduction of Aldehydes with Alkali Carbonates and Iridium NHC Complexes.”   Organometallics, 2004, 23, 629-631.

  6. Miecznikowski, J.R.; Gründemann, S.; Albrecht, M.; Mégret, C.; Clot, E.; Faller, J.W.; Eisenstein, O.; Crabtree, R.H.  “Outer Sphere Anion Participation Can Modify the Mechanism for Conformer Interconversion in Pd Pincer Complexes.” Dalton Transactions, 2003, 831-838. 

  7. Albrecht, M.; Miecznikowski, J.R.; Samuel, A.; Faller, J.W.; Crabtree, R.H.  “Chelated Iridium(III) Bis-carbene Complexes as Air-Stable Catalysts for Transfer Hydrogenation.”  Organometallics, 2002, 21, 3596-3604. 

  8. Kovacevic, A.; Gründemann, S.; Miecznikowski, J.R.; Clot, E.; Eisenstein, O.; Crabtree, R.H.  “Counter-ion Effects Switch Ligand Binding From C-2 to C-5 in Kinetic Carbenes Formed From an Imidazolium Salt and IrH5(PPh3)2.”  Chemical Communications, 2002, 2580-2581.