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Alexander J. Blake
Researcher at University of Nottingham
Publications - 1136
Citations - 37892
Alexander J. Blake is an academic researcher from University of Nottingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crystal structure & Ligand. The author has an hindex of 89, co-authored 1133 publications receiving 35746 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander J. Blake include University of Illinois at Chicago & University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Synthesis and small molecule reactivity of uranium(IV) alkoxide complexes with both bound and pendant N-heterocyclic carbene ligands.
TL;DR: The syntheses of two tetravalent uranium alkoxide-carbene complexes are reported, demonstrating the potential for these hemilabile electropositive metal- carbene complexes to participate in the bifunctional activation of small molecules.
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Can 4,4'-bipyridine N,N'-dioxide play the same important role as 4,4'-bipyridine in the construction of metal coordination networks and crystal engineering?
TL;DR: In this article, various binding modes of 4,4′-bipyridine for crystal engineering were demonstrated in the complexes of Zn(MeOH)2L3] and ZnL6L3, which include examples of M-L coordination bonds, hydrogen-bonding and π-π stacking.
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Surprising diversity of non-classical silicon–hydrogen interactions in half-sandwich complexes of Nb and Ta: M–H ⋯ Si–Cl interligand hypervalent interaction (IHI) versus stretched and unstretched β-Si–H⋯M agostic bonding
Georgii I. Nikonov,Philip Mountford,Stanislav K. Ignatov,Jennifer C. Green,Michael A. Leech,Lyudmila G. Kuzmina,Alexei G. Razuvaev,Nicholas H. Rees,Alexander J. Blake,Judith A. K. Howard,Dmitry A. Lemenovskii +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a preliminary X-ray study and large 1J(Si-H) coupling constant of 116 Hz suggest that this compound is best described as an unstretched β-agostic (Si−H⋯M) d2 silylamide complex.
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Engineering of co-ordination polymers of trans-4,4′-azobis(pyridine) and trans-1,2-bis(pyridin-4-yl)ethene: a range of interpenetrated network motifs
Matthew A. Withersby,Alexander J. Blake,Neil R. Champness,Paul A. Cooke,Peter Hubberstey,Annabel L. Realf,Simon J. Teat,Martin Schröder +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the molecular architectures of the 4,4,4′-azpy co-ordination polymer networks are metal center dependent, the preferred co-coordination geometries of Co(NO3)2/Cd(NO 3)2 (T-shaped connecting unit), Cu(I) (tetrahedral connecting unit) and Jahn-Teller distorted Cu(II) (square planar connecting unit).
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Phenoxyl radicals: H-bonded and coordinated to Cu(II) and Zn(II)
Laurent Benisvy,Eckhard Bill,Alexander J. Blake,David Collison,E. Stephen Davies,C. David Garner,Graeme McArdle,Eric J. L. McInnes,Jonathan McMaster,Stephanie H. K. Ross,Claire Wilson +10 more
TL;DR: Electrochemical and UV/vis and EPR properties of the products indicate that each oxidation is ligand-based, and a suitable pro-ligand design allows a relatively inert phenoxyl radical to be generated, stabilised by either a hydrogen bond, as in [(R)LH] (+) (R = Bz or PhOMe), or by coordination to a metal, asIn [M(II)(( R)L)((R) L )](+)