Steven W. Buckner

TL;DR: The gas phase chemistry of a number of bare transition metal-nitrene and -imido ion complexes, MNH/sup +/ are reported in this paper, where an initial oxidative addition to an N-H bond, in analogy to mechanisms proposed for reactions of gaseous atomic metal ions with hydrocarbons, is proposed.

TL;DR: The gas phase reactions of Nb{sup +} with small alkanes and alkenes are reported in this article, which indicate a strong preference for C-H insertion, and reaction products indicate 1,3-hydrogen migration when β-hydrogens are not present.

TL;DR: FTIR and 13C NMR spectroscopy indicate that the epoxides polymerize to form a polyether cap on the surfaces of the aluminum nanoparticles, which reveals that 96% of the total aluminum present is active (unoxidized) aluminum.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss recent results from their laboratory on the chemistry, photochemistry and thermodynamics of simple metal-ligand ionic species in the gas phase using laser desorption coupled to Fourier transform mass spectrometry, and successfully generated numerous highly unsaturated metal ions including bare metal carbenes, methyls, hydrides, nitrenes and amides.

TL;DR: The most stable aluminum nanoparticle-polyether core-shell nanoparticles are found at an Al:monomer mole ratio of 10:1 with an active Al(0) content of 94%.