Recent publications

Kolesnichenko, V.; Hay, D.N.T.;  Swenson, D.C.; Messerle, L.  W3Cl10(Hg2Cl2)2, A Reactive 1-D Polymer of Triangular Tritungsten Clusters with Terminal and Intercluster-Bridging Mercurous Chloride Ligands: Main Group Metal Halide By-Products as Versatile Ligands in Reductive Synthesis of Early Transition Metal Halide Clusters. J. Cluster Sci. 2010, 21, 515-523. (invited)

Thurston, J.H.; Dougherty, M. J.; Swenson, D.C.;  Messerle, L.  [Bi5(dpd)6⊂CH3CN](ClO4)3, a Supramolecular, Tetrahedral Pentabismuth Cluster Derived from a Nonasbismuth Oxo/Hydroxide. Dalton Trans. (communication), 2008, 5146-8.

Lee, T. Y.; et al. Four-Electron Reduction of Dinitrogen during Solution Disproportionation of the Organodimetallic (η-C5Me4R)2Ta2(μ-Cl)4 (R = Me, Et) to a New μ-η1, η2-N2 Complex and Odd-Electron Organotrimetallic Cluster. Chem. Commun. 2005, 5444-5446.

Thurston, J.H.; Swenson, D.C.;  Messerle, L. “Solvolytic Routes to New Nonabismuth Hydroxy- and Alkoxy-oxo Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Solid-State Structures of Novel Nonabismuth Polyoxo Cations Bi9(µ3-O)8(µ3-OR)65+ (R = H, Et). Chem. Commun. 2005, 4228-4230.

Huang, J.H.; Luci, J.J.; Lee, T.Y.; Swenson, D.C.; Jensen, J.H.; Messerle, L.  A Planar Tetra-coordinate Carbon and Unusual Bonding in an Organodimetallic Propynylidene Complex Arising from Double C-H Activation of an Allene Ligand. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 1688-9.

Hay, D.N.T.; Swenson, D.C.,  Messerle, L.  Gallium and Gallium Dichloride, New Solid-State Reductants in Preparative Transition Metal Chemistry.  New, Lower–Temperature Syntheses and Convenient Isolation of Hexatantalum Tetradecachloride Octahydrate, Ta6(μ–Cl)12Cl2(OH2)4.4H2O, and Synthesis and Solid-State Structure of a Tetraalkylammonium Derivative, [N(CH2Ph)Bu3]4[Ta6(µ-Cl)12Cl6], of the Reduced [Ta6(µ-Cl)12]2+ Cluster Core. Inorg. Chem. 2002, 41, 4700-4707.

Mullan, B.F.;  Madsen, M.T.; Messerle,L.; Kolesnichenko, V.; Kruger, J.  X-ray Attenuation Coefficients of High Atomic Number Transition Metal Cluster Compounds: A New Paradigm for Radiographic Contrast Agents.  Acad. Radiol. 2000, 7, 254-260.

Messerle, L.  Intermolecular Vinylic C-H Bond Activation by a Doubly-Bonded Organoditantalum Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109, 6506-6508.

Messerle, L.  Metal-Metal Bonded Dinuclear and Organodimetallic Complexes of the Early Transition Metals (Groups 4 and 5): Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity.  Chem. Rev. 1988, 88, 1229-1254 (invited)