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Robert J. Morris

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Organometallic Chemistry

Professor

• A.S., B.S., 1986, Ball State University
• Ph.D. 1990, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow , 1991, University of California at Berkeley

• Telephone: (765) 285-8060
• E-mail: rmorris@bsu.edu

Research Interests

to yield new classes of organometallic species that are likely to lead to new reaction pathways involving the metal-indenyl bond. Specifically, the slip of an h⁵ indenyl group to h³ is expected give catalysts or co-catalysts that can pre-coordinate an incoming ligand with the indenyl group h³ and then allow reaction with another ligand with the indenyl group going back to h⁵. This "reversible access" should enable us to design molecules that have the strong potential to be active catalysts for the polymerization and/or metathesis of olefins. We are also interested in the chemistry of indenyl metal complexes that contain imido, oxo, sulfido, alkylidene, and alkylidyne ligands.

Publications

1. "Monoindenyl titanium alkyl halides. The synthesis and molecular structures of (h⁵-C₉H₇)TiBr₃, (h⁵-C₉H₇)Ti(CH₃)Br₂, and (h⁵-C₉H₇)Ti(CH₃)Cl₂" Scott L. Shaw, James J. Storhoff, Scott Cullison, Chad E. Davis, Geoff Holloway, Robert J. Morris*, John C. Huffman, and John C. Bollinger, Inorganica Chimica Acta 1999, 292, 220-224.
   
   
2. "Di-m-chlorobis[chloro(h⁵-indenyl)methylhafnium(IV)]", Robert J. Morris, Scott L. Shaw, John C. Huffman, and John C. Bollinger, Acta Crystallographica, Section C. 1998, C54, 1617-1618.
   
   
3. "Monoindenyltrichloride Complexes of Titanium(IV), Zirconium(IV), and Hafnium(IV)" Robert J. Morris, Scott L. Shaw, Jesse M. Jefferis, and Dean M. Goedde, Inorganic Syntheses 1998, 32, 215-221.
   
   
4. "The Preparation and Molecular Structure of the Unconventional Tantalum Chloride Complex, [(h⁵-C₉H₇)₂TaCl₂][TaCl₆]", Jesse M. Jefferis, John C. Huffman, and Robert J. Morris, Inorganic Chemistry, 1997, 36, 3379-3381.
   
   
5. "The Preparation and Variable Temperature ¹H NMR Characterization of 1-tri-n-butylstannylindene, 1-(n-Bu)₃SnC₉H₇", Robert J. Morris, Paul L. Bock, Jesse M. Jefferis, and Dean M. Goedde Polyhedron, 1997, 16, 3699-3704.
   
   
6. "An Introductory Undergraduate LC/Particle Beam/MS Experiment", N. Sproch, K. J. Begin, R. J. Morris, J. Chem. Ed., 1996, 73, A33-A39.
   
   
7. "High-valent Organomanganese Compounds", G. S. Girolami and R. J. Morris, Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II, Pergamon Press 1995, Vol. 6, Chapter 7, pp. 127- 150.
   
   
8. "Monoindenyl Halides of Zirconium and Hafnium. The Preparation of [(h⁵-C₉H₇)ZrCl₃]_n and [(h⁵-C₉H₇)HfCl₂(m-Cl)]₂ and the Crystal Structure of [(h⁵-C₉H₇)HfCl₂(m-Cl)]₂", S. L. Shaw and R. J. Morris, J. of Organometallic Chem., 1995, 489, C4.