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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

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2020-PRESENT

140.  Herasymchuk, K.; Magali, A.; MacNeil, G.A.; Carré, V.; Aubriet, F.; Leznoff, D.B.; Sallé, M.; Goeb, S.; Storr, T  “Exciton Coupling in Redox-active Salen-based Self-assembled metallacycles”, Chem. Eur. J., 2021, 27, 16161-16172.
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139.  McKearney, D.; Roberts, R.J.; Mitchell, D.; Cheung, J.C.F.; Williams, V.E.; Leznoff, D.B.  “Preferential formation of side-pocket substituted Zinc phthalocyanines emitting beyond 800 nm”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2021, 2773-2783.

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138. Fujisawa, K.; Nemoto, T.; Morishima, Y.; Leznoff, D.B.  “Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a silver(I) pyrazolato coordination polymer”, Molecules (MDPI), 2021, 26, 1015 (Special Issue in honour of Edward Tiekink)

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137. Stevens, D.M.; Gray, B.; Yin, D.; Chapman, G.H.; Leznoff, D.B. “Post arrays for the immobilization of vapochromic coordination polymers for chemical sensors”, IEEE Sensors 2020, 20, 12102-12108.

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136.  Stevens, D.M.; Gray, B.L.; Leznoff, D.B.; Furukawa, H.; Khosla, A. “3D Printable Vapochromic Sensing Materials”, J. Electrochem. Soc., 2020, 167, article #167503.

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135.  Brown, M.; Leznoff, D.B.  “Extending Uranyl Dicyanoaurate coordination polymers into the second and third dimensions”, Can. J. Chem. , 2020, 98, 365-372. (Special issue in honour of Jim Wuest)

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134. Zhou, W.; McKearney, D.; Leznoff, D.B. "Structural diversity of F-element monophthalocyanine complexes", Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 1027-1031. Highlighted as "Hot Paper" by Chem. Eur J.  Download

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133. Carvalho, M.-A.; Dekkiche, H.; Richeter, S.; Bailly, C.; Karmazin, L.; McKearney, D.; Leznoff, D.B.; Rogez, G.; Vileno, B.; Choua, S.; Ruppert, R. "Antiferromagnetic coupling  in copper(II) porphyrin dimers", J. Porph. Phthalocyanines., 2020, 24, 238-246 (special issue in honour of Atsuhiro Osuka). Download

2015-2019

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132. Ganga-Sah, Y.; Tajkhbash, E.; Platel, R.H.; Zhou, W.; Leznoff, D.B.  “Synthesis, structure and reduction chemistry of monophthalocyanine scandium hydroxides”, J. Porph. Phthalocyanines, 2019, 23, 1592-1602. (special issue on Women in Porphyrin Science) Download

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131. Ganga-Sah, Y.; Leznoff, D.B.; Bennet, A.J.  “Synthesis of sterically congested 2,2’-bi(adamantine)-based alcohol and amines”, J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 15276-15282. Download

​130. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  McKearney, D.; Zhou, W.; Williams, V.E.; Leznoff, D.B. “Facile tuning of the wavelength of strong Near-IR absorptions in manganese(III) phthalocyanines via axial ligand exchange”, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 6696-6699. Download
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129. Herasymchuk, K.; Miller, J.J.; MacNeil, G.; Sergeenko, A.; McKearney, D.; Goeb, S.; Sallé, M.; Kaake, L.; Leznoff, D.B.; Storr, T.  “Self-Assembly of a Supramolecualr Square Containing a Redox-Active Nickel Salen Building Block”, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 6082-6085. Download

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128. Fujisawa, K.; Tobita, K.; Sakuma S.; Savard, D.; Leznoff, D.B., “Binuclear and mononuclear copper(II) chlorido complexes with hindered neutral N3-type ligands:  influence of ligand framework and charge on their structure and physicochemical properties”, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2019, 486, 582-588. (special issue in honour of R. Mukherjee)

127. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Highlighted as “Hot Paper by Chem. Eur J.  Varju, Bryton R.; Wollschlaeger, S.; Leznoff, D.B.  “Zinc(II) Tetracyanoplatinate:  A reversible luminescence-based ammonia sensor”, Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 9017-9025.  Download
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126. Pick, F. S., Leznoff, D. B., Fryzuk, M. D., “Redox behaviour of ([fc(NPiPr2)2]Fe)2, formation of an iron-iron bond and cleavage of azobenzene”, Dalton Trans., 2018, 10925-10931. Download

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125. McKearney, D., Choua, S., Zhou, W., Ganga-Sah, Y., Ruppert, R., Wytko, J. A., Weiss, J., Leznoff, D. B., “Ring-Oxidized Zinc(II) Phthalocyanine Cations: Structure, Spectrosopy, and Decomposition Behavior”, Inorg. Chem., 2018, 9644–9655 Download (Invited to Special Forum Issue on Redox-active Ligands).

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124. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Ovens, J. S., Leznoff, D. B., “Probing halogen•••halogen interactions via thermal expansion analysis”, CrystEngComm, 2018, 1769–1773. Download
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123. Sergeenko, A. S.; Ovens, J. S.; Leznoff, D. B.  “Designing Anisotropic cyanometallate coordination polymers with zero thermal expansion in two dimensions”, Chem. Comm., 2018, 1599-1602 Download

​122. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Zhou, W.; Leznoff, D.B.  "Phthalocyanine as a redox-active platform for organometallic chemistry", Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 1829-1832. Download
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121. Arthur, R. B., Nicholas, A. D., Roberts, R. J., Assefa, Z., Leznoff, D. B., Patterson, H. H., "Luminescence Investigation of Samarium(III)/Dicyanoaurate(I)-based Coordination Networks with and without Aurophilic Interactions", Gold Bull., 2018, 51, 1-10. Download

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120. Guan, D., Thompson, J. R., Leznoff, D. B., "Emissive and birefringent Hg(CN)2-based coordination polymer materials with very distorted coordination geometries", Can. J. Chem. 2018, 226-234. Special Issue for SFU's 50th Anniversary. Download

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​119. Sergeenko, A. S., Ovens, J. S., Leznoff, D. B., "Copper(II) Dihalotetracyanoplatinate(IV) Coordination Polymers and Their Vapochromic Behavior", Inorg. Chem. 2017, 7870-7881. Download

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118. Roberts, R. J.; Le, D., Leznoff, D. B., "Color-Tunable and White-Light Luminescence in Lanthanide Dicyanoaurate Coordination Polymers", Inorg. Chem. 2017, 7948-7959 Download

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117. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Ovens, J. S.; Leznoff, D. B., "Thermal Expansion Behavior of M'[AuX2(CN)(2)]-Based Coordination Polymers ​(M = Ag, Cu; X = CN, CI, Br)", Inorg. Chem. 2017, 7332-7343 Download
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116. Featured in the virtual issue of the RSC-CSC100th Anniversary .  Varju, B.R.; Ovens, J.S.; Leznoff, D.B.  “Mixed Cu(I)/Au(I) coordination polymers as reversible turn-on vapoluminescent sensors for volatile thioethers”, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 6500-6503.

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115. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Suffren, Y.; Kobayashi, M.; Ovens, J.S.; Rodrigue-Witchel, A.; Genre, C.; Sakai, K.; Reber, C.; Leznoff, D.B., "[Pt(SCN)(4)](2-)-Based Coordination Polymers and Supramolecular Squares: Intermolecular Pt center dot center dot center dot H-C Interactions Probed by Luminescence Spectroscopy at Variable Pressure", Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2017, 2865-2875 Download

114. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Brown, M. L.; Ovens, J. S.; Leznoff, D. B., "Dicyanoaurate-based heterobimetallic uranyl coordination polymers", Dalton Trans. 2017, 7169-7180 Download from publisher  Download Local Copy
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113. Thompson, J. R.; Williams, V. E.; Leznoff, D. B., "The Role of Hydrogen Bonds in Facilitating Planar Alignment of Mn(II) Halide 2,6-Bis(benzimidazole)pyridine-Based Complexes", Cryst. Growth Des. 2017, 1180-1189 Download

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112. ​Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Zhou, W.; Thompson, J. R.; Leznoff, C. C.; Leznoff, D. B., "The Redox-Active Chromium Phthalocyanine System: Isolation of Five Oxidation States from (Pc(4)-Cr(I)) to (Pc(2)-Cr(III))", Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 2323-2331​ Download
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111. Thompson, J. R.; Snider, D.; Wren, J. E. C.; Kroeker, S.; Williams, V. E.; Leznoff, D. B., "Correlating Structural Features and Pb-207 NMR Parameters with the Stereochemical Activity of Pb-II Lone Pairs in Birefringent Pb[2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine] Complexes", Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2017, 88-98 Download

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110 Herasymchuk, K.; Chiang, L.; Hayes, C. E.; Brown, M. L.; Ovens, J. S.; Patrick, B. O.; Leznoff, D. B.; Storr, T., "Synthesis and electronic structure determination of uranium(VI) ligand radical complexes", Dalton Trans., 2016, 12576-12586 Download

109. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Ovens, J.S.; Leznoff, D.B.  “Emissive heterobimetallic Copper(I)-Dicyanoaurate-based  coordination polymers”, ChemPlusChem., 2016, 81, 842-849. Download (Invited to special issue on Coordination Polymers)
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108. Ovens, J. S.; Christensen, P. R.; Leznoff, D. B., "Designing tunable white-light emission from an aurophilic CuI/AuI coordination polymer with thioether ligands", Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 8234-8239 Download​

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107. Roberts, R. J.; Ahern, J. C.; Patterson, H. H.; Leznoff, D. B., "Ce/Au(CN)2--based coordination polymers containing and lacking aurophilic interactions", Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2016, 13-14, 2082-2087 Download

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106. Pick, F. S.; Thompson, J. R.; Savard, D. S.; Leznoff, D. B.; Fryzuk, M. D., "Synthesis of iron and cobalt complexes of a ferrocene-linked diphosphinoamide ligand and characterization of a weak iron-cobalt interaction", Inorg. Chem. 2016, 4059-4067 Download
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105. Thompson, J. R.; Goodman-Rendall, K. A. S.; Leznoff, D. B., "Birefringent, emissive cyanometallate-based coordination polymer materials containing group(II) metal-terpyridine building blocks", Polyhedron 2016, 108, 93-99. Special issue ofr Canadian Researchers. Download

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104. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Roberts, R. J.; Le, D.; Leznoff, D. B. "Controlling intermolecular aurophilicity in emissive dinuclear Au(I) materials and their luminescent response to ammonia vapour", Chem. Commun., 2015, 14299-14302. Download
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​103 Yoshida, T.; Zhou, W.; Furuyama, T.; Leznoff, D. B.; Kobayashi, N., "An extremely air-stable 19π porphyrinoid", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 9258-9261 Download

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102. Zhou, W.; Platel, R. H.; Tasso, T. T.; Furuyama, H.; Kobayashi, N.; Leznoff, D. B., "Reducing zirconium(IV) phthalocyanines and the structure of a Pc4-Zr complex", Dalton Trans. 2015, 13955-13961 Download

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101. Thompson, J. R.; Katz, M. J.; Williams, V. E.; Leznoff, D. B., "Structural design parameters for highly birefringent coordination polymers", Inorg. Chem. 2015, 6462-6471 Download

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​100. Poirier, S.; Roberts, R. J.; Le, D.; Leznoff, D. B.; Reber, C., "Interpreting effects of structure variations induced by temperature and pressure on luminescence spectra of platinum(II) bis(dithiocarbamate) compounds", Inorg. Chem. 2015, 3728-3735 Download

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99. Platel, R. H.; Tasso, T. T.; Zhou, W.; Furuyama, T.; Kobayashi, N.; Leznoff, D. B., "Metallophthalocyanin-ocenes: scandium phthalocyanines with an η5-bound Cp ring", Chem. Commun. 2015, 5986-5989 Download

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98. Ovens, J. S.; Leznoff, D. B., "Raman detected sensing of volatile organic compounds by vapochromic Cu[AuX2(CN)2]2   (X = Cl, Br) coordination polymer materials", Chem. Mater. 2015, 1465-1478 Download

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97. Jelier, B. J.; Howell, J. L.; Montgomery, C. D.; Leznoff, D. B.; Friesen, C. M., "A convenient route to tetraalkylammonium perfluoroalkoxides from hydrofluoroethers", Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 2015, 2945-2949 Download

2010-2014

96. Savard, D. S.; Leznoff, D. B., "Magnetostructural characterization of copper(II) hydroxide dimers and coordination polymers coordinated to apical isothiocyanate and cyanide-based counteranions", Can. J. Chem. 2014, 1021-1030. Special issue in honour of ABP Lever. Download

95. Leznoff, D. B., "Professor Alfred B. P. (Barry) Lever TRIBUTE", Can. J. Chem. 2014, vii-viii Download

94. Hayes, C. E.; Gill, D. E.; Brown, M. L.; Leznoff, D. B., "Mixed-donor amido-siloxo actinide(IV) halide and alkyl complexes with an aryl C-ipso interaction", Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2014, 3690-3700 Download

93. Ahern, J. C.; Roberts, R. J.; Follansbee, P.; McLaughlin, J.; Leznoff, D. B.; Patterson, H. H., "Structure and emissive properties of heterobimetallic Ln-Au coordination polymers: role of Tb and Eu in non-aurophilic [nBu4N]2[Ln(NO3)4Au(CN)2] versus aurophilic Ln[Au(CN)2]3•3H2O/3D2O chains", Inorg. Chem. 2014, 7571-7579 Download

92. Hayes, C. E.; Leznoff, D. B. "Actinide coordination and organometallic complexes with multidentate polyamido ligands", Coord. Chem. Rev., 2014, 155-170.  Special issue on Actinide chemistry. Download
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91. ​Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Roberts, R. J.; Belanger-Desmarais, N.; Reber, C.; Leznoff, D. B. "The luminescence properties of linear vs. kinked aurophilic 1-D chains of bis(dithiocarbamato)gold(I) dimers", Chem. Commun., 2014, 3148-3150 Download
​90. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Thompson, J. R.; Roberts, R. J.; Williams, V. E.; Leznoff, D. B. "Birefringent, emissive coordination polymers incorporating bis(benzimidazole)pyridine as an anisotropic building block", CrystEngComm, 2013, 9387-9393. Special Issue Coordination Polymers. Download
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89. Thompson, J. R.; Ovens, J. S.; Williams, V. E.; Leznoff, D. B. "Supramolecular assembly of bis(benzimidazole)pyridine: an extended anisotropic ligand for highly birefringent materials", Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 16572-16578  Downloads
88. ​Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Savard, D.; Leznoff, D. B. "Synthesis, structure and light scattering properties of tetraalkylammonium metal isothiocyanate salts", Dalton Trans., 2013, 14982-14991  Download
87. Ovens, J. S.; Truong, K. N.; Leznoff, D. B. "Targeting [AuCl2(CN)2]- units as halophilic building blocks in coordination polymers", Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2013, 127-135.  Special issue on Coordination Polymers. Download
86. Chang, S.; Desai, S.; Leznoff, D. B.; Merbouh, N.; Britton, R. "A short, gram-scale synthesis of 2,5-disubstituted furans", Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2013, 3219-3222 Download
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85. Kobayashi, M.; Savard, D.; Geisheimer, A. R.; Sakai, K.; Leznoff, D. B. "Heterobimetallic Coordination Polymers Based on the [Pt(SCN)4]2- and [Pt(SeCN)4]2- Building Blocks", Inorg. Chem., 2013, 4842-4852 Download

84. Korčok, J. L.; Leznoff, D. B. "Thermal expansion of mercury(II) cyanide and HgCN(NO3)", Polyhedron, 2013, 72-77. Special Issue in honour of Werner's 100th Nobel Anniversary. Download

83. Hayes, C. E.; Sarazin, Y.; Katz, M. J.; Carpentier, J.-F.; Leznoff, D. B. "Diamido-ether actinide complexes as initiators for lactide ring-opening polymerization", Organometallics, 2013, 1183-1192.  Invited paper to special Forum on f-elements; Featured in a highlight email to ACS members from Organometallics, 2013. Download

82. Hayes, C. E.; Platel, R. H.; Schafer, L. L.; Leznoff, D. B. "Diamido-ether actinide complexes as catalysts for the intramolecular hydroamination of aminoalkenes", Organometallics, 2012, 6732-6740 Download

81. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Wong, E. W. Y.; Miura, A.; Wright, M. D.; He, Q.; Walsby, C. J.; Shimizu, S.; Kobayashi, N.; Leznoff, D. B. "Gold(II) phthalocyanine revisited: synthesis and spectroscopic properties of gold(III) phthalocyanine and an unprecedented ring-contracted phthalocyanine analogue", Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 12404-12410 Download

80. Roberts, R. J.; Li, X.; Lacey, T. F.; Pan, J.; Patterson, H. H.; Leznoff, D. B. "Heterobimetallic lanthanide–gold coordination polymers: structure and emissive properties of isomorphous [nBu4N]2[Ln(NO3)4Au(CN)2] 1-D chains",Dalton Trans., 2012, 6992-6997 Download

79. Wong, E. W. Y.; Ovens, J. S.; Leznoff, D. B. "From low to very high birefringence in bis(2-pyridylimino)isoindolines: synthesis and structure-property analysis", Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 6781-6787 Download

78. Lefebvre, J.; Korčok, J. L.; Katz, M. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Vapochromic behaviour of M[Au(CN)2]2-based coordination polymers (M = Co, Ni)", Sensors, 2012, 3669-3692 Download

77. Dean, R. K.; Fowler, C. I.; Hasan, K.; Kerman, K.; Kwong, P.; Trudel, S.; Leznoff, D. B.; Kratz, H.-B.; Dawe, L. N.; Kozac, C. M. "Magnetic, electrochemical and spectroscopic properties of iron(III) amine–bis(phenolate) halide complexes", Dalton Trans., 2012, 4806-4816 Download

76. Wong, E. W. Y.; Leznoff, D. B. "Synthesis and structural characterization of a magnesium phthalocyanine(3-) anion", J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines , 2012, 154-162 Download

75. Ovens, J. S.; Truong, K. N.; Leznoff, D. B. "Structural organization and dimensionality at the hands of weak intermolecular Au•••Au, Au•••X and X•••X (X = Cl, Br, I) interactions", Dalton Trans., 2012, 1345-1351 Download

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74. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Hayes, C. E.; Leznoff, D. B. "Paramagnetic metal complexes of diamido donor ligands", Dalton Trans., 2012, 5743-5753 Download
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73. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Geisheimer, A. R.; Huang, W.; Pacradouni, V.; Sabok-Sayr, S. A.; Sonier, J. E.; Leznoff, D. B. "Magnetic properties of isostructural M(H2O)4[Au(CN)4]2-based coordination polymers (M = Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) by SQUID and μSR studies", Dalton Trans., 2011, 7505-7516 Download​
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72. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Ovens, J. S.; Leznoff, D. B. "Thermally triggered reductive elimination of bromine from Au(III) as a path to Au(I)-based coordination polymers", Dalton Trans., 2011, 4140-4146 Download
71. ​Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Greer, B. J.; Michaelis, V. K.; Katz, M. J.; Leznoff, D. B.; Schreckenbach, G.; Kroeker, S. "Characterising lone-pair activity of lead(II) by 207Pb solid-state NMR: coordination polymers of [N(CN)2]- and [Au(CN)2]- with terpyridine ancillary ligands" Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 3609-3618 Download
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70. Geisheimer, A. R.; Wren, J. E. C.; Michaelis, V. K.; Kobayashi, M.; Sakai, K.; Kroeker, S.; Leznoff, D. B. "Aggregation of [Au(CN)4]- anions: examination by crystallography and 15N CP-MAS NMR and the structural factors influencing intermolecular Au•••N interactions", Inorg. Chem., 2011, 1265-1274 Download

69. Baril-Robert, F.; Li, X.; Katz, M. J.; Geisheimer, A. R.; Leznoff, D. B.; Patterson, H. H. "Changes in electronic properties of polymeric one-dimensional {[M(CN)2]-}n (M = Au, Ag) chains due to neighboring closed-shell Zn(II) or open-shell Cu(II) ions", Inorg. Chem., 2011, 231-237 Download

68. Ovens, J. S.; Geisheimer, A. R.; Bokov, A. A.; Ye, Z.-G.; Leznoff, D. B. "The use of polarizable [AuX2(CN)2]- (X = Br, I) building blocks toward the formation of birefringent coordination polymers", Inorg. Chem., 2010, 9609-9616 Download

67. Moatazedi, Z.; Katz, M. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Synthesis and characterization of a series of halide-bridged, multinuclear iron(II) and cobalt(II) diamido complexes and a dinuclear, high-spin cobalt(II) alkyl derivative", Dalton Trans., 2010, 9889-9896 Download

66. Wong, E. W. Y.; Walsby, C. J.; Storr, T.; Leznoff, D. B. "Phthalocyanine as a chemically inert, redox-active Ligand: structural and electronic properties of a Nb(IV)-oxo complex incorporating a highly reduced phthalocyanine(4-) anion", Inorg. Chem., 2010, 3343-3350 Download

65. Hayes, C. E.; Leznoff, D. B. "Diamido-ether uranium(IV) alkyl complexes as single-component ethylene polymerization catalysts", Organometallics, 2010, 767-774 Download

2005-200964. Katz, M. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Highly birefringent cyanoaurate coordination polymers: the effect of polarizable C-X bonds (X = Cl, Br)", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 18435-18444 Download

63. Aguiar, P. M.; Katz, M. J.; Leznoff, D. B.; Kroeker, S. "Natural abundance C-13 and N-15 solid-state NMR analysis of paramagnetic transition-metal cyanide coordination polymers", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 6925-6934 Download

62. Korčok, J. L.; Katz, M. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Impact of metallophilicity on "colossal" positive and negative thermal expansion in a series of isostructural dicyanometallate coordination polymers", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 4866-4871 Download

61. Lefebvre, J.; Tyagi, P.; Trudel, S.; Pacradouni, V.; Kaiser, C.; Sonier, J. E.; Leznoff, D. B. "Magnetic frustration and spin disorder in isostructural M(µ-OH2)2[Au(CN)2]2 (M = Mn, Fe, Co) coordination polymers containing double aqua-bridged chains: SQUID and µSR studies", Inorg. Chem., 2009, 55-67 Download

60. Katz, M. J.; Sakai, K.; Leznoff, D. B. "The use of aurophilic and other metal-metal interactions as crystal engineering design elements to increase structural dimensionality", Chem. Soc. Rev., 2008, 1884-1895 Download

59. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Lefebvre, J.; Trudel, S.; Hill, R. H.; Leznoff, D. B. "A closer look: magnetic behavior of a three-dimensional cyanometalate coordination polymer dominated by a trace amount of nanoparticle impurity", Chem. Eur. J., 2008, 7156-7167 Download

58. Katz, M. J.; Ramnial, T.; Yu, H.-Z.; Leznoff, D. B. "Polymorphism of Zn[Au(CN)2]2 and its luminescent sensory response to NH3 vapor", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 10662-10673 Download

57. Katz, M. J.; Michaelis V. K.; Aguiar, P. M.; Renante, Y.; Haiyan, L.; Kaluarachchi, H.; Batchelor, R. J.; Schreckenbach, G.; Kroeker, S.; Patterson, H. H.; Leznoff, D. B. "Structural and spectroscopic impact of tuning the stereochemical activity of the lone pair in lead(II) cyanoaurate coordination polymers via ancillary ligands ", Inorg. Chem., 2008, 6353-6363 Download

56. Haftbaradaran, F.; Kuchison, A. M.; Katz, M. J.; Schatte, G.; Leznoff, D. B. "Synthesis, structures, and kinetics of mixed-donor amido-amino-siloxo ligands from symmetrical diamidosilyl ether ligands via a retro-Brook rearrangement",Inorg. Chem., 2008, 812-822 Download

55. Raturi, R.; Lefebvre, J.; Leznoff, D. B.; McGarvey, B. R.; Johnson, S. A. "A phosphine-mediated through-space exchange coupling pathway for unpaired electrons in a heterobimetallic lanthanide-transition metal complex", Chem. Eur. J., 2008, 721-730 Download
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54. Telfer, S. G.; Parker, N. D.; Kuroda, R.; Harada, T.; Lefebvre, J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Helicates, boxes, and polymers from simple pyridine-alcohol ligands: the impact of the identity of the transition metal ion", Inorg. Chem., 2008, 209-218 Download

53. Featured in Chemistry World (RSC) and Chem. Eng. News (ACS) and on Journal Coverpage.  Katz, M. J.; Kaluarachchi, H.; Batchelor, R. J.; Bokov, A. A.; Ye, Z.-G.; Leznoff, D. B. "Highly birefringent materials designed using coordination polymer synthetic methodology", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 8804-8807 Download
52. Geisheimer, A. R.; Katz, M. J.; Batchelor, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Preparation and characterization of two chiral Au(CN)2-based coordination polymers containing (1R,2R)-N,N'-dimethylcyclohexanediamine", CrystEngComm, 2007, 1078-1083 Download
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51. Katz, M. J.; Kaluarachchi, H.; Batchelor, R. J.; Schatte, G.; Leznoff, D. B. "A concert of weak interactions generates the very complex {Cu(tmeda)[Au(CN)4]2}•1/3H2O structure", Cryst. Growth Des., 2007, 1946-1948 Download

50. Lefebvre, J.; Chartrand, D.; Leznoff, D. B. "Synthesis, structure and magnetic properties of 2-D and 3-D [cation]M[Au(CN)2]3} (M = Ni, Co) coordination polymers", Polyhedron, 2007, 2189-2199 Download
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49. White, A. P.; Robertson, K. N.; Cameron, T. S.; Liengme, B. V.; Leznoff, D. B.; Trudel, S.; Aquino, M. A. S. "Synthesis and characterization of [M(DMSO)6][SnCl6] complexes (M = Fe2+, Co2+, and Ni2+) - an old mystery solved.", Can. J. Chem., 2007, 372-378 Download

48. Leznoff, D. B.; Shorrock, C. J.; Batchelor, R. J. "Coordination polymers with [Au(CN)4]- Building Blocks: a 1-D chain of molecular NiII2AuIII2 squares", Gold Bull., 2007, 36-39 Download

47. Das, A. K.; Moatazedi, Z.; Mund, G.; Bennet, A. J.; Batchelor, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Chelating or bridging? Halide-controlled binding mode of diamido donor ligands in Iron(III) complexes", Inorg. Chem., 2007, 366-368 Download

46. Hatnean, J. A.; Raturi, R.; Lefebvre, J.; Leznoff, D. B.; Lawes, G.; Johnson, S. A. "Assembly of triangular trimetallic complexes by triamidophosphine ligands: spin-frustrated Mn2+ plaquettes and diamagnetic Mg2+ analogues with a combined through-space, through-bond pathway for 31P-31P spin-spin coupling", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 14992-14999 Download
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45. Leznoff, D. B.; Katz, M. J.; Cheng, L. K. L.; Draper, N. D.; Batchelor, R. J. "The perils and opportunities of reactive building blocks: attempted synthesis of new Hg(CN)2-based coordination polymers and the structures of the resulting products", J. Mol. Struct., 2006, 223-229.  Special Issue on Coordination Polymers. Download
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44. Featured on Journal Coverpage. Lefebvre, J.; Callaghan, F.; Katz, M. J.; Sonier, J. E.; Leznoff, D. B. "A new basic motif in cyanometallate coordination polymers: structure and magnetic behavior of M(μ-OH2)2[Au(CN)2]2 (M = Cu, Ni)", Chem. Eur. J., 2006, 6748-6761 Downloads
43. Katz, M. J.; Aguiar, P. M.; Batchelor, R. J.; Bokov, A. A.; Ye, Z.-G.; Kroeker, S.; Leznoff, D. B. "Structure and multinuclear solid-state NMR of a highly birefringent lead-gold cyanide coordination polymer", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 3669-3676 Download
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42. ​Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Telfer, S. G.; Kuroda R.; Lefebvre J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Boxes, helicates, and coordination polymers: a structural and magnetochemical investigation of the diverse coordination chemistry of simple pyridine-alcohol ligands", Inorg. Chem., 2006, 4592-4601 Downloads
41. Wong, E. W. Y.; Das, A. K; Katz, M. J.; Nishimura, Y.; Onishi, M.; Batchelor, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Diamidoether complexes of yttrium(III) and chromium(III): synthetic challenges and surprises" Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2006, 2826-2834. Special Issue in honour of B. R. James Download

40. Ouyang, L.; Aguiar, P. M.; Batchelor, R. J.; Kroeker, S.; Leznoff, D. B. "A paramagnetic CuI/CuII/ZnII coordination polymer with multiple CN-binding modes and its solid-state NMR characterization", Chem. Commun., 2006, 744-746 Download

39. Katz, M. J.; Shorrock, C. J.; Batchelor, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "[Au(CN)4]- as both an intramolecular and intermolecular bidentate ligand with {(tmeda)Cu(μ-OH)}2 dimers: from antiferro- to ferromagnetic coupling in polymorphs", Inorg. Chem., 2006, 1757-1765 Download

38. Draper, N. D.; Katz, M. J.; Batchelor, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Structural pitstops and turnoffs on the way to the birefringent 2-D layer structure {M(tmeda)[Hg(CN)2]2}[HgCl4]", J. Inorg. Organomet. Poly. Mat., 2005, 447-458. Special issue in honour of R. J. Puddephatt Download

37. Jantunen, K. C.; Haftbaradaran, F.; Katz, M. J.; Batchelor, R. J.; Schatte, G.; Leznoff, D. B. "Synthesis and structure of diamido ether uranium(IV) and thorium(IV) halide "ate" complexes and their conversion to salt-free bis-alkyl complexes", Dalton Trans., 2005, 3083-3091 Download

36. Haftbaradaran, F.; Mund, G.; Batchelor, R. J.; Britten, J. F.; Leznoff, D. B. " Synthesis of mixed-donor amido/amino/siloxo ligands from symmetrical diamidosilylether ligands via a retro-Brook rearrangement and their chromium(II) complexes" Dalton Trans., 2005, 2343-2345 Download

35. Leznoff, D. B. and Lefebvre. J. "Coordination polymers with cyanoaurate building blocks: potential new industrial applications for gold", Gold Bull., 2005, 38, 47-54. Download (Refereed Review Article)

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34. Lefebvre, J.; Batchelor, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Cu[Au(CN)2]2(DMSO)2: golden polymorphs that exhibit vapochromic behaviour" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 16117-16125 Download (Refereed Review Article)

33. Draper, N. D.; Batchelor, R. J.; Aguiar, P. M.; Kroeker, S.; Leznoff, D. B. "Factors affecting the solid-state structure and dimensionality of mercury cyanide/chloride double salts, and NMR characterization of coordination geometries", Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 6557-6567 Download

32. Telfer, S. G.; Sato, T.; Harada, T.; Kuroda, R.; Lefebvre, J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Mono- and dinuclear complexes of chiral tri- and tetradentate schiff-base ligands derived from 1,1'-binaphthyl-2,2'-diamine (BINAM)", Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 6168-6176 Download

31. Draper, N. D.; Batchelor, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Tuning the structures of mercury cyanide-based coordination polymers with transition metal cations" Cryst. Growth Des., 2004, 4, 621-632 Download

30. Jantunen, K. C.; Batchelor, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Synthesis, characterization and organometallic derivatives of diamidosilyl ether thorium(IV) and uranium(IV) halide complexes", Organometallics, 2004, 23, 2186-2193 Download

29. Sakai, K.; Sakai, I.; Draper, N. D.; Leznoff, D. B. "Di-μ-α-pyrrolidinonatobis[cis-diammineplatinum(II)] sulfate hydrate in a head-to-head isomerism", Acta Cryst. E., 2004, E60, m273-m276 Download

28. Telfer, S. G.; Sato, T.; Kuroda, R.; Lefebvre, J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Dinuclear complexes of chiral tetradentate pyridyl-imine ligands: diastereoselectivity, positive cooperativity, ligand self sorting based on chirality, and magnetism", Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 421-429 Download
​27. Featured on Journal Coverpage.  Mund, G.; Vidovic, D.; Batchelor, R.J.; Britten, J.F.; Sharma, R.D.; Jones, C.H.W.; Leznoff, D.B. "Unusual iron "ate" complexes stabilized by Li-π interactions." Chem. Eur. J., 2003, 9, 4757-4763 Download
26. Haftbaradaran, F.; Leznoff, D. B.; Williams, V. E. "A strained silver(I) coordination polymer of 1,4-diazatriphenylene.", J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2003, 2105-2106 Download

25. Shorrock, C. J.; Jong, H.; Batchelor, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "[Au(CN)4]- as a supramolecular building block for heterobimetallic coordination polymers", Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 3917-3924 Download

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24. Draper, N. D.; Batchelor, R. J.; Sih, B. C.; Ye, Z.-G.; Leznoff, D. B. "Synthesis, structure and properties of (tmeda)Cu[Hg(CN)2]2[HgCl4]: anon-centrosymmetric 2-D layer structure that exhibits strong optical anisotropy.", Chem. Mater., 2003, 15, 1612-1616 Download

23. Leznoff, D. B.; Draper, N. D.; Batchelor, R. J. "Using HgX2 units (X = Cl, CN) to increase structural and magnetic dimensionality in conjunction with (2,2'-bipyridyl)copper(II) building blocks", Polyhedron, 2003, 22, 1735-1743. Special Issue on Molecular Magnetism, ICCM 2002 Download

22. Clot, O.; Akahori, Y.; Moorlag, C.; Leznoff, D. B.; Wolf, M. O.; Batchelor, R. J.; Patrick, B. O.; Ishii, M. "Model complexes for metallated polythiophenes: gold(I) and palladium(II) complexes of bis(diphenylphosphino)oligothiophenes." Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 2704-2713 Download

21. Mund, G.; Gabert, A. J.; Batchelor, R. J.; Britten, J. F.; Leznoff, D. B. "A rare ether-bridged cobalt complex which gives rise to an unusual 'serpentine' metal-ligand binding motif." J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 2002, 2990-2991 Download

20. Shorrock, C. J.; Xue, B.-Y.; Kim, P. B.; Batchelor, R. J.; Patrick, B. O.; Leznoff, D. B. "Heterobimetallic coordination polymers incorporating [M(CN)2]- (M = Cu, Ag) and [Ag2(CN)3]- units: increasing structural dimensionality via M-M' and M•••NC interactions." Inorg. Chem., 2002, 41, 6743-6753 Download

19. Mund, G.; Batchelor, R. J.; Sharma, R. D.; Jones, C. H. W.; Leznoff, D. B. "{FeCl[tBuN(SiMe2)]2O]2: the first multinuclear iron(III) system exhibiting spin-admixture." J. Chem. Soc, Dalton Trans., 2002, 136-137 Download

18. Leznoff, D. B.; Xue, B.-Y.; Batchelor, R. J.; Einstein, F. W. B.; Patrick, B. O. "Gold-gold interactions as crystal engineering design elements in heterometallic coordination polymers", Inorg. Chem., 2001, 40, 6026-6034 Download

17. Leznoff, D. B.; Xue, B-Y; Patrick, B. O.; Sanchez, V.; Thompson, R. C. "An aurophilicity-determined 3-D bimetallic coordination polymer: using [Au(CN)2]- to increase structural dimensionality through gold•••gold bonds in (tmeda)Cu[Au(CN)2]2.", J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 2001, 259-260 Download

16. Leznoff, D. B.; Xue, B.-Y.; Stevens, C. L.; Storr, A.; Thompson, R. C.; Patrick, B. O. "Synthesis, structure and magnetic properties of 3-D interpenetrating nets of M(pyrazine)[Au(CN)2]2 (M = Cu, Ni, Co) supported by aurophilic interactions", Polyhedron, 2001, 20, 1247-1254. Special Issue on Molecular Magnetism, ICCM 2000 Download
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