PUBLICATIONS

• Wei-Chih Lee, Wei-Chin Shih, Ting-Hsuan Wang, Yuhua Liu, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Nickel promoted switchable hydroheteroarylation of cyclodienes via C–H bond activation of heteroarenes”, 2015, Tetrahedron, 71, 4460-4464.

 

• Yu-Chen Hsu, Jiun-Shian Shen, Bo-Chao Lin, Wen-Ching Chen, Yi-Tsu Chan, Wei-Min Ching, Glenn P. A. Yap, Chao-Ping Hsu*, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Synthesis and isolation of an acyclic tridentate bis(pyridine)carbodicarbene and studies on its structural implications and reactivities”, 2015, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 54, 2420-2424.

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• Wen-Ching Chen, Jiun-Shian Shen, Titel Jurca, Chun-Jung Peng, Yen-Hsu Lin, Yi-Ping Wang, Wei-Chih Shih, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Expanding the ligand framework diversity of carbodicarbenes and direct detection of boron activation in the methylation of amines with CO2”, 2015, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 54, 15207-15212.

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• Wei-Chih Lee, Chien-Hung Chen, Cheng-Yuan Liu, Ming-Shiuan Yu, Yung-Huei Lin, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Nickel-catalysed para-CH activation of pyridine with switchable regioselective hydroheteroarylation of allylarenes”, 2015, Chem. Commun., 51, 17104-17107.

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• Ming-Shiuan Yu, Wei-Chih Lee, Chih-Hao Chen, Fu-Yu Tsai, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Controlled regiodivergent C–H bond Activation of Imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine via synergistic cooperation between Aluminum and Nickel”, 2014, Org. Lett., 16, 4826-4829.

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• Hsuan-Jui Huang, Wei-Chih Lee, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Synthesis and characterization of amino-NHC coinage metal complexes and application for C–H activation of caffeine”, 2014, J. Organomet. Chem., 761, 64-73.

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• Wen-Ching Chen, Ying-Chieh Lai, Wei-Chun Shih, Ming-Shiuan Yu, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Mechanistic study of a switch in the regioselectivity of hydroheteroarylation of styrene catalyzed by bimetallic Ni–Al through C–H activation”, 2014, Chem. - Eur. J., 20, 8099-8105.

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• Wen-Ching Chen, Ching-Yu Lee, Bo-Chao Lin, Yu-Chen Hsu*, Jiun-Shian Shen, Chao-Ping Hsu, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “The elusive three-coordinate dicationic hydrido boron complex”, 2014, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 914-917.

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• Wei-Chih Lee, Ting-Hsuan Wang, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Ligand promoted Pd-catalyzed dehydrogenative alkenylation of hetereoarenes”, 2014, Chem. Commun., 50, 3671-3673.

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• Chia-Cheng Tai, Ming-Shiuan Yu, Yi-Lin Chen, Wen-Hang Chuang, Ting-Hua Lin, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Synthesis of a guanidine NHC complex and its application in borylation reactions”, 2014, Chem. Commun., 50, 4344-4346.

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• Wei-Chih Lee, Chun-Han Wang, Yung-Huei Lin, Wei-Chun Shih, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Tandem isomerization and C–H activation: regioselective hydroheteroarylation of allylarenes”, 2013, Org. Lett., 15, 5358-5361.

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• Wen-Ching Chen, Yu-Chen Hsu, Ching-Yu Lee, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Synthetic modification of acyclic bent allenes (carbodicarbenes) and further studies on their structural implications and reactivities”, 2013, Organometallics, 32, 2435-2442.

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• Chien-Tien Chen, Chien-Hsiang Chen*, Tiow-Gan Ong, “Complementary helicity interchange of optically switchable supramolecular-enantiomeric helicenes with (−)-Gel-Sol-(+)-Gel transition ternary logic”, 2013, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 5294-5297.

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• Titel Jurca, Wen-Ching Chen, Sheila Michel, Ilia Korobkov, Tiow-Gan Ong, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Solid-State thermolysis of a fac-rhenium(i) carbonyl complex with a redox non-innocent pincer ligand”, 2013, Chem. - Eur. J., 19, 4278-4286.

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• Ya-Ming Liu, Yi-Chun Lin, Wen-Ching Chen, Jen-Hao Cheng, Yi-Lin Chen, Glenn P. A. Yap, Shih-Sheng Sun*, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Synthesis and characterization of para-pyridine linked NHC palladium complexes and their studies for the Heck–Mizoroki coupling reaction”, 2012, Dalton Trans., 41, 7382-7389.

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• Wen-Ching Chen, Yu-Chen Hsu*, Wei-Chun Shih, Ching-Yu Lee, Wen-Han Chuang, Yi-Fang Tsai, Peter Ping-Yu Chen, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Metal-free arylation of benzene and pyridine promoted by amino-linked nitrogen heterocyclic carbenes”, 2012, Chem. Commun., 48, 6702-6704.

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• Chia-Cheng Tai, Ya-Ting Chang, Jie-Hong Tsai, Titel Jurca, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Subtle reactivities of boron and aluminum complexes with amino-linked N-heterocyclic carbene ligation”, 2012, Organometallics, 31, 637-643.

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• Wei-Chun Shih, Wen-Ching Chen, Ying-Chieh Lai, Ming-Shiuan Yu, Jhao-Jhe Ho, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “The regioselective switch for amino-NHC mediated C–H activation of benzimidazole via Ni–Al synergistic catalysis”, 2012, Org. Lett., 14, 2046-2049.

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• Chia-Yi Li, Yi-Yin Kuo, Jie-Hong Tsai, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Amine-linked N-heterocyclic carbenes: the importance of an pendant free-amine auxiliary in assisting the catalytic reaction”, 2011, Chem. - Asian J., 6, 1520-1524.

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• Chie-Hong Wang, Wei-Chih Shih, Hui Chuan Chang, Yi-Yin Kuo, Wen-Chun Hung, Tiow-Gan Ong*, Wen-Shan Li*, “Preparation and characterization of amino-linked heterocyclic carbene palladium, gold, and silver complexes and their use as anticancer agents that act by triggering apoptotic cell death”, 2011, J. Med. Chem., 54, 5245-5249.

 

• Yu-Cheng Hu, Chung-Chih Tsai, Wei-Chih Shih, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “The zirconium benzyl mediated C−N bond cleavage of an amino-linked N-heterocyclic carbene”, 2010, Organometallics, 29, 516-518.

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• Yu-Cheng Hu, Cheng-Feng Liang, Jie-Hong Tsai, Glenn P. A. Yap, Ya-Ting Chang, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Zirconium complexes supported by imidazolones: synthesis, characterization, and application of precatalysts for the hydroamination of aminoalkenes”, 2010, Organometallics, 29, 3357-3361.

• Chung-Chih Tsai, Wei-Chih Shih, Cyong-Hui Fang, Chia-Yi Li, Tiow-Gan Ong*, Glenn P. A. Yap, “Bimetallic nickel aluminun mediated para-selective alkenylation of pyridine: direct observation of η2,η1-pyridine Ni(0)−Al(III) intermediates prior to C−H bond activation”, 2010, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 11887-11889.

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• Jie-Hong Tsai, Shen-Ta Lin, Richard Bing-Gong Yang, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “two-way street transformation of boronium and borane complexes facilitated by amino-linked N-heterocyclic carbene”, 2010, Organometallics, 29, 4004-4006.

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• Wei-Chih Shih, Chun-Han Wang, Yang-Ting Chang, Glenn P. A. Yap, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Synthesis and structure of an amino-linked N-heterocyclic carbene and the reactivity of its aluminum adduct”, 2009, Organometallics, 28, 1060-1067.

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• Yi-Ping Huang, Chung-Chih Tsai, Wei-Chih Shih, Yu-Chang Chang, Shen-Ta Lin, Glenn P. A. Yap, Ito Chao*, Tiow-Gan Ong*, “Kinetic and thermodynamic study of Syn−Anti isomerization of nickel complexes bearing amino-linked N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: the effect of the pendant arm of the NHC”, 2009, Organometallics, 28, 4316-4323.

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• Christopher N. Rowley, Tiow-Gan Ong, Jessica Priem, Tom K. Woo*, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Amidolithium and amidoaluminum catalyzed synthesis of substituted guanidines: an interplay of DFT modeling and experiment”, 2008, Inorg. Chem., 47, 9660-9668.

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• Christopher N. Rowley, Tiow-Gan Ong, Jessica Priem, Darrin S. Richeson*, Tom K. Woo*, “Analysis of the critical step in catalytic carbodiimide transformation: proton transfer from amines, phosphines, and alkynes to guanidinates, phosphaguanidinates, and propiolamidinates with Li and Al catalysts”, 2008, Inorg. Chem., 47, 12024-12031.

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• Patrick Bazinet, Tiow-Gan Ong, Julie S. O'Brien, Nathalie Lavoie, Eleanor Bell, Glenn P. A. Yap, Ilia Korobkov, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Design of sterically demanding, electron-rich carbene ligands with the perimidine scaffold”, 2007, Organometallics, 26, 2885-2895.

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• Nathalie Lavoie, Tiow-Gan Ong*, Serge I. Gorelsky, Ilia Korobkov, Glenn P. A. Yap, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Bis(imido) W(VI) complexes chelated by N,N′-disubstituted 1,8-diamidonaphthalene: an analysis of bonding, isocyanate insertion, and Al-Me transfer”, 2007, Organometallics, 26, 6586-6590.

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• Farouq F. Said*, Patrick Bazinet, Tiow-Gan Ong, Glenn P. A. Yap, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Hydrogen bonding motifs of N,N‘,N‘ ‘-trisubstituted guanidinium cations with spherical and rodlike monoanions:  syntheses and structures of I-, I3-, and SCN- salts”, 2006, Crystal Growth & Design, 6, 258-266.

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• Farouq F. Said*, Tiow-Gan Ong, Patrick Bazinet, Glenn P. A. Yap, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Linking hydrogen dicarboxylate synthons with substituted guanidinium cations:  transforming rings and chains into two- and three-dimensional structures”, 2006, Crystal Growth & Design, 6, 1848-1857.

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• Tiow-Gan Ong, Julie S. O'Brien, Ilia Korobkov, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Facile and atom-efficient amidolithium-catalyzed C−C and C−N formation for the construction of substituted guanidines and propiolamidines”, 2006, Organometallics, 25, 4728-4730.

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• Farouq F. Said*, Tiow-Gan Ong, Glenn P. A. Yap, Darrin Richeson*, “Strong and weak hydrogen-bonding interactions in the structures of N,N‘,N‘ ‘-trisubstituted guanidinium chlorides and bromides”, 2005, Crystal Growth & Design, 5, 1881-1888.

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• Tiow-Gan Ong, Glenn P. A. Yap, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Catalytic C=N bond metathesis of carbodiimides by group 4 and 5 imido complexes supported by guanidinate ligands”, 2003, Chem. Commun., 2612-2613.

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• Tiow-Gan Ong, Glenn P. A. Yap, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Redefining the coordination geometry and reactivity of guanidinate complexes by covalently linking the guanidinate ligands. synthesis and reactivity of [RN{NH(R)}CN(CH2)2NC{NH(R)}NR]M(CH2Ph)2 (R = iPr; M = Ti, Zr)”, 2003, Organometallics, 22, 387-389.

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• Tiow-Gan Ong, Glenn P. A. Yap, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Catalytic construction and reconstruction of guanidines:  ti-mediated guanylation of amines and transamination of guanidines”, 2003, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 8100-8101.

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• Tiow-Gan Ong, Dayna Wood, Glenn P. A. Yap, Darrin S. Richeson*, “transformations of aryl isocyanide on guanidinate-supported organozirconium complexes to yield terminal imido, iminoacyl, and enediamido ligands”, 2002, Organometallics, 21, 1-3.

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• Tiow-Gan Ong, Glenn P. A. Yap, Darrin S. Richeson*, “Formation of a guanidinate-supported titanium imido complex:  a catalyst for alkyne hydroamination”, 2002, Organometallics, 21, 2839-2841.

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