Phase
transfer catalysis and ultrasound in tandem alkylation
of azo dyes for bifunctional molecules, Li X.; Santos
, J. & Bu, X. R. Tetrahedron Letters
41 : 21 : 4057-4059, 2000.
Phase
transfer catalysis for tandem alkylation of azo dyes
for the synthesis of novel multifunctional molecules
Li, X.; Mintz, E. A.; Bu, X. R . Zehnder,
O.; Bosshard, C.; Gunter, P. Tetrahedron
, 56, 5785-5791, 2000.
Santos,
J.; Mintz, E.A.; Zehnder, O.; Bosshard, C.; Bu,
X. R .; Gunter, P. New class of imidazoles
incorporated with thiophenevinyl conjugation pathway
for robust nonlinear optical chromophores, Tetrahedron
Letters , 42 , 805-808, 2001.
Li,
X.; Wang, J.; Mason, R.; Bu, X. R .;
Harrison, J. Combined ultrasound and phase transfer
to enhance tandem alkylation of azo dyes, Tetrahedron
, 58 , 3747-3753, 2002.
Sidney
Liang, Xiu R. Bu , Tertiary-pentyl
groups enhanced salen titanium catalyst for highly enantioselective
trimethylsilylcyanation of aldehydes . Journal
of Organic Chemistry , 67, 2702-2704,
2002.
Sidney
Liang, Donald Van Derveer, Steven Yue Qian, Bradley
Sturgeon, Xiu R. Bu A chiral salen
vanadyl complex with two significantly different configurations
in solide state: Synthesis, characterization, and molecular
structure, Polyhedron , 21(20
), 2021- 2025, 2002 .
Donald
Vanderveer, Marisabel Lebron Colon, Xiu R. Bu
, Crystal Structure of a Chiral Ni Complex:
( R , R)-N,N'- Bis(3-t-butylsalicylidene)-1,2-cyclohexanediaminonickel
(II). Analytical Sciences ,
18, 1283, 2002.
Anne
Gaquere, Sidney Liang, Fu-Lian Hsu, Xiu R. Bu
Readily available tert -pentyl group
as a most effective simple steric group for asymmetrical
synthesis: A case study on Salen Mn for epoxidation,
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry , 13(19
), 2089-2093, 2002.
Xiu
R. Bu , Donald Vanderveer, Javier Santos, Fu-Lian
Hsu, Jie Wang, Kofi Bota Crystal Structure of 4,5-Bis(4-dimethyl-
aminophenyl)-2-(4-nitrophenyl)imidazole, Analytical
Sciences , 19, 469-470, 2003.
Jie
Wang, Richard Mason, Donald Van Derveer, Ke Feng, Xiu
R. Bu , A convenient preparation of a novel
class of imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine: decisive role by ammonium
acetate in chemoselectivity, Journal of
Organic Chemistry , 68, 5415-5418, 2003.
Marisabel
Lebron Colon, Steven Y. Qian , Donald Vanderveer, Xiu
R. Bu, Chiral bimetallic complexes from chiral salen
metal complexes and mercury (II) halides and acetates:
the anionic groups interact with Cu(II) in apical position,
Inorganica Chimica Acta
357, 83–88, 2004.
Ke
Feng, Leonardo De Boni, Lino Misoguti, C. R. Mendonca,
Michael Meador, Fu-Lian Hsu, Xiu R. Bu ,
Y-shaped two-photon absorbing molecules with an imidazole-thiazole
core, ChemComm , 1178, 2004.
Ke
Feng, Fu-Lian Hsu, Donald Van DerVeer, Xiu R.
Bu , Tuning fluorescence properties of imidazole
derivatives with thiophene and thiazole, J.
Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem . 165, 223, 2004.
Highly
efficient and direct heterocyclization of dipyridyl
ketone to N,N”-bidentate ligands, Jie Wang, Leon Dyers,
Jr,; Richard Mason, Jr.; Prince Amoyaw, Xiu
R. Bu , Journal of the Organic
Chemistry , 70(6), 2353, 2005.
Two
and three-photon excited fluorescence in Y-shaped molecules,
L. De Boni, D. L. Silva, U. M. Neves, Ke Feng, M. Meador,
Xiu R. Bu , L. Misoguti, C. R. Mendonca,
Chemical Physics Lett ers ,
402, 474, 2005.
Ke
Feng, Fu-Lian Hsu, Xiu R. Bu, A potential fluorescent
Hg(II) chemosensor, Microchemical. Journal
. 81, 23-27, 2005.
Synthesis
and molecular structure of a bimetallic salen complex
containing Zn and La: A disordered nitrate group dancing
between metal centers, Leon Dyers, Jr, Donald Van Derveer,
Xiu R. Bu, J. Rare Earths , 23, 257,
2005.
Synthesis
and structures of new salen complexes with bulky groups,
Leon Dyers Jr., Steven Y. Que, Donald VanDerveer, Xiu
R. Bu, Inorg. Chim. Acta ,
article in press, on web edition since August, 2005.
