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    Ultrafast Ruthenium-based ROMP

    November 24, 2025
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    Unsymmetric Co-Facial Bimetallic HER Catalysts

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Publication List

2026

Mazumder, D.; Rafferty, R. J.; Sues, P. E. Pushing the Limits of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Palladium Calixpyrrole Catalysts that Exhibit Kinetics Near the Diffusion Rate Limit. 2026, Under Revision.

2025

An Ultrafast Benchmark for Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization Catalysts: A Ruthenium Phosphinimine System Approaching the Diffusion Rate Limit.

Gipper, J. R.; Afsar, D.; Cole, C.; Saha, S.; Rafferty R. J.; Calvo, P. R.; Sues, P. E. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2026, 147, 45189–45198.

2024

Unsymmetric Co-facial “Salixpyrrole” Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts: Two Metals are Better than One. 

Somachandra, M. S., Averkiev, B., Sues, P. E. Highly Active Inorganic Chemistry 2024, 63, 13346–13357.

The Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Using Molecular Design in Transition Metal Complexes to Control Catalytic Microenvironments on Electrode Surfaces. 

Trowbridge, L.; Sues, P. E. TChemCatChem 2024, 19, e202400637.

2023

Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution using a Nickel-based Calixpyrrole Complex: Controlling the Secondary Coordination Sphere on an Electrode Surface. 

Trowbridge, L.; Averkiev, B.; Sues, P. E. Chemistry – A European Journal 2023, 29, e202301920.

Ruthenium Phosphinimine Complex as a Fast-Initiating Olefin Metathesis Catalyst with Competing Catalytic Cycles. 

Saha, S.; Averkiev, B.; Sues, P. E. Organometallics 2022, 41, 2879-2890.

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2022

Palladium Complexes Bearing Calixpyrrole Ligands with Pendant Hydrogen Bond Donors: Synthesis, Structural Characterization, Electrochemistry and Dihydrogen Evolution. 

Trowbridge, L.; Averkiev, B.; Sues, P. E. Polyhedron 2022, 225, 116046.

2021

Ring-Opening Polymerization of ε-Caprolactone Utilizing Aluminum Alkyl Complexes Bearing Dianionic Scorpionate Ligands.

Cooper, E. N.; Averkiev, B.; Day, V. W.; Sues, P. E. Organometallics 2021, 40, 3185-3200.

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2018

2017

Sues, P. E.; Bukhryakov, K. V.; Schrock, R. R. Evaluation of Several Molybdenum and Ruthenium Catalysts for the Metathesis Homocoupling of 3-Methyl-1-Butene. Helvetica Chimica Acta 2017, 100, e1700181. https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.201700181

§ Sonnenberg, J. F.; § Wan, K. Y.; § Sues, P. E.; Morris, R. H. Ketone Asymmetric Hydrogenation Catalyzed by P-NH-P’ Pincer Iron Catalysts: an Experimental and Computational Study. ACS Catalysis 2017, 7, 316-326. §All authors contributed equally. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.6b02489

2016

Sues, P. E.; John, J. M.; Bukhryakov, K. V.; Schrock, R. R.; Müller, P. Tungsten and Molybdenum Alkylidene Complexes That Contain a 2-Pyridyl Phenoxide Ligand. Organometallics 2016, 35, 3587-3593. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00644

Sues, P. E.; John, J. M.; Schrock, R. R.; Müller, P. Molybdenum and Tungsten Alkylidene and Metallacyclobutane Complexes that Contain a Dianionic Biphenolate Pincer Ligand. Organometallics 2016, 35, 758–761. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00976

2015

Lagaditis, P. O.; Sues, P. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Exploring the Decomposition Pathways of Highly Active Iron Tetradentate Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation Catalysts. Dalton Transactions 2015, 44, 12119–12127. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4DT02799J

2014

Sues, P. E.; Cai, K.; McIntosh, D. F.; Morris, R. H. Template Effect and Ligand Substitution Methods for the Synthesis of Iron Catalysts: A Two–Part Experiment for Inorganic Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education 2014, 92, 378–381. https://doi.org/10.1021/ed500341p

Sues, P. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Bromo{N, N’-bis[2-(diphenylphosphino)ethanediylidene] ethylenediamine}(para-toluenesulfonylmethyl-isocyanide)iron(II) tetraphenylborate. Acta Crystallographica E  2014, 70, m144. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536814005467

Sues, P. E.; Demmans, K. Z.; Morris, R. H. Rational development of iron catalysts for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation. Dalton Transactions 2014, 43. 7650–7667.
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4DT00612G

Sues, P. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. A Sulphur Mimic of 1,1-Bis(diphenylphosphino)methane: A New Ligand Opens Up. Chemical Communications 2014, 50, 4707–4710. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC49456J

Sues, P. E.; Forbes, M. W.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Ligand-based Molecular Recognition and Oxygen Splitting: An Endo Epoxide Ending. Dalton Transactions 2014, 43, 4137–4145. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3DT53495B

Sues, P. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Reactivity of Phosphido Species Generated Through the Deprotonation of a Tripodal Phosphine Ligand and Implications for Hydrophosphination. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136 , 4746–4760. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja5006724

Lagaditis, P. O.; Sues, P. E.; Sonnenberg, J. S.; Wan, K.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Iron(II) Complexes Containing Unsymmetrical P-N-Pʹ Pincer Ligands for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 1367–1380. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja4082233

2013

2012

Sues, P. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Flexible Syntheses of Tripodal Phosphine Ligands 1,1,2-tris(diarylphosphino)ethane and their Ruthenium η5-C5­Me5 Complexes. Organometallics 2012, 31, 6589–6594. https://doi.org/10.1021/om3005959

Sues, P. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Synthesis, Characterization, and Activity of Yttrium(III) Nitrate Complexes Bearing Tripodal Phosphine Oxide, and Mixed Phosphine–Phosphine Oxide Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry 2012, 51, 9322–9332. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic3010147

2011

Sues, P. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Stereoelectronic Factors in Iron Catalysis: Synthesis and Characterization of Aryl-Substituted Iron(II) Carbonyl P–N–N–P Complexes and Their Use in the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones. Organometallics 2011, 30, 4418–4431. https://doi.org/10.1021/om2005172

2010

Mikhailine, A. A.; Lagaditis, P. O.; Sues, P. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. New cyclic phosphonium salts derived from the reaction of phosphine-aldehydes with acid. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2010, 695, 1824–1830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2010.04.016

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