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Professor Robert P. Houser

Office: CHBA 213
Phone: (405) 325-3551
Email: houser@ou.edu
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Robert P. Houser

  • Associate Professor & Assistant Chair
  • B.S. (Colorado State University) 1987
  • Ph.D. (University of Minnesota) 1996
  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (Caltech) 1997-1999
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2001-2006

 
Division:
  • Inorganic chemistry
Research Interests
  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry; bioinorganic chemistry; coordination polymers. Further information.
Recent Publications

Pal Chaudhuri, U.; Yang, L.; Whiteaker, L. R.; Mondal, A.; Fultz, M.; Powell, D. R.; Houser, R. P. “Mononuclear Copper Complexes of Pyridylmethylamide Ligands” Polyhedron 2007, in press.

Yang, L.; Powell, D. R.; Klein, E. L.; Grohmann, A.; Houser, R. P. “Delocalized Mixed-Valence Bi- and Trinuclear Complexes with Short Cu–Cu Bonds” Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 6831-6833.

Pal Chaudhuri, U.; Whiteaker, L. R.; Mondal, A.; Klein, E. L.; Powell, D. R.; Houser, R. P. “Substituted Pyridylmethylamdie Ligands and their Zinc Complexes” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2007, 360, 3610-3618.

Yang, L.; Powell, D. R.; Houser, R. P. “Structural Variation in Copper(I) Complexes with Pyridylmethylamide Ligands: Structural Analysis with a New Four-Coordinate Geometry Index, τ4” Dalton Trans. 2007, 955 - 964.

Yang, L.; Houser, R. P. “Copper(I) Coordination Chemistry of Pyridylmethylamide Ligands” Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 9416-9422.

Whiteaker, L. R.; Pal Chaudhuri, U.; Powell, D. R.; Houser, R. P. “2-Phenyl-N-(2-pyridylmethyl)acetamide” Acta Crytallogr. E 2006, E62, o3337-o3338.

Whiteaker, L. R.; Pal Chaudhuri, U.; Powell, D. R.; Houser, R. P. “2,2,2-Triphenyl-N-(2-pyridylmethyl)acetamide” Acta Crytallogr. E 2006, E62, o3339-o3340.

Pal Chaudhuri, U.; Whiteaker, L. R.; Yang, L.; Houser, R. P. "Multinuclear copper complexes of pyridylmethylamide ligands" Dalton Trans. 2006, 1902-1908.

Michels, J. T.; O'Malley, B. G.; Klein, E. L.; Yang, L.; Grohmann, A.; Houser, R. P. "2-Methyl-N,N'-bis[2-(methylsulfanyl)ethyl]2-(2-pyridyl)-N,N'-ditosylpropane-1,3-diamine" Acta Crystallogr. E 2005, E61, O3834-O3836.

Houser, R. P.; Cheng, D. "Diaquatetrakis(1H-imidazole)copper(II) bis[tris(1H-imidazole)(pyridine-2,4,6-tricarboxylato-k3N,O2:O6) cuprate(II)] dihydrate" Acta Crystallogr. E 2005, E61, m1649-m1651.

Klein, E. L.; Khan, M. A.; Houser, R. P. "Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of New Copper(II) Complexes of 2-Methylthio-N-(2-pyridylmethyl)acetamide" Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 7272-7274.

Mondal, A.; Li, Y.; Khan, M. A.; Ross, J. H., Jr.; Houser, R. P. "Supramolecular Copper Hydroxide Tennis Balls: Self-Assembly, Structures, and Magnetic Properties of Octanuclear [Cu8L8(OH)4]4+ Clusters (HL = N-(2-pyridylmethyl)acetamide)" Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 7075-7082.

Cheng, D.; Khan, M. A.; Houser, R. P. "Structural Variability of Cobalt(II) Coordination Polymers: Three Polymorphs of Co3(TMA)2 [TMA = Trimesate, C6H3(COO)33-]" Cryst. Growth Des., 2004, 4, 599-604.

TACN-Amino Acid Conjugates and Their Copper(II) Complexes." Mondal, A.; Klein, E. L.; Khan, M. A.; Houser, R. P. Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 5462-5464.

"Coordination Polymer Chains Derived from 1,2,4,5-Benzenetetracarboxylate and Transition Metals with Substituted Imidazole Co-Ligands." Cheng, D.; Khan, M. A.; Houser, R. P. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2003, 351, 242-250.




 

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