Liu, Ling-Kang
B.S. National Taiwan University
1972
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin
1978
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Structural Chemistry
Born 1950.  B.S., 1972, National Taiwan University; Ph.D., 1978, The University of Texas at Austin.  Postdoctoral Research, 1978-79, Max-Planck Institute f?r Kohlenforschung, Mulheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany; Associate Research Fellow, 1979-85; Research Fellow, 1985-, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica; Adjunct Associate Professor, 1981-85; Adjunct Professor, 1985-, National Taiwan University.  Visiting Scholar, 1986-87, University of California (Berkeley); Visiting Professor, 1992-93, University of Maryland.  Member of Chinese Chemical Society, American Chemical Society, American Crystallographic Association. 

Research Interests 

  • Structural chemistry around a penta-coordinated Fe center.
  • Nucleophilic (h 5-C5H5)-ring alkylation: (h 5-C5H5)Fe(CO)2X and PR¡¦3 by a lithiated reagent RLi, to yield (h 4-RC5H5)Fe(CO)2(PR¡¦3) in which the polarity of reactants is reversed, the bonding of ring to metal changes from (h 5-C5H5) to (h 4-RC5H5), and the oxidation state of metal changes from Fe() to Fe(0).
  • Electron-transfer chain catalysis of selective PR¡¦3 substitution for X- employing the facile 17e--19e- mechanism.

Selected Publications

  • Fu, Y.-T.; Chao, P.-C.; Liu, L.-K. ¡§Ring Opening of (Spiro[2.4]hepta-4,6-diene)tricarbonyliron: A Revisit¡¨ Organometallics 1998, 17, 221-226.
  • Liu, L.-K.; Chang, K.-Y.; Wen, Y.-S. ¡§Anion-induced Migration Reaction of Acetylide from Iron to Cyclopentadienyl in (Cyclopentadienyl)-irondicarbonyl(acetylide) Complexes¡¨ J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 1998, 741-743.
  • Liu, C.-W.; Wen, Y.-S.; Liu, L.-K. ¡§Neighboring Metal Induced Oxidative Addition in Conjunction with a Hydride Trap: The Formation of [(h 5-MeC5H4)Fe(CO)(m -h 1:h 1-PPh2CH2PPh2)(m -H)M (CO)4], M=W, Mo¡¨ Organometallics 1997, 16, 155-157.
  • Liu, L.-K.; Luh, L.-S. ¡§Consecutive Butylations on the Cyclopentadienyl Ring of the [(h 5-C5H5)Fe(CO)2PPh3]+ Cation¡¨ Organometallics 1996, 15, 5263-5265.
Structural Chemistry

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