Selected Recent Publications- Lou Messerle

• Thurston, J. H. ; Dougherty, M. J.; Swenson, D. C.; Messerle, L. Bi₅(dpd)₆CH₃CN](ClO₄)₃•3CH₃CN: A Supramolecular, Tetrahedral Pentabismuth Cluster Derived from a Nonabismuth Oxo/Hydroxide. Dalton Transactions 2008, 5146.
• Huang, J.-H.; Lee, T.-Y.; Swenson, D. C.; Messerle, L. Dinuclear Coordination of a Novel Four-Electron Reduced µ-η¹,η³-Allene Ligand with Β-Agostic C-H ...Ta Interaction. Direct Addition of Allene to (C₅Me₅)₂Ta₂(µ-X)₄(X = Cl, Br), and Molecular Structure of (C₅Me₅)₂Ta₂(µ-η¹, η³-C₃H₄)(µ-Cl)Cl₃. Polyhedron 2006, 25, 559.
• Lee, T.-Y.; Wooten, A. J.; Luci, J. J.; Swenson, D. C.; Messerle, L. Four-Electron Reduction of Dinitrogen During Solution Disproportionation of the Organodimetallic (η-C₅Me₄R)₂Ta₂(µ-Cl)₄ (R = Me, Et) to a New µ-η¹,η¹-N₂ Complex and Odd-Electron Organotrimetallic Cluster. Chemical Communications 2005, 5444.
• Thurstn, J. H.; Swenson, D. C.; Messerle, L. Solvolytic Routes to New Nonabismuth Hydroxy- and Alkoxy-Oxo Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization and Solid-State Structures of Novel Nonabismuth Polyoxo Cations Bi₉(µ₃-O)₈(µ₃-OR)₆⁵⁺(R = H, Et). Chemical Communications 2005, 4228-4230.
• Hay, D. N. T.; Adams, J. A.; Carpenter, J.; DeVries, S. L.; Domyancich, J.; Goldsmith, S.; Kruse, M. A.; Leone, A.; Moussavi-Harami, F.; O'Brien, J. A.; Pfaffly, J. R.; Sylves, M.; Taravati, P; Thomas, J. L.; Tiernan, B.; Messerle, L. Facile Reduction of Early Transition Metal Halides with Nonconventional, Mild Reductants. 6. A New, Lower-Temperature, Solid-State Synthesis of the Cluster Hexamolybdenum Dodecachloride Mo₆Cl₁₂ from MoCl₅, via Chloromolybdic Acid, (H₃O)₂[Mo₆(µ₃-Cl)₈Cl₆]·6H₂O. Inorganica Chimica Acta 2004, 357, 644-648.
• Huang, J.-H.; Lee, T.-Y.; Swenson, D. C.; Messerle, L. An Alkylidene-Tethered Tantallanorbornadiene from Reduction of a Tantalum (Phenylalkenyl)alkylidene Derived from 3,3-Diphenylcyclopropene Ring Opening by ( η-C₅Me₄R)₂Ta₂(µ-X)₄ (Ta==Ta). Inorganica Chimica Acta 2003, 345, 209-215.
• Huang, J.-H.; Luci, J. J.; Lee, T.-Y.; Swenson, D. C.; Jensen, J. H; Messerle, L. A Planar Tetracoordinate Carbon and Unusual Bonding in an Organodimetallic Propynylidene Complex Arising from Double C-H Activation of an Allene Ligand. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2003, 125, 1688-1689.
• Hay, D. N. T.; Messerle, L. Low-Temperature, High Yield Synthesis and Convenient Isolation of the High-Electron-Density Cluster Compound Ta₆Br₁₄·8H₂O for Use in Biomacromolecular Crystallographic Phase Determination. Journal of Structural Biology 2002, 139, 147-151.
• Hay, D. N. T.; Swenson, D. C.; Messerle, L. Gallium and Gallium Dichloride, New Solid-State Reductants in Preparative Transition Metal Chemistry. New, Lower-Temperature Syntheses and Convenient Isolation of Hexatantalum Tetradecachloride Octahydrate, Ta₆(µ-Cl)₁₂Cl₂(OH₂)₄·4H₂O, and Synthesis and Solid-State Structure of a Tetraalkylammonium Derivative, [N(CH₂Ph)Bu₃]₄[Ta₆(µ-Cl)₁₂Cl₆], of the Reduced [Ta₆(µ-Cl)₁₂]²⁺ Cluster Core. Inorganic Chemistry 2002, 41, 4700-4707.
• Souw, V.; Li, S.; Metcalf, P; McElfresh, M; Messerle, L. Magnetic Properties of LiBeH₃ and Li₂BeH₄. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 2002, 65, 094510, 1-6.
• Mullan, B. F.; Madsen, M. T.; Messerle, L; Kolesnichenko, V.; Kruger, J. X-ray Attenuation Coefficients of High Atomic Number Transition Metal Cluster Compounds: A New Paradigm for Radiographic Contrast Agents. Academic Radiology 2000, 7, 254-260.