Selected Publications
“A Versatile and High-Yield Route to Active and Well-Defined Catalysts [Ru(bisphosphane)(H)(solvent)3](BF4)”, J.A. Wiles, S.H. Bergens, K.P.M. Vanhessche, D.A. Dobbs and Valentin Rautenstrauch, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2001, 40 , 914-919.
“Industrial Synthesis of (+)-cis-Methyl Dihydrojasmonate by Enantioselective Catalytic Hydrogenation; Identification of the Precatalyst [Ru((-)-Me-DuPHOS)(H)(η6-1,3,5-cyclooctatriene)](BF4)”, D.A. Dobbs, K.P.M. Vanhessche, E. Brazi, V. Rautenstrauch, J.-Y. Lenoir, J.-P. Genêt, J. Wiles and S.H. Bergens, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2000, 39 , 1992-1995.
“Hydrogenation of Ru(1,5-cyclooctadiene)(η3-C3H5)2 over Black Platinum. A Low-Temperature Reactive Deposition of Submonolayer Quantities of Ruthenium Atoms on Platinum with Real Time Control over Surface Stoichiometry”, C.E. Lee, P.B. Tiege, Y. Xing,J. Nagendran, and S.H. Bergens, Journal of the American Chemical Society 1997, 119, 3543-3549.
“The First Structure Determination of a Possible Intermediate in Ruthenium 2,2'-Bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl Catalyzed Hydrogenation with a Prochiral Group Bound to Ruthenium. Stoichiometric Reaction of a Chiral Ruthenium-Carbon Bond with Dihydrogen Gas”, J.A. Wiles, S.H. Bergens and.V.G. Young, Journal of the American Chemical Society 1997, 119, 2940-2941.