Recent Publications (since 2000)
P. Shao, R.A.L. Gendron, D.J. Berg and G.W. Bushnell. 'Dibenzylzirconium Complexes of Chelating Aminodiolates: Synthesis, Structural Studies, Thermal Stability, and Insertion Chemistry' Organometallics 2000, 19, 509-520. DOI
P. Shao, R.A.L. Gendron and D.J. Berg. 'Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Zirconium Complexes Containing Aminodiolate Ligands and Their Use as Lewis Acid Catalysts' Can. J. Chem. 2000, 78, 255-264. DOI
D.J. Berg and R.A.L. Gendron. 'Synthesis, Solid State Structure and Solution Behaviour of the Lighter Lanthanide Bis(trimethylsilyl) amido Chlorides, [Ln{N(SiMe3)2}2(THF)(mu-Cl)]2 (Ln=Ce,Nd)' Can. J. Chem. 2000, 78, 454-458. DOI
S.R. Stobart, D.J. Berg, M.A. Casado, S. Feng, M.A.F. Hernandez-Gruel, J. Roovers. 'Carbosilane Dendrimers and Monodendrons: Strategies for Modular Synthesis'. Polym. Mater. Science and Engineering 2001, 84, 152-153.
P.E. O'Connor, D.J. Morrison, S. Steeves, K. Burrage and D.J. Berg. 'Zirconium Complexes of Fluorinated Aryl Diamides' Organometallics 2001, 20, 1153-1160. DOI
R.A.L. Gendron, D.J. Berg, P. Shao and T. Barclay. 'Cyclopentadienyl Yttrium Complexes Bearing Fluorinated Aryloxide Functionality' Organometallics 2001, 20, 4279-4286. DOI
M. Schultz, J.M. Boncella, D.J. Berg, T.D. Tilley and R.A. Andersen. 'Coordination of 2,2'-Bipyridyl and 1,10-Phenanthroline to Substituted Ytterbocenes: An Experimental Investigation of Spin Coupling in Lanthanide Complexes' Organometallics 2002, 21, 460-472. DOI
R.H. Mitchell, Z. Brkic, D.J. Berg and T. Barclay. 'Effective Aromaticity of Tricarbonylchronium-benzene, about 25% Enhanced over that of Benzene: Structured Evidence from a Complexed Benzannulene' J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11983-11988. DOI
P.E. O'Connor, D.J. Berg and T. Barclay. 'Photolytic Zirconium Benzyl Bond Cleavage and Subsequent Aryl C-F Activation in Zirconium Complexes of Fluorinated Aryl Diamides' Organometallics 2002, 21, 3947-3954. DOI
R.A.L. Gendron, and D.J. Berg. 'Alkoxide-Functionalized Cyclopentadienyl Complexes of Yttrium Containing a Two-Carbon Tether' Can. J. Chem. 2002, 80, 1285-1292. DOI
D.J. Berg, J.M. Boncella and R. A. Andersen. 'Preparation of Coordination Compounds of Cp*2Yb with Heterocyclic Nitrogen Bases: Examples of Antiferromagnetic Exchange Coupling across Bridging Ligands' Organometallics 2002, 21, 4622-4631. DOI
D.J. Berg and R. A. Andersen. 'Reaction of (C5Me5)2Yb(ER)(NH3) with Me3Al. Formation of (C5Me5)2Yb(A1Me4) and [(C5Me5)2Yb(ER)(A1Me3)2]2'. Organometallics 2003, 22, 627-632. DOI
R.H. Mitchell, Z. Brkic, V.A. Sauro and D.J. Berg. 'A Photochromic, Electrochromic Thermochromic Ru Complexed Benzannulene - An Organometallic Example of the Dimethyldihydropyrene-metacyclo-phanediene Valence Isomerization' J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 7581-7585. DOI
R. H. Mitchell, W. Fan, D. Y. K. Lau and D.J. Berg. 'An Annulene-Fused Cyclopentadienide. A Photochromic Cyclopentadienodimethyldihydropyrene where the Fused Cyclopentadienide Group Resembles Benzene in its Effects on the Dihydropyrene-Metacyclophane Valence Isomerization'. J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 549-554. DOI
P. E. O'Connor, D.J. Berg and B. Twamley. 'Zirconium Complexes of a Cross-Bridged Cyclam'. Organometallics 2005, 24, 28-36. DOI
D.J. Berg, C. Zhou, T. Barclay, X. Fei, S. Feng, K. A. Ogilvie, R. A. Gossage, B. Twamley and M. Wood. 'Lanthanide Complexes of an Oxazoline-Phenoxide Hybrid Chelate'. Can. J. Chem. 2005, 83, 449-459. DOI
R.H. Mitchell, R. Zhang, W. Fan, D.J. Berg. 'Measuring Antiaromaticity by an Analysis of Ring Current and Coupling Constant Changes in a Cyclopentadienone-fused Dihydropyrene' J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 16251-16254. DOI
R.F. Guan, C. Zhou, S.Y. Feng, D.J. Berg and S.R. Stobart. 'Ring-closing Metathesis on Allyl-terminated Carbosilane Dendrimers' J. Chinese Chem. Soc. 2005, 52, 113-118.
C. Zhou, R.F. Guan, S. Feng, D.J. Berg and S.R. Stobart. 'The Preparation of a New Kind of Carbosilane Dendrimer with 4-(naphthalen-1-yl)phenyl Cores - An Application of the Suzuki Coupling Reaction' J. Chinese Chem. Soc. 2005, 52, 947-952.
X. Fei, B. Zhang, B. Shi and D.J. Berg. 'A Simple Synthesis Procedure for Allylphenol Derivatives' Yingyong Huaxue 2006, 23, 221-223.
M. Walter, D.J. Berg and R. A. Andersen. 'Coordination Complexes of Decamethylytterbocene with 4,4'-Disubstituted Bipyridines: An Experimental Study of Spin Coupling in Lanthanide Complexes'. Organometallics 2006, 25, 3228-3237. DOI
P.E. O'Connor, B. Twamley and D.J. Berg. 'Lanthanide Complexes of a Cross-Bridged Cyclam Ligand: Isolation and Structural Characterization of Unusual Trinuclear mu-3-imido Yb(III) Cluster Cations and a Mixed Valence Yb(II/III) Salt Containing an Yb(II) Anion' Inorg. Chim. Acta. 2006, 359, 2870-2878. DOI Special Edition in Honour of Professor Brian James.
D.J. Berg, J. Sun and B. Twamley. 'The Synthesis, X-ray Structure and Fluxional Behaviour of an Yb(II) Phenalenide Complex'. Chem. Comm. 2006, 4018-4021. DOI
R. Zhang, W. Fan, B. Twamley, D.J. Berg and R.H. Mitchell. 'Synthesis and Structures of Dimethyldihydropyrene Iron Carbonyl Complexes' Organometallics 2007, 26, 1888-1894. DOI
M.D. Walter, D.J. Berg and R.A. Andersen. 'Coordination of 1,4-Diazabutadiene Ligands to Decamethylytterbocene: Additional Examples of Spin Coupling in Ytterbocene Complexes' Organometallics 2007, 26, 2296-2307. DOI
W. Fan, D.J. Berg, R.H. Mitchell and T. Barclay. 'Divalent Ytterbium and Iron Metallocenes of a Dimethyldihydropyrene-Fused Cyclopentadienyl' Organometallics 2007, 26, 4562-4567. DOI
J. Sun, D.J. Berg and B. Twamley. 'Yttrium Complexes of a Phenanthrene-Fused Cyclopentadienyl: Synthetic, Structural, and Reactivity Studies' Organometallics 2008, 27, 683-690. DOI
R.H. Mitchell, R. Zhang, D.J. Berg, B.Twamley and R.V. Williams. 'Measuring Aromaticity with the Dimethyldihydropyrene Ring Current Probe. Experimental and Computational Studies of the Fulvenes and the Strongly Antiaromatic Cyclopentadienone Reveal Large Mills-Nixon Type Bond Localization Effects. Synthesis of Fulvene-Fused Dihydropyrenes' J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 189-199. DOI