Audrey H. Moores' Publications

Articles in Peered Reviewed Publications:


32. "Ruthenium Nanoparticle Catalysts Stabilized in Phosphonium and Imidazolium Ionic Liquids: Dependence of Catalyst Stability and Activity on the Ionicity of the Ionic Liquid

K. L. Luska, A. Moores, Green Chem., 2012, in press.


31. "Copper-Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles as Magnetically Recoverable Catalysts for the Biginelli Condensation

R. Hudson, C.J. Li, A. Moores, Green Chem., 2012, 14, 622-624.


30. "Iron-iron oxide core-shell nanoparticles are active and magnetically recyclable olefin and alkyne hydrogenation catalysts in protic and aqueous media

R. Hudson, A. Rivière, C.M. Cirtiu, K.L. Luska, A. Moores, Chem. Comm., 2012, 48, 3360-3362.


29. "Functionalized Ionic Liquids for the Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles and their Application in Catalysis "

K.L. Luska, A. Moores, ChemCatChem, 2012, 10.1002/cctc.201100366


28. "Rational Size Control of Gold Nanoparticles Employing an Organometallic Precursor [Au-C=C-tBu]4 and Tunable Thiolate Functionalized Ionic Liquids"

K. L. Luska, A. Moores, Can. J. Chem., 2012, 90(1) 145-152. (Invited contribution to the special issue in the honor of Prof. T. H. Chan)


27. "Rhodium Nanoparticles Stabilized with Phosphine Functionalized Imidazolium Ionic Liquids as Recyclable Arene Hydrogenation Catalysts "

S. A. Stratton, K.L. Luska, A. Moores, Catal. Today, 2012, 183, 96-100

26. "Improved Stability and Catalytic Activity of Palladium Nanoparticle Catalysts Using Phosphine Functionalized Imidazolium Ionic Liquids "

K.L. Luska, A. Moores, Adv. Synth. Catal., 2011, 353 (17), 3167–3177.


25.     "Systematic Comparison of the Size, Surface Characteristics and Colloidal Stability of Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles Pre- and Post-Grafted with Common Polymers"

C. M. Cirtiu, T. Raychoudhury, S. Ghoshal, A. Moores, Colloids Surf. A, 2011, 390, 1-3, 95-104..


24.     "Fe3O4 Nanoparticle-Supported Copper (I) Pybox Catalyst: Magnetically Recoverable Catalyst for Enantioselective Direct-Addition of Terminal Alkynes to Imines "

T. Q. Zeng, L. Yang, R. Hudson, G. H. Song, A. Moores, C.-J. Li, Org. Lett., 2011, 13, 442-445.
Synfacts 2011, 5, 0571


23.     "Cellulose nanocrystallites as an efficient support for nanoparticles of palladium: application for catalytic hydrogenation and Heck coupling under mild conditions"

C. M. Cirtiu, A. Dunlop-Brière, A. Moores, Green Chem., 2011, 13, 288-291.


22.     "Magnetically Recoverable Iron Nanoparticle Catalyzed Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling (CDC) between Two Csp3-H Bonds Using Molecular Oxygen"

T. Q. Zeng, G. H. Song, A. Moores, C.-J. Li, Synlett, 2010, 2002-2008


21.     "Fe3O4 nanoparticles: a robust and magnetically recoverable catalyst for three-component coupling of aldehyde, alkyne and amine"

T. Zeng, W.-W. Chen, C. M. Cirtiu, A. Moores, G. Song, C.-J. Li, Green Chemistry, 2010, 12, 570-573.
ChemInform 2010, 41
One of the "10 discoveries of the year 2010" of Quebec Science magazine.


20.     "Study of metal nanoparticules stabilised by mixed ligand shell: a striking blue shift of the surface plasmon band pleading for the formation of Janus nanoparticles "

C. Vilain, F. Goettmann, A. Moores, P. Le Floch and C. Sanchez, J. Mater. Chem., 2007, 17, 3509-3514.


19.     "Experimental and theoretical study of phosphinine sulfides"

A. Moores, T. Cantat, L. Ricard, N. Mézailles, P. Le Floch, New J. Chem., 2007, 8, 1493-1498.


18.     "Transfer hydrogenation of imines and direct reductive amination of aldehydes catalyzed by triazole derived carbene iridium(I) complexes"

D. Gnanamgari, A. Moores, E. Rajaseelan, R. H. Crabtree, Organometallics 2007, 26, 1226-1230.


17.    "Catalysed Low Temperature H2 Release from Nitrogen Heterocycles"

A. Moores, M. Poyatos, Y. Luo, R. H. Crabtree, New J. Chem. 2006, 11, 1675-1678.


16.    "Periodically organized mesoporous silica thin layers as host for phosphinines-stabilized gold nanoparticles: UV-visible sensing of small thiols and phosphines"

F. Goettmann, A. Moores, C. Boissière, P. Le Floch and C. Sanchez, Thin Solid Films 2006, 495, 280-285.


15.   "The plasmon band in noble metal nanoparticles: an introduction to theory and applications"

A. Moores and F. Goettmann, New J. Chem. 2006, 30, 1121-1132.

 

14.      "Metallic nanoparticles hosted in mesoporous oxide thin films for catalytic applications"

G. Cortial, M. Siutkowski, F. Goettmann, A. Moores, C. Boissiere, D. Grosso, P. Le Floch and C. Sanchez, Small 2006, 2, 1042-1045.


13.      "The CO/PC analogy in coordination chemistry and catalysis"

M. Doux, A. Moores, N. Mézailles, L. Ricard, Y. Jean and P. Le Floch, J. Organomet. Chem. 2005, 690, 2407-2415.


12.      "h5- rhodium(I) complexes of a l4- phosphinine anion: Syntheses, X-ray crystal structures, and application in the catalyzed hydroformylation of olefins"

A. Moores, N. Mézailles, L. Ricard, P. le Floch, Organometallics 2005, 24, 508-513.


11.      "A selective chemical sensor based on the plasmonic response of phosphinine-stabilized gold nanoparticles hosted on periodically organized mesoporous silica thin layers"

F. Goettmann, A. Moores, C. Boissière, P. Le Floch and C. Sanchez, Small 2005, 1, 636-639.


10.     " h 2 -palladium and platinum(II) complexes of a h 4- phosphinine anion: Syntheses, X-ray crystal structures, and DFT calculations".

A. Moores, N. Mézailles, L. Ricard, Y. Jean, P. Le Floch, Organometallics 2004, 23, 2870 - 2875.


9.       "Structural flexibility of formally d10-[M(biphosphinine)2]q complexes".

H. Perron, A. Moores, I. Demachy, A. Lledos, Y. Jean, P. Le Floch, New J. Chem. 2004, 28, 838-842.


8.       "Effect of conformational changes on a one-electron reduction process: Evidence of a one-electron P-P bond formation in a bis(phosphinine)".

S. Choua, C. Dutan, L. Cataldo, T. Berclaz, M. Geoffroy, N. Mézailles, A. Moores, L. Ricard and P. Le Floch, Chem.-Eur. J.2004, 10, 4080-4090.


7.       "Phosphinine stabilised gold nanoparticles; synthesis and immobilisation on mesoporous materials"

A. Moores, F. Goettmann, C. Sanchez and P. Le Floch, Chem. Commun. 2004, 2842-2843.


6.       "Neutral and dianionic iron and ruthenium 1,4-diphosphabutadiene complexes"

A. Moores, N. Mézailles, L. Ricard, F. Mathey and P. Le Floch, Chem. Commun. 2003, 1914-1915.


5.       "First X-ray crystal study and DFT calculations of anionic h 4 -phosphinines".

A. Moores, L. Ricard, P. Le Floch, N. Mézailles, Organometallics 2003, 22, 1960-1966.


4.       "Electron transfer between two silyl-substituted phenylene rings: EPR/ENDOR spectra, DFT calculations, and crystal structure of the one-electron reduction compound of a di(m- silylphenylenedisiloxane)"

C. Dutan, S. Choua, T. Berclaz, M. Geoffroy, N. Mézailles, A. Moores, L. Ricard and P. Le Floch, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 4487-4494. 


3.       "Siloxa-brigded-cyclophanes featuring benzene, thiophene and pyridine units"

A. Moores, C. Defieber, N. Mézailles, N. Maigrot, L. Ricard, P. Le Floch, New. J. Chem. 2003, 27, 994-999.


2.       "A 1-methyl-phosphininium compound: Synthesis X-ray crystal structure, and DFT calculations"

A. Moores, L. Ricard and P. Le Floch, Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit. 2003, 42, 4940-4944.


1.       "Synthesis and reactivity towards cationic group 11 metal centers of an extended silacalix- 3 -phosphinine macrocycle"

A. Moores, N. Mézailles, N. Maigrot, L. Ricard, F. Mathey and P. Le Floch, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2002, 2034-2039.



Book Chapters:


2.       "Atom Economy - Principles and Some Examples"

Audrey Moores in Homogeneous Catalysis , (ed. Robert H. Crabtree) a Volume of the Green Chemistry Series, ed. Paul Anastas, Pub. Wiley & Sons, 2009, p.1-15.

1.       "Metal nanoparticle plasmon band as a powerful tool for chemo and biosensing"

Audrey Moores, Pascal Le Floch in Biosensing Using Nanomaterials, ed. Arben Merkoçi, Pub. Wiley & Sons, 2009, p.137-170.