Samuel A. Johnson
	Inorganic Transition Metal and Materials
	Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)
	sjohnson@uwindsor.ca
	AssociateProfessor
	253-3000 Ext: 3769
	354 Essex Hall
	Personal Homepage

Selected Publications:

Meghan E. Doster, and Samuel A. Johnson* “Selective C-F Activation of Tetrafluorobenzenes by Ni(0) with a Nitrogen Donor Analogous to N-Heterocyclic Carbenes” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2185-2187.

Johnson, S. A.; Huff, C. W.; Mustafa, F.; Saliba, M.* “Unexpected Intermediates and Products in the C-F Bond Activation of Tetrafluorobenzenes with a Bis(triethylphosphine)Nickel Synthon: Direct Evidence of a Rapid and Reversible C-H Bond Activation by Ni(0)” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130(51), 17278-17280.

Ritu Raturi, Julie Lefebvre, Daniel B. Leznoff, Bruce R. McGarvey, and Samuel A. Johnson* “A Phosphine-Mediated Through-Space Exchange Coupling Pathway for Unpaired Electrons in a Heterobimetallic Lanthanide-Transition Metal Complex” Chem.--Eur. J., 2008, 14(2), 721-730.

Alana L. Keen, Meghan Doster, and Samuel A. Johnson* “1,4-Shifts in a Dinuclear Ni(I) Biarylyl Complex: A Mechanistic Study of C-H Bond Activation by Monovalent Nickel” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 810-819.

Jillian A. Hatnean, Ritu Raturi, Julie Lefebvre, Daniel B. Leznoff, Gavin Lawes, and Samuel A. Johnson^*; “Assembly of Triangular Trimetallic Complexes by Triamidophosphine Ligands: Spin-Frustrated Mn²⁺ Plaquettes and Diamagnetic Mg²⁺ Analogues with a Combined Through-Space Through-Bond Pathway for ³¹P-³¹P Spin-Spin Coupling”, J. Am. Chem. Soc.2006, 128, 14992-14999.

Han, H; Johnson, S. A.^*, "Ligand Design for the Assembly of Polynuclear Complexes: Syntheses and Structures of Trinuclear and Tetranuclear Aluminum Alkyl Complexes Bearing Tripodal Diamidoselenophosphinito Ligands and a Comparison to Related Tripodal Triamidophosphine Complexes" Organometallics, 2006, 5594-5602.

Keen, A. L.; Doster, M.; Han, H.; Johnson, S. A.^*, "Facile Assembly of a Cu₉ Amido Complex: A New Tripodal Ligand Design that Promotes Transition Metal Cluster Formation" Chem. Commun. 2006, 1221-1223.

Keen, A. L.; Johnson, S. A.^*, "Ni(0) Catalyzed Isomerization of an Aryne Complex: Formation of a Dinuclear Ni(I) Complex via C-H Rather than C-F Bond Activation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 1806-1807.