Areas of expertise
- Organic Chemical Synthesis 030503
- Transition Metal Chemistry 030207
- Electrochemistry 030604
- Structural Chemistry And Spectroscopy 030606
- Catalysis And Mechanisms Of Reactions 030601
- Organometallic Chemistry 039904
- Natural Products Chemistry 030502
- Inorganic Chemistry 0302
Publications
- Bennett, M 2010, 'Aryne Complexes of Zerovalent Metals of the Nickel Triad', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 1066-1075.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Cheng, E et al 2010, 'Unprecedented Near-Infrared (NIR) Emission in Diplatinum(III) (d7-d7) Complexes at Room Temperature', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 132, no. 20, pp. 7094-7103.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Bond, A et al 2010, 'Synthesis, X-ray structure and electrochemical oxidation of palladium(II) complexes of ferrocenyldiphenylphosphine', Dalton Transactions, vol. 39, no. 38, pp. 9079-9090.
- Hirano, M, Sakate, Y, Komine, N et al 2009, 'Isolation of trans-2,5-Bis(methoxycarbonyl)ruthenacyclopentane by Oxidative Coupling of Methyl Acrylate on Ruthenium(0) as an Active Intermediate for Tail-to-Tail Selective Catalytic Dimerization', Organometallics, vol. 28, no. 17, pp. 4902-4905.
- Bennett, M, Mirzadeh, N, Priver, S et al 2009, 'Trinuclear mixed-valent gold complexes derived from 2-C6F4PPh2: phosphine oxide complexes of gold(III) and an ortho-metallated complex of gold(I)', Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung Section B, vol. 64, no. 11-12, pp. 1463-1468.
- Bennett, M, Mirzadeh, N, Priver, S et al 2009, '197Au Mossbauer spectroscopic studies of cyclometalated gold dimers containing 2-C6F4PPh2 Ligands', Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, vol. 82, no. 12, pp. 1506-1509.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Bond, A et al 2009, 'Electrochemical and chemical oxidation of [Pt2(μ-pyrophosphite)4]4- revisited: characterization of a nitrosyl derivative, [Pt2(μ pyrophosphite)4(NO)]3-', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 2593-2604.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Mirzadeh, N et al 2009, 'Synthesis and interconversions of digold(I), tetragold(I), digold(II), gold(I)-gold(III) and digold(III) complexes of fluorine-substituted aryl carbanions', Dalton Transactions, vol. 36, pp. 7537-7551.
- Bennett, M 2008, 'Rodney Warren Rickards 30 June 1934 - 17 December 2007', Chemistry in Australia, vol. 75, no. 5, pp. 28-29.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Priver, S et al 2008, 'Selective cleavage by acids of one metal-carbon Ï?-bond of a bis(ortho-platinated) triarylphosphane: a 31P NMR trans-influence series based on the unit Pt(κ2-C6H3-5-Me-2-PPh2)(PPh2<', European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, no. 22, pp. 3467-3481.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Keniry, M et al 2008, 'A triad of bis(orthometalated) d8-complexes containing four-membered rings', Organometallics, vol. 27, no. 20, pp. 5361-5370.
- Bennett, M, Byrnes, M & Willis, A 2007, 'Bis(acetylacetonato)ruthenium(II) complexes containing alkynyldiphenylphosphines. Formation and redox behavior of [Ru(acac)2(Ph2PCâ?¡CR)2] (R = H, Me, Ph) complexes and the binuclear complex cis-[{Ru(acac)2', Dalton Transactions, vol. 2007, no. 17, pp. 1977-1686.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Messelhauser, J et al 2007, 'ortho-Metallated complexes of platinum(II) and diplatinum(I) containing the carbanions (2-diphenylphosphino)phenyl and (2-diphenylphosphino)-n-tolyl (n = 5, 6)', Dalton Transactions, vol. 2007, no. 29, pp. 3158-3169.
- Kitadai, K, Takahashi, M, Takeda, M et al 2006, '197Au Mössbauer spectroscopic study of binuclear cycloaurated complexes containing bridging (2-diphenylarsino-n-methyl)phenyl (n = 5 and 6)', Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, vol. 79, no. 6, pp. 886-888.
- Mohr, F, Priver, S, Bhargava, S et al 2006, 'Ortho-metallated transition metal complexes derived from tertiary phosphine and arsine ligands', Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 250, no. 15-16, pp. 1851-1888.
- Kitadai, K, Takahashi, M, Takeda, M et al 2006, 'Synthesis, structures and reactions of cyclometallated gold complexes containing (2-diphenylarsino-n-methyl)phenyl (n = 5, 6)', Dalton Transactions, vol. 21, pp. 2560-2571.
- Adams, J & Bennett, M 2006, 'Transition metal complexes of tethered arenes', in R West and A F Hill (ed.), Advances in Organometallic Chemistry, Volume 54, Academic Press, London, UK, pp. 293-331.
- Bennett, M, Byrnes, M, Chung, G et al 2005, 'Bis(acetylacetonato)ruthenium(II) complexes containing bulky tertiary phosphines. Formation and redox behaviour of Ru(acac)2 (PR3) (R = iPr, Cy) complexes with ethene, carbon monoxide, and bridging dinitrogen', Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 358, no. 5, pp. 1692-1708.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Boas, J et al 2005, 'Electrochemically informed synthesis and characterization of salts of the [Pt2(μ-κAs,κC-C6H3-5-Me-2-AsPh2)4]+ lantern complex containing a Pt?Pt bond of order', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 2472-2482.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Hockless, D et al 2004, 'Binuclear ten-membered ring cyclometallated complexes of digold(I) and their reactions with iodine and bromine', Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung Section B, vol. 59b, no. 11 & 12, pp. 1563-1569.
- Bennett, M, Byrnes, M & Kovacik, I 2004, 'The fragment bis(acetylacetonato)ruthenium: a meeting-point of coordination and organometallic chemistry', Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 689, no. 24, pp. 4463-4474.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Bond, I et al. 2004, 'Synthesis, characterization, and electrochemical relationships of dinuclear complexes of platinum(II) and platinum(III) containing ortho-metalated tertiary arsine ligands', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 43, no. 24, pp. 7752-7763.
- Bennett, M, Byrnes, M & Willis, A 2003, '(Ethene)bis(acetylacetonato) complexes of divalent and trivalent ruthenium', Organometallics, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 1018-1028.
- Shin, R, Bennett, M, Goh, L et al 2003, 'Arene�ruthenium complexes of an acyclic thiolate�thioether and tridentate thioether derivatives resulting from ring-closure reactions', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 96-106.
- Weberndorfer, B, Henig, G, Hockless, D et al 2003, 'Synthesis, molecular structure, and reactivity of neutral and cationic areneosmium(II) complexes with diarylcarbenes as ligands', Organometallics, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 744-758.
- Widegren, J, Bennett, M & Finke, R 2003, 'Is it homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysis? Identification of bulk ruthenium metal as the true catalyst in benzene hydrogenations starting with the monometallic precursor, Ru(II)(η6-C6Me6)(OAc)2, plus k', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 34, pp. 10301-10310.
- Bennett, M, Kopp, M, Wenger, E et al. 2003, 'Generation of nickel(0)-aryne and nickel(II)-biphenyldiyl complexes via in situ dehydrohalogenation of arenes. Molecular structures of [Ni(2,2-C6H4C6H4)(dcpe)] and C2-hexabenzotriphenylene.', Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 667, no. 1-2, pp. 8-15.
- Bennett, M, Kwan, C, Rae, A et al. 2002, 'Preparation and reactivity of mononuclear platinum(0) complexes containing a η2-coordinated alkynylphosphine.', Dalton Transactions, vol. N/A, no. -, pp. 226-233.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Mohr, F et al 2002, 'Synthesis and X-ray structure of a heterovalent, cycloaurated pentafluorophenylgold(I)/pentafluorophenylgold(III) complex.', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 55, no. -, pp. 267-270.
- Bennett, M & Harper, J 2002, 'Tethered arene complexes of ruthenium.', in G. J. Leigh and N. Winterton (ed.), Modern Coordination Chemistry: the Legacy of Joseph Chatt, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, pp. 163-168.
- Baldwin, R, Bennett, M, Hockless, D et al 2002, 'Synthesis, structures and dynamic NMR spectra of η6-hexaethylbenzene complexes of ruthenium(0) and ruthenium(II).', Dalton Transactions, vol. N/A, no. -, pp. 4488-4496.
- Retboll, M, Edwards, A, Rae, A et al. 2002, 'Preparation of benzyne complexes of group 10 metals by intramolecular Suzuki coupling of ortho-metalated phenylboronic esters: Molecular structure of the first benzyne-palladium(0) complex.', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 124, no. -, pp. 8348-8360.
- Hirano, M, Shibasaki, T, Komiya, S et al 2002, 'Synthesis of and stereospecific hydride migration in cationic (tricyclic arene)(cyclooctadiene)ruthenium(II) complexes.', Organometallics, vol. 21, no. 26, pp. 5738-5745.
- Lazzaroni, R, Settambolo, R, Caiazzo, A et al 2002, 'Rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of 4-vinylpyridine: 4-ethylpyridine formation via an unusual cleavage of the Rh?C bond by the enolic form of the oxo product.', Organometallics, vol. 21, no. -, pp. 2454-2459.
- Bennett, M, Contel-Ferdandez, M, Hockless, D et al 2002, 'Bis{(2-diphenylphosphino)phenyl}mercury: A P-donor ligand and precursor to mixed metal�mercury (d8�d10) cyclometalated complexes containing 2-C6H4PPh2.', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 41, no. -, pp. 844-855.
- Bennett, M, Castro, J, Edwards, A et al 2001, 'Preparation and reactivity of nickel(0) complexes with η2-coordinated alkynylphosphines', Organometallics, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 980-989.
- Bennett, M, Hockless, D, Rae, A et al. 2001, 'Carbon-carbon coupling in dinuclear cycloaurated complexes containing bridging 2-(diphenylphosphino)phenyl or 2-(diethylphosphino)phenyl. Role of the axial ligand and the fine balance between gold(II)-gold(II) and gold(I)-gold(III).', Organometallics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 79-87.
- Bhargava, S, Mohr, F, Bennett, M et al 2001, 'Synthesis, structure, and reactions of binuclear gold(I) complexes containing two different bridging ligands', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 40, no. 17, pp. 4271-4275.
- Bennett, M, Mitchell, T, Stevens, M et al. 2001, 'Mono- and bis-(acetylacetonato) complexes of arene-ruthenium(II) and arene-osmium(II): variation of the binding mode of &eta1-acetylacetonate with the nature of the arene', Canadian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 79, no. 5/6, pp. 655-669.
- Bennett, M, Macgregor, S & Wenger, E 2001, 'Insertions of unsymmetric alkynes into the metal-carbon bonds of nickelacycles: What determines the regiochemistry?', Helvetica Chimica Acta, vol. 84, no. 10, pp. 3084-3104.
- Bennett, M, Edwards, A, Harper, J et al. 2001, 'Synthesis, structure and redox behaviour of tethered arene-ruthenium(II) complexes', Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 629, no. 1-2, pp. 7-18.
- Bennett, M, Bhargava, S, Ke, M et al 2000, 'Complexes of platinum(II), platinum(IV), rhodium(III) and iridium(III) containing orthometallated triphenylphosphine', Dalton Transactions, pp. 3537-3545.
- Bennett, M, Bown, M & Hockless, D 2000, 'Tris(dimethylphenylphosphine)ruthenium(0) Complexes of h4-Coordinated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 53, pp. 507-515.
- Bennett, M, Claridge, A, Contel-Ferdandez, M et al 2000, 'Cyclometallated complexes of ruthenium and osmium containing the o-C6H4PPh2 ligand', Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 601, pp. 299-304.
- Bennett, M, Cobley, C, Rae, A et al. 2000, 'Formation of (Diphenylphosphino)naphthalenes by Double Insertion of (Alkynyl)diphenylphosphines into Nickel(0)-Benzyne Complexes', Organometallics, vol. 19, pp. 1522-1533.
- Bennett, M, Ditzel, E, Hunter, A et al. 2000, 'Coordination and organometallic complexes of iron containing o-phenylenebis(dimethylphosphine) (pdmp). Crystal and molecular structure of [Fe(h2-C2H4)(pdmp)2]', Dalton Transactions, vol. n/a, pp. 1733-1741.
- Bhargava, S, Mohr, F, Bennett, M et al 2000, 'Synthesis, Structure, and Reactions of a Binuclear Gold(I)�Gold(III) Complex Containing Bridging and Bidentate (2-Diphenylphosphino-6-methyl)phenyl Groups', Organometallics, vol. 19, pp. 5628-5635.
- Bown, M & Bennett, M 1999, 'Di-m-chloro-bis{chloro[4a,5,6,7,8,8a-h6)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene]ruthenium(II)}', Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications, vol. 55, pp. 852-854.
- Bennett, M, Chung, G, Hockless, D et al 1999, 'Bis(acetylacetonato) bis(cyclooctene) ruthenium(II), cis-[Ru(acac)2(h2-C8H14)2]: a synthetic precursor to trans- and cis-bis(acetylacetonato)ruthenium(II) complexes', Dalton Transactions, vol. -, pp. 3451-3462.
- Bennett, M, Cobley, C, Hockless, D et al 1999, 'Mononuclear and binuclear complexes of platinum(0) containing (alkynyl)phenylsilanes', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 52, pp. 51-56.
- Bennett, M, Robertson, G & Kapoor, P 1999, 'The preparation, spectroscopic characterization and X-ray structure of the salt [Pt(h1-C6H9)(Cy2PCH2CH2PCy2)(PPh3)]HCO3.3H2O containing the discrete, uncoordinated, hydrogen-bonded dimeric bicarbonate dianion [(HCO3)(H2O)3]22�', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 52, pp. 949-953.
