Richard J Staples

Ammonia (NH) is a promising carbon-free fuel when prepared from sustainable resources. First-row transition metal electrocatalysts for ammonia oxidation are an enabling technology for sustainable energy production. We describe electrocatalytic...

The syntheses and characterization (NMR and XRD) of two substituted [2.2.2]bi-cyclo-octene ring systems are described here. The cyclo-hexene rings of these systems adopt a nearly perfect boat conformation according to...

The functionalization of pyrazole-based compounds with dinitromethyl and -hydroxytetrazole groups resulted in enhanced energetic properties. Two key compounds, 5-(dinitromethyl)-3,4-dinitro-1-pyrazole () and 5-(3,4-dinitro-1-pyrazol-5-yl)-1-tetrazol-1-ol (), along with their salts, were synthesized and...

An organometallic erbium bismuth cluster complex, [K(THF)][Cp*ErBi] (), featuring a heterometallocubane core was isolated. The cube emerges from the rare Bi Zintl ion, bridging two erbium centers for the first...

The prenyl group is present in numerous biologically active small molecule drugs and natural products. We introduce benzylic C-H alkenylation of substrates Ar-CH with alkenylboronic esters (CH)OB-CH[double bond, length as...

The mol-ecular structure of the tripodal carbamoyl-methyl-phosphine oxide compound diethyl {[(5-[2-(di-eth-oxy-phosphor-yl)acetamido]-3-{2-[2-(di-eth-oxy-phos-phor-yl)acetamido]-eth-yl}pent-yl)carbamo-yl]meth-yl}phospho-nate, CHNOP, features six intra-molecular hydrogen-bonding inter-actions. The phospho-nate groups have key bond lengths ranging from 1.4696 (12) to 1.4729 ...

The incorporation of trinitrophenyl-modified 1,3,4-oxadiazole fragments is commonly observed in high-energy molecules with heat-resistant properties. This study explores the strategy of developing heat-resistant energetic materials by incorporating trinitrophenyl and an...

Two energetic isomers of chemically unstable 3,5-bis(dinitromethyl)-4-nitro-1-pyrazole (), namely, 4-methyl-3,5-dinitro-1-(trinitromethyl)-1-pyrazole () and 5-methyl-3,4-dinitro-1-(trinitromethyl)-1-pyrazole (), each containing five nitro groups and having the same chemical composition, exhibit major differences in their...

Two hydrogen-bonded crosslinked organic frameworks (HOFs) were synthesized free radical reactions utilizing butadiene and isoprene as crosslinkers. These HOFs exhibit high crystallinity, enabling detailed structural characterization single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis....

Porous organic materials showcasing large framework dynamics present new paths for adsorption and separation with enhanced capacity and selectivity beyond the size-sieving limits, which is attributed to their guest-responsive sorption...