Publications
1995 _________________________________________________________________

Hwang, S.-D.; Byun, D.; Glass, J. A., Jr.; Robertson, B.; Spencer, J. T.; Datta, S.; Dowben, P. A.  "Photo-assisted Direct Writing of Conducting Aluminum" Mat. Sci. Engineering 1995, B30 , L5-L9.

Cendrowski-Guillaume, S. M.; Pelczer, I.; O'Laughlin, J. L.; Spencer, J. T.  "Reactivity of Decaborane(14) with Pyridine:  Synthesis and Characterization of the First 6,6-Substituted Isomer of nido-B10H14, 6,6-(C5H5N)2B10H12, and Application of Double Quantum 11B-11B NMR Spectroscopy"  Inorg. Chem. 1995, 34, 3935-3941.

Goodreau, B. H.; Orlando, L. R.; Spencer, J. T.  "Borane Cluster Photochemistry.  3.   The Photochemistry and Organometallic Rearrangement Chemistry of s-Metallated Small Borane Cluster Compounds"  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 11754 - 11761.

1996 _______________________________________________________________

Kher, S. S.; Tan, Y.; Spencer, J. T. "Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metal Borides.  4. The Application of Polyhedral Boron Clusters to the Chemical Vapor Deposition Formation of Gadolinium Boride Thin Film Materials"  Appl. Organometal Chem. 1996, 9, 297-304.

Glass, J. A., Jr.; Hwang, S.-D.; Datta, S.; Robertson, B.; Spencer, J. T.  "Chemical Vapor Deposition Precursor Chemistry.  5.  The Photolytic Laser Deposition of Aluminum Thin Films by Chemical Vapor Deposition."  J. Phys. Chem. Solids  1996, 57, 563-570.

Miller, R. W.; Spencer, J. T.  "Small Heteroborane Cluster Systems.  7.  Reaction of Phosphaalkyne tBuCP with Bis(acetonitrile)decaborane(12).  A New Synthetic Route to a Large Phosphaborane Cluster Compound"  Polyhedron 1996, 15, 3151-3155.

Miller, R. W.; Spencer, J. T.  "Small Heteroborane Cluster Systems.  8.  The preparation of Phosphaborane Clusters from the Reaction of Polyhedral Boranes with Low Coordinate Phosphorus Compounds: The Reaction Chemistry of Phosphaalkynes with Decaborane(14)" Organometallics 1996, 15, 4293-4300.

Goodreau, B. H.; Orlando, L. R.; Long, G. J.; Spencer, J. T.  "Small Heteroborane Cluster Systems.  6.  Mössbauer Effect Study of Iron Substituted Small Metallaborane Clusters" Inorg. Chem. 1996, 35, 6579-6585.

Cendrowski-Guillaume, S. M.; Spencer, J. T.  "11B NMR Study of the Paramagnetic Effects of Samarium(II) in Tetrahydrofuran Solutions on Neutral and Anionic Borane and Carborane Clusters" Main Group Metal Chem. 1996, 19, 791-805.

1997 _______________________________________________________________

Hitchcock, A. P.; Urquhart, S. G.; Wen, A. T.; Kilcoyne, A. L. D.; Tyliszczak, T.; Rühl, E.; Kosugi, N.; Bozek, J. D.; Spencer, J. T.; McIlroy, D. N.; Dowben, P. A.  "Inner Shell Excitations of Closo-Carboranes" J. Phys. Chem. 1997, 101, 3483-3493.

Hwang, S.- D.; Dowben, P. A.; Cheeseman, A.; Spencer, J. T.; McIlroy, D. N.  “Phosphorus Doping of Boron Carbon Alloys”  Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1997, 452, 1031-1036.

Hwang, S.-D.; Kher, S. S.; Spencer, J. T.; Dowben, P. A.  "Laser-Induced Selective Copper Deposition on Polyimides and Semiconductors"  [invited revised and expanded submission based upon Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1993 paper] Metallized Plastics: Fundamental and Applied Aspects, Mittal, K. L., Ed; Plenum Press, New York, 1997, 9 - 14

Littger, R.; Englich, U.; Spencer, J. T. “Dipotassium Salt of the 6,6’-commo-Bis[tridecahydro-nido-6-cadmadecaborate] Dianon: A New Type of Metal Centered commo-Bis(metallaborane)” Inorg. Chem. 1997, 36, 6434.

Cendrowski-Guillaume, S. M.; Spencer, J. T.  "11B NMR Solution Studies of the Interactions Between SmI2(Tetrahydrofuran)x and nido-Pentaborane compounds" Main Group Metal Chem. 1997, 20, 733-743.

1998 ________________________________________________________________

Glass, J. A., Jr.; Spencer, J. T.  "Epitaxial Growth with Phosphorus.  3. Formation in Indium Phosphide Thin Films Using Cyclohexylphosphine, (C6H11)PH2, as the Organophosphorus Source Compound” Thin Solid Films 1998, 315, 86-93.

Glass, J. A., Jr.; Spencer, J. T.  "Epitaxial Growth with Phosphorus. 4. Application of Dichloro-t-butylphosphine to CVD Processes: The Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition Formation of Copper Phosphide Thin Films and Etching of Indium Phosphide by Dichloro-t-butylphosphine” Thin Solid Films 1998, 322, 138.

Kher, S. S.; Spencer, J. T.  "Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metal Borides. 7.  The Relatively Low Temperature Formation of Crystalline Lanthanum Hexaboride Thin Films from Boron Hydride Cluster Compounds by Chemical Vapor Deposition" J. Phys. Chem. Solids  1998, 59, 1343-1351.

Hutchings, C. W.; Hitchcock, A. P.; Wen, A. T.; Hwang, S.-D.; Glass, J. A., Jr.; Spencer, J. T.; Hu, Y.-F.; Bancroft, G. M.; Dowben, P. A. "The Valence Band Photoemission and Near Edge Core Excitation Spectroscopy of Di-t-butylchlorophosphine" J. Electron. Spectrosc. Rel. Phenom. 1998, 94, 187-194.

Hutchings, C. W.; Hwang, S.-D.; Dowben P. A.; Glass, J. A., Jr.; Spencer, J. T.; Hu, Y.-F.; Bancroft, G. M.  “The Electronic Structure of Di-t-butylchlorophosphine” Phys. Low-Dim. Struct. 1998, 2, 65-70.

1999 ___________________________________________________________________

Glass, J. A., Jr.; Kher, S. S.; Tan, Y.; Spencer, J. T.“The Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metal Boride Thin Films From Polyhedral Cluster Species”, ACS Symposium Series (Symposium on New Directions in Materials Synthesis) 1999, 227, 130.

2000 ___________________________________________________________________

Littger, R.; Englich, U.; Ruhlandt-Senge, K.; Spencer, J. T. “Oxidation-Reduction and Photochemical Reactions of Metalladecaborane Clusters: The Interconversion of Hypercloso-[(C6Me6)RuB9H9] and Closo-[(C6Me6)RuB9H9]2- by Chemical Redox Processes through a Radical Anion Intermediate” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 1472-1474.

Littger, R.; Taylor, J.; Rudd, G.; Newlon, A.; Allis,D. G.; Kotiah, S.; Spencer, J. T. “Thermal, Photochemical, and Redox Reactions of Borane and Metallaborane Clusters with Applications to Molecular Electronics” Contemporary Boron Chemistry; Davidson, M. G.; Hughes, A. K.; Marder, T. B.; Wade, K (Eds); Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, 2000, 253, 67.

Allis, D. G.; Spencer , J. T. “Polyhedral-based Nonlinear Optical Materials. Part I.  Theoretical Investigation of Some New High Second-Order Nonlinear Response Compounds Involving Carboranes and Charged Aromatic Donors and Acceptors” J. Organometal. Chem. 2000, 614, 309-313.

2001 __________________________________________________________________

Allis, D. G.; Spencer , J. T. “Polyhedral-based Nonlinear Optical Materials.  Part II.  Theoretical Investigation of Some New High Nonlinear Optical Response Compounds Involving Polyhedral Bridges with Charged Aromatic Donors and Acceptors” Inorg. Chem 2001, 40, 3373-3380.

Taylor, J. W.; Caruso, J.; Newlon, A.; Englich, U.; Ruhlandt-Senge, K.; Spencer, J. T. “Polyhedral-based Nonlinear Optical Materials.  Part III.  Synthetic Studies of Cyclopentadiene and Cycloheptatriene Substituted Polyhedral Compounds: The Synthesis of 1,12-[(C7H7)C2B10H10(C5H3Me2)] and Related Species” Inorg. Chem 2001, 40, 3381-3388.

2002 ___________________________________________________________________

Taylor, J.; Englich, U.; Ruhlandt, K.; Spencer, J. T. “The Synthesis and Characterization of Two New Nineteen-Vertex Metallaborane Clusters: [B18H20Ni(h5-C5H5)]-1 and [B18­H19(2-THF)Ni(h5-C5H5)]” Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2002, 5 (4), 274-277.

Taylor, J.; Englich, U.; Ruhlandt-Senge, K.; Spencer, J. T. “Preparation and Characterization of Macropolyhedral Metallaborane Clusters from the Anti-B18H22 Borane Cluster:  Crystal Structure of [(CH3)4N][anti-B18H20Co(CO)3].” Organometallics 2002, 21, 3054 - 3057.

Taylor, J.; Englich, U.; Ruhlandt-Senge, K.; Spencer, J. T. “Formation of New Nickel-containing Nineteen-Vertex Metallaborane Clusters Prepared from the  Anti-B18H22 Borane Cluster: Molecular Structures of [Ni(THF)4(H2O)2][B18H20Ni(h5-C5H5)]2 and [B18­H19(2-THF)Ni(h5-C5H5)].” J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2002, 3392-3397.

2003 ___________________________________________________________________

Allis, D. G.; Spencer, J. T. “Nanostructural Architectures from Molecular Building Blocks” In Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, CRC Press, Lyshevski, S. E.; Brenner, D.; Iafrate, J.; Goddard, W. (Eds.), 2003, 1601-1667.

Sinnot, S. B.; Spencer, J. T. (Eds.) Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 2003, 3, 277-350.

2007 _____________________________________________________________________

Romero, J.V.; Spencer, J. T. "Boron-containing Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Generated from the Aerosol Pyrolysis of Metal Boride Precursors" submitted 2007.

Kher, S. S.; Romero, J.V.; Caruso, J.D.; Spencer, J. T.  “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metal Borides. 6.  The Formation of Neodymium Boride Thin Film Materials from Polyhedral Boron Clusters by Chemical Vapor Deposition” submitted 2007.

Allis, D. G.; Spencer, J. T. “Nanostructural Architectures from Molecular Building Blocks” Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology, Second Edition (CRC Press), 2nd Edition, 2007.

Allis, D. G.; Spencer, J. T. “Bonding Between Carboranes and Aromatic Systems I. An MP2 Study of Bonding in closo-[CB11H11]--[C7H6]+ and closo-[CB11H11]--C6H5.” in preparation.

Taylor, J.; Englich, U.; Ruhlandt-Senge, K.; Spencer, J. T. “Polyhedral-based Nonlinear Optical Materials.  Part IV.  Synthesis and Characterization of Cyano-Substituted Carborane-based Nonlinear Optical Precursor Compounds.  Molecular Structure of [1-(4-C7H7)-12-(C5H3-3-(CN)-3,4-(CH3)2)-C2B10H10].” in preparation.

Littger, R.; Englich, U.; Ruhlandt-Senge, K.; Spencer, J. T. “Deprotonation Chemistry of nido-[6-(h6-C6(CH3)6)-6-RuB9H13] and the Molecular Structures of the nido-[5-(h6-C6(CH3)6)-5-RuB9H12]1- and nido-[6-(CH2C6H5)-5-(h6-C6(CH3)6)RuB9H12] Clusters.” in preparation.

Newlon, A.; Taylor, J. W.; Caruso, J.; Rudd, G.; Englich, U.; Melnick, J. ; Ruhlandt-Senge, K.; Spencer, J. T. “Polyhedral-based Nonlinear Optical Materials.  Part V.  Synthesis of a Bis-Substituted closo-1,7-Dicarbadodecaborane,  on Route to Polyhedral-Based Nonlinear Optical Materials:  The Synthesis of closo-1,7-[C2B10H11(C5H3Me2)], closo-1,7-[(C7H7)C2B10H10(C5H3Me2)] and Related Species.” to be submitted.

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