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Theodor Agapie
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

9. Theodor Agapie, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw “Mechanistic Studies of Olefin Trimerization with Chromium Catalysts – Deuterium Labeling and Studies of Regiochemistry Using a Model Cromacyclopentane Complex” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129(46), 14281-14295. link 

8. Theodor Agapie and John E. Bercaw “Cyclometallated Tantalum Diphenolate Pincer Complexes: Intramolecular C-H/M-CH3 σ– Bond Metathesis May Be Faster than O-H/M-CH3 Protonolysis" Organometallics 2007, 26(12), 2957-2959. link

7. Smaranda C. Marinescu, Theodor Agapie, Michael W. Day, and John E. Bercaw "Group 3 Dialkyl Complexes with Tetradentate (L, L, N, O; L = N, O, S) Monoanionic Ligands – Synthesis and Reactivity" Organometallics 2007, 26(5), 1178-1190. link 

6. Theodor Agapie, Michael W. Day, Lawrence M. Henling, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw “A Chromium Diphosphine System for Catalytic Ethylene Trimerization: Synthetic and Structural Studies of Chromium Complexes with a Nitrogen-Bridged Diphosphine Ligand with ortho-Methoxyaryl Substituents” Organometallics 2006, 25(11), 2733-2742. link 

5. Theodor Agapie, Susan J. Schofer, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw “Mechanistic Studies of the Ethylene Trimerization Reaction with Chromium – Diphosphine Catalysts: Experimental Evidence for a Mechanism Involving Metallacyclic Intermediates” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126(5), 1304-1305. link 

4. Theodor Agapie, Paula L. Diaconescu, and Christopher C. Cummins “Methine (CH) Transfer via a Chlorine Atom Abstraction/Benzene-Elimination Strategy: Molybdenum Methylidyne Synthesis and Elaboration to a Phosphaisocyanide Complex” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124(11), 2412-2413. link 

3. Theodor Agapie, Paula L. Diaconescu, Daniel J. Mindiola and Christopher C. Cummins “Radical Scission of Symmetrical 1,4-Dicarbonyl Compounds: C-C Bond Cleavage with Titanium(IV) Enolate Formation and Related Reactions” Organometallics 2002, 21(7), 1329-1340. link 

2. Paula L. Diaconescu, Aaron L. Odom, Theodor Agapie and Christopher C. Cummins “Uranium-Group 14 Element Single Bonds: Isolation and Characterization of a Uranium(IV) Silyl Species” Organometallics 2001, 20(24), 4993-4995. link 

1. Theodor Agapie, Aaron L Odom, Christopher C. Cummins “In Pursuit of the Molybdenum(III) Tris(thiolate) Fragment: Unusual Structure of a Dimolybdenum μ -Nitrido Complex" Inorg. Chem. 2000, 39(2), 174-179. link

Patents

1. Theodor Agapie, Suzanne Golisz, Daniel Tofan, and John E. Bercaw “Olefin Polymerization Catalysts Based on Semirigid Tridentate Ligands” provisional patent 60/846385.

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