James A. Golen

B.S. 1965, Southeastern Massachusetts University
Ph.D. 1970, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Interests

Current research interests focus on structural determination of inorganic, organic and organometallic compounds by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Other areas of interest center around biochemical kinetics, gas phase hydrogen bonding, vibrational spectroscopy of small molecules and in the field of education, general communication/learning theories.

Selected Publications

1. G.Schultz, N.Yu Subbotina, C.M.Jensen, J.A.Golen, and I.Hargittai, Inorg. Chim. Acta 191 , 85 (1992). Gas Phase and Crystal Molecular Structures of cis -PdCl 2 [P(CH 3 ) 3 ] 2 .

2. D.M.Stefanescu, H.F.Yuen, D.S.Glueck, J.A.Golen, A.L.Rheingold, Angew.Chemie Int. Ed. 42 , 1046 (2003), Synthesis and Structure of Cyclic Gold(I) Phosphanyl Complexes[{Au(PR 2 )}].

3. H.M.Alvarez, P.A.Gillespie, C.D.Gause, A.L.Rheingold, J.A.Golen, D.Rabinovich, Polyhedron 23 , 617 (2004), Thallium(I) bis(mercaptiomidazolyl)borates.

4. A.R.O'Connor, C.Nataro, J.A. Golen and A.L.Rheingold, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry , 689 , 2411 (2004), Synthesis and reactivity of [N(C 6 H 4 Br) 3 ][B(C 6 F 5 ) 4 ]: the X-ray crystal structure of [Fe(C 5 H 5 ) 2 ][B(C 6 F 5 ) 4 ].

5. I. E. Soria-Mercado, P. R. Jensen, W. Fenical, S. Kassel and J. Golen Acta Cryst . E60 , o1627-o1629 (2004) 3,4a-Dichloro-10a-(3-chloro-6-hydroxy-2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexylmethyl)-6,8-dihydroxy-2,2,7-trimethyl-3,4,4a, 10a-tetrahydro-2H-benzo[g]chromene-5,10-dione.

6. M.A. Walters, J. Barad, A. Sireci, J.A. Golen and A.L. Rheingold, Inorganica Chimica Acta , 358 , 633 (2005). Xanthate sulfur as a hydrogen bond acceptor: the free xanthate anion and ligand sulfur in nickel trisethylxanthate.