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Professor Barton received his B.Sc. (Hons) from Liverpool University in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964. He joined the faculty at UM-St. Louis in 1966 after spending two years as a research associate at Cornell University. Dr. Barton served as chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1980 until 1998 and then as the Interim Director of the Center for Molecular Electronics until 2006. Dr. Barton assumed Emeritus status in 2007 and is no longer taking graduate students. Research Interests

Our most recent studies involved the reactions of metallaboranes with Lewis bases. We discovered that the reaction between the metallahexaborane (PPh3)2(CO)OsB5H9 and phosphines results in the formation of a metallapentaborane with a pendent BH2 group to which the added phosphine is attached. The species (PPh3)2(CO)OsB4H7-BH2PR3 degrades thermally to the corresponding osmapentaborane and BH3-PR3.

Lawrence Barton
Lawrence Barton Professor Barton received his B.Sc. (Hons) from Liverpool University in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964. He joined the faculty at UM-St. Louis in 1966 after spending two years as a research associate at Cornell University. Dr. Barton served as chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1980 until 1998 and then as the Interim Director of the Center for Molecular Electronics until 2006. Dr. Barton assumed Emeritus status in 2007 and is no longer taking graduate students.

Research Interests

Our most recent studies involved the reactions of metallaboranes with Lewis bases. We discovered that the reaction between the metallahexaborane (PPh3)2(CO)OsB5H9 and phosphines results in the formation of a metallapentaborane with a pendent BH2 group to which the added phosphine is attached. The species (PPh3)2(CO)OsB4H7-BH2PR3 degrades thermally to the corresponding osmapentaborane and BH3-PR3.