Publications

2026 Hydrogenation at a tricobalt carbide evolves through Fischer-Tropsch intermediates Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2026 Intense NIR absorption in air-stable octahedral complexes of tetravalent Cr, Mn, and Fe supported by a bis(carbene)-amide CNC pincer ligand Theodore Betley · Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers — 2026 Manipulating terminal iron-hydroxide nucleophilicity through redox Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2025 An open-shell FeIV nitrido Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2025 Hydride transfer reactivity of an open- shell [Fe3H]– cluster Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2025 Integrating fundamental concepts with practical skills: consolidating small-molecule crystallography education Theodore Betley · Journal of Applied Crystallography — 2025 Spectroscopic insights from X-ray diffraction Theodore Betley · Inorg. Chem. — 2025 Synthesis of a stable tricobalt carbide cluster Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2024 C–H Insertion from isolable copper benzylidenes Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2024 Cluster dynamics of heterometallic trinuclear clusters during reactivity and redox processes Theodore Betley · Chemical Science — 2024 Composition determination of heterometallic trinuclear clusters via anomalous X-ray and neutron diffraction Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2024 High-spin [FeI3] cluster capable of pnictogen atom capture Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2023 A highly soluble iron-based posolyte species with high redox potential for aqueous redox flow batteries Theodore Betley · Advanced Functional Materials — 2023 Lewis acid supported nickel nitrenoids Theodore Betley · Angewandte Chemie International Edition — 2023 Nitrene transfer from a sterically confined copper nitrenoid dipyrrin complex Theodore Betley · Chemical Science 20 2022 High-spin superatom stabilized by dual subshell filling Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society 26 2022 Reversible C–C bond cleavage of a cobalt diketimide into an elusive cobalt aryl nitrenoid complex Theodore Betley · Angewandte Chemie International Edition — 2021 Enantioselective C−H amination catalyzed by nickel iminyl complexes supported by anionic bisoxazoline (BOX) ligands Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2021 Luminescence from open-shell, first-row transition metal dipyrrin complexes Theodore Betley · Dalton Transactions — 2021 O−Heterocycle synthesis via intramolecular C−H alkoxylation catalyzed by iron acetylacetonate Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2021 Revealing redox isomerism in trichromium imides by anomalous diffraction Theodore Betley · Chemical Science — 2021 Reversible Scavenging of Dioxygen from Air by a Copper Complex Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society 26 2021 Spectroscopic investigation of a metal-metal bonded Fe6 single-molecule magnet with an isolated S = 19/2 giant-spin ground state Theodore Betley · Inorganic Chemistry — 2021 Synthesis and solid-state structures of two cofacial (bis)dipyrrin dichromium complexes in different charge states Theodore Betley · Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry — 2020 C−H amination mediated by cobalt organoazide adducts and the corresponding cobalt nitrenoid intermediates Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2020 Efficient C−Η amination catalysis using nickel-dipyrrin complexes Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2020 Electronic structures and reactivity profiles of aryl nitrenoid-bridged dicopper complexes Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society 37 2020 Synthesis and electronic structure studies of a Cr-imido redox series Theodore Betley · Chemical Communications — 2020 Synthesis, Characterization, and C–H Amination Reactivity of Nickel Iminyl Complexes Theodore Betley · Chemical Science 82 2019 Catalytic C−H amination mediated by dipyrrin cobalt imidos Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2019 Diiron oxo reactivity in a weak-field environment Theodore Betley · Chemical Science — 2019 Direct manipulation of metal imido geometry: key principles to enhance C−H amination efficacy Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2019 Exposing the inadequacy of redox formalisms by resolving redox inequivalence within isovalent clusters Theodore Betley · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — 2019 Isolation of a Copper-Supported Triplet Nitrene Complex Pertinent to Copper–Catalyzed Amination Theodore Betley · Science 215 2019 Ligand-based control of single-site vs multi-site reactivity by a trichromium cluster Theodore Betley · Angewandte Chemie International Edition — 2019 Novel annulation catalysts via direct C−H bond amination Theodore Betley — 2019 The Myth of d8 Copper(III) Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society 270 2018 Thermally persistent high spin ground states in octahedral iron clusters Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2017 C–H Activation from iron(II)-nitroxido complexes Theodore Betley · Angewandte Chemie International Edition — 2017 Diastereoselective C–H bond amination for disubstituted pyrrolidines Theodore Betley · Angewandte Chemie International Edition — 2017 Direct Comparison of C–H Bond Amination Efficacy Through Manipulation of Nitrogen-Valence Centered Redox: Imido versus Iminyl Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society 138 2017 Ground state and excited state tuning in ferric dipyrrin complexes promoted by ancillary ligand exchange Theodore Betley · Inorganic Chemistry — 2017 High-spin iron imido complexes competent for C–H bond amination Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2017 Reactivity of a stable copper-dioxygen complex Theodore Betley · Chemical Communications — 2017 Synthesis of acyclic and cyclic amines using iron-catalyzed nitrene group transfer Theodore Betley · Patent No.: US 9,724,682 — 2016 Characterization of iron-imido species relevant for N-group transfer chemistry Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2016 Maximizing electron exchange in a [Fe3] cluster Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2015 Ligand field strength mediates electron delocalization in octahedral [(HL)2Fe6(L’)m]n+ clusters Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2015 Meta-atom behavior in clusters revealing large spin ground states Theodore Betley · Journal of the American Chemical Society — 2015 Synthesis of well-defined bicapped-octahedral iron clusters [(trenL)2Fe8(PMe2Ph)2]n (n = 0, –1) Theodore Betley · Angew. 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