Phone: (435) 797-0365
FAX: (435) 797-3390
E-mail: rewatkins@cc.usu.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Utah State University
0300 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-0300
Publications
Publications
G. K. Ingle, R. W. Watkins, A. M. Arif, and Lisa M. Berreau, "Divalent Metal Complexes of an Amide-appended N3O-donor Ligand: Synthesis, Structural and Spectroscopic Features, and Amide Methanolysis Reactivity," J. Coord. Chem. 2008, 61, in press.
E. Szajna-Fuller, G. K. Ingle, R. W. Watkins, A. M. Arif, and L. M. Berreau, "Amide Hydrolysis Reactivity of a N4O-ligated Zinc Complex: Comparison of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Parameters with those of the Corresponding Amide Methanolysis Reaction," Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 2353-2355. (PDF)
A. L. Fuller, R. W. Watkins, A. M. Arif, and L. M. Berreau, "Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of N3O-ligated Mononuclear Mn(II) Halide Complexes," Inorg. Chim. Acta 2006, 359, 1282-1290.
A. L. Fuller, R. W. Watkins, K. R. Dunbar, A. V. Prosvirin, A. M. Arif, and L. M. Berreau, "Manganese(II) Chemistry of a New N3O-donor Chelate Ligand: Synthesis, X-ray Structures, and Magnetic Properties of Solvent- and Oxalate-bound Complexes," Dalton Transactions 2005, 1891-1896. (HTML)
K. J. Tubbs, E. Szajna, B. Bennett, J. A. Halfen, R. W. Watkins, A. M. Arif, L. M. Berreau, "Mononuclear Nitrogen/sulfur-Ligated Cobalt(II) Methoxide Complexes: Structural, EPR, Paramagnetic 1H NMR, and Electrochemical Investigations," Dalton Transactions 2004, 2398-2399. (HTML)
Poster Presentations
Rex W. Watkins, Atta M. Arif, and Lisa M. Berreau, "Mononuclear Zn(II), Fe(II) and Ni(II) Complexes of an Amide-appended N3-Donor Ligand," Joint American Chemical Society 59th Northwest & 18th Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Logan, UT, June 2004.
Awards and Honors