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    The interaction of group 15 and 16 donor ligands with the later transition metals : a collection of published papers presented in application for the degree of Doctor of Science at Massey University
    (Massey University, 1999) Brodie, Andrew M
    The scientific publications contained in this thesis are the results of approximately 30 years of transition metal chemistry research, mainly pursued at Massey University. The emphasis has been on the synthesis of interesting new compounds and their subsequent characterisation using a variety of physicochemical techniques. Where appropriate reactivity studies have also been carried out on the new compounds. Chapter 1 contains papers concerned with ligands containing the Group 16 donor, sulfur, although there are a few selenium donors included. The particular ligands studied are tertiary phosphine and arsine chalcogenides, thioarmides, thioureas, thiolates and thioethers with copper and the carbonyls of Group 6 and osmium.In Chapter 2, papers detailing research into the metal binding properties of the human milk protein, lactoferrin and related small molecule systems containing phenolate donors are grouped together. A number of relevant copper thiolate systems are included in this chapter as well, which link to the paper on the blue copper protein, azurin. Finally, in this chapter, are papers describing the preparation and characterisation of a number of complexes related to the antitumour copper(II) 2-formylpyridine thiosemicarbazone system. The theme for Chapter 3 is Group 15 donor ligand complexes, in particular those of nitrogen and phosphorus. The discovery that N-phenylthiourea could be desulfurized in a reaction with copper(II) led to the investigation of phenylcyanamides as ligands. A number of tertiary phosphine ligands have been examined, including the bulky tribenzylphosphine, and research in this area is continuing. Papers with an organometallic theme form the contents of Chapter 4.