Watson, Patricia

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Patricia Watson Right. So getting some data on that could be very useful. 

Patricia L. Watson, DuPont Central Research and Development... 

John S. Watson, CEO Patricia E. Yarrington, CFO/VP Joe W. Laymon, VP-Human Resources John W. McDonald, CTO/VP R. Hewitt Pate, General Counsel/VP Jay R. Pryor, VP-Corp. Bus. Dev. 

Patricia L. Watson Tobin J. Marks Oxidative addition of alkanes by lanthanide and actinide compounds, respectively... 

The foregoing hypothesis requires that ligand exchange on the lithium cation be slow under the conditions of the experiments described. In fact, there is little information available in the literature on this point. Just recently, however, there has been a convincing demonstration that lithium exchange on a lithium cation can be very slow. Dr. Patricia Watson, of the Central Research Department at the Dupont company, prepared an organometallic complex by addition of bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)methylytterbium to a THF solution of methyllithium. (1 ) The product is a crystalline 1 1 adduct, which was recrystallized from diethyl ether and subjected to single crystal x-ray analysis. The structure of the recrystallized material is as follows ... 

In her studies on the /-block metals, Patricia Watson found a remarkable system in which successive alkene insertions into a Lu—R bond can be observed step by step (Eq. 11.62). Not only do the alkenes insert, but the reverse reaction, P elimination of an alkyl group, as well as the usual p elimination of a hydrogen, are also observed. For the d-block this p elimination of an alkvl erouo would normally not be possible it is probably the larger M—R... 

In 1983, Maurice Brookhardt and Malcolm Green published their concept of the intramolecular agostic C-H bond in complexes that feature a Lewis-acidic transition-metal center, i.e. those that possess a vacant coordination site. During the same year, Patricia Watson at the Du Pont company and John E. Bercaw at Caltech independently reported the activation of methane by d complexes of lanthanides and early transition metals (Lu and Sc respectively) according to the new a-bond metathesis mechanism (an intramolecular version being Schrock s a-elimination, in other d complexes, vide supra, which was developed by Tobbin Marks at Evanston with his seminal work in d° organoactinide chemistry also reported in 1982). 

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