Tai Lau

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Solid-phase extraction-fluorimetric high performance liquid chromatographic determination of domoic acid in natural seawater mediated by an amorphous titania sorbent
    Analytica Chimica Acta, vol. 583, no. 1, pp. 111–117, 2007
  2. Mechanisms of oxidation by trans-dioxoruthenium(VI) complexes containing macrocyclic tertiary amine ligands
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 251, no. 17-20, pp. 2238–2252, 2007
  3. An ‘artificial mussel’ for monitoring heavy metals in marine environments
    Environmental Pollution, vol. 145, no. 1, pp. 104–110, 2007
  4. Synthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of Cyclometalated Pt(II) Complexes Containing a Functionalized Cyclometalating Ligand, 2-Phenyl-6-(1H-pyrazol-3-yl)-pyridine
    Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 3603–3612, 2007
  5. Facile N···N Coupling of Manganese(V) Imido Species
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 129, no. 4, pp. 803–809, 2007
  6. Solvent Effects on the Oxidation of RuIV=O to O=RuVI=O by MnO4-. Hydrogen-Atom versus Oxygen-Atom Transfer
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 129, no. 44, pp. 13646–13652, 2007
  7. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 9, pp. 2851–2858, 2006
  8. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 45, pp. 14669–14675, 2006
  9. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 315–321, 2006
  10. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 17, pp. 6756–6760, 2006
  11. Cyano-bridged molecular squares: Synthesis and structures of [Ni(cyclen)]2[Pt(CN)4]2·6H2O, [Ni(cyclen)]2[Ni(CN)4]2·6H2O and [Mn(cyclen)]2[Ni(CN)4]2·6H2O
    Polyhedron, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1256–1262, 2006
  12. NiIIRuII and CuIIRuII Coordination Polymers Constructed from [Ru(CN)6]4?
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2005, no. 2, pp. 364–370, 2005
  13. Addition of Carbenes to an Osmium(VI) Nitride Complex
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2005, no. 4, pp. 773–778, 2005
  14. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 44, no. 19, pp. 6579–6590, 2005
  15. Selection of vertical formwork system by probabilistic neural networks models
    Construction Management and Economics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 245–254, 2005
  16. Overexpression of Id-1 in prostate cancer cells promotes angiogenesis through the activation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)
    Carcinogenesis, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 1668–1676, 2005
  17. Up-Regulation of TWIST in Prostate Cancer and Its Implication as a Therapeutic Target
    Cancer Research, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 5153–5162, 2005
  18. Biosorption of di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate by seaweed biomass
    Journal of Applied Phycology, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 263–274, 2004
  19. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. 478–479, 2004
  20. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 47, pp. 15336–15337, 2004
  21. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 45, pp. 14921–14929, 2004
  22. Diagnosis of prestressed concrete pile defects using probabilistic neural networks
    Engineering Structures, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1155–1162, 2004
  23. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 1225–1232, 2003
  24. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 16, pp. 4792–4794, 2003
  25. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 24, pp. 8011–8018, 2003
  26. Organometallics, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 315–320, 2003
  27. Concurrent Mediastinal B Cell Lymphoma and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia with an Unusually Favorable Response to Chemotherapy
    Leukemia & Lymphoma, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 535–538, 2003
  28. Antiferromagnetic ordering in a novel five-connected 3D polymer {Cu2(2,5-Me2pyz)[N(CN)2]4}n (2,5-Me2pyz?2,5-dimethylpyrazine)Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: plot of the temperature dependence of the ac susceptibility (Fig. S1). See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/nj/b1/b111012h/
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 523–525, 2002
  29. A novel one-dimensional Ni(ii)???Fe(ii) polymer containing ??3-cyanides: [Ni(cyclen)]2[Fe(CN)6]??8H2O
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 1099–1101, 2002
  30. Analytical Chemistry, vol. 74, no. 9, pp. 2072–2082, 2002
  31. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 41, no. 22, pp. 5787–5794, 2002
  32. Characterization of the product ions from the collision-induced dissociation of argentinated peptides
    Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 163–175, 2001
  33. Formation of molecular radical cations of enkephalin derivatives via collision-induced dissociation of electrospray-generated copper (II) complex ions of amines and peptides
    Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1114–1119, 2001
  34. Facile Nucleophilic Addition to Salophen Coordinated to Nitridoosmium(VI)
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 50, pp. 12720–12721, 2001
  35. Growth rate as a factor confounding the use of the dogwhelk Nucella lapillus as biomonitor of heavy metal contamination
    Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 221, pp. 145–159, 2001
  36. Syntheses and structures of novel heterobimetallic Cu(II)–Au(I) complexes Cu(cyclen)[Au(CN)2]2 and Cu(pyz)[Au(CN)2]2
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 5, pp. 629–631, 2000
  37. Lewis acid activated oxidation of alkanes by barium ferrate
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 587–590, 2000
  38. Synthesis, crystal structure and electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry of a novel one-dimensional cyano-bridged Ni(II)–Au(I) polymer
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 765–769, 2000
  39. Copper-catalyzed amination of alkenes and ketones by phenylhydroxylamine
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 859–863, 2000
  40. A novel heterobimetallic Ni(II)–Ag(I) cyano-bridged coordination polymer incorporating Ag···Ag interactions: {[Ni(cyclen)][Ag(CN)2]}[Ag(CN)2]
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 733–734, 2000
  41. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 65, no. 23, pp. 7996–8000, 2000
  42. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 104, no. 15, pp. 3393–3397, 2000
  43. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 38, no. 26, pp. 6181–6186, 1999
  44. A novel trinuclear copper(II) complex bridged by tren: [Cu3(tren)4][Pt(CN)4]3·2H2O
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1049–1050, 1999
  45. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 29, pp. 7302–7309, 1998
  46. Relative silver(I) ion binding energies of a-amino acids: a determination by means of the kinetic method
    Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 760–766, 1998
  47. Intraionic, interligand proton transfer in collision-activated macrocyclic complex ions of nickel and copper
    Journal of Mass Spectrometry, vol. 33, no. 9, pp. 811–818, 1998
  48. Photocatalytic and aerobic oxidation of saturated alkanes by a neutral luminescent trans-dioxoosmium(vi) complex [OsO2(CN)2(dpphen)]
    Chemical Communications, no. 15, pp. 1443–1444, 1997
  49. Polymer-ligands: a novel chemical device for monitoring heavy metals in the aquatic environment?
    Marine Pollution Bulletin, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 391–396, 1996
  50. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 2169–2170, 1996
  51. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 34, no. 16, pp. 4271–4274, 1995
  52. Electrospray tandem mass spectrometry of polyoxoanions
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, no. 8, p. 877, 1995
  53. Oxidation of C2, C3 and higher alkanes by a ruthenium?oxo system
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, no. 9, p. 943, 1995
  54. Dalton communications. Lewis-acid catalysed oxidation of alkanes by chromate and permanganate
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 4, p. 695, 1995
  55. Electron-transfer reactions and the self-exchange rate of the perruthenate(VII)?ruthenate(VI) couple
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 13, p. 2221, 1995
  56. Kinetics and mechanism of the oxidation of iodide by trans-dioxoruthenium (VI)
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 21, p. 3091, 1994
  57. Electrospray tandem mass spectrometry of oxo complexes of chromium, manganese and tuthenium
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, no. 12, p. 1487, 1994
  58. Oxidation of alkanes by barium ruthenate in acetic acid: catalysis by Lewis acids
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, no. 9, p. 766, 1993
  59. Mechanism of alcohol oxidation by trans-dioxoruthenium(VI): the effect of driving force on reactivity
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 9, p. 1551, 1992
  60. Mechanism of C?H bond oxidation by a monooxoruthenium(V) complex
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 5, p. 1259, 1991
  61. Tuning the reactivities of ruthenium?oxo complexes with robust ligands. A ruthenium(IV)?oxo complex of 6,6?-dichloro-2,2?-bipyridine as an active oxidant for stoichiometric and catalytic organic oxidation
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 8, p. 1901, 1991
  62. A ruthenium(IV) oxo complex that contains a tertiary diamine ligand
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 3, p. 967, 1990
  63. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 112, no. 13, pp. 5176–5181, 1990
  64. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 28, no. 16, pp. 3270–3272, 1989
  65. Metal-nitrido photo-oxidants: synthesis, photophysics, and photochemistry of [Os VI (NH3)4(N)](X)3(X = Cl, CF3SO3)
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, no. 2, p. 114, 1989
  66. Model reactions for nitrogen fixation. Photo-induced formation and X-ray crystal structure of [Os2(NH3)8(MeCN)2(N2)]5+ from [Os VI (NH3)4N]3+
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, no. 24, p. 1883, 1989
  67. Ruthenium catalysed oxidation of alkanes with alkylhydroperoxides
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, no. 21, p. 1406, 1988
  68. Structural and mechanistic studies of co-ordination compounds. Part 37. Ligand-substitution kinetics of some halogeno tetra-amine complexes of cobalt(III), ruthenium(II), and ruthenium(III)
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 8, p. 1641, 1983
  69. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 1664–1667, 1983
  70. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 22, no. 26, pp. 3893–3898, 1983
  71. Structural and mechanistic studies of co-ordination compounds. Part 32. Different photochemical pathways of some trans-dihalogenobis(ethylenediamine)ruthenium(III) cations: ligand-field versus ligand-to-metal charge-transfer excited states
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 3, p. 531, 1982
  72. Structural and mechanistic studies of co-ordination compounds. Part 33. Inner-sphere vs. outer-sphere mechanisms in the reductions of some trans-dianiono(tetramine)ruthenium(III) cations by chromium(II) and vanadium(II)
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 5, p. 865, 1982
  73. Structural and mechanistic studies of co-ordination compounds. Part 31. The chromium(II) reduction of some trans-tetra-aminedichloro-ruthenium(III) cations
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 12, p. 2556, 1981