W.T. Wong
W.T. Wong obtained his B.S. degree in 1986 and M.Phil. degree in 1988 from The University of Hong Kong. He was awarded a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Scholarship to study his Ph.D. degree in the University of Cambridge, UK. He returned to The University of Hong Kong as a Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry in 1991, and was promoted to a Senior Lecturer in 1998, to Professor in 2000, and a Chair Professor in 2005. His major research interest includes metal cluster chemistry, X-ray crystallography, lanthanide chemistry, and nanomaterials. He has published more than 350 research papers in these areas. He has made profound contributions in the area of mixed-metal cluster chemistry and has written several key review articles in this field. His research accomplishment has led him to a degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Cambridge in 2000, an Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2001, a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship in 2002, and an Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award in 2003.
Biography Updated on 12 November 2007
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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- High-Yield Synthesis of a New Layered High-Nuclearity Carbonyl Osmium-Rhodium Cluster Complex – Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Electrochemistry of [PPN][Os9Rh3(µ-CO)2(CO)26]
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2007, no. 19, pp. 3011–3014, 2007 - Synthesis and structural characterization of lanthanide coordination polymers constructed from a 13-membered macrocycle
Chinese Science Bulletin, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 467–470, 2007 - Small molecular gadolinium(III) complexes as MRI contrast agents for diagnostic imaging
Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 251, no. 17-20, pp. 2428–2451, 2007 - Terbium Luminescence Sensitized through Three-Photon Excitation in a Self-Assembled Unlinked Antenna
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 111, no. 37, pp. 10858–10861, 2007 - Amitriptylinium picrate: conformational disorder
Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, vol. 63, no. 9, pp. o546–o548, 2007 - Structure and properties of a new double-stranded tetranuclear [CuII2]2 helicate
Chemical Communications, no. 6, p. 671, 2006 - Stereoselective formation of a single-stranded helicate: Structure of a bis(palladium-allyl)quaterpyridine complex and its use in catalytic enantioselective allylic substitution
Chemical Communications, no. 46, p. 4841, 2006 - Langmuir, vol. 22, no. 26, pp. 11447–11452, 2006
- Electro-oxidation of Methanol on Pt Particles Dispersed on RuO[sub 2] Nanorods
Journal of The Electrochemical Society, vol. 153, no. 9, p. A1714, 2006 - Synthesis and Characterization of Hyperbranched RuO2 Nanostructures
Journal of Cluster Science, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 517–526, 2006 - Synthesis and Catalytic Studies of Uniform Os & Os–Pd Nanoparticles Supported on MWNTs
Journal of Cluster Science, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 51–65, 2006 - Synthesis and characterisation of the carboxylate linked osmium clusters [{Os3H(CO)10}2(CO2CH2CO2)], [{Os3H(CO)10}2(CO2C2H4CO2)], [{Os3H(CO)10}2(C4O4)] and [{Os3H(CO)10}2(C4O4){Co2(CO)6}]
Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2006 - Synthesis of [{Os3(CO)10(µ2-H)}2{µ2,µ2-NC6H4C6H4N}] and [{Os3(CO)9(µ2-H)PPh3}2{µ2,µ2-NC6H4C6H4N}]: Carbon–carbon bond formation promoted by organorhodium species
Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2006 - Thinning algorithms based on quadtree and octree representations
Information Sciences, vol. 176, no. 10, pp. 1379–1394, 2006 - Syntheses of C1-symmetric bidentate ligands having pyridyl and 1,3-Thiazolyl, 1-methylimidazolyl or pyrazinyl donor groups for enantioselective palladium-catalyzed allylic substitution and copper-catalyzed cyclopropanation
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 691, no. 26, pp. 5664–5672, 2006 - 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 - A Highly Porous Luminescent Terbium–Organic Framework for Reversible Anion Sensing
Advanced Materials, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1051–1054, 2006 - Bioconjugate Chemistry, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 571–574, 2006
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 17, pp. 6756–6760, 2006
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 44, no. 14, pp. 5133–5140, 2005
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 44, no. 19, pp. 6579–6590, 2005
- Simultaneous Observation of Green Multiphoton Upconversion and Red and Blue NLO Processes from Polymeric Terbium(III) Complexes
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 44, no. 22, pp. 3436–3439, 2005 - Synthesis and characterization of random and block copolymers with pendant rhenium diimine complexes by controlled radical polymerization
Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 1292–1308, 2005 - ?2-Diiodotetrakis(2-hydroxymethyl-1-methyl-1-imidazole-N3)dicadmium(II) bis[triiodo(2-hydroxymethyl-1-methyl-1-imidazole-N3)cadmate(II)] dihydrate
Applied Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 352–353, 2005 - Diiodobis(2-hydroxymethyl-1-methyl-1-imidazole-N3)cadmium(II)
Applied Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 354–355, 2005 - NiIIRuII and CuIIRuII Coordination Polymers Constructed from [Ru(CN)6]4?
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2005, no. 2, pp. 364–370, 2005 - Addition of Carbenes to an Osmium(VI) Nitride Complex
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2005, no. 4, pp. 773–778, 2005 - µ-?1:?1-N,N'-Imidazolidine-Bridged Dicopper(II/III) Complexes of a New Dinucleating µ-Bis(tetradentate) Schiff Base Ligand: Synthesis, Structural Characterization,1H NMR Spectroscopy, and Magnetic Coupling
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2005, no. 12, pp. 2526–2535, 2005 - Ganoderma lucidum Mycelium and Spore Extracts as Natural Adjuvants for Immunotherapy
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1047–1057, 2005 - Organometallics, vol. 24, no. 16, pp. 4014–4020, 2005
- Poly[dimethylammonium aquadi-µ-oxalato-europate(III) trihydrate]
Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. m1912–m1914, 2005 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 27, pp. 13083–13090, 2005
- Synthesis and structural characterization of a series of high-hydride content osmium–rhodium carbonyl complexes by the hydrogenation of arene-coordinated clusters
Dalton Transactions, no. 15, p. 2579, 2005 - Substituted m-phenylene bridges as strong ferromagnetic couplers for Cuii–bridge–Cuii magnetic interactions: new perspectives
Chemical Communications, no. 41, p. 5172, 2005 - 2,4-Dioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidine-5-carboxylic acid monohydrate
Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. o1072–o1074, 2004 - Organic Letters, vol. 6, no. 26, pp. 4841–4844, 2004
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. 478–479, 2004
- Self-assembly of Guanidinium Hexagonal Carboxylate: How Many H-bonds and H-bonding Pattern between ArCOO− and C(NH2)3+?
Chemistry Letters, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 856–857, 2004 - Template Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Luminescent Properties of Neutral N4O3 Tripodal LnIIIL Complexes (LnIII = La3+, Eu3+, Gd3+, Tb3+, Dy3+, Ho3+, Er3+, Tm3+ or Lu3+; H3L = Tris{[3'-(2''-pyridyl)-5'-tert-butyl-2'-hydroxybenzylidene-2-imino]ethyl}amine)
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2004, no. 4, pp. 829–836, 2004 - Crystallographic report: A two-dimensional layer structure containing calcium:[Ca3(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)2(H2O)12]n
Applied Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 97–98, 2004 - A Highly Luminescent Europium Complex Showing Visible-Light-Sensitized Red Emission: Direct Observation of the Singlet Pathway
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 43, no. 38, pp. 5010–5013, 2004 - Green and Red Three-Photon Upconversion from Polymeric Lanthanide(III) Complexes
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 43, no. 35, pp. 4659–4662, 2004 - A selective one-step synthesis of tris N-alkylated cyclens*1
Tetrahedron, vol. 60, no. 26, pp. 5595–5601, 2004 - Luminescent heptadentate Tb complex with pendant aza-15-crown-5 showing recognition of lactate and salicylate in aqueous solution
Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 45, no. 31, pp. 6055–6058, 2004 - Synthesis and characterization of coordination polymers of Zn(II) with 1,3-bis(4-pyridyl)propane and 4,4'-pyridine ligands
Polyhedron, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 999–1002, 2004 - Novel gadolinium(III) polyaminocarboxylate macrocyclic complexes as potential magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 98, no. 5, pp. 677–682, 2004 - Iridium(III) and rhodium(III) cyclometalated complexes containing sulfur and selenium donor ligands
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 689, no. 14, pp. 2401–2410, 2004 - Synthesis and structure of a novel Pd(0)?Pd(IV)?Pd(IV)?Pd(0) mixed-valence complex*1
Inorganic Chemistry Communications, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 737–740, 2004 - A -piperazine bridged ,-dimethylformamide coordinated dicopper(II/II) complex obtained via solution transformation of heterocyclic imidazolidine spacer of a new ligand
Inorganic Chemistry Communications, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 1242–1245, 2004 - Green upconversion fluorescence in terbium coordination complexes
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 398, no. 4-6, pp. 372–376, 2004 - Synthesis, characterization and structural diversity of lanthanide chlorides supported by the ?-diketiminate ligand 6(2,6-Me2C6H3)NC(Me)2CH9?
Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 357, no. 11, pp. 3173–3180, 2004 - Chiral 2-pyridyl alcoholate copper complexes: crystal structures of [bis(2-pyridyl alcoholate)copper(II)] and the use of [(2-pyridyl alcoholate)copper(II)]and [(2-pyridyl alcoholate)copper(I)] in asymmetric cyclopropanation of styene and allylic oxidation of cyclohexene
Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 357, no. 15, pp. 4389–4395, 2004 - Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 830–838, 2004