R.L. Brainard, T.M. Miller, and G. M. Whitesides. 1986. “The Mechanisms of Thermal Decomposition of trans-Chloroneopentylbis(tricyclopentylphosphine)platinum(II).” Organometallics, 5, Pp. 1481-1490. PDF

R.L. Brainard and G. M. Whitesides. 1985. “The Mechanism of Thermal Decomposition of trans-Chloroethylbis-(triethylphosphine)platinum(II).” Organometallics, 4, Pp. 1550-1557. PDF

G. M. Whitesides, M. Hackett, R.L. Brainard, J-P.P.M. Lavalleye, A.F. Sowinski, A.N. Izumi, S.S. Moore, D.W. Brown, and E.M. Staudt. 1985. “Suppression of Unwanted Heterogeneous Platinum(0)-Catalyzed Reactions by Poisoning with Mercury(0) in Systems Involving Competing Homogeneous Reactions of Soluble Organoplatinum Compounds: Thermal Decomposition of Bis(triethylphosphine)-3,3,4,4-tet.” Organometallics, 4, Pp. 1819-1830. PDF

R.H. Reamey and G. M. Whitesides. 1984. “The Mechanism of Hydrogenolysis of Dineopentylbis(triethylphosphine)platinum(II).” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 106, Pp. 81-85. PDF

G. M. Whitesides, R.H. Reamey, R.L. Brainard, A.N. Izumi, and T.J. McCarthy. 1983. “Organometallic Reactions of Platinum Involving Metallic Hydrides.” Annals New York Acad. Sci., 415, Pp. 56-66. PDF

G. M. Whitesides. 1983. “Relations between Fracture and Coordination Chemistry.” In Atomistics of Fracture, edited by R.M. Latanision and J.R. Pickens, Pp. 337-362. New York: Plenum Press. PDF

R. DiCosimo, S.S. Moore, A.F. Sowinski, and G. M. Whitesides. 1982. “Cyclometalation of Dialkylbis(triethylphosphine)platinum(II) Complexes: Formation of Pt, Pt-Bis(triethylphosphine)platinacycloalkanes.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, Pp. 124-133. PDF

R. DiCosimo and G. M. Whitesides. 1982. “Reductive Elimination of a Carbon-Carbon Bond from Bis(trialkylphosphine)-3,3-dimethylplatinacyclopropane Produces Bis(trialkylphosphine)-platinum(0) and 1,1-Dimethylcyclopropane.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, Pp. 3601-3607. PDF

A. C. Balazs, K. H. Johnson, and G. M. Whitesides. 1982. “Reductive Elimination of H-H, H-CH₃, and CH₃-CH₃ from Bis(phosphine)-platinum(II), -palladium(II), and -nickel(II) Complexes: A Theoretical Study Using the SCF-Xa-SW Method.” Inorg. Chem., 21, Pp. 2162-2174. PDF

J.C. Ibers, R. DiCosimo, and G. M. Whitesides. 1982. “Structures of Dineopentylbis(triethylphosphine)platinum(II) and Bis(triethylphosphine)-3,3-dimethylplatinacyclobutane: Reactant and Product in a Thermal Cyclometallation Reaction.” Organometallics, 1, Pp. 13-20. PDF

T.J. McCarthy, R.G. Nuzzo, and G. M. Whitesides. 1981. “Apparent Fluxionality in Diethyl(phosphine)platinum(II), a Coordinately Unsaturated Intermediate in b-Hydride Elimination.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, Pp. 1676-1678. PDF

T.J. McCarthy, Y-S. Shih, and G. M. Whitesides. 1981. “Heterogenous Platinum-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Dialkyl(diolefin)platinum(II) Complexes.” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 78, Pp. 4649-4651. PDF

G. M. Whitesides. 1981. “The Mechanisms of Thermal Decomposition of Dialkylbis(triethylphosphine)platinum(II) Complexes.” Pure Appl. Chem., 53, Pp. 287-292. PDF

T.J. McCarthy, R.G. Nuzzo, and G. M. Whitesides. 1981. “Mechanisms of Thermal Decomposition of Diethylbis(triethylphosphine)-platinum(II).” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, Pp. 3396-3403. PDF

R.G. Nuzzo, T.J. McCarthy, and G. M. Whitesides. 1981. “Preparation of Tertiary Phosphine-Olefin Complexes of Platinum(0): A Convenient Synthesis of Ethylenebis(triethylphosphine)platinum(0).” Inorg. Chem., 20, Pp. 1312-1314. PDF

S.S. Moore, R. DiCosimo, A.F. Sowinski, and G. M. Whitesides. 1981. “Ring Strain in Bis(triethylphosphine)-3,3-dimethylplatinacyclobutane is Small.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, Pp. 948-949. PDF

R.G. Nuzzo, T.J. McCarthy, and G. M. Whitesides. 1981. “Thermal Decomposition of Di(Cycloalkyl)bis(triethylphosphine)platinum-(II) Complexes.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, Pp. 3404-3410. PDF

P. Foley, R. DiCosimo, and G. M. Whitesides. 1980. “The Mechanism of Thermal Decomposition of Dineopentylbis(triethyl-phosphine)platinum(II): Formation of Bis(triethylphosphine)-3,3-dimethylplatinacyclobutane.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, Pp. 6713-6725. PDF

P. Foley and G. M. Whitesides. 1980. “Reactions of Tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)platinum(0) and Ethylenebis(triphenylphosphine)platinum(0) with Strong Proton Acids.” Inorg. Chem., 19, Pp. 1402-1404. PDF

P. Foley and G. M. Whitesides. 1979. “Thermal Generation of Bis(triethylphosphine)-3,3-dimethylplatinacyclobutane from Dineopentylbis(triethylphosphine)platinum(II).” J. Org. Chem.Journal of Organic Chemistry, 101, Pp. 2732-2733. PDF