Tristram Chivers, University of Calgary

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Calgary profile.

Latest papers

Reductive Elimination of S2N2 and Se2N2 from Heavy Main Group Dithia- and Diselenadiazoles: A DFT Evaluation.
Inorganic chemistry · 2026 · first author
Dissociation Without Detonation: A DFT Analysis of the Thermally Induced Fragmentation of Binary Sulfur-Nitrogen Rings and Cages.
Inorganic chemistry · 2024 · first author
Structures and Spectroscopic Properties of Polysulfide Radical Anions: A Theoretical Perspective.
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023 · first author

All 71 publications

Latest funding

Main group synthetic, structural and materials chemistry
NSERC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$275,000
CCD single crystal x-ray diffractometer
NSERC · 2008 · Co-investigator
$149,279
Main group materials chemistry
NSERC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$100,420

All 22 grants and awards

71 publications.

01

Reductive Elimination of S2N2 and Se2N2 from Heavy Main Group Dithia- and Diselenadiazoles: A DFT Evaluation.

Chivers T, Takaluoma TT, Laitinen RS, Oakley RT

Inorganic chemistry2026First author

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6c01887 PMID: 42307644

02

Dissociation Without Detonation: A DFT Analysis of the Thermally Induced Fragmentation of Binary Sulfur-Nitrogen Rings and Cages.

Chivers T, Oakley RT

Inorganic chemistry2024First author

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03656 PMID: 39437165

03

Structures and Spectroscopic Properties of Polysulfide Radical Anions: A Theoretical Perspective.

Chivers T, Oakley RT

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)2023First author

DOI: 10.3390/molecules28155654 PMID: 37570624

04

Temperature-Assisted Generation of Arylmethyl Radicals from Bis(arylmethyl)tin Dichlorides: Efficient Reagents for C s p 3 ${{{\bf C}}_{{{\bf s p}}^{3}}}$ - C s p 2 ${{{\bf C}}_{{{\bf s p}}^{2}}}$ Bond-Forming Reactions.

Dhanwant K, Saini A, Chivers T, Thirumoorthi R

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2023

DOI: 10.1002/chem.202202844 PMID: 36512637

05

Correction: Tellurium: a maverick among the chalcogens.

Chivers T, Laitinen RS

Chemical Society reviews2021First author

DOI: 10.1039/d1cs90010b PMID: 33533769

06

Catenated and spirocyclic polychalcogenides from potassium carbonate and elemental chalcogens.

Liebing P, Kühling M, Swanson C, Feneberg M, Hilfert L, Goldhahn R, Chivers T, Edelmann FT

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)2019

DOI: 10.1039/c9cc08347b PMID: 31774421

07

The role of polysulfide dianions and radical anions in the chemical, physical and biological sciences, including sulfur-based batteries.

Steudel R, Chivers T

Chemical Society reviews2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00826d PMID: 31123728

08

s-Block metal complexes of PC(H)P-bridged chalcogen-centred methanides: comparisons with isoelectronic PNP-bridged monoanions.

Chivers T, Thirumoorthi R

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)2018First author

DOI: 10.1039/c7dt04791f PMID: 29384540

09

Insights into the formation of inorganic heterocycles via cyclocondensation of primary amines with group 15 and 16 halides.

Chivers T, Laitinen RS

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)2017First author

DOI: 10.1039/c6dt04477h PMID: 28091658

10

Fundamental chemistry of binary S,N and ternary S,N,O anions: analogues of sulfur oxides and N,O anions.

Chivers T, Laitinen RS

Chemical Society reviews2017First author

DOI: 10.1039/c6cs00925e PMID: 28702517

Main group synthetic, structural and materials chemistry

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Chivers, Tristram

$275,000

CCD single crystal x-ray diffractometer

Co-investigatorNSERC2008Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Shimizu, George

$149,279

Main group materials chemistry

Principal investigatorNSERC2006Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Chivers, Tristram

$100,420

Rings clusters and polymers of the main group elements

Principal investigatorNSERC2001Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Chivers, Tristram

$522,500

Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry System

Co-investigatorNSERC2000Research Tools and Instruments - Category 2 ($150,000 - $325,000)

Principal investigators: Piers, Warren

$280,000

Infrared spectrometer

Co-investigatorNSERC2000Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Back, Thomas

$38,916

CCD X-Ray diffractometer

Co-investigatorCFI2000Innovation Fund: Innovation Fund (1999-2005)

Principal investigators: Shimizu, George

Keywords: crystallography, chemistry, characterization, solid state, synthesis, X-ray diffraction, structure determination, inorganic, organic, materials

$162,403

Application for simultaneous differential scanning calorimeter/thermal gravimetric analysis apparatus

Co-investigatorNSERC1999Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Shimizu, George

$144,066

New console for Bruker AM-400 NMR spectrometer

Co-investigatorNSERC1998Research Tools and Instruments - Category 2 ($150,000 - $325,000)

Principal investigators: Sorensen, TheodoreStrang

$220,000

Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer

Principal investigatorNSERC1997Research Tools and Instruments - Category 2 ($150,000 - $325,000)

Principal investigators: Chivers, Tristram

$234,215

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Department of Chemistry
Chemistry
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Jamie Ritch

Chemistry

13 shared papers, latest 2015

Rene Boere

Faculty

4 shared papers, latest 2008

Ignacio Vargas-baca

Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

3 shared papers, latest 2013

Andrea Armstrong

Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

2 shared papers, latest 2005

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