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Edward Lee-Ruff
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Latest papers
Photochemical Valence Isomerization to High Energy Products-Bicyclobutanes and Oxabicyclobutanes.
Photochemistry and photobiology · 2021
Predicted Reversal in N-Methylazepine/N-Methyl-7-azanorcaradiene Equilibrium Upon Formation of Their N-Oxides.
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
Crystal structures of the synthetic intermediate 3-[(6-chloro-7H-purin-7-yl)methyl]cyclobutan-1-one, and of two oxetanocin derivatives: 3-[(6-chloro-8,9-dihydro-7H-purin-7-yl)methyl]cyclobutan-1-ol and 3-[(6-chloro-9H-purin-9-yl)methyl]cyclobutan-1-ol
Acta Crystallographica Section E Crystallographic Communications · 2019
Latest funding
- $73,675
Auto-tune probe for 400 megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
NSERC · 2008 · Co-investigator
- $160,000
Chemistry of small ring compounds and destabilized carbocations
NSERC · 2006 · Principal investigator
- $175,000
Reactions of small ring compounds, chemistry of destabilized carbocations
NSERC · 2001 · Principal investigator
10 publications.
Photochemical Valence Isomerization to High Energy Products-Bicyclobutanes and Oxabicyclobutanes.
Rágyanszki A, Fiser B, Lee-Ruff E, Liebman JF
Predicted Reversal in N-Methylazepine/N-Methyl-7-azanorcaradiene Equilibrium Upon Formation of Their N-Oxides.
Fournier R, Green AR, Greenberg A, Lee-Ruff E, Liebman JF, Rágyanszki A
Crystal structures of the synthetic intermediate 3-[(6-chloro-7H-purin-7-yl)methyl]cyclobutan-1-one, and of two oxetanocin derivatives: 3-[(6-chloro-8,9-dihydro-7H-purin-7-yl)methyl]cyclobutan-1-ol and 3-[(6-chloro-9H-purin-9-yl)methyl]cyclobutan-1-ol
Ayat Yaseen, Muhammad Murtaza Hassan, Edward Lee‐Ruff, Gerald F. Audette
Synthesis of Cyclobutane Analogue 4: Preparation of Purine and Pyrimidine Carbocyclic Nucleoside Derivatives.
Hasaneen N, Ebead A, Hassan M, Afifi H, Hunter H, Lee-Ruff E, El-Gohary NS, Maarouf AR, El-Emam AA
Synthesis of cyclobutane nucleoside analogues 3: Preparation of carbocyclic derivatives of oxetanocin.
Hassan MM, Yaseen A, Ebead A, Audette G, Lee-Ruff E
Synthesis of cyclobutane nucleosides 2-preparation of thymine and uracil analogues.
Afifi H, Ebead A, Pignatelli J, Lee-Ruff E
Solvent Choice and Kinetic Isotope Effects (KIEs) Dramatically Alter Regioselectivity in the Directed ortho Metalation (DoM) of 1,5‐Dichloro‐2,4‐dimethoxybenzene
Jennifer L. Farmer, Robert D. J. Froese, Edward Lee‐Ruff, Michael G. Organ
Photochemical generation of 9H-fluorenyl radicals.
Dyblenko T, Chtchemelinine A, Reiter R, Chowdhury RQ, Enaya A, Afifi H, Fournier R, Mladenova G, Lever AB, Lee-Ruff E
Synthesis of cyclobutane nucleosides.
Ebead A, Fournier R, Lee-Ruff E
Photochemical synthesis of nucleoside analogues from cyclobutanones: bicyclic and isonucleosides.
Jaffer M, Ebead A, Lee-Ruff E
Auto-tune probe for 400 megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
Principal investigators: Organ, Michael
Chemistry of small ring compounds and destabilized carbocations
Principal investigators: LeeRuff, Edward
Reactions of small ring compounds, chemistry of destabilized carbocations
Principal investigators: LeeRuff, Edward
Reactions of small ring compounds, chemistry of destabilized carbocations
Principal investigators: LeeRuff, Edward
Reactions of small ring compounds. Chemistry of destabilized carbocations
Principal investigators: LeeRuff, Edward
Investigations of environmental transformations of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
Principal investigators: LeeRuff, Edward
Investigations of environmental transformation of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
Principal investigators: LeeRuff, Edward
Reactions of small ring compounds. Chemistry of destabilized carbocations
Principal investigators: LeeRuff, Edward
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
- Gerald Audette and Edward Lee-Ruff: 2 shared papers
- Rene Fournier and Edward Lee-Ruff: 2 shared papers
- Michael Organ and Edward Lee-Ruff: 1 shared paper
- Edward Lee-Ruff and Howard Hunter: 1 shared paper
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
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