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Hanawalt, E. M.; Doxsee, K. M.; Shen, G. S.; Weakley, T. J. R. "Reactions of 1,3,4-triphenyl-1,2-dihydrophosphete"; Heteroatom Chemistry 1998, 9, 9-19.
Doxsee, K. M.; Saulsbery, R. L. "Phase-selective synthesis of calcium carbonate polymorphs", Materials Science of the Cell, MRS Symposium Series, Vol. 489, 161-166 (1998).
Doxsee, K. M.; Jang, M. "Room temperature phase-selective synthesis of metastable lead chromium oxides", Chemical Aspects of Electronic Ceramics Processing, MRS Symposium Series, Vol. 495, 209-214 (1998).
Doxsee, K. M.; Wood, N. P.; Hanawalt, E. M.; Weakley, T. J. R.; "Synthesis and structure of 1,2-diphosphacyclopentenes"; Heteroatom Chemistry 1996, 7, 383-389.
Doxsee, K. M.; "Eight-membered rings with two heteroatoms 1,2"; in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Scientific Ltd.: Oxford, Vol. 9, Ch. 21, pp. 459-494, 1996.
Doxsee, K. M.; "Eight-membered rings with two heteroatoms 1,3"; in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Scientific Ltd.: Oxford, Vol. 9, Ch. 22, pp. 495-525, 1996.
Doxsee, K. M.; "Eight-membered rings with two heteroatoms 1,4"; in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Scientific Ltd.: Oxford, Vol. 9, Ch. 23, pp. 527-590, 1996.
Doxsee, K. M.; "Eight-membered rings with two heteroatoms 1,5"; in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Scientific Ltd.: Oxford, Vol. 9, Ch. 24, pp. 591-650, 1996.
Doxsee, K. M.; Garner, L. C.; Juliette, J. J.; Mouser, J. K. M.; Weakley, T. J. R.; Hope, H.; "Titanocene imido complexes: Generation as reactive intermediates, isolation, and structural characterization", Tetrahedron (Symposium-in-Print on Group 4 Organometallic Chemistry) 1995, 51, 4321-4332.
Doxsee, K. M.; Hagadorn, J.; Weakley, T. J. R.; "Metal- vs. hydrogen-bonding complexation in zinc complexes of 18-crown-6", Inorg. Chem. 1994, 33, 2600-2606.
Doxsee, K. M.; Juliette, J. J. J.; Zientara, K.; Weakley, T. J. R.; "Nitrosoarene and nitrosoalkane insertion reactions of titanacyclobutenes", Inorg. Chim. Acta (topical issue on Organometallics in Organic Chemistry) 1994, 222, 305-315.
Doxsee, K. M.; Keegan, D. S.; Wierman, H. R.; Hagadorn, J.; Arimura, M.; "Complexation-mediated crystallization", Pure Appl. Chem. 1993, 65, 429-434.
Doxsee, K. M.; Ferguson, C. M.; Wash, P. A.; Saulsbery, R. L.; Hope, H.; "Calcium complexation by a-hydroxy ketones. Characterization of a calcium chloride complex of phenacyl alcohol", J. Org. Chem. 1993, 58, 7557-7561.
Doxsee, K. M.; Juliette, J. J. J.; Mouser, J. K. M.; Zientara, K.; "Carbometallation reactions of dimethyltitanocene. Formation of titanocene vinyl complexes and titanacyclobutenes", Organometallics 1993, 12, 4682-4686.
Doxsee, K. M.; Juliette, J. J. J.; Mouser, J. K. M.; "Metallacyclobutene-metalla-butadiene (vinyl carbene complex) interconversions: Ring opening of titanacyclobutenes", Organometallics 1993, 12, 4742-4744.
Doxsee, K. M.; Hanawalt, E. M.; Weakley, T. J. R.; "Synthesis of difluorophosphoranes from phosphines and mercuric fluoride", Inorg. Chem. 1992, 31, 4420-4421.
Doxsee, K. M.; Hanawalt, E. M.; Weakley, T. J. R.; "Structure of difluorotriphenylphosphorane", Acta Crystallogr. 1992, C48, 1288-1290.
Doxsee, K. M.; Farahi, J. B.; Mouser, J. K. M.; "Titanium metallacycles as intermediates in the synthesis of acyclic and heterocyclic compounds", Synlett. (Account) 1992, 13-21.
Doxsee, K. M.; Wierman, H. R.; Weakley, T. J. R.; "Unusual coordination number and geometry in a potassium 18-crown-6 complex", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 5165-5171.
Doxsee, K.M.; Mouser, J.K.M.; "Titanium-mediated synthesis of conjugated dienes", Tetrahedron Lett. 1991, 32, 1687-1690.
Doxsee, K. M.; Hanawalt, E. M.; Shen, G. S.; Weakley, T. J. R.; Hope, H.; Knobler, C. B.; "Effects of HgCl2 and W(CO)5 coordination on the structure of a 1,2-dihydrophosphete (phosphacyclobutene)", Inorg. Chem. 1991, 30, 3381-3389.
Doxsee, K. M.; Farahi, J. B.; Hope, H.; "Synthesis and formal [4+2] cycloaddition reactions of vinylimido complexes of titanocene", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1991, 113, 8889-8898.
Doxsee, K. M.; "Affinity chromatography of complexation hosts", J. Inclusion Phenomena 1991, 10, 219-223.
Doxsee, K.M.; Stevens, R.; "Complexation mediated crystallization. Crystallization of sodium acetate trihydrate needles from cyclohexane solution", J. Inclusion Phenomena 1990, 9, 327-336.
Doxsee, K.M.; "Development of an advanced synthesis laboratory course in Nobel Prize winning chemistry", J. Chem. Ed. 1990, 67, 1057-1060.
Doxsee, K.M.; Farahi, J.B.; "Synthesis and reactivity of vinylimido complexes of titanocene", J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1990, 1542-1544.
Doxsee, K.M.; Shen, G.S.; Knobler, C. B.; "Reactivity of 1,2-dihydrophosphetes: Formation and structural characterization of a formal [4+2] cycloadduct", J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1990, 1649-1650.
Doxsee, K.M.; Mouser, J.K.M.; "Metal-vinyl vs. metal-alkyl insertion reactions of titanacyclobutenes with nitriles", Organometallics 1990, 9, 3012-3014.
Doxsee, K.M.; Shen, G.S.; Knobler, C. B.; "Uses of metallacyclobutenes in heterocyclic synthesis. Synthesis and structure of 1,2-dihydrophosphetes", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 9129-9130.
Doxsee, K.M.; "Counteranion effects on complexation of cations", J. Org. Chem. 1989, 54, 4712-4715.
Doxsee, K.M.; Farahi, J.B.; "Reductive coupling of nitriles via formal [2+2] cycloadditions to the titanium-carbon double bond", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1988, 110, 7239-7240.