Books and Book Articles

1.

T.C.W. Mak and G.-D. Zhou:
Crystallography in Modern Chemistry: A Resource Book of Crystal Structures, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1992. [Reviewed in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 3040 (1993) and Acta Crystallogr., Sect. B 49, 576-578 (1993).] Wiley Professional Paperback Edition, 1997.

2.

麥松威、周公度、李偉基。高等無機結構化學。北京大學出版社 , 2006 。
[T.C.W. Mak, G.-D. Zhou and W.-K. Li, Advanced Structural Inorganic Chemistry (in Chinese), Peking University Press, Beijing, 2006.]
English Edition, Oxford University Press, Summer, 2008.

3.

T.C.W. Mak and Q. Li: "Novel Inclusion Compounds with Urea/Thiourea/Selenourea-Anion Host Lattices", in Advances In Molecular Structure Research (M. Hargittai and I. Hargittai, Eds.), JAI Press, Greenwich, Connecticut, Vol. 5, 1998, pp. 151-225.

4.

T.C.W. Mak and C.-K. Lam: “Hydroquinone”, in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (J.L. Atwood and J.W. Steed, Eds.), Marcel-Dekker, New York, 2004, pp. 679-686.

Representative Publications 

1.

 L. Zhao, and T.C.W. Mak :
Multinuclear Silver-Ethynide Supramolecular Synthons for the Construction of Coordination Networks,
Chem. Asian J. 2, 456-467 (2007). Focus Review.

2.

 L. Zhao, X.-L. Zhao and T.C.W. Mak :
Assembly of Infinite Silver(I) Columns, Chains, and Bridged Aggregates with Supramolecular Synthon Bearing Substituted Phenylethynides”,
Chem. Eur. J. 13, 5927-5936 (2007).

3.

 L. Zhao, W.-Y. Wong and T.C.W. Mak :
Novel m₅-Coordination Modes of Alkyl and Aryl Ethynides and Classification of Metal–Ligand Interactions in Silver(I) Complexes.
Chem. Eur. J. 12, 4865-4872 (2006).

4.

 L. Zhao and T.C.W. Mak :
Assembly of Polymeric Silver(I) Complexes of Isomeric Phenylenediethynides with the Supramolecular Synthons Ag_nÌ C₂—R—C₂ ÉAg_n (R = p-, m-, o-C₆H₄; n = 4, 5).
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 14966-14967 (2005).

5.

C.-K. Lam, F. Xue, J.-P. Zhang, X.-M. Chen and T.C.W. Mak :

Hydrogen-Bonded Anionic Rosette Networks Assembled with Guanidinium and C₃-Symmetric Oxoanion Building Blocks.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 11536-11537 (2005).

C.-K. Lam, M.-F. Cheng, C.-L. Li, J.-M. Zhang, X.-M. Chen, W.-K. Li and T.C.W. Mak :
“Stabilization of D_5h and C_2v valence tautomers of the croconate dianion”,
Chem. Commun., 448-449 (2004).

7.

L. Zhao and T.C. W. Mak :

Silver(I) 1,3-Butadiynediide and Two Related Silver(I) Double Salts Containing the C₄² Dianion.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 6852-6853 (2004)

8.

Q.-M. Wang and T.C.W. Mak :
 “Facile Construction of Anionic Silver(I) Aggregates with Embedded Acetylide and Cyanide Ions”,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 41, 4135-4137 (2002).

Q.-M. Wang and T.C.W. Mak :
“Elliptic Column Consolidated by Acetylide Dianion, Cyanide and Trifluoroacetate in a Novel
Quadruple Salt of Silver(I) ”,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 1501-1502 (2001).

10.

G.-C. Guo, G.-D. Zhou and T.C.W. Mak :
 “ Structural Variation in Novel Double Salts of Silver Acetylide with Silver Titrate: Fully
Encapsulated Acetylide Dianion in Different Polyhedral Silver Cages”,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 3136-3141 (1999).