Prof Micheal Hill
Profile
Although research in the Hill group is rooted in molecular organometallic chemistry, our interests are somewhat broader and span from the discovery of environmentally benign and atom-efficient catalysts to the development of precursors for nanoparticle synthesis or chemical vapour deposition.
Current research projects include
- Catalysis with alkaline earth complexes (polymer and molecular chemistry)
- ‘Subvalent’ and multiply bonded main group species
- Catenated and ‘sigma delocalised’ group 13- and group 14-based electronic materials
- Organolanthanide (stereospecific) catalysis (polymer and molecular chemistry)
- Precursors for chemical vapour deposition and nanomaterials
Research Interests
- Group 2 Complexes in Molecular Catalysis
- Subvalent Main Group Species
- Catenated and ‘Sigma-delocalised’ Group 13 and Group 14 Polymeric materials
- Organolanthanide Chemistry for Enantioselective Catalysis
- Precursors for Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD)
Publications
Hill, M.S., Liptrot, D.J. and Mahon, M.F., 2013. A magnesium-mediated cascade assembly for the atom-economical synthesis of bis(imidazolidine-2,4-dione)s. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 52 (20), pp. 5364-5367.
Bansal, N., Reynolds, L. X., MacLachlan, A., Lutz, T., Ashraf, R. S., Zhang, W., Nielsen, C. B., McCulloch, I., Rebois, D. G., Kirchartz, T., Hill, M. S., Molloy, K. C., Nelson, J. and Haque, S. A., 2013. Influence of crystallinity and energetics on charge separation in polymer–inorganic nanocomposite films for solar cells. Scientific Reports, 3, 1531.
Bellham, P., Hill, M.S., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Liptrot, D.J., 2013. Bespoke synthesis of unsymmetrical diaminoboranes by alkaline earth catalysis. Chemical Communications, 49 (19), pp. 1960-1962.
Arrowsmith, M., Hill, M.S. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2013. Magnesium catalysis of imine hydroboration. Chemistry - A European Journal, 19 (8), pp. 2776-2783.
Bellham, P., Hill, M.S., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Liptrot, D.J., 2013. Alkaline earth alkyl insertion chemistry of in situ generated aminoboranes. Dalton Transactions, 42 (3), pp. 737-745.
Arrowsmith, M., Hill, M.S., Kociok-Kohn, G., MacDougall, D.J., Mahon, M.F. and Mallov, I., 2012. Three-coordinate beryllium β-diketiminates : Synthesis and reduction chemistry. Inorganic Chemistry, 51 (24), pp. 13408-13418.
Lutz, T., MacLachlan, A., Sudlow, A., Nelson, J., Hill, M.S., Molloy, K.C. and Haque, S.A., 2012. Thermal decomposition of solution processable metal xanthates on mesoporous titanium dioxide films : A new route to quantum-dot sensitised heterojunctions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14 (47), pp. 16192-16196.
Wildsmith, T., Molloy, K., Hill, M. and Johnson, A., 2012. Routes to the low temperature deposition of tin oxide. In: Transparent conducting materials 2012, 2012-10-20 - 2012-10-26, Heraklion.
Brinkmann, C., Barrett, A.G.M., Reid, S., Hill, M.S. and Procopiou, P.A., 2012. Alkaline earth catalysis of alkynyl alcohol hydroalkoxylation/cyclization. Organometallics, 31 (20), pp. 7287-7297.
Wildsmith, T., Hill, M., Molloy, K., Johnson, A. and Kingsley, A. J., 2012. Routes to the low temperature deposition of transparent conducting oxides. In: International Symposia for Advancing the Chemical Sciences 8: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, 2012-07-19 - 2012-07-21, Toronto.
Wildsmith, T., Hill, M., Molloy, K., Johnson, A. and Kingsley, A. J., 2012. Routes to low temperature precursors for transparent conducting oxides. In: Dalton Discussion Group Meeting 2012, 2012-04-03 - 2012-04-05, Warwick.
Arrowsmith, M., Hill, M. S., Kociok-Kohn, G., MacDougall, D. J. and Mahon, M. F., 2012. Beryllium-induced C-N bond activation and ring opening of an N-heterocyclic carbene. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 51 (9), pp. 2098-2100.
Brinkmann, C., Barrett, A. G. M., Hill, M. S. and Procopiou, P. A., 2012. Heavier alkaline earth catalysts for the intermolecular hydroamination of vinylarenes, dienes, and alkynes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134 (4), pp. 2193-2207.
Hill, M.S., 2012. Alkaline and alkaline earth metals. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry - Section A, 108 (1), pp. 48-60.
Arrowsmith, M., Hadlington, T. J., Hill, M. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2012. Magnesium-catalysed hydroboration of aldehydes and ketones. Chemical Communications, 48 (38), pp. 4567-4569.
Hill, M., Kociok-Kohn, G., MacDougall, D. J., Mahon, M. F. and Weetman, C., 2011. Magnesium hydrides and the dearomatisation of pyridine and quinoline derivatives. Dalton Transactions, 40 (46), pp. 12500-12509.
Arrowsmith, M., Hill, M. S., Hadlington, T., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Weetman, C., 2011. Magnesium-catalyzed hydroboration of pyridines. Organometallics, 30 (21), pp. 5556-5559.
Wildsmith, T., Hill, M., Johnson, A., Molloy, K. and Kingsley, A. J., 2011. Low temperature precursors for the metal organic chemical vapour deposition of transparent conducting oxides. In: XIX EuCHEMS Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, 2011-07-02 - 2011-07-06, Toulouse.
Wildsmith, T., Hill, M., Johnson, A., Molloy, K. and Kingsley, A. J., 2011. Low temperature precursors for the metal organic chemical vapour deposition of transparent conducting oxides. In: RSC Main Group Discussion Group, 2011-07-14 - 2011-07-14, London.
Bellham, P., Hill, M. S., Liptrot, D. J., MacDougall, D. J. and Mahon, M. F., 2011. Alkylstrontium diamidoboranes: beta-hydride elimination and Sr-C insertion. Chemical Communications, 47 (32), pp. 9060-9062.
Dowland, S., Lutz, T., Ward, A., King, S. P., Sudlow, A., Hill, M., Molloy, K. C. and Haque, S. A., 2011. Direct growth of metal sulfide nanoparticle networks in solid-state polymer films for hybrid inorganic-organic solar cells. Advanced Materials, 23 (24), pp. 2739-2744.
Arrowsmith, M., Crimmin, M. R., Barrett, A. G. M., Hill, M. S., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Procopiou, P. A., 2011. Cation charge density and precatalyst selection in group 2-catalyzed aminoalkene hydroamination. Organometallics, 30 (6), pp. 1493-1506.
Arrowsmith, M., Hill, M. S. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2011. Suppression of Schlenk equilibration and heavier alkaline earth alkyl catalysis: A dearomatization strategy. Organometallics, 30 (6), pp. 1291-1294.
Hill, M. S., Kociok-Kohn, G. and MacDougall, D. J., 2011. N-Heterocyclic carbenes and charge separation in heterometallic s-block silylamides. Inorganic Chemistry, 50 (11), pp. 5234-5241.
Hill, M. S., Hodgson, M., Liptrot, D. J. and Mahon, M. F., 2011. Stoichiometric reactivity of dialkylamine boranes with alkaline earth silylamides. Dalton Transactions, 40 (30), pp. 7783-7790.
Hill, M. S., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Robinson, T. P., 2010. Group 3-centred dehydrocoupling of Me2NH.BH3. Chemical Communications, 46 (40), pp. 7587-7589.
Arrowsmith, M., Hill, M. S. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2010. Dearomatization and C-H deprotonation with heavier group 2 alkyls: does size matter? Organometallics, 29 (19), pp. 4203-4206.
Barrett, A. G. M., Crimmin, M. R., Hill, M., Hitchcock, P. B., Lomas, S. L., Mahon, M. F. and Procopiou, P. A., 2010. Carbodiimide insertion reactions of homoleptic heavier alkaline earth amides and phosphides. Dalton Transactions, 39 (31), pp. 7393-7400.
Crimmin, M. R., Hill, M., Hitchcock, P. B. and Mahon, M. F., 2010. Synthesis of β-diketiminato calcium silylamides and their reactions with triethylaluminium. New Journal of Chemistry, 34 (8), pp. 1572-1578.
Liptrot, D. J., Hill, M. S., Mahon, M. F. and MacDougall, D. J., 2010. Group 2 promoted hydrogen release from NMe2h·BH3: intermediates and catalysis. Chemistry - A European Journal, 16 (28), pp. 8508-8515.
Leventis, H. C., King, S. P., Sudlow, A., Hill, M., Molloy, K. C. and Haque, S. A., 2010. Nanostructured hybrid polymer-inorganic solar cell active layers formed by controllable in situ growth of semiconducting sulfide networks. Nano Letters, 10 (4), pp. 1253-1258.
Barrett, A. G. M., Crimmin, M. R., Hill, M. S. and Procopiou, P. A., 2010. Heterofunctionalization catalysis with organometallic complexes of calcium, strontium and barium. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A - Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 466 (2116), pp. 927-963.
Hill, M. S., 2010. Homocatenation of metal and metalloid main group elements. In: Metal-Metal Bonding. Vol. 136. Springer, pp. 189-216.
Hill, M. S., Mahon, M. F. and Robinson, T. P., 2010. Calcium-centred phosphine oxide reactivity: P–C metathesis, reduction and P–P coupling. Chemical Communications, 46 (14), pp. 2498-2500.
Hill, M., MacDougall, D. J. and Mahon, M. F., 2010. Magnesium hydride-promoted dearomatisation of pyridine. Dalton Transactions, 39 (46), pp. 11129-11131.
Barrett, A. G. M., Brinkmann, C., Crimmin, M. R., Hill, M. S., Hunt, P. and Procopiou, P. A., 2009. Heavier group 2 metals and intermolecular hydroamination: a computational and synthetic assessment. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (36), pp. 12906-12907.
Crimmin, M. R., Arrowsmith, M., Barrett, A. G. M., Casely, I. J., Hill, M. S. and Procopiou, P. A., 2009. Intramolecular hydroamination of aminoalkenes by calcium and magnesium complexes: a synthetic and mechanistic study. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (28), pp. 9670-9685.
Arrowsmith, M., Hill, M. S., MacDougall, D. J. and Mahon, M. F., 2009. A hydride-rich magnesium cluster. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 48 (22), pp. 4013-4016.
Arrowsmith, M., Hill, M. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2009. Bis(imidazolin-2-ylidene-1-yl)borate Complexes of the Heavier Alkaline Earths: Synthesis and Studies of Catalytic Hydroamination. Organometallics, 28 (6), pp. 1730-1738.
Barrett, A. G. M., Crimmin, M. R., Hill, M. S., Hitchcock, P. B., Lomas, S. L., Procopiou, P. A. and Suntharalingam, K., 2009. Catalytic 2,3,4-hexatriene formation by terminal alkyne coupling at calcium. Chemical Communications, 17, pp. 2299-2301.
Barrett, A. G. M., Casely, I. J., Crimmin, M. R., Hill, M., Lachs, J. R., Mahon, M. F. and Procopiou, P. A., 2009. β-Diketiminato Calcium and Magnesium Amides; Model Complexes for Hydroamination Catalysis. Inorganic Chemistry, 48 (10), pp. 4445-4453.
Alam, N., Hill, M. S., Kociok-Köhn, G., Zeller, M., Mazhar, M. and Molloy, K. C., 2008. Pyridine adducts of nickel(II) xanthates as single-source precursors for the aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition of nickel sulfide. Chemistry of Materials, 20 (19), pp. 6157-6162.
Crimmin, M. R., Barrett, A. G. M., Hill, M., Macdougall, D. J., Mahon, M. F. and Procopiou, P. A., 2008. Bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl Derivatives of Calcium, Strontium and Barium: Potentially Useful Dialkyls of the Heavy Alkaline Earth Elements. Chemistry - A European Journal, 14 (36), pp. 11292-11295.
Crimmin, M. R., Barrett, A. G. M., Hill, M. S., Hitchcock, P. B. and Procopiou, P. A., 2008. Heavier group 2 element catalyzed hydrophosphination of carbodiimides. Organometallics, 27 (4), pp. 497-499.
Barrett, A. G. M., Crimmin, M. R., Hill, M. S., Hitchcock, P. B., Kociok-Köhn, G. and Procopiou, P. A., 2008. Triazenide complexes of the heavier alkaline earths: synthesis, characterization, and suitability for hydroamination catalysis. Inorganic Chemistry, 47 (16), pp. 7366-7376.
Barrett, A. G. M., Crimmin, M. R., Hill, M. S., Hitchcock, P. B., Lomas, S. L., Mahon, M. F., Procopiou, P. A. and Suntharalingam, K., 2008. beta-Diketiminato Calcium Acetylides: Synthesis, Solution Dimerization, and Catalytic Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation. Organometallics, 27 (23), pp. 6300-6306.
