Prof Michael Whittlesey

MacGregor, S.A., McKay, D., Panetier, J.A. and Whittlesey, M.K., 2013. Computational study of the hydrodefluorination of fluoroarenes at [Ru(NHC)(PR3)2(CO)(H)2] : Predicted scope and regioselectivities. Dalton Transactions, 42 (20), pp. 7386-7395.

Page, M.J., Lu, W.Y., Poulten, R.C., Carter, E., Algarra, A.G., Kariuki, B.M., MacGregor, S.A., Mahon, M.F., Cavell, K.J., Murphy, D.M. and Whittlesey, M.K., 2013. Three-coordinate nickel(i) complexes stabilised by six-, seven- and eight-membered ring N-heterocyclic carbenes : Synthesis, EPR/DFT studies and catalytic activity. Chemistry - A European Journal, 19 (6), pp. 2158-2167.

Segarra, C., Mas-Marzá, E., Lowe, J. P., Mahon, M.F., Poulten, R.C. and Whittlesey, M.K., 2012. Ring-expanded N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of rhodium with bifluoride, fluoride, and fluoroaryl ligands. Organometallics, 31 (24), pp. 8584-8590.

Batool, M., Martin, T. A., Algarra, A. G., George, M. W., Macgregor, S. A., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2012. Photochemistry of Cp′Mn(CO)2(NHC)(Cp′=η5-C5H4Me) species: Synthesis, time-resolved IR spectroscopy, and DFT calculations. Organometallics, 31 (14), pp. 4971-4979.

Bramananthan, N., Mas-Marza, E., Fernandez, F. E., Ellul, C. E., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2012. Formation of cyclometallated N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes from L nRuCl 2 (L = Cyclooctadiene, PPh 3, DMSO) precursors. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2012 (13), pp. 2213-2219.

Nixon, T. D., Whittlesey, M. K. and Williams, J. M. J., 2011. Ruthenium-catalysed transfer hydrogenation reactions with dimethylamine borane. Tetrahedron Letters, 52 (49), pp. 6652-6654.

Saidi, O., Marafie, J., Ledger, A. E. W., Liu, P. M., Mahon, M. F., Kociok-Kohn, G., Whittlesey, M. K. and Frost, C. G., 2011. Ruthenium-catalyzed meta sulfonation of 2-phenylpyridines. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 (48), pp. 19298-19301.

Ledger, A. E. W., Ellul, C. E., Mahon, M. F., Williams, J. M. J. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2011. Ruthenium bidentate phosphine complexes for the coordination and catalytic dehydrogenation of amine- and phosphine-boranes. Chemistry - A European Journal, 17 (31), pp. 8704-8713.

Martin, T. A., Ellul, C. E., Mahon, M. F., Warren, M. E., Allan, D. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2011. Neutral and cationic mono- and bis-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes derived from manganese and rhenium carbonyl precursors. Organometallics, 30 (8), pp. 2200-2211.

Guard, L. M., Ledger, A. E. W., Reade, S. P., Ellul, C. E., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2011. [Ru(NHC)(P-P)(CO)HF] (NHC=N-heterocyclic carbene; P-P=xantphos, dppf) complexes: Efforts to prepare new hydrodefluorination catalysts. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 696 (3), pp. 780-786.

Panetier, J. A., Macgregor, S. A. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2011. Catalytic hydrodefluorination of pentafluorobenzene by Ru(NHC)-(PPh3)(2)(CO)H-2 : A nucleophilic attack by a metal-bound hydride ligand explains an unusual ortho-regioselectivity. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 50 (12), pp. 2783-2786.

Page, M. J., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2011. Formation and reactivity of the cyclometallated N-heterocyclic carbene complexes Ru(NHC)'(dppe)(CO)H. Dalton Transactions, 40 (31), pp. 7858-7865.

Haller, L. J. L., Page, M. J., Erhardt, S., Macgregor, S. A., Mahon, M. F., Abu Naser, M., Velez, A. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2010. Experimental and computational investigation of C-N bond activation in ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132 (51), pp. 18408-18416.

Ellul, C. E., Reed, G., Mahon, M. F., Pascu, S. I. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2010. Tripodal N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of palladium and copper: Syntheses, characterization, and catalytic activity. Organometallics, 29 (18), pp. 4097-4104.

Ledger, A. E. W., Moreno, A., Ellul, C. E., Mahon, M. F., Pregosin, P. S., Whittlesey, M. K. and Williams, J. M. J., 2010. Pincer Phosphine Complexes of Ruthenium: Formation of Ru(P-O-P)(PPh3)HCl (P-O-P = xantphos, DPEphos, (Ph2PCH2CH2)(2)O) and Ru(dppf)(PPh3)HCl and Characterization of Cationic Dioxygen, Dihydrogen, Dinitrogen, and Arene Coordinated Phosphine Products. Inorganic Chemistry, 49 (16), pp. 7244-7256.

Davies, C. J. E., Page, M., Ellul, C. E., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2010. Ni(I) and Ni(II) ring-expanded N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: C-H activation, indole elimination and catalytic hydrodehalogenation. Chemical Communications, 46 (28), pp. 5151-5153.

Chatwin, S. L., Mahon, M. F., Prior, T. J. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2010. Reactivity of the N-heterocyclic carbene complexes Ru(IMes)(2)(CO)HX (X = OH, Cl) with alkynes. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 363 (3), pp. 625-632.

Armstrong, R., Ecott, C., Mas-Marza, E., Page, M., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2010. Ring-expanded n-heterocyclic carbene complexes of ruthenium. Organometallics, 29 (4), pp. 991-997.

Holdroyd, R. S., Page, M. J., Warren, M. R. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2010. Intramolecular C-H insertion in ring-expanded N-heterocyclic carbenes. Tetrahedron Letters, 51 (3), pp. 557-559.

Ellul, C. E., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2010. Synthesis and structural characterisation of the palladium N-heterocyclic carbene cluster complexes Pd-3(mu-CO)(3)(NHC)(3) and Pd-3(mu-SO2)(3)(NHC)(3). Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 695 (1), pp. 6-10.

Burling, S., Mas-Marza, E., Valpuesta, J. E. V., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2009. Coordination, Agostic stabilization and C-H bond activation of N-Alkyl Heterocyclic Carbenes by coordinatively unsaturated Ruthenium Hydride Chloride complexes. Organometallics, 28 (23), pp. 6676-6686.

Burling, S., Haller, L. J. L., Mas-Marza, E., Moreno, A., Macgregor, S. A., Mahon, M. F., Pregosin, P. S. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2009. The influence of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) on the reactivity of [Ru(NHC)4H]+ with H2, N2, CO and O2. Chemistry - A European Journal, 15 (41), pp. 10912-10923.

Haller, L. J. L., Mas-Marza, E., Moreno, A., Lowe, J. P., Macgregor, S. A., Mahon, M. F., Pregosin, P. S. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2009. Formation of [Ru(NHC)4(η2-O2)H]+: an unusual, high frequency hydride chemical shift and facile, reversible coordination of O2. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (28), pp. 9618-9619.

Owston, N. A., Nixon, T. D., Parker, A. J., Whittlesey, M. K. and Williams, J. M., 2009. Conversion of Primary Alcohols and Aldehydes into Methyl Esters by Ruthenium-Catalysed Hydrogen Transfer Reactions. Synthesis, 9, pp. 1578-1581.

Reade, S. P., Acton, A. L., Mahon, M. F., Martin, T. A. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2009. Synthesis and Reactivity of Ru(NHC)(dppp)(CO)H2 and Ru(NHC)(dppp)(CO)HF Complexes: C–H and C–F Activation. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 13, pp. 1774-1785.

Haller, L. J. L., Page, M. J., Macgregor, S. A., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2009. Activation of an alkyl C-H bond geminal to an agostic interaction: an unusual mode of base-induced C-H activation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (13), pp. 4604-4605.

Reade, S. P., Mahon, M. F. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2009. Catalytic hydrodefluorination of aromatic fluorocarbons by ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (5), pp. 1847-1861.

Ledger, A. E. W., Slatford, P. A., Lowe, J. P., Mahon, M. F., Whittlesey, M. K. and Williams, J. M. J., 2009. Ruthenium xantphos complexes in hydrogen transfer processes: reactivity and mechanistic studies. Dalton Transactions, 4, pp. 716-722.

Saker, O., Mahon, M. F., Warren, J. E. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2009. Sequential Formation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H(OH2)]+ and [Ru(IPr)(η6-C6H6)(CO)H]+ upon Protonation of Ru(IPr)2(CO)H(OH) (IPr=1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene). Organometallics, 28 (6), pp. 1976-1979.

Pridmore, S. J., Slatford, P. A., Taylor, J. E., Whittlesey, M. K. and Williams, J. M. J., 2009. Synthesis of furans, pyrroles and pyridazines by a ruthenium-catalysed isomerisation of alkynediols and in situ cyclisation. Tetrahedron, 65 (44), pp. 8981-8986.

Burrows, A. D., Harrington, R. W., Kirk, A. S., Mahon, M. F., Marken, F., Warren, J. E. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2009. Synthesis, characterization, and electrochemistry of a series of iron(II) complexes containing self-assembled 1,5-Diaza-3,7-diphosphabicyclo 3.3.1 nonane Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, 48 (20), pp. 9924-9935.

Nixon, T. D., Whittlesey, M. K. and Williams, J. M. J., 2009. Transition metal catalysed reactions of alcohols using borrowing hydrogen methodology. Dalton Transactions, 5, pp. 753-762.

Ellul, C. E., Saker, O., Mahon, M. F., Apperley, D. C. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2008. Cleavage of Ru-3(CO)(12) by N-heterocyclic carbenes: Isolation of cisand trans-Ru(NHC)(2)(CO)(3) and reaction with O-2 to form Ru(NHC)(2)(CO)(2)(CO3). Organometallics, 27 (1), pp. 100-108.

Chantler, V. L., Chatwin, S. L., Jazzar, R. F. R., Mahon, M. F., Saker, O. and Whittlesey, M. K., 2008. Stoichiometric and catalytic reactivity of the N-heterocyclic carbene ruthenium hydride complexes [Ru(NHC)(L)(CO) HCl] and [Ru(NHC)(L)(CO) H(eta(2)-BH4)] (L = NHC, PPh3). Dalton Transactions