Selected research highlights from Edinburgh in the Catalysis and Synthesis theme
- Synthetically Diversified Protein Nanopores: Resolving Click Reaction Mechanisms Marius M. Haugland , Stefan Borsley, Dominic F. Cairns-Gibson, Alex Elmi, and Scott L. Cockroft, ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 4101-4110.
- Activation and discovery of earth-abundant metal catalysts using sodium tert-butoxide Jamie H. Docherty, Jingying Peng, Andrew P. Dominey and Stephen P. Thomas, Nature Chemistry, 2017, 9, 595–600.
- Molecular multifunctionality preservation upon surface deposition for a chiral single-molecule magnet Dmitri Mitcov, Anders H. Pedersen, Marcel Ceccato, Rikke M. Gelardi, Tue Hassenkam, Andreas Konstantatos, Anders Reinholdt, Mikkel A. Sørensen, Peter W. Thulstrup, Morten G. Vinum, Fabrice Wilhelm, Andrei Rogalev, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Euan K. Brechin and Stergios Piligkos, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 3065–3073.
- Organometallic neptunium(III) complexes, Michał S. Dutkiewicz, Joy H. Farnaby, Christos Apostolidis, Eric Colineau, Olaf Walter, Nicola Magnani, Michael G. Gardiner, Jason B. Love, Nikolas Kaltsoyannis, Roberto Caciuffo & Polly L. Arnold, Nature Chemistry, 2016, 8, 797–802.
- Phosphaborenes: Accessible Reagents for the Synthesis of C−C/P−B Isosteres, Amy N. Price, Dr. Gary S. Nichol, Dr. Michael J. Cowley, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 9953–9957.
- Self-Assembly of Disorazole C1 through a One-Pot Alkyne Metathesis Homodimerization Strategy, Kevin J. Ralston, H. Clinton Ramstadius, Richard C. Brewster, Helen S. Niblock, and Alison N. Hulme, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 7086–7090.
Selected collaborative research highlights across EaStCHEM in the Catalysis and Synthesis theme
- Catalytic Enantioselective [2,3]-Rearrangements of Allylic Ammonium Ylides: A Mechanistic and Computational Study T. H. West, D. M. Walden, J. E. Taylor, A. C. Brueckner, R. C. Johnston, P. Ha-Yeon Cheong, G. C. Lloyd-Jones, and A. D. Smith, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 366–4375
- Selective and Catalytic Carbon Dioxide and Heteroallene Activation Mediated by Cerium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes P. L. Arnold, R. W. F. Kerr, C. Weetman, S. R. Docherty, J. Rieb, F. L. Cruickshank, K. Wang, C. Jandl, M. W. McMullon, A. Pöthig, F. E. Kühn and A. D. Smith, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 8035–8045
- Chemoselective Brown Oxidation of Aryl Organoboron Systems Enabled by Boronic Acid-selective Phase Transfer J. J. Molloy, T. A. Clohessy, C. Irving, N. A. Anderson, G. C. Lloyd-Jones, and A. J. B. Watson, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 1551–1559
- Using the Pimeloyl-CoA Synthetase Adenylation Fold to Synthesize Fatty Acid Thioesters M. Wang, L. Moynié, P. J. Harrison, V. Kelly, A. Piper, J. H. Naismith, and D. J. Campopiano, Nat. Chem. Biol., 2017, 13, 660–667