Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Dr Ruth Webster

University Assistant Professor


Research interests

The Webster group focuses on catalysis with first row transition metals, with a focus on iron catalyst design for the synthesis of bonds between main-group elements. We are interested in trying to understand mechanism and in order to do so we use a varity of in situ and in-line techniques.

 

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Publications

Advances and Applications in Catalysis with Earth-Abundant Metals
KMP Wheelhouse, RL Webster, GL Beutner
Organometallics
(2023)
42
(doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.3c00292)
Advances and Applications in Catalysis with Earth-Abundant Metals
KMP Wheelhouse, RL Webster, GL Beutner
Organic Process Research & Development
(2023)
27
(doi: 10.1021/acs.oprd.3c00207)
Dehydrocoupling Polymerization: Poly(silylether) Synthesis by Using an Iron β‐Diketiminate Catalyst
MA Farcaş-Johnson, SH Kyne, RL Webster
Chemistry – A European Journal
(2022)
28
(doi: 10.1002/chem.202201642)
Taming PH3: State of the Art and Future Directions in Synthesis.
TM Hood, S Lau, RL Webster
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2022)
144
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c07688)
Broken Promises? On the Continued Challenges Faced in Catalytic Hydrophosphination
S Lau, TM Hood, RL Webster
ACS Catal
(2022)
12
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.2c03144)
Catalytic Hydrophosphination of Allenes Using an Iron(II) β-Diketiminate Complex
RL Webster, CR Woof, TG Linford-Wood, MF Mahon
Synthesis Germany
(2022)
55
(doi: 10.1055/a-1902-5592)
An Iron‐Catalyzed Route to Dewar 1,3,5‐Triphosphabenzene and Subsequent Reactivity
AN Barrett, M Diefenbach, MF Mahon, V Krewald, RL Webster
Angewandte Chemie
(2022)
134
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202208663)
An Iron-Catalyzed Route to Dewar 1,3,5-Triphosphabenzene and Subsequent Reactivity
AN Barrett, M Diefenbach, MF Mahon, V Krewald, RL Webster
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2022)
61
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202208663)
Iron-Catalyzed H/D Exchange of Primary Silanes, Secondary Silanes, and Tertiary Siloxanes.
TG Linford-Wood, MF Mahon, MN Grayson, RL Webster
ACS catalysis
(2022)
12
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.2c00224)
Hydrogen/Halogen Exchange of Phosphines for the Rapid Formation of Cyclopolyphosphines.
AN Barrett, CR Woof, CA Goult, D Gasperini, MF Mahon, RL Webster
Inorganic chemistry
(2021)
60
(doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02734)

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01223 336405

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rw740@cam.ac.uk

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Corpus Christi College
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
Lensfield Road
Cambridge
CB2 1EW
T: +44 (0) 1223 336300
enquiries@ch.cam.ac.uk
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