Dr Ruth Webster | Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

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

Iron Catalyzed Double Bond Isomerization: Evidence for an Fe^I /Fe^III Catalytic Cycle.

CR Woof, DJ Durand, N Fey, E Richards, RL Webster

Chemistry A European Journal

(2021)

27

5972

(doi: 10.1002/chem.202004980)

Amine–Boranes as Transfer Hydrogenation and Hydrogenation Reagents: A Mechanistic Perspective

S Lau, D Gasperini, RL Webster

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

(2021)

60

14272

(doi: 10.1002/anie.202010835)

Heterobimetallic Complexes of 1,1-Diphosphineamide Ligands

NT Coles, D Gasperini, CB Provis-Evans, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Organometallics

(2021)

40

148

(doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00662)

Room temperature iron catalyzed transfer hydrogenation usingn-butanol and poly(methylhydrosiloxane)

TG Linford-Wood, NT Coles, RL Webster

Green Chemistry

(2021)

23

2703

(doi: 10.1039/d0gc04175k)

Correction: Room temperature iron catalyzed transfer hydrogenation using n-butanol and poly(methylhydrosiloxane)

TG Linford-Wood, NT Coles, RL Webster

Green Chemistry

(2021)

23

3750

(doi: 10.1039/d1gc90042k)

Regioselective Alkyne Cyclotrimerization with an In Situ-Generated [Fe(II)H(salen)]·Bpin Catalyst

CB Provis-Evans, S Lau, V Krewald, RL Webster

ACS Catalysis

(2020)

10

10157

(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.0c03068)

Seeking Heteroatom-Rich Compounds: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies into Iron Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling of Silanes

D Gasperini, AK King, NT Coles, MF Mahon, RL Webster

ACS Catalysis

(2020)

10

6102

(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01440)

Highly Sensitive Real-Time Isotopic Quantification of Water by ATR-FTIR.

CB Provis-Evans, EHE Farrar, MN Grayson, RL Webster, AK Hill

Analytical Chemistry

(2020)

92

7500

(doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05635)

Hydrophosphination using [GeCl{N(SiMe3)2}3] as a pre-catalyst.

AN Barrett, HJ Sanderson, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Chemical Communications

(2020)

56

13623

(doi: 10.1039/d0cc05792d)

Room Temperature Iron-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation and Regioselective Deuteration of Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds

M Espinal-Viguri, SE Neale, NT Coles, SA Macgregor, RL Webster

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2018)

141

572

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b11553)