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

Room Temperature Ni(II) Catalyzed Hydrophosphination and Cyclotrimerization of Alkynes
RL Webster
Inorganics
(2018)
6
Rapid Metal‐Free Formation of Free Phosphines from Phosphine Oxides
CB Provis‐Evans, EAC Emanuelsson, RL Webster
Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
(2018)
360
1,1-Diphosphines and divinylphosphines via base catalyzed hydrophosphination
NT Coles, MF Mahon, RL Webster
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2018)
54
Iron Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling of Amine‐ and Phosphine‐Boranes
NT Coles, RL Webster
Israel Journal of Chemistry
(2017)
57
Markovnikov versus anti‐Markovnikov Hydrophosphination: Divergent Reactivity Using an Iron(II) β‐Diketiminate Pre‐Catalyst
AK King, KJ Gallagher, MF Mahon, RL Webster
Chemistry – A European Journal
(2017)
23
Phosphine- and Amine-Borane Dehydrocoupling Using a Three-Coordinate Iron(II) β-Diketiminate Precatalyst
NT Coles, MF Mahon, RL Webster
Organometallics
(2017)
36
β-Diketiminate complexes of the first row transition metals: applications in catalysis
RL Webster
Dalton Trans
(2017)
46
Iron catalysis for the synthesis of ligands: Exploring the products of hydrophosphination as ligands in cross-coupling
M Espinal-Viguri, MF Mahon, SNG Tyler, RL Webster
Tetrahedron
(2017)
73
Hydrophosphination of Unactivated Alkenes and Alkynes Using Iron(II): Catalysis and Mechanistic Insight
M Espinal-Viguri, AK King, JP Lowe, MF Mahon, RL Webster
ACS Catalysis
(2016)
6
Iron-Catalyzed Hydroboration: Unlocking Reactivity through Ligand Modulation
M Espinal-Viguri, CR Woof, RL Webster
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
(2016)
22

Research Group

Research Interest Group

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01223 336405

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