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

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

J Am Chem Soc

(2018)

141

572

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b11553)

Room temperature Ni(II) catalyzed hydrophosphination and cyclotrimerization of alkynes

RL Webster

Inorganics

(2018)

6

120

(doi: 10.3390/inorganics6040120)

Rapid Metal‐Free Formation of Free Phosphines from Phosphine Oxides

CB Provis‐Evans, EAC Emanuelsson, RL Webster

Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis

(2018)

360

3999

(doi: 10.1002/adsc.201800723)

1,1-Diphosphines and divinylphosphines via base catalyzed hydrophosphination

NT Coles, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Chemical Communications

(2018)

54

10443

(doi: 10.1039/C8CC05890C)

Iron Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling of Amine‐ and Phosphine‐Boranes

NT Coles, RL Webster

Isr J Chem

(2017)

57

1070

(doi: 10.1002/ijch.201700018)

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

9039

(doi: 10.1002/chem.201702374)

Phosphine- and Amine-Borane Dehydrocoupling Using a Three-Coordinate Iron(II) β‑Diketiminate Precatalyst

NT Coles, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Organometallics

(2017)

36

2262

(doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00326)

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

64

(doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2016.11.058)