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
Anal Chem
(2020)
92
Hydrophosphination using [GeCl{N(SiMe3)2}3] as a pre-catalyst
AN Barrett, HJ Sanderson, MF Mahon, RL Webster
Chem Commun (Camb)
(2020)
56
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
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
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

Research Group

Research Interest Group

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01223 336405

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