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

A Study of Two Highly Active, Air‐Stable Iron(III)‐μ‐Oxo Precatalysts: Synthetic Scope of Hydrophosphination using Phenyl‐ and Diphenylphosphine

KJ Gallagher, M Espinal‐Viguri, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

(2016)

358

2460

(doi: 10.1002/adsc.201501179)

Facile, Catalytic Dehydrocoupling of Phosphines Using β-Diketiminate Iron(II) Complexes.

AK King, A Buchard, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

(2015)

21

15960

(doi: 10.1002/chem.201503399)

Facile hydrolysis and alcoholysis of palladium acetate.

RB Bedford, JG Bowen, RB Davidson, MF Haddow, AE Seymour-Julen, HA Sparkes, RL Webster

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)

(2015)

54

6591

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201500620)

Iron catalysed Negishi cross-coupling using simple ethyl-monophosphines.

CA Brown, TA Nile, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Dalton Trans

(2015)

44

12189

(doi: 10.1039/c5dt00112a)

Titanium pyridonates for the homo- and copolymerization of rac-lactide and ε-caprolactone

DJ Gilmour, RL Webster, MR Perry, LL Schafer

Dalton Trans

(2015)

44

12411

(doi: 10.1039/c5dt01162k)

Copper malonamide complexes and their use in azide-alkyne cycloaddition reactions

SJ Bent, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Dalton Transactions

(2015)

44

10253

(doi: 10.1039/c5dt01312g)

A mild, copper-catalysed amide deprotection strategy: use of tert-butyl as a protecting group

V Evans, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Tetrahedron

(2014)

70

7593

(doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2014.07.080)

Sterically hindered malonamide monomers for the step growth synthesis of polyesters and polyamides

SNG Tyler, RL Webster

Chemical Communications

(2014)

50

10665

(doi: 10.1039/c4cc03344b)

Random copolymerisations catalysed by simple titanium α-amino acid complexes

RL Webster

Rsc Advances

(2014)

4

5254

(doi: 10.1039/c3ra45810e)

Room temperature hydrophosphination using a simple iron salen pre-catalyst.

KJ Gallagher, RL Webster

Chem. Commun.

(2014)

50

12109

(doi: 10.1039/c4cc06526c)