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

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

7892

(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.6b02290)

Iron-Catalyzed Hydroboration: Unlocking Reactivity through Ligand Modulation

M Espinal-Viguri, CR Woof, RL Webster

Chemistry - A European Journal

(2016)

22

11605

(doi: 10.1002/chem.201602818)

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 & 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 – A European Journal

(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

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

(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)

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

SJ Bent, MF Mahon, RL Webster

Dalton Trans

(2015)

44

10253

(doi: 10.1039/c5dt01312g)

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

DJ Gilmour, RL Webster, MR Perry, LL Schafer

Dalton Transactions

(2015)

44

12411

(doi: 10.1039/c5dt01162k)

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 (Cambridge, England)

(2014)

50

10665

(doi: 10.1039/c4cc03344b)