Dr Ruth Webster

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

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

SNG Tyler, RL Webster

Chem. Commun.

(2014)

10665

(doi: 10.1039/c4cc03344b)

Random copolymerisations catalysed by simple titanium α-amino acid complexes

RL Webster

Rsc Advances

(2014)

5254

(doi: 10.1039/c3ra45810e)

Room temperature hydrophosphination using a simple iron salen pre-catalyst

KJ Gallagher, RL Webster

Chemical Communications

(2014)

12109

(doi: 10.1039/c4cc06526c)

Easily assembled, modular N,O-chelating ligands for Ta(V) complexation: A comparative study of ligand effects in hydroaminoalkylation with N-methylaniline and 4-methoxy-N-methylaniline

P Garcia, PR Payne, E Chong, RL Webster, BJ Barron, AC Behrle, JAR Schmidt, LL Schafer

Tetrahedron

(2013)

5737

(doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2013.04.070)