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

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

Chemical Communications

(2014)

50

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)

69

5737

(doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2013.04.070)

Titanium pyridonates and amidates: Novel catalysts for the synthesis of random copolymers

RL Webster, N Noroozi, SG Hatzikiriakos, JA Thomson, LL Schafer

Chem Commun (Camb)

(2012)

49

57

(doi: 10.1039/c2cc37201k)

Mild CH Halogenation of Anilides and the Isolation of an Unusual Palladium(I)–Palladium(II) Species

RB Bedford, MF Haddow, CJ Mitchell, RL Webster

Angewandte Chemie

(2011)

123

5638

(doi: 10.1002/ange.201101606)

Mild C - H halogenation of anilides and the isolation of an unusual palladium(I)-palladium(II) species

RB Bedford, MF Haddow, CJ Mitchell, RL Webster

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)

(2011)

50

5524

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201101606)

Solvent-free aromatic C-H functionalisation/halogenation reactions.

RB Bedford, JU Engelhart, MF Haddow, CJ Mitchell, RL Webster

Dalton Transactions

(2010)

39

10464

(doi: 10.1039/c0dt00385a)

Solvent free catalytic C–H functionalisation

RB Bedford, CJ Mitchell, RL Webster

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

(2010)

46

3095

(doi: 10.1039/c003074k)

Palladium-catalysed ortho-arylation of carbamate-protected phenols.

RB Bedford, RL Webster, CJ Mitchell

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

(2009)

7

4853

(doi: 10.1039/b916724m)

The catalytic ortho - arylation of tyrosine

RB Bedford, MF Haddow, RL Webster, CJ Mitchell

Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

(2009)

7

3119

(doi: 10.1039/b906119c)