Yr Athro Deborah Kays

2024

• Churchill, O. P., Dase, A., Taylor, L. J., Argent, S. P., Coles, N. T., Walker, G. S. and Kays, D. L. 2024. Synthesis of the bulky phosphanide [P(SiiPr3)2]− and its stabilization of low-coordinate group 12 complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 63(43), pp. 20286-20294. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03134)
• Liu, Y. et al. 2024. Mechanistic investigations of the Fe(ii) mediated synthesis of squaraines. Chemical Science 15(25), pp. 9599-9611. (10.1039/D4SC01286K)

2023

• Geer, A. M., Kays, D. L. and Taylor, L. J. 2023. Homogeneous carbon monoxide homologation. In: Pace, V. ed. Homologation Reactions: Reagents, Applications, and Mechanisms. Wiley, pp. 813-846., (10.1002/9783527830237.ch23)
• Geer, A. M., Navarro, J., Alamán-Valtierra, P., Coles, N. T., Kays, D. L. and Tejel, C. 2023. Homotropic cooperativity in iron-catalyzed alkyne cyclotrimerizations. ACS Catalysis 13(10), pp. 6610–6618. (10.1021/acscatal.3c00764)
• Musa, A. et al. 2023. The anticancer and EGFR-TK/CDK-9 dual inhibitory potentials of new synthetic pyranopyrazole and pyrazolone derivatives: X-ray crystallography, in vitro, and in silico mechanistic investigations. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 41(21), pp. 12411-12425. (10.1080/07391102.2023.2167000)

2022

• Valentine, A. J. et al. 2022. Slow magnetic relaxation in Fe(ii) m-terphenyl complexes. Dalton Transactions 51(47), pp. 18118-18126. (10.1039/D2DT03531F)
• Nolla-Saltiel, R. et al. 2022. Organoruthenium complexes containing hemilabile phosphinodicarboxamide ligands. [Online]. ChemRxiv: (10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-37ncj) Available at: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-37ncj
• Valentine, A. J. et al. 2022. Structural and electronic studies of substituted m-terphenyl group 12 complexes. Organometallics 41(11), pp. 1426-1433. (10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00156)

2021

• Huke, C. D., Taylor, L. J., Argent, S. P. and Kays, D. L. 2021. Catalyst-free hydrophosphinylation of isocyanates and isothiocyanates under low-added-solvent conditions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9(32), pp. 10704–10709. (10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c02907)
• Liu, Y., Taylor, L. J., Argent, S. P., McMaster, J. and Kays, D. L. 2021. Group 11 m-terphenyl complexes featuring metallophilic interactions. Inorganic Chemistry 60(14), pp. 10114-10123. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03623)
• Huke, C. and Kays, D. L. 2021. Hydrofunctionalization reactions of heterocumulenes: Formation of C–X (X = B, N, O, P, S and Si) bonds by homogeneous metal catalysts. In: Perez, P. J. ed. Advances in Organometallic Chemistry., Vol. 75. Elsevier, pp. 1-54., (10.1016/bs.adomc.2021.01.003)
• Valentine, A. J. et al. 2021. Structural and electronic studies of substituted m-terphenyl lithium complexes. Dalton Transactions 50(2), pp. 722-728. (10.1039/D0DT03972A)

2020

• Nolla-Saltiel, R. et al. 2020. Hydrophosphination of activated alkenes by a cobalt(I) pincer complex. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis 362(15), pp. 3148-3157. (10.1002/adsc.202000514)
• Blundell, T. J., Taylor, L. J., Valentine, A. J., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J., McMaster, J. and Kays, D. L. 2020. A transition metal-gallium cluster formed: via insertion of "gaI". Chemical Communications 56(58), pp. 8139-8142. (10.1039/D0CC03559A)
• Mangham, B. et al. 2020. Influence of molecular design on radical spin multiplicity: characterisation of BODIPY dyad and triad radical anions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 22(8), pp. 4429-4438. (10.1039/C9CP06427C)
• Hassanain, H., Davies, E. S., Lewis, W., Kays, D. L. and Champness, N. R. 2020. Morpholino-substituted BODIPY species: synthesis, structure and electrochemical studies. Crystals 10(1), article number: 36. (10.3390/cryst10010036)

2019

• South, A. J., Geer, A. M., Taylor, L. J., Sharpe, H. R., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2019. Iron(II)-catalyzed hydroamination of isocyanates. Organometallics 38(21), pp. 4115–4120. (10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00393)
• Taylor, L. J. and Kays, D. L. 2019. Low-coordinate first-row transition metal complexes in catalysis and small molecule activation. Dalton Transactions 48(33), pp. 12365-12381. (10.1039/C9DT02402F)
• Hassanain, H., Davies, E. S., Lewis, W., Kays, D. L. and Champness, N. R. 2019. Structural characterization and optical properties of two copper(i)-iodide BODIPY coordination polymers. CrystEngComm 21(31), pp. 4551-4556. (10.1039/C9CE00845D)
• Ried, A. C. A., Taylor, L. J., Geer, A. M., Williams, H. E. L., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2019. A highly active bidentate magnesium catalyst for amine‐borane dehydrocoupling: kinetic and mechanistic studies. Chemistry - A European Journal 25(27), pp. 6840-6846. (10.1002/chem.201901197)

2018

• Sharpe, H. R. et al. 2018. Selective reduction and homologation of carbon monoxide by organometallic iron complexes. Nature Communications 9(1), article number: 3757. (10.1038/s41467-018-06242-w)
• Nolla-Saltiel, R., Geer, A. M., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2018. Dehydrogenation of dimethylamine-borane mediated by group 1 pincer complexes. Chemical Communications 54(15), pp. 1825-1828. (10.1039/C7CC08385H)
• Sharpe, H. R. et al. 2018. Dehydrocoupling of dimethylamine-borane promoted by manganese(II): m-terphenyl complexes. Catalysis Science & Technology 8(1), pp. 229-235. (10.1039/C7CY02086D)

2017

• Sharpe, H. R., Geer, A. M., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2017. Iron(II)‐catalyzed hydrophosphination of isocyanates. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 56(17), pp. 4845-4848. (10.1002/anie.201701051)
• Birchall, C., Moxey, G. J., McMaster, J., Blake, A. J., Lewis, W. and Kays, D. L. 2017. A monomeric, heterobimetallic complex with an unsupported Mg–Fe bond. Inorganica Chimica Acta 458, pp. 97-100. (10.1016/j.ica.2016.12.029)
• Bradley, M. A., Birchall, C., Blake, A. J., Lewis, W., Moxey, G. J. and Kays, D. L. 2017. 1,8-Bis(silylamido)naphthalene complexes of magnesium and zinc synthesised through alkane elimination reactions. Dalton Transactions 46(12), pp. 4101-4110. (10.1039/C7DT00471K)
• Sharpe, H. R., Geer, A. M., Williams, H. E. L., Blundell, T. J., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2017. Cyclotrimerisation of isocyanates catalysed by low-coordinate Mn(ii) and Fe(ii) m-terphenyl complexes. Chemical Communications 53(5), pp. 937-940. (10.1039/C6CC07243G)

2015

• Moxey, G. J., Blake, A. J., Lewis, W. and Kays, D. L. 2015. Alkaline earth complexes of a sterically demanding guanidinate ligand. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2015(36), pp. 5892-5902. (10.1002/ejic.201501239)
• Kays, D. L. 2015. Extremely bulky amide ligands in main group chemistry. Chemical Society Reviews 45(4), pp. 1004-1018. (10.1039/C5CS00513B)
• Ortu, F., Moxey, G. J., Blake, A. J., Lewis, W. and Kays, D. L. 2015. Tuning coordination in s-block carbazol-9-Yl complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal 21(18), pp. 6949-6956. (10.1002/chem.201406490)

2014

• Blundell, T. J., Hastings, F. R., Gridley, B. M., Moxey, G. J., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2014. Ligand influences on homoleptic group 12 m-terphenyl complexes. Dalton Transactions 43(38), pp. 14257-14264. (10.1039/C4DT00647J)
• Moxey, G. J., Ortu, F., Sidley, L. G., Strandberg, H. N., Blake, A. J., Lewis, W. and Kays, D. L. 2014. Synthesis and characterisation of magnesium complexes containing sterically demanding N,N′-bis(aryl)amidinate ligands. Dalton Transactions 43(12), pp. 4838-4846. (10.1039/C3DT53234H)

2013

• Ortu, F., Moxey, G. J., Blake, A. J., Lewis, W. and Kays, D. L. 2013. Alkaline earth complexes of silylated aminopyridinato ligands: homoleptic compounds and heterobimetallic coordination polymers. Inorganic Chemistry 52(21), pp. 12429-12439. (10.1021/ic4012923)
• Gridley, B. M., Blundell, T. J., Moxey, G. J., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2013. Cubane and dicubane complexes stabilised by sterically demanding m-terphenyl ligands. Chemical Communications 49(84), pp. 9752-9754. (10.1039/C3CC46384B)
• Gridley, B. M., Moxey, G. J., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2013. Conformational isomerism in monomeric, low-coordinate group 12 complexes stabilized by a naphthyl-substituted m-terphenyl ligand. Chemistry - A European Journal 19(34), pp. 11446-11453. (10.1002/chem.201301872)
• Moorhouse, R. S., Moxey, G. J., Ortu, F., Reade, T. J., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2013. Structural diversity in alkali metal complexes of sterically demanding carbazol-9-yl ligands. Inorganic Chemistry 52(5), pp. 2678–2683. (10.1021/ic302727w)

2012

• Gridley, B. M., Blake, A. J., Davis, A. L., Lewis, W., Moxey, G. J. and Kays, D. L. 2012. Low-coordinate cobalt(ii) terphenyl complexes: precursors to sterically encumbered ketone. Chemical Communications 48(71), pp. 8910-8912. (10.1039/C2CC34525K)
• Richards, V. J. et al. 2012. Synthesis and characterisation of BODIPY radical anions. Chemical Communications 48(12), pp. 1751-1753. (10.1039/C2CC16047A)

2011

• Blake, A. J., Gower, A. L., Lewis, W., Moxey, G. J., Reade, T. J. and Kays, D. L. 2011. Synthesis and characterisation of complexes of the 2,6-diphenoxyphenyl ligand. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 696(9), pp. 1787-1791. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2010.12.023)
• Aldridge, S., Downs, A. J. and Kays, D. L. 2011. Formal oxidation state +3: Organometallic chemistry. In: Aldridge, S. and Downs, A. J. eds. The Group 13 Metals Aluminium, Gallium, Indium and Thallium: Chemical Patterns and Peculiarities. Wiley, pp. 148-245., (10.1002/9780470976548.ch3)
• Blake, A. J., Lewis, W., McMaster, J., Moorhouse, R. S., Moxey, G. J. and Kays, D. L. 2011. Amido analogues of zincocenes and cadmocenes. Dalton Transactions 40(8), pp. 1641-1645. (10.1039/C0DT01710H)
• Kays, D. L. 2011. Recent developments in transition metal diaryl chemistry. Dalton Transactions 40(4), pp. 769-778. (10.1039/C0DT01247E)

2010

• Blake, A., Harris, N., Kays, D., Lewis, W. and Moxey, G. 2010. Bis[μ3-1,8-bis-(triisopropyl-silyl-amido)-naphthalene] -bis-(tetra-hydro-furan)di-μ3-oxido-dimanganese(III)disodium. Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications 66(8), pp. m204-m206. (10.1107/s010827011002442x)
• Kays, D. L. 2010. The stabilisation of organometallic complexes using m-terphenyl ligands. In: Fairlamb, I. J. S. and Lynam, J. M. eds. Organometallic Chemistry., Vol. 36. Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 56-76., (10.1039/9781847559616-00056)
• Vidovic, D., Pierce, G. A., Coombs, N. D., Kays, D. L., Thompson, A. L., Stasch, A. and Aldridge, S. 2010. Synthesis and structural characterization of terminal (diisopropylamino) borylene complexes of group 8 metals. Main Group Chemistry 9(1-2), pp. 57-65. (10.3233/mgc-2010-0005)

2009

• Blake, A. J., Gillibrand, N. L., Moxey, G. J. and Kays, D. L. 2009. Differing coordination environments in transition metal derivatives of 1,8-bis(silylamido)naphthalene ligands. Inorganic Chemistry 48(22), pp. 10837-10844. (10.1021/ic901745v)
• Ashley, A. E., Cowley, A. R., Green, J. C., Johnston, D. R., Watkin, D. J. and Kays, D. L. 2009. Synthesis and characterisation of low-coordinate transition-metal complexes stabilised by sterically demanding carbazolido ligands. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry(17), pp. 2547-2552. (10.1002/ejic.200900170)
• Kays, D. and Aldridge, S. 2009. Bridging the gap between coordination and cluster compounds: unusual bonding modes for zinc. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 48(23), pp. 4109-4111. (10.1002/anie.200900491)
• Pierce, G. A. et al. 2009. Half-sandwich group 8 borylene complexes: synthetic and structural studies and oxygen atom abstraction chemistry. Organometallics 28(10), pp. 2947-2960. (10.1021/om801215b)
• De, S., Pierce, G. A., Vidovic, D., Kays, D. L., Coombs, N. D., Jemmis, E. D. and Aldridge, S. 2009. Reactivity of cationic terminal borylene complexes: novel mechanisms for insertion and metathesis chemistry involving strongly Lewis acidic ligand systems. Organometallics 28(10), pp. 2961-2975. (10.1021/om801214f)
• Zhou, B., Denning, M. S., Kays, D. L. and Goicoechea, J. M. 2009. Synthesis and isolation of [Fe@Ge10]3-: a pentagonal prismatic zintl ion cage encapsulating an interstitial iron atom. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(8), pp. 2802-2803. (10.1021/ja900055j)

2007

• Kays, D. L. and Cowley, A. R. 2007. Monomeric, two-coordinate Mn, Fe and Co(II) complexes featuring 2,6-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)phenyl ligands. Chemical Communications(10), pp. 1053-1055. (10.1039/B616584B)

2006

• Buttler, O., Al-Fawaz, A., Kays, D. L., Day, J. K., Ooi, L. and Aldridge, S. 2006. Halide abstraction by Na[B{C6H3(CF3) 2-3,5}4]: synthesis and structural characterization of the rhodium(I) cations [(η6-arene)Rh(PPh3) 2]+ (arene = benzene, toluene). Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie 632(14), pp. 2187-2189. (10.1002/zaac.200600165)
• Aldridge, S., Jones, C., Gans-Eichler, T., Stasch, A., Kays, D. L., Coombs, N. D. and Willock, D. J. 2006. Cationic terminal borylene complexes: structure/bonding analysis and [4+1] cycloaddition reactivity of a BN vinylidene analogue. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 45(37), pp. 6118-6122. (10.1002/anie.200602162)
• Coombs, N. D., Bunn, N. R., Kays, D. L., Day, J. K., Ooi, L. and Aldridge, S. 2006. Substitution, abstraction and addition chemistry of low-coordinate gallium and indium ligand systems. Inorganica Chimica Acta 359(11), pp. 3693-3698. (10.1016/j.ica.2006.01.021)
• Kays, D. L., Day, J. K., Aldridge, S., Harrington, R. W. and Clegg, W. 2006. Cationic terminal borylene complexes: Interconversion of amino and alkoxy borylenes by an unprecedented Meerwein-Ponndorf hydride transfer. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 45(21), pp. 3513-3516. (10.1002/anie.200600714)
• Aldridge, S. et al. 2006. Migratory insertion of [B(C6F5)2] into C-H bonds: CO promoted transfer of the boryl fragment. Chemical Communications(24), pp. 2578-2580. (10.1039/B604141H)
• Aldridge, S. and Kays, D. L. 2006. Chemistry of metal-boron double bonds. Main Group Chemistry 5(4), pp. 223-249. (10.1080/10241220701635411)

2005

• Kays, D. L., Day, J. K., Ooi, L. and Aldridge, S. 2005. Cationic terminal borylene complexes: a synthetic and mechanistic investigation of m=b metathesis chemistry. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 44(45), pp. 7457-7460. (10.1002/anie.200502343)
• Kays, D. L., Rossin, A., Day, J. K., Ooi, L. and Aldridge, S. 2005. Synthetic and reaction chemistry of heteroatom stabilized boryl and cationic borylene complexes. Dalton Transactions(2), pp. 399-410. (10.1039/B512275A)
• Bunn, N. R. et al. 2005. Halide abstraction as a route to cationic transition-metal complexes containing two-coordinate gallium and indium ligand systems. Organometallics 24(24), pp. 5891-5900. (10.1021/om0506318)
• Bunn, N. R. et al. 2005. Toward cationic gallane- and indanediyl complexes: synthetic approaches to three-coordinate halogallyl and -indyl precursors. Organometallics 24(24), pp. 5879–5890. (10.1021/om050630f)
• Coombs, N. D., Aldridge, S., Wiltshire, G., Kays, D. L., Bresner, C. and Ooi, L. 2005. Complementary anion binding by bidentate boron-containing Lewis acids. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 690(11), pp. 2725-2731. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2005.01.015)

2004

• Al-Fawaz, A. et al. 2004. Reactivity of the bis(pentafluorophenyl)boranes ClB(C6F5)2 and [HB(C6F5)2]n towards late transition metal reagents. Dalton Transactions(23), pp. 4030-4037. (10.1039/b414940h)
• Aldridge, S., Rossin, A., Coombs, D. L. and Willock, D. J. 2004. Carbonyl analogues? Analysis of Fe-E (E = B, Al, Ga) bonding in cationic terminal diyl complexes by density functional theory. Dalton Transactions(17), pp. 2649-2654. (10.1039/B405027D)
• Bunn, N. R., Aldridge, S., Coombs, D. L., Rossin, A., Willock, D. J., Jones, C. and Ooi, L. 2004. Fe-Ga multiple bonding? Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural characterization of a transition metal complex containing a cationic two-coordinate gallium centre. Chemical Communications(15), pp. 1732-1733. (10.1039/B405943C)
• Coombs, D. L., Aldridge, S., Rossin, A., Jones, C. and Willock, D. J. 2004. Fe=B double bonds: Synthetic, structural, and reaction chemistry of cationic terminal borylene complexes. Organometallics 23(12), pp. 2911-2926. (10.1021/om049793e)
• Aldridge, S. and Coombs, D. L. 2004. Transition metal boryl and borylene complexes: substitution and abstraction chemistry. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 248(7-8), pp. 535-559. (10.1016/j.ccr.2003.12.003)

2003

• Coombs, D., Aldridge, S., Coles, S. J. and Hursthouse, M. B. 2003. Influence of ligand steric bulk in the synthesis of transition-metal borylene complexes. Organometallics 22(21), pp. 4213-4217. (10.1021/om030489f)
• Aldridge, S., Coombs, D. and Jones, C. 2003. trans-Bromohydridobis(triphenylphosphine)platinum toluene hemisolvate. Acta Crystallographica Section E - Structure Reports Online 59(8), pp. m584-m585. (10.1107/S1600536803014995)
• Coombs, D. L., Aldridge, S. and Jones, C. 2003. Substitution chemistry of sterically demanding boryl ligands. Applied Organometallic Chemistry 17(6-7), pp. 356-360. (10.1002/aoc.426)
• Coombs, D. L., Aldridge, S., Jones, C. and Willock, D. J. 2003. Cationic terminal borylenes by halide abstraction: Synthesis and spectroscopic and structural characterization of an FeB double bond. Journal of the American Chemical Society 125(21), pp. 6356-6357. (10.1021/ja0346936)

2002

• Coombs, D., Aldridge, S. and Jones, C. 2002. Synthetic, structural and reaction chemistry of transition metal complexes containing the mesitylborylene ligand. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions(20), pp. 3851-3858. (10.1039/b206348b)
• Aldridge, S., Calder, R. J., Coombs, D. L., Jones, C., Steed, J. W., Coles, S. and Hursthouse, M. B. 2002. Intramolecular base-stabilised adducts of main group halides. New Journal of Chemistry 26(6), pp. 677-686. (10.1039/b110692a)
• Aldridge, S., Coombs, D. L. and Jones, C. 2002. [(n5-C5H5)Fe(CO)2]2B(2,4,6-Me3C6H2): synthesis, spectroscopic and structural characterization of a transition metal complex containing an unsupported bridging borylene ligand. Chemical Communications(8), pp. 856-857. (10.1039/b201415g)