Dr Benjamin Ward

2026

• Elliott, M. C. et al. 2026. Exploring the interface of hyperconjugation and polarizability─enhancing pedagogies for charge stabilization in organic chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education (10.1021/acs.jchemed.6c00708)
• Kopp, R. O. et al., 2026. Janus-faced coordination chemistry of pyridyl-functionalized phosphinines with Cu(i) and Au(i). Dalton Transactions 55 (15), pp.5908-5919. (10.1039/d6dt00083e)
• Allison, T. et al. 2026. Degradation of cellulose-based wet wipes marketed as ‘biodegradable’ in their receiving urban rivers. Environmental Pollution 388 127376. (10.1016/j.envpol.2025.127376)

2025

• Allison, T. et al. 2025. Cellulose-based wet wipes undergo limited degradation in river environments. Environmental Pollution 384 126971. (10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126971)
• Masud, N. et al. 2025. Assessing the solubility, chemical stability and ecotoxicology of an emerging non-halogenated flame retardant, melamine cyanurate, against a prevalent halogenated congener, tetrabromophthalic anhydride. Aquatic Toxicology 287 107537. (10.1016/j.aquatox.2025.107537)
• Bharti, S. K. et al., 2025. Structural and chemical investigation of a tridentate fluorescein hydrazone (LH3), a selective Cu2+ and Hg2+ chelator: detection of CN− and HSO4− by its Cu2+ complexes and effect on HeLa cell division. New Journal of Chemistry 49 (33), pp.14219-14230. (10.1039/d5nj01491c)
• Wakchaure, V. C. et al., 2025. Escape from flatland: Stereoselective synthesis of hexa‐aryl borazines and their sp²‐based 3D architectures. Angewandte Chemie 137 (29) e202416700. (10.1002/ange.202416700)
• Elliott, M. C. et al. 2025. Is there a trend in inductive effect for different alkyl groups?. RSC Advances 15 (27), pp.21780-21784. (10.1039/d5ra03716f)
• Tarring, E. C. et al. 2025. Toxicity of the water-soluble polymer PVP is dependent on molecular weight and feed concentration for a freshwater model species. Science of the Total Environment 983 179686. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179686)
• Ahmed, Y. et al. 2025. In situ polymerization of barium hexaferrite ferrofluids for poly(ethylene) succinate magnetic nanoparticle composites. Journal of Applied Polymer Science 142 (23) e56984. (10.1002/app.56984)
• Wakchaure, V. C. et al., 2025. Expression of hyperconjugative stereoelectronic interactions in borazines. Chemical Communications 61 (6), pp.1200-1203. (10.1039/D4CC05188B)
• Elliott, M. C. et al. 2025. Alkyl groups in organic molecules are NOT inductively electron-releasing. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 23 (2), pp.352-359. (10.1039/D4OB01572J)
• Allison, T. et al. 2025. Predicting flushed wet wipe emissions into rivers. Water Research 268 (Part B) 122733. (10.1016/j.watres.2024.122733)
• Cheung, S. J. et al. 2025. Assessing the chemical interactions and biological effects of a petrochemical and bio-based plastic with a common plastic flame retardant and solvent. Science of the Total Environment 958 177958. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177958)

2024

• Vladimirov, V. Y. et al. 2024. Ringing the changes: Effects of heterocyclic ring size on stereoselectivity in [(η5-C5Me5)RhCl], [(η5-C5Me5)IrCl] and [Ru(η6-cymene)Cl] complexes of chiral 3-Amino-1-Azacycles. Molecules 29 (19) 4659. (10.3390/molecules29194659)
• Tarring, E. et al. 2024. Detection of polyvinylpyrrolidone in Daphnia magna: Development of a refractive index quantification method for water-soluble polymers in aquatic organisms. Science of the Total Environment 935 173428. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173428)
• Ayuso-Carrillo, J. et al., 2024. One-step catalyst-transfer macrocyclization: expanding the chemical space of azaparacyclophanes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (24), pp.16440-16457. (10.1021/jacs.4c02319)
• Stewart, J. A. et al., 2024. Zinc {ONO} complexes for the chemical recycling of PET and PLA. Catalysis Today 445 115037. (10.1016/j.cattod.2024.115037)
• Robison-Smith, C. et al. 2024. A class of their own? Water-soluble polymer pollution impacting a freshwater host-pathogen system. Science of the Total Environment 907 168086. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168086)
• Tarring, E. C. et al. 2024. Water-soluble polymers: emerging contaminants detected, separated and quantified by a novel Gpc/Maldi-Tof method. Environmental Pollution 340 (1) 122888. (10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122888)

2023

• MacAulay, S. et al. 2023. The impacts of synthetic and cellulose-based fibres and their associated dyes on fish hosts and parasite health. Environmental Science and Pollution Research (10.1007/s11356-023-30794-0)
• Allison, T. et al. 2023. Do flushed biodegradable wet wipes really degrade?. Science of the Total Environment 894 164912. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164912)
• Young, T. B. et al. 2023. Chemically recyclable fluorescent polyesters via the ring-opening copolymerization of epoxides and anhydrides. Polymer Chemistry (10.1039/D3PY00209H)

2022

• Fitzgerald, S. A. et al. 2022. Organometallic platinum(ii) photosensitisers that demonstrate ligand‐modulated triplet‐triplet annihilation energy upconversion efficiencies. Chemistry - A European Journal e202203241. (10.1002/chem.202203241)
• Ward, B. D. , Guppy, O. G. and Shaw, M. S. 2022. Alkyl, carbonyl and cyanide complexes of the group 4 metals. In: Parkin, G. , Meyer, K. and O'hare, D. eds. Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV (Fourth Edition). Elsevier. , pp.85-162. (10.1016/B978-0-12-820206-7.00011-1)
• Shaw, M. S. et al. 2022. Metallocene catalysts for the ring-opening co-polymerisation of epoxides and cyclic anhydrides. Polymer Chemistry 13 (22), pp.3315-3324. (10.1039/D2PY00335J)
• Stewart, J. et al., 2022. Simple Zn(ii) complexes for the production and degradation of polyesters. RSC Advances 12 (3), pp.1416-1424. (10.1039/D1RA09087A)

2021

• Kaler, S. et al., 2021. Aluminium(iii) and zinc(ii) complexes of azobenzene-containing ligands for ring-opening polymerisation of ε-caprolactone and rac-lactide. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 8 (3), pp.711-719. (10.1039/D0QI01303J)

2020

• Dosso, J. et al. 2020. Boron-nitrogen-doped nanographenes: a synthetic tale from borazine precursors. Chemistry - A European Journal 26 (29), pp.6608-6621. (10.1002/chem.201905794)

2019

• Stewart, J. A. et al. 2019. Tuning the thiolen: Al(III) and Fe(III) thiolen complexes for the isoselective ROP of rac-Lactide. Macromolecules 52 (15), pp.5977-5984. (10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01205)
• Bahili, M. A. et al. 2019. Aluminium-catalysed isocyanate trimerization, enhanced by exploiting a dynamic coordination sphere. Chemical Communications 55 (53), pp.7679-7682. (10.1039/C9CC03339D)
• Groves, L. M. et al. 2019. Fluorescent functionalised naphthalimides and their Au(i)–NHC complexes for potential use in cellular bioimaging. Dalton Transactions 48 (5), pp.1599-1612. (10.1039/C8DT04069A)

2018

• Groves, L. M. et al. 2018. Synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent aminophosphines and their coordination to gold(i). Dalton Transactions 47 (28), pp.9324-9333. (10.1039/C8DT02256A)
• Langdon-Jones, E. E. , Ward, B. and Pope, S. 2018. Synthesis and luminescence properties of cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes incorporating conjugated benzotriazole units. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 861 , pp.234-243. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2018.02.019)

2017

• Gaur, R. et al., 2017. Synthesis, structures, nuclease activity, cytotoxicity, DFT and molecular docking studies of two nitrato bridged homodinuclear (Cu-Cu, Zn-Zn) complexes containing 2,2?-bipyridine and a chalcone derivative. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 173 , pp.650-660. (10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2017.07.005)

2016

• Amoroso, A. J. et al. 2016. Shaping and enforcing coordination spheres: probing the ability of tripodal ligands to favour trigonal prismatic geometry. Dalton Transactions 45 (26), pp.10630-10642. (10.1039/C6DT01165A)
• Stacey, O. J. et al., 2016. Chromophore-labelled, luminescent platinum complexes: syntheses, structures, and spectroscopic properties. Dalton Transactions 45 , pp.10297-10307. (10.1039/C6DT01335J)
• Bennett, S. D. et al., 2016. Scandium complexes bearing bis(oxazolinylphenyl)amide ligands: an analysis of their reactivity, solution-state structures and photophysical properties. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2016 (18), pp.2932-2941. (10.1002/ejic.201600223)
• Stacey, O. J. et al., 2016. Near-IR luminescent lanthanide complexes with 1,8-diaminoanthraquinone-based chromophoric ligands. Dalton Transactions 45 (15), pp.6674-6681. (10.1039/C5DT04351D)
• Hallett, A. J. et al., 2016. Copper(II) complexes of pyridine-oxazoline (Pyox) ligands: coordination chemistry, ligand stability, and catalysis. Inorganica Chimica Acta 441 , pp.86-94. (10.1016/j.ica.2015.10.032)

2014

• Bennett, S. D. et al. 2014. Chiral lanthanide complexes: coordination chemistry, spectroscopy, and catalysis. Dalton Transactions 43 (15), pp.5871-5885. (10.1039/c4dt00114a)

2013

• Kumari, N. et al., 2013. Reactivity of tetrabutylammonium iodide with a heteronuclear 6Copper(II)-4Na(I) complex: selective recognition of iodide ion. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 52 (43), pp.15007-15014. (10.1021/ie401373m)
• Almalioti, F. et al. 2013. Convenient syntheses of cyanuric chloride-derived NHC ligands, their Ag(i) and Au(i) complexes and antimicrobial activity. Dalton Transactions 42 (34), pp.12370-12380. (10.1039/c3dt51400e)
• Bennett, S. D. , Pope, S. J. A. and Ward, B. D. 2013. Near-IR luminescent neodymium complexes: spectroscopic probes for hydroamination catalysis. Chemical Communications 49 (54), pp.6072-6074. (10.1039/c3cc42923g)
• Carter, E. et al. 2013. Structure, EPR/ENDOR and DFT characterisation of a [CuII(en)2](OTf)2 complex. Dalton Transactions 42 (42), pp.15088-15096. (10.1039/c3dt51694f)
• Langdon-Jones, E. E. et al. 2013. Using substituted cyclometalated quinoxaline ligands to finely tune the luminescence properties of iridium(III) complexes. Inorganic Chemistr 52 (1), pp.448-456. (10.1021/ic301853t)

2012

• Kumari, N. et al., 2012. Reactivity of nitrilotriacetic acid with polypyridyl protected as well as naked copper(II) nitrate. Polyhedron 33 (1), pp.425-434. (10.1016/j.poly.2011.12.009)
• Nixon, T. D. and Ward, B. D. 2012. Calcium amido-bisoxazoline complexes in asymmetric hydroamination/cyclisation catalysis. Chemical Communications 48 (96), pp.11790-11792. (10.1039/c2cc37021b)
• Owen, M. E. et al. 2012. Influence of counterions on the structure of bis(oxazoline) copper(II) complexes; an EPR and ENDOR investigation. Dalton Transactions 41 (36), pp.11085-11092. (10.1039/C2DT31273E)
• Ward, B. D. and Gade, L. H. 2012. Rare earth metal oxazoline complexes in asymmetric catalysis. Chemical Communications 48 (86), pp.10587-10599. (10.1039/c2cc34997c)

2011

• Yasar, S. et al., 2011. Novel quasi-scorpionate ligand structures based on a bis-N-heterocyclic carbene chelate core: synthesis, complexation and catalysis. Applied Organometallic Chemistry 25 (5), pp.374-382. (10.1002/aoc.1773)
• McDyre, L. et al. 2011. Intramolecular formation of a CrI(bis-arene) species via TEA activation of [Cr(CO)4(Ph2P(C3H6)PPh2)]+: sn EPR and DFT investigation. Organometallics 30 (17), pp.4505-4508. (10.1021/om2006062)
• Hallett, A. J. et al. 2011. The co-ordination chemistry of tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl) methane manganese carbonyl complexes: Synthetic, electrochemical and DFT studies. Dalton Transactions 40 (36), pp.9276-9283. (10.1039/C1DT10828J)
• Jones, J. E. et al. 2011. Bimodal, dimetallic lanthanide complexes that bind to DNA: the nature of binding and its influence on water relaxivity. Chemical Communications 47 (12), pp.3374-3376. (10.1039/C1CC00111F)
• Jones, J. E. et al. 2011. Amino-anthraquinone chromophores functionalised with 3-picolyl units: structures, luminescence, DFT and their coordination chemistry with cationic Re(I) di-imine complexes. Dalton Transactions 40 (14), pp.3498-3509. (10.1039/C0DT01383H)
• Wixey, J. S. and Ward, B. D. 2011. Chiral calcium catalysts for asymmetric hydroamination/cyclisation. Chemical Communications 47 (19), pp.5449-5451. (10.1039/C1CC11229E)
• Wixey, J. S. and Ward, B. D. 2011. Modular ligand variation in calcium bisimidazoline complexes: effects on ligand redistribution and hydroamination catalysis. Dalton Transactions 40 (30), pp.7693-7696. (10.1039/C1DT10732A)

2010

• Hallett, A. J. et al. 2010. Neutral and cationic cyclometallated Ir(III) complexes of anthra[1,2-d]-imidazole-6,11-dione-derived ligands: Syntheses, structures and spectroscopic characterisation. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 695 (22), pp.2401-2409. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2010.07.017)
• Knight, J. C. et al. 2010. A facile one-pot synthesis of a new cryptand via a Pd(II)-catalysed carbonylation reaction. Dalton Transactions 39 (42), pp.10031-10033. (10.1039/C0DT01205J)

2009

• Andrews, M. B. et al. 2009. Sensitized Lanthanide-Ion Luminescence with Aryl-Substituted N-(2-Nitrophenyl)acetamide-Derived Chromophores. Helvetica Chimica Acta 92 (11), pp.2159-2172. (10.1002/hlca.200900108)
• Ward, B. D. et al. 2009. Scandium-catalyzed polymerization of CH3(CH2)nCH=CH2 (n = 0–4): remarkable activity and tacticity control. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2009 (7), pp.866-871. (10.1002/ejic.200801106)
• Weitershaus, K. et al., 2009. Titanium hydroamination catalysts bearing a 2-aminopyrrolinato spectator ligand: monitoring the individual reaction steps. Dalton Transactions 38 (23), pp.4586-4602. (10.1039/B902038A)

2008

• Scheuermann, C. J. and Ward, B. D. 2008. Selected recent developments in organo-cobalt chemistry. New Journal of Chemistry 32 (11), pp.1850-1880. (10.1039/b802689k)
• Vujkovic, N. et al., 2008. Insertions into azatitanacyclobutenes: new insights into three-component coupling reactions involving imidotitanium intermediates. Organometallics 27 (11), pp.2518-2528. (10.1021/om8001203)

2007

• Gade, L. H. et al., 2007. Shaping and Enforcing Coordination Spheres: The Implications of C3 and C1 Chirality in the Coordination Chemistry of 1,1,1-Tris(oxazolinyl)ethane (Trisox). Chemistry - A European Journal 13 (11), pp.3058-3075. (10.1002/chem.200601651)
• Lukešová, L. et al., 2007. C-3-Symmetric chiral organolanthanide complexes: Synthesis, characterization, and stereospecific polymerization of alpha-olefins. Organometallics 26 (18), pp.4652-4657. (10.1021/om700504f)
• Lukešová, L. et al., 2007. High tacticity control in organolanthanide polymerization catalysis: formation of isotactic poly(alpha-alkenes) with a chiral C-3-symmetric thulium complex. Dalton Transactions (9), pp.920-922. (10.1039/B700269F)
• Vujkovic, N. et al., 2007. Imido-alkyne coupling in titanium complexes: New insights into the alkyne hydroamination reaction. Organometallics 26 (23), pp.5522-5534. (10.1021/om700758v)

2006

• Seitz, M. et al., 2006. Bisoxazolines with one and two sidearms: stereodirecting ligands for copper-catalysed asymmetric allylic oxidations of alkenes. Dalton Transactions (1), pp.193-202. (10.1039/B512570G)
• Ward, B. D. , Gade, L. H. and Mountford, P. 2006. Lithiation of the diaminopyridine protio-ligand MeC(2-C5H4N){CH2N(H) Mes}(2) (Mes=2,4,6-C6H2Me3). Acta Crystallographica Section E 62 (3), pp.M472-M474. (10.1107/S1600536806004041)
• Ward, B. D. et al. 2006. 2-Aminopyrrolines: New chiral amidinate ligands with a rigid well-defined molecular structure and their coordination to Ti-IV. Inorganic Chemistry -American Chemical Society- 45 (19), pp.7777-7787. (10.1021/ic060809y)

2005

• Tredget, C. S. et al., 2005. A family of scandium and yttrium tris((trimethylsilyl)methyl) complexes with neutral N-3 donor ligands. Organometallics 24 (13), pp.3136-3148. (10.1021/om050209r)
• Ward, B. D. et al. 2005. Reactions of Neutral and Cationic Diamide-Supported Imido Complexes with CO2 and Other Heterocumulenes: Issues of Site Selectivity. Organometallics 24 (10), pp.2368-2385. (10.1021/om0500265)
• Ward, B. D. , Bellemin-Laponnaz, S. and Gade, L. H. 2005. C3 Chirality in Polymerization Catalysis: A Highly Active Dicationic Scandium(III) Catalyst for the Isoselective Polymerization of 1-Hexene. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 44 (11), pp.1668-1671. (10.1002/anie.200462804)
• Boyd, C. L. et al., 2005. Synthesis, structures, and reactions of titanium, scandium, and yttrium complexes of diamino-bis(phenolate) ligands: Monomeric, dimeric, neutral, cationic, and multiply bonded derivatives. Organometallics 24 (2), pp.309-330. (10.1021/om0493661)
• Lowes, T. A. et al., 2005. A new diamido-amine ligand based on three-carbon atom "arms": synthesis, structures and polymerisation capability of zirconium derivatives of MeN(CH2CH2CH2NSiMe3)(2). Chemical Communications- Royal Society of Chemistry (1), pp.113-115. (10.1039/B412381F)

2004

• Ward, B. D. et al. 2004. Synthesis and structural characterization of an azatitanacyclobutene: the key intermediate in the catalytic anti-Markovnikov addition of primary amines to α-alkynes. Chemical Communications- Royal Society of Chemistry (6), pp.704-705. (10.1039/b316383k)
• Ward, B. D. et al. 2004. Synthesis, reactivity, and computational studies of the cationic tungsten methyl complex [W(NPh)(N2Npy)Me](+) and related compounds (N2Npy = MeC(2-C5H4N)(CH2NSiMe3)(2)). Organometallics 23 (19), pp.4444-4461. (10.1021/om049701l)

2003

• Lawrence, S. C. et al., 2003. Highly efficient ethylene polymerisation by scandium alkyls supported by neutral fac-kappa(3) coordinated N-3 donor ligands. Chemical Communications (23), pp.2880-2881. (10.1039/B310867H)
• Mountford, P. and Ward, B. D. 2003. Recent developments in the non-cyclopentadienyl organometallic and related chemistry of scandium. Chemical Communications (15), pp.1797-1803. (10.1039/B212813F)
• Ward, B. D. et al. 2003. Group 6 imido complexes supported by diamido-donor ligands. Inorganic Chemistry -American Chemical Society- 42 (16), pp.4961-4969. (10.1021/ic034377s)

2002

• Skinner, M. E. G. et al., 2002. New N- and O-donor ligand environments in organoscandium chemistry. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 647 (1-2), pp.145-150. (10.1016/S0022-328X(01)01359-6)
• Ward, B. D. et al. 2002. Synthesis and reactivity of the imidotungsten methyl cation [W(N(2)Npy)(NPh)Me](+): CO2 adds to the W=NPh bond and does not insert into the W-Me bond. Chemical Communications (22), pp.2618-2619. (10.1039/B208327B)
• Ward, B. D. et al. 2002. Scandium chloride, alkyl and phenyl complexes of diamido-donor ligands. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions (24), pp.4649-4657. (10.1039/B209382K)

2001

• Arnold, P. L. et al., 2001. A functional model for lanthanide doped silicate materials: synthesis of an apically substituted samarium silsesquioxane complex. Dalton Transactions (4), pp.488-491. (10.1039/B009123P)