Dr Nathan Coles
(he/him)
Teams and roles for Nathan Coles
Postdoctoral Research Associate (with Prof. Deborah Kays)
Publication
2026
- Aljohani, Y. S. et al., 2026. Crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis, DFT, NLO, and multi-target docking of a fluorinated 1,2,3-triazole diarylmethanol (4-FPh-TM). Journal of Molecular Structure 1376 146830. (10.1016/j.molstruc.2026.146830)
- 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)
- Pahar, S. et al., 2026. Synthesis and structure of Group 13 POCOP complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 65 (15), pp.8289-8300. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c05278)
2025
- Kopp, R. O. et al., 2025. Dynamic activation of alcohols by an electrophilic phosphinine. Chemical Communications 61 (94), pp.18625-18628. (10.1039/d5cc05302a)
2024
- Churchill, O. P. et al., 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)
- Kopp, R. O. et al., 2024. Highly selective, reversible water activation by P,N-cooperativity in pyridyl-functionalized phosphinines. Chemical Science 15 (15), pp.5496-5506. (10.1039/D3SC05930H)
2023
- Dettling, L. et al., 2023. Phosphorus derivatives of mesoionic carbenes: synthesis and characterization of triazaphosphole-5-ylidene → BF3 adducts. Chemical Communications 59 (68), pp.10243-10246. (10.1039/D3CC03268J)
- Geer, A. M. et al., 2023. Homotropic cooperativity in iron-catalyzed alkyne cyclotrimerizations. ACS Catalysis 13 (10), pp.6610–6618. (10.1021/acscatal.3c00764)
- Lin, J. et al., 2023. Phosphinine selenide: noncovalent interactions with organoiodines and elemental iodine, and reactivity towards potassium cyanide. ChemPlusChem 88 (4) e202300088. (10.1002/cplu.202300088)
- Lin, J. et al., 2023. Copper(I) and gold(I) complexes of aminofunctionalized phosphinines: synthesis and structural characterization. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 649 (6-7) e202200365. (10.1002/zaac.202200365)
2022
- Lin, J. et al., 2022. Phospholenes from phosphabenzenes by selective ring contraction. Chemistry - A European Journal 28 (72) e202203406. (10.1002/chem.202203406)
- Coles, N. T. et al. 2022. Triple dehydrofluorination as a route to amidine-functionalized, aromatic phosphorus heterocycles. Chemical Communications 58 (98), pp.13580-13583. (10.1039/D2CC05178H)
- Petrov, A. et al., 2022. Reactivity of sodium pentaphospholide Na[cyclo‐P5] towards C≡E (E=C, N, P) triple bonds. Chemistry - A European Journal 28 (67) e202203056. (10.1002/chem.202203056)
- Yue, E. et al., 2022. Highly flexible phosphabenzenes: a missing coordination mode of 2,4,6-triaryl-λ3-phosphinines. Chemical Communications 58 (42), pp.6184-6187. (10.1039/D2CC01817A)
- Lin, J. et al., 2022. Borane adducts of aromatic phosphorus heterocycles: synthesis, crystallographic characterization and reactivity of a phosphinine‐B(C6F5)3 lewis pair. Chemistry - A European Journal 28 (7) e202104135. (10.1002/chem.202104135)
2021
- Görlich, T. et al., 2021. Photochemical C(sp)–C(sp2) bond activation in phosphaalkynes: a new route to reactive terminal cyaphido complexes LnM–C≡P. Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (46), pp.19365–19373. (10.1021/jacs.1c07370)
- Fischer, L. et al., 2021. One-step methylation of aromatic phosphorus heterocycles: synthesis and crystallographic characterization of a 1-methyl-phosphininium salt. Chemical Communications 57 (75), pp.9522-9525. (10.1039/D1CC03892C)
- Wossidlo, F. et al., 2021. Making aromatic phosphorus heterocycles more basic and nucleophilic: synthesis, characterization and reactivity of the first phosphinine selenide. Chemistry - A European Journal 27 (50), pp.12788-12795. (10.1002/chem.202102390)
- Coles, N. T. et al. 2021. Phosphinine-based ligands: recent developments in coordination chemistry and applications. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 433 213729. (10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213729)
- Linford-Wood, T. G. , Coles, N. T. and Webster, R. L. 2021. Room temperature iron catalyzed transfer hydrogenation using n-butanol and poly(methylhydrosiloxane). Green Chemistry 23 (7), pp.2703-2709. (10.1039/D0GC04175K)
- Coles, N. T. et al. 2021. Heterobimetallic complexes of 1,1-diphosphineamide ligands. Organometallics 40 (2)(10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00662)
2020
- Gasperini, D. et al., 2020. Seeking heteroatom-rich compounds: synthetic and mechanistic studies into Iron catalyzed dehydrocoupling of silanes. ACS Catalysis 10 (11), pp.6102-6112. (10.1021/acscatal.0c01440)
2019
- Espinal-Viguri, M. et al., 2019. Room temperature iron-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation and regioselective deuteration of carbon–carbon double bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (1), pp.572–582. (10.1021/jacs.8b11553)
2018
- Coles, N. T. , Mahon, M. F. and Webster, R. L. 2018. 1,1-Diphosphines and divinylphosphines via base catalyzed hydrophosphination. Chemical Communications 54 (74), pp.10443-10446. (10.1039/C8CC05890C)
2017
- Coles, N. T. and Webster, R. L. 2017. Iron catalyzed dehydrocoupling of amine- and phosphine-boranes. Israel Journal of Chemistry 57 (12), pp.1070-1081. (10.1002/ijch.201700018)
- Coles, N. T. , Mahon, M. F. and Webster, R. L. 2017. Phosphine- and amine-borane dehydrocoupling using a three-coordinate iron(II) β-diketiminate precatalyst. Organometallics 36 (11), pp.2262–2268. (10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00326)
Articles
- Aljohani, Y. S. et al., 2026. Crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis, DFT, NLO, and multi-target docking of a fluorinated 1,2,3-triazole diarylmethanol (4-FPh-TM). Journal of Molecular Structure 1376 146830. (10.1016/j.molstruc.2026.146830)
- 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)
- Pahar, S. et al., 2026. Synthesis and structure of Group 13 POCOP complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 65 (15), pp.8289-8300. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c05278)
- Kopp, R. O. et al., 2025. Dynamic activation of alcohols by an electrophilic phosphinine. Chemical Communications 61 (94), pp.18625-18628. (10.1039/d5cc05302a)
- Churchill, O. P. et al., 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)
- Kopp, R. O. et al., 2024. Highly selective, reversible water activation by P,N-cooperativity in pyridyl-functionalized phosphinines. Chemical Science 15 (15), pp.5496-5506. (10.1039/D3SC05930H)
- Dettling, L. et al., 2023. Phosphorus derivatives of mesoionic carbenes: synthesis and characterization of triazaphosphole-5-ylidene → BF3 adducts. Chemical Communications 59 (68), pp.10243-10246. (10.1039/D3CC03268J)
- Geer, A. M. et al., 2023. Homotropic cooperativity in iron-catalyzed alkyne cyclotrimerizations. ACS Catalysis 13 (10), pp.6610–6618. (10.1021/acscatal.3c00764)
- Lin, J. et al., 2023. Phosphinine selenide: noncovalent interactions with organoiodines and elemental iodine, and reactivity towards potassium cyanide. ChemPlusChem 88 (4) e202300088. (10.1002/cplu.202300088)
- Lin, J. et al., 2023. Copper(I) and gold(I) complexes of aminofunctionalized phosphinines: synthesis and structural characterization. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 649 (6-7) e202200365. (10.1002/zaac.202200365)
- Lin, J. et al., 2022. Phospholenes from phosphabenzenes by selective ring contraction. Chemistry - A European Journal 28 (72) e202203406. (10.1002/chem.202203406)
- Coles, N. T. et al. 2022. Triple dehydrofluorination as a route to amidine-functionalized, aromatic phosphorus heterocycles. Chemical Communications 58 (98), pp.13580-13583. (10.1039/D2CC05178H)
- Petrov, A. et al., 2022. Reactivity of sodium pentaphospholide Na[cyclo‐P5] towards C≡E (E=C, N, P) triple bonds. Chemistry - A European Journal 28 (67) e202203056. (10.1002/chem.202203056)
- Yue, E. et al., 2022. Highly flexible phosphabenzenes: a missing coordination mode of 2,4,6-triaryl-λ3-phosphinines. Chemical Communications 58 (42), pp.6184-6187. (10.1039/D2CC01817A)
- Lin, J. et al., 2022. Borane adducts of aromatic phosphorus heterocycles: synthesis, crystallographic characterization and reactivity of a phosphinine‐B(C6F5)3 lewis pair. Chemistry - A European Journal 28 (7) e202104135. (10.1002/chem.202104135)
- Görlich, T. et al., 2021. Photochemical C(sp)–C(sp2) bond activation in phosphaalkynes: a new route to reactive terminal cyaphido complexes LnM–C≡P. Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (46), pp.19365–19373. (10.1021/jacs.1c07370)
- Fischer, L. et al., 2021. One-step methylation of aromatic phosphorus heterocycles: synthesis and crystallographic characterization of a 1-methyl-phosphininium salt. Chemical Communications 57 (75), pp.9522-9525. (10.1039/D1CC03892C)
- Wossidlo, F. et al., 2021. Making aromatic phosphorus heterocycles more basic and nucleophilic: synthesis, characterization and reactivity of the first phosphinine selenide. Chemistry - A European Journal 27 (50), pp.12788-12795. (10.1002/chem.202102390)
- Coles, N. T. et al. 2021. Phosphinine-based ligands: recent developments in coordination chemistry and applications. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 433 213729. (10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213729)
- Linford-Wood, T. G. , Coles, N. T. and Webster, R. L. 2021. Room temperature iron catalyzed transfer hydrogenation using n-butanol and poly(methylhydrosiloxane). Green Chemistry 23 (7), pp.2703-2709. (10.1039/D0GC04175K)
- Coles, N. T. et al. 2021. Heterobimetallic complexes of 1,1-diphosphineamide ligands. Organometallics 40 (2)(10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00662)
- Gasperini, D. et al., 2020. Seeking heteroatom-rich compounds: synthetic and mechanistic studies into Iron catalyzed dehydrocoupling of silanes. ACS Catalysis 10 (11), pp.6102-6112. (10.1021/acscatal.0c01440)
- Espinal-Viguri, M. et al., 2019. Room temperature iron-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation and regioselective deuteration of carbon–carbon double bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (1), pp.572–582. (10.1021/jacs.8b11553)
- Coles, N. T. , Mahon, M. F. and Webster, R. L. 2018. 1,1-Diphosphines and divinylphosphines via base catalyzed hydrophosphination. Chemical Communications 54 (74), pp.10443-10446. (10.1039/C8CC05890C)
- Coles, N. T. and Webster, R. L. 2017. Iron catalyzed dehydrocoupling of amine- and phosphine-boranes. Israel Journal of Chemistry 57 (12), pp.1070-1081. (10.1002/ijch.201700018)
- Coles, N. T. , Mahon, M. F. and Webster, R. L. 2017. Phosphine- and amine-borane dehydrocoupling using a three-coordinate iron(II) β-diketiminate precatalyst. Organometallics 36 (11), pp.2262–2268. (10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00326)