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2025

Rae, Annabel and Kennedy, Alan R. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2025) Magnesium 4, 5, and 6 coordinate complexes with ligands bound via sp or sp2 hybridized atoms. Polyhedron, 266. 117257. ISSN 0277-5387

2024

Lynch, Jennifer R. and Navarro, Marta and Kennedy, Alan R. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Hernán‐Gómez, Alberto (2024) Diverse multinuclear alkali metallated (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs) family of the 1,3,5‐tris‐2‐aminopyridyl‐2,4,6‐triethylbenzene framework. Chemistry - A European Journal. e202403544. ISSN 1521-3765

Byrne, Keelan M. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Kraemer, Tobias (2024) Mechanistic insight into alkali-metal mediation of styrene transfer hydrogenation : a DFT study. ChemCatChem, 16 (19). e202400655. ISSN 1867-3880

Leckie, Thomas J. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Brightman, Edward (2024) Recent advances in in situ / operando characterization of lithium–sulfur batteries. Energy Advances, 3 (10). pp. 2479-2502. ISSN 2753-1457

Sanderson, Hugh and Banerjee, Sumanta and Kaur, Mandeep and Kennedy, Alan and Kociok-Köhn, Gabriele and Hintermair, Ulrich and Robertson, Stuart (2024) Synthesis and structure of heavy alkali metal pentalenides. ZAAC, 650 (18). e202400039. ISSN 1521-3749

Brightman, Edward and Robertson, Stuart and Lyth, Stephen and Sims, Ryan and Tuohy, Paul and Lue, Leo and Bae, Dowon and Berlouis, Leonard (2024) Flow battery activities at the University of Strathclyde. In: International Flow Battery Forum, 2024-06-24 - 2024-06-26, Hilton Hotel.

Gentner, Thomas X. and Ballmann, Gerd M. and Banerjee, Sumanta and Kennedy, Alan R. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Mulvey, Robert E. (2024) Application of bis(amido)alkyl magnesiates towards the synthesis of molecular rubidium and caesium hydrido-magnesiates. Organometallics, 43 (12). pp. 1393-1401. ISSN 0276-7333

MacDonald, Peter A. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Weetman, Catherine E. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Mulvey, Robert E. (2024) Synthesis, characterisation, and catalytic application of a soluble molecular carrier of sodium hydride activated by a substituted 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine. Communications Chemistry, 7 (1). 94. ISSN 2399-3669

2023

Brouillet, Etienne V. and Brown, Scott A. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Rae, Annabel and Walton, Heather P. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2023) Atom-economic access to cationic magnesium complexes. Dalton Transactions, 52 (37). pp. 13332-13338. ISSN 1477-9226

MacDonald, Peter A. and Banerjee, Sumanta and Kennedy, Alan R. and van Teijlingen, Alexander and Robertson, Stuart D. and Tuttle, Tell and Mulvey, Robert E. (2023) Alkali metal dihydropyridines in transfer hydrogenation catalysis of imines : amide basicity versus hydride surrogacy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62 (27). e202304966. ISSN 1521-3773

Samajdar, Rudra N. and Marchesini, Sofia and Brown, Scott A. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Paton, Keith R. and Pollard, Andrew J. and Wain, Andrew J. (2023) Differentiating between ion transport and plating–stripping phenomena in magnesium battery electrolytes using operando Raman spectroscopy. ACS Energy Letters, 8 (4). pp. 1864-1869. ISSN 2380-8195

MacDonald, Peter A. and Banerjee, Sumanta and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2023) Structural characterization of the 1-metallo-2- t -butyl-1,2-dihydropyridyl rubidium and caesium complexes. Polyhedron, 234. 116302. ISSN 0277-5387

2022

Mulvey, Robert E. and Doherty, Shay P. and Banerjee, Sumanta and Clegg, William and Palin, Fiona J. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2022) Incorporating trimethylaluminium into the structures of alkali metal (Li, Na, K, Cs) dihydropyridines. Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 649 (5). ISSN 1521-3749

Roemmele, Tracey L. and Knight, Fergus R. and Crawford, Ellis and Robertson, Stuart D. and Bode, Bela E. and Bühl, Michael and Slawin, Alexandra M. Z. and Woollins, J. Derek and Boeré, René T. (2022) Chalcogen controlled redox behaviour in peri-substituted S, Se and Te naphthalene derivatives. New Journal of Chemistry, 2022 (46). pp. 22363-22383. ISSN 1144-0546

Samajdar, Rudra N. and Brown, Scott A. and Kairy, Shravan K. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Wain, Andrew J. (2022) Methodologies for operando ATR-IR spectroscopy of magnesium battery electrolytes. Analytical Chemistry, 94 (43). pp. 14985-14993. ISSN 0003-2700

Banerjee, Sumanta and MacDonald, Peter A. and Orr, Samantha A. and Kennedy, Alan R. and van Teijlingen, Alexander and Robertson, Stuart D. and Tuttle, Tell and Mulvey, Robert E. (2022) Hydrocarbon soluble alkali-metal-aluminium hydride surrog[ATES]. Chemistry - A European Journal, 28 (55). ISSN 1521-3765

Brown, Scott A. and Cussen, Serena A. and Kennard, Rhiannon and Marchesini, Sofia and Pryke, Jethro J. and Rae, Annabel and Robertson, Stuart D. and Samajdar, Rudra N. and Wain, Andrew J. (2022) Atom-efficient synthesis of a benchmark electrolyte for magnesium battery applications. Chemical Communications, 58 (86). pp. 12070-12073. ISSN 1359-7345

Mulvey, Robert and Robertson, Stuart; Wheatley, Andrew E. H. and Uchiyama, Masanobu, eds. (2022) Structural evidence for synergistic bimetallic main group bases. In: Polar Organometallic Reagents. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Hoboken, NJ, pp. 49-95. ISBN 9781119448846

Rae, Annabel and Byrne, Keelan M. and Brown, Scott A. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Krämer, Tobias and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2022) Sigma/pi bonding preferences of solvated alkali-metal cations to ditopic arylmethyl anions. Chemistry - A European Journal, 28 (18). e202104260. ISSN 1521-3765

2021

Pollard, Victoria A. and Fuentes, Maria-ngeles and Robertson, Stuart D. and Weetman, Catherine and Kennedy, Alan R. and Brownlie, Josh and Angus, Fraser J. and Smylie, Cooper and Mulvey, Robert E. (2021) Reactivity studies and structural outcomes of a bulky dialkylaluminium amide in the presence of the N-Heterocyclic Carbene, ItBu. Polyhedron, 209. 115469. ISSN 0277-5387

2020

Brouillet, Etienne V. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Krämer, Tobias and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Stewart, Alexander and Towie, Stephen (2020) Synthesis, structure and DFT analysis of the THF solvate of 2-picolyllithium : a 2-picolyllithium solvate with significant carbanionic character. Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 646 (13). pp. 726-733. ISSN 1521-3749

Honeyman, Gordon W. and Armstrong, David R. and Clegg, William and Hevia, Eva and Kennedy, Alan R. and McLellan, Ross and Orr, Samantha A. and Parkinson, John A. and Ramsay, Donna L. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Towie, Stephen and Mulvey, Robert E. (2020) A regioselectively 1, 1',3 ,3'-tetrazincated ferrocene complex displaying core and peripheral reactivity. Chemical Science, 11 (25). pp. 6510-6520. ISSN 2041-6539

Brouillet, Etienne V. and Amores, Marco and Corr, Serena A. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2020) Exploiting cation aggregation in new magnesium amidohaloaluminate electrolytes for magnesium batteries. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 7 (12). pp. 2305-2312. ISSN 2052-1553

2019

Robertson, Stuart D. and Uzelac, Marina and Mulvey, Robert E. (2019) Alkali-metal-mediated synergistic effects in polar main group organometallic chemistry. Chemical Reviews, 119 (14). pp. 8332-8405. ISSN 0009-2665

2018

Lemmerz, Lara E. and McLellan, Ross and Judge, Neil R. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Orr, Samantha A. and Uzelac, Marina and Hevia, Eva and Robertson, Stuart D. and Okuda, Jun and Mulvey, Robert E. (2018) Donor-influenced structure-activity correlations in stoichiometric and catalytic reactions of lithium monoamido-monohydrido-dialkylaluminates. Chemistry - A European Journal, 24 (39). pp. 9940-9948. ISSN 1521-3765

Rachor, Simon G. and Cleaves, Peter A. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Mansell, Stephen M. (2018) NMR spectroscopic study of the adduct formation and reactivity of homoleptic rare earth amides with alkali metal benzyl compounds, and the crystal structures of [Li(TMEDA)2][Nd{N(SiMe3)2}3(CH2Ph)] and [{Li(TMP)}2{Li(Ph)}]2. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 857. pp. 101-109. ISSN 0022-328X

2017

McLellan, Ross and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Orr, Samantha A. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2017) 1-Alkali-metal-2-alkyl-1,2-dihydropyridines : soluble hydride surrogates for catalytic dehydrogenative coupling and hydroboration applications. Chemistry - A European Journal, 23 (66). pp. 16853-16861. ISSN 1521-3765

Ojeda-Amador, Ana I. and Martínez-Martínez, Antonio J. and Robertson, Gemma M. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Kennedy, Alan R. and O'Hara, Charles T. (2017) Exploring the solid state and solution structural chemistry of the utility amide potassium hexamethyldisilazide (KHMDS). Dalton Transactions, 46 (19). pp. 6392-6403. ISSN 1477-9226

Campbell, Ross and Kennedy, Alan R. and McLellan, Ross and Robertson, Stuart D. and Sproules, Stephen and Mulvey, Robert E. (2017) Contrasting the Group 6 metal-metal bonding in sodium dichromate(II) and sodium dimolybdate(II) polymethyl complexes : synthetic, x-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies. Dalton Transactions, 46. pp. 6392-6403. ISSN 1477-9226

McLellan, Ross and Kennedy, Alan R. and Orr, Samantha A. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Mulvey, Robert E. (2017) Lithium dihydropyridine dehydrogenation catalysis : a group 1 approach to cyclisation of diamine-boranes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56 (4). pp. 1036-1041. ISSN 1521-3773

2016

Roberts, Andrew J. and Kennedy, Alan R. and McLellan, Ross and Robertson, Stuart D. and Hevia, Eva (2016) Synthesis, structure and solution studies on mixed aryl/alkyl lithium zincates. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. pp. 4752-4760. ISSN 1434-1948

Orr, Samantha A. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Liggat, John J. and McLellan, Ross and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2016) Accessible heavier s-block dihydropyridines : structural elucidation and reactivity of isolable molecular hydride sources. Dalton Transactions, 45 (14). pp. 6234-6240. ISSN 1477-9226

Brouillet, Etienne V. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Koszinowski, Konrad and McLellan, Ross and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2016) Exposing elusive cationic magnesium-chloro aggregates in aluminate complexes through donor control. Dalton Transactions, 45 (13). pp. 5590-5597. ISSN 1477-9226

Kennedy, Alan R. and McLellan, Ross and McNeil, Greg J. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2016) Tetraamine Me6TREN induced monomerization of alkali metal borohydrides and aluminohydrides. Polyhedron, 103A. pp. 94-99. ISSN 0277-5387

2015

Fuentes, M. Ángeles and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Parkinson, John A. and Rantanen, Toni and Robertson, Stuart D. and Snieckus, Victor (2015) Adding a structural context to the deprotometalation and trans-metal trapping chemistry of phenyl-substituted benzotriazole. Chemistry - A European Journal, 21 (42). pp. 14812-14822. ISSN 1521-3765

Roberts, Andrew J. and Clegg, William and Kennedy, Alan R. and Probert, Michael R. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Hevia, Eva (2015) Two alternative approaches to access mixed hydride-amido zinc complexes : synthetic, structural and solution implications. Dalton Transactions, 44 (17). pp. 8169-8177. ISSN 1477-9226

Robertson, Stuart D. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Liggat, John J. and Mulvey, Robert E. (2015) Facile synthesis of a genuinely alkane-soluble but isolable lithium hydride transfer reagent. Chemical Communications, 51 (25). pp. 5452-5455. ISSN 1359-7345

Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Ramsay, Donna L. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2015) Heterobimetallic metallation studies of N,N-dimethylphenylethylamine (DMPEA) : benzylic C-H bond cleavage/dimethylamino capture or intact DMPEA complex. Dalton Transactions, 44 (12). pp. 5875-5887. ISSN 1477-9226

Armstrong, David R. and Harris, Catriona M. M. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Liggat, John J. and McLellan, Ross and Mulvey, Robert E. and Urquhart, Matthew D. T. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2015) Developing lithium chemistry of 1,2-dihydropyridines : from kinetic intermediates to isolable characterized compounds. Chemistry - A European Journal, 21 (41). pp. 14410-14420. ISSN 1521-3765

Clegg, William and Crosbie, Elaine and Dale-Black, Sophie H. and Hevia, Eva and Honeyman, Gordon W. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Ramsay, Donna L. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2015) Structurally defined zincated and aluminated complexes of ferrocene made by alkali-metal-synergistic syntheses. Organometallics, 34 (11). pp. 2580-2589. ISSN 0276-7333

2014

Francos, J. and Fleming, B. J. and García-Álvarez, P. and Kennedy, A. R. and Reilly, K. and Robertson, G. M. and Robertson, S. D. and O'Hara, C. T. (2014) Complexity in seemingly simple sodium magnesiate systems. Dalton Transactions, 43 (38). pp. 14424-14431. ISSN 1477-9226

Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Urquhart, Robert I. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2014) Lithium, sodium and potassium picolyl complexes : syntheses, structures and bonding. Dalton Transactions, 43 (38). pp. 14265-14274. ISSN 1477-9226

Armstrong, David R. and Crosbie, Elaine and Hevia, Eva and Mulvey, Robert E. and Ramsay, Donna L. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2014) TMP (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide)-aluminate bases : lithium-mediated alumination or lithiation-alkylaluminium-trapping reagents? Chemical Science, 5 (8). pp. 3031-3045. ISSN 2041-6539

Armstrong, D.R. and Clegg, W. and Hernan-Gomez, Alberto and Kennedy, A.R. and Livingstone, Z. and Robertson, S.D. and Russo, L. and Hevia, E. (2014) Probing the metallating ability of a polybasic sodium alkylmagnesiate supported by a bulky bis(amido) ligand : deprotomagnesiation reactions of nitrogen-based aromatic substrates. Dalton Transactions, 43 (11). pp. 4361-4369. ISSN 1477-9226

Kennedy, Alan and Klett, Jan and McGrath, Graeme and Mulvey, Robert and Robertson, Gemma and Robertson, Stuart and O'Hara, Charles (2014) Synthesis of an alkylmagnesium amide and interception of a ring-opened isomer of the important utility amide 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide (TMP). Inorganica Chimica Acta, 411. pp. 1-4. ISSN 0020-1693

Martinez-Martinez, A. J. and Armstrong, D. R. and Conway, B. and Fleming, B. J. and Klett, J. and Kennedy, A. R. and Mulvey, R. E. and Robertson, S. D. and O'Hara, C. T. (2014) Pre-inverse-crowns : synthetic, structural and reactivity studies of alkali metal magnesiates primed for inverse crown formation. Chemical Science, 5 (2). pp. 771-781. ISSN 2041-6539

Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D.; Xi, Zhenfeng, ed. (2014) FascinATES : mixed-metal ate compounds that function synergistically. In: Organo-di-Metallic Compounds (or Reagents). Topics in Organometallic Chemistry . Springer, pp. 129-158. ISBN 978-3-319-08428-2

2013

Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2013) Synthetically important alkali-metal-utility amides : lithium, sodium and potassium hexamethyldisilazides, diisopropylamides and tetramethylpiperidides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52 (44). 11470–11487. ISSN 1521-3773

Garden, Jennifer and Armstrong, David and Clegg, William and Garcia Alvarez, Joaquin and Hevia, Eva and Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert and Robertson, Stuart and Russo, Luca (2013) Donor-activated lithiation and sodiation of trifluoromethylbenzene : structural, spectroscopic and theoretical insights. Organometallics, 32 (19). pp. 5481-5490. ISSN 0276-7333

Hevia, Eva and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Ramsay, Donna L. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2013) Concealed cyclotrimeric polymorph of lithium 2, 2, 6, 6- tetramethylpiperidide unconcealed : X-ray crystallographic and NMR spectroscopic studies. Chemistry - A European Journal, 19 (42). pp. 14069-14075. ISSN 1521-3765

Hernan-Gomez, Alberto and Bradley, T.D. and Kennedy, A.R. and Livingstone, Z. and Robertson, S.D. and Hevia, E. (2013) Developing catalytic applications of cooperative bimetallics : competitive hydroamination/trimerization reactions of isocyanates catalysed by sodium magnesiates. Chemical Communications, 49 (77). pp. 8659-8661. ISSN 1359-7345

Armstrong, David R. and Davidson, Matthew G. and Garcia-Vivo, Daniel and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2013) Monomerizing alkali-metal 3,5-dimethylbenzyl salts with tris(N, N -dimethyl-2-aminoethyl)amine (MeTREN) : structural and bonding implications. Inorganic Chemistry, 52 (20). pp. 12023-12032. ISSN 1520-510X

Armstrong, David R. and Garden, Jennifer A. and Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert and Robertson, Stuart D. (2013) Modifying alkylzinc reactivity with 2,2 '-dipyridylamide : activation of tBu-Zn bonds for para-alkylation of benzophenone. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52 (28). pp. 7190-7193. ISSN 1521-3773

Campbell, R. and Crosbie, E. and Kennedy, A.R. and Mulvey, R.E. and Naismith, R.A. and Robertson, Stuart (2013) Contrasting reactivity of mono- versus Bis-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide lithium aluminates towards polydentate lewis bases : co-complexation versus deprotonation. Australian Journal of Chemistry, 66 (10). pp. 1189-1201. ISSN 0004-9425

Armstrong, David and Baillie, Sharon and Blair, Victoria and Chabloz, Nicholas and Diez, Josefina and Garcia Alvarez, Joaquin and Kennedy, Alan and Robertson, Stuart and Hevia, Eva (2013) Alkali-metal-mediated zincation (AMMZn) meets N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) chemistry : Zn–H exchange reactions and structural authentication of a dinuclear Au(I) complex with a NHC anion. Chemical Science, 4 (11). pp. 4259-4266. ISSN 2041-6539

Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D.; Harder, Sjoerd, ed. (2013) Modern developments in magnesium reagent chemistry for synthesis. In: Alkaline-Earth Metal Compounds. Topics in Organometallic Chemistry . Springer, pp. 103-140. ISBN 978-3-642-36270-5

Armstrong, David R. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2013) A hetero-alkali-metal version of the utility amide LDA : lithium-potassium diisopropylamide. Dalton Transactions, 42 (10). pp. 3704-3711. ISSN 1477-9226

2012

Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert and O'Hara, Charles and Robertson, Stuart and Robertson, Gemma (2012) catena-Poly[sodium-2-(N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethane-1,2-diamine)-2N:N'-sodium-bis[2-bis(trimethylsilyl)azanido-2N:N]]. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports, E68 (12). m1468. ISSN 1600-5368

Balloch, Liam and Garden, Jennifer A. and Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert E. and Rantanen, Toni and Robertson, Stuart D. and Snieckus, Victor (2012) Dizincation of a 2-substituted thiophene : constructing a cage with a [16]crown-4 zincocyclic core. Agewandte Chemie-International Edition, 51 (28). pp. 6934-6937. ISSN 1521-3773

Cadenbach, Thomas and Hevia, Eva and Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert E. and Pickrell, Janie-Anne and Robertson, Stuart D. (2012) Accessing low denticity coordination modes of a high denticity tripodal ligand to complete its coordinative repertoire. Dalton Transactions, 41 (34). pp. 10141-10144. ISSN 1477-9226

Crosbie, Elaine and Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2012) After-effects of lithium-mediated alumination of 3-iodoanisole: isolation of molecular salt elimination and trapped-benzyne products. Dalton Transactions, 41 (6). pp. 1832-1839. ISSN 1477-9226

Garden, Jennifer A. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2012) Ambient temperature zincation of N-Boc pyrrolidine and its solvent dependency. Chemical Communications, 48 (43). pp. 5265-5267. ISSN 1359-7345

Armstrong, David R. and Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert E. and Parkinson, John A. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2012) Opening the black box of mixed-metal TMP metallating reagents : direct cadmation or lithium-cadmium transmetallation? Chemical Science, 3 (9). pp. 2700-2707. ISSN 2041-6539

Conway, Benjamin Grant and Crosbie, Elaine and Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2012) Regioselective heterohalogenation of 4-halo-anisoles via a series of sequential ortho-aluminations and electrophilic halogenations. Chemical Communications, 48 (39). pp. 4674-4676. ISSN 1359-7345

Armstrong, D. R. and Balloch, L. and Crawford, J. J. and Fleming, B. J. and Hogg, L. M. and Kennedy, A. R. and Klett, J. and Mulvey, R. E. and O'Hara, C. T. and Orr, S. A. and Robertson, Stuart (2012) Single electron transfer (SET) activity of the dialkyl-amido sodium zincate [(TMEDA)center dot Na(mu-TMP)(mu-Bu-t)Zn(Bu-t)] towards TEMPO and chalcone. Chemical Communications, 48 (10). pp. 1541-1543. ISSN 1359-7345

2011

Mulvey, Robert and Armstrong, David R. and Conway, Ben and Crosbie, Elaine and Kennedy, Alan and Robertson, Stuart (2011) Structurally powered synergic 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine bimetallics: new reflections through lithium-mediated ortho aluminations. Inorganic Chemistry, 50 (24). pp. 12241-12251. ISSN 1520-510X

Kennedy, Alan and Klett, Jan and Robertson, Stuart and Mulvey, Robert (2011) N-heterocyclic-carbene-induced monomerization of sterically encumbered dialkylmagnesium and dialkylmanganese polymers. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (30). pp. 4675-4679. ISSN 1434-1948

Armstrong, David R. and Balloch, Liam and Hevia, Eva and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and O'Hara, Charles T. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2011) Meta-metallation of N,N-dimethylaniline: contrasting direct sodium-mediated zincation with indirect sodiation-dialkylzinc co-complexation. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 7. pp. 1234-1248.

Campbell, Ross and Cannon, Daniel and Garcia-Alvarez, Pablo and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Sassmannshausen, Joerg and Tuttle, Tell (2011) Main group multiple C-H/N-H bond activation of a diamine and isolation of a molecular dilithium zincate hydride : experimental and DFT evidence for Alkali metal-zinc synergistic effects. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 (34). pp. 13706-13717. ISSN 1520-5126

Armstrong, David R. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2011) Developing a hetero-alkali-metal chemistry of 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide (TMP) : stoichiometric and structural diversity within a series of lithium/sodium, lithium/potassium and sodium/potassium TMP compounds. Chemistry - A European Journal, 17 (32). pp. 8820-8831. ISSN 1521-3765

Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert and O'Hara, Charles and Robertson, Gemma and Robertson, Stuart (2011) Mixed lithium amide–lithium halide compounds : unusual halide-deficient amido metal anionic crowns. Angewandte Chemie, 50 (36). pp. 8375-8378. ISSN 1521-3773

Balloch, Liam and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2011) A mu(4)-oxide-containing a dimeric variant of a sodium dialkyl(amido)zincate reagent. Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications, 67 (7). M252-M254. ISSN 0108-2701

Armstrong, David R. and Garcia-Alvarez, Pablo and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2011) Molecular structures of THF-solvated alkali-metal 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidides finally revealed: x-ray crystallographic, DFT, and NMR (including DOSY) spectroscopic studies. Chemistry - A European Journal, 17 (24). pp. 6725-6730. ISSN 1521-3765

Campbell, Ross and Carrella, Luca M. and Clegg, William and Mulvey, Robert E. and Rentschler, Eva and Robertson, Stuart D. and Russo, Luca (2011) Sodium congener of the classical lithium methylchromate dimer: synthetic, x-ray crystallographic, and magnetic studies of Me8Cr2[Na(OEt2)](4). Inorganic Chemistry, 50 (10). pp. 4656-4659. ISSN 1520-510X

Davidson, Matthew G. and Garcia-Vivo, Daniel and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2011) Exploiting sigma/pi coordination isomerism to prepare homologous organoalkali metal (Li, Na, K) monomers with identical ligand sets. Chemistry - A European Journal, 17 (12). pp. 3364-3369. ISSN 1521-3765

Balloch, Liam and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Rantanen, Toni and Robertson, Stuart D. and Snieckus, Victor (2011) Concerning the structures of alkali-metal-mediated ortho zincation of benzamides and phenyl o-carbamate. Organometallics, 30 (1). pp. 145-152. ISSN 0276-7333

Garden, Jennifer A. and Kennedy, Alan and Mulvey, Robert and Robertson, Stuart (2011) Neutral zinc, lower-order zincate and higher-order zincate derivatives of pyrrole: synthesis and structural characterisation of zinc complexes with one, two, three or four pyrrolyl ligands. Dalton Transactions, 40 (44). pp. 11945-11954. ISSN 1472-7773

2010

Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart (2010) N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized adducts of alkyl magnesium amide, bisalkyl magnesium and Grignard reagents : trapping oligomeric organo s-block fragments with NHCs. Dalton Transactions, 39 (38). pp. 9091-9099. ISSN 1472-7773

Chivers, Tristram and Ritch, Jamie S. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Konu, Jari and Tuononen, Heikki M. (2010) New insights into the chemistry of imidodiphosphinates from investigations of tellurium-centered systems. Accounts of Chemical Research, 43 (8). pp. 1053-1062. ISSN 0001-4842

Ritch, Jamie S. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Risto, Maarit and Chivers, Tristram (2010) Synthesis, multinuclear NMR spectra, and x-ray structures of (Bu2PNP)-Bu-t(I)Bu-t(2) and EPR2NP(I)R-2 (E = Se, Te; R = Pr-i, Bu-t). Inorganic Chemistry, 49 (10). pp. 4681-4686. ISSN 1520-510X

Conway, B. and Kennedy, A.R. and Mulvey, R.E. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Garcia Alvarez, Joaquin (2010) Structurally stimulated deprotonation/alumination of the TMP anion. Angewandte Chemie, 49 (18). pp. 3182-3184. ISSN 1521-3773

Forret, Robert and Kennedy, Alan R. and Klett, Jan and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2010) Multistep self-assembly of heteroleptic magnesium and sodium-magnesium benzamidinate complexes. Organometallics, 29 (6). pp. 1436-1442. ISSN 0276-7333

Mulvey, R.E. and Kennedy, A.R. and Robertson, Stuart (2010) Lithium and aluminium carbamato derivatives of the utility amide 2, 2, 6, 6- tetramethylpiperidide. Dalton Transactions, 39. pp. 6190-6197. ISSN 1472-7773

Conway, Ben and Garcia-Alvarez, Pablo and Kennedy, Alan R. and Klett, Jan and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2010) Structural insights into mono-amido tris-alkyl potassium aluminates. New Journal of Chemistry, 34 (8). pp. 1707-1712. ISSN 1144-0546

Crosbie, Elaine and Garcia-Alvarez, Pablo and Kennedy, Alan R. and Klett, Jan and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2010) Structurally engineered deprotonation/alumination of THF and THTP with retention of their cycloanionic structures. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 49 (49). pp. 9388-9391. ISSN 1521-3773

2009

Conway, Ben and Garcia-Alvarez, Joaquin and Hevia, Eva and Kennedy, Alan R. and Mulvey, Robert E. and Robertson, Stuart D. (2009) Contacted ion-pair lithium alkylamidoaluminates: intramolecular alumination (al-h exchange) traps for tmeda and pmdeta. Organometallics, 28 (22). pp. 6462-6468. ISSN 0276-7333

Robertson, Stuart D. and Chivers, Tristram and Tuononen, Heikki M. (2009) Experimental and theoretical investigations of the contact Ion pairs formed by reactions of the anions [(EPR2)(2)N](-) (R = Pr-i, Bu-t; E = S, Se) with the cations [(TePR2)(2)N](+) (R = Pr-i, Bu-t). Inorganic Chemistry, 48 (14). pp. 6755-6762. ISSN 1520-510X

Eisler, Dana J. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Chivers, Tristram (2009) Gold complexes of ditelluridoimidodiphosphinate ligands - reversible oxidation of Au(I) to Au(III) via insertion of gold into a phosphorus-tellurium bond. Canadian journal of chemistry-Revue canadienne de chimie, 87 (1). pp. 39-46. ISSN 0008-4042

Robertson, Stuart D. and Ritch, Jamie S. and Chivers, Tristram (2009) Palladium and platinum complexes of tellurium-containing imidodiphosphinate ligands : nucleophilic attack of Li[((PPr2)-Pr-i)((TePPr2)-Pr-i)N] on coordinated 1,5-cyclooctadiene. Dalton Transactions (40). pp. 8582-8592. ISSN 1472-7773

2008

Robertson, Stuart D. and Chivers, Tristram and Tuononen, Heikki M. (2008) Experimental and theoretical investigations of the redox behavior of the heterodichalcogenido ligands [((EPPr2)-Pr-i)((TePPr2)-Pr-i)N](-) (E = S, Se) : cyclic cations and acyclic dichalcogenide dimers. Inorganic Chemistry, 47 (22). pp. 10634-10643. ISSN 1520-510X

Levesanos, Nikolaos and Robertson, Stuart D. and Maganas, Dimitrios and Raptopoulou, Catherine P. and Terzis, Aris and Kyritsis, Panayotis and Chivers, Tristram (2008) Ni[((EPPr2)-Pr-i)(2)N](2) complexes : stereolsomers (E = se) and square-planar coordination (E = te). Inorganic Chemistry, 47 (8). pp. 2949-2951. ISSN 1520-510X

Robertson, Stuart D. and Chivers, Tristram (2008) Synthesis, NMR characterisation and X-ray structures of mixed chalcogenido PNP ligands containing tellurium : crystal structures of (SePr2PNP)-Pr-i(H)Pr-i(2) and [NaN((EPPr2)-Pr-i)(2)](infinity) (E = Se, Te). Dalton Transactions (13). pp. 1765-1772. ISSN 1472-7773

Robertson, Stuart D. and Chivers, Tristram and Akhtar, Javeed and Afzaal, Mohammad and O'Brien, Paul (2008) Nickel(II) complexes of heterodichalcogenido and monochalcogenido imidodiphosphinate ligands : AACVD synthesis of nickel ditelluride. Dalton Transactions (48). pp. 7004-7011. ISSN 1472-7773

2007

Robertson, Stuart D. and Chivers, Tristram and Konu, Jari (2007) Organo-aluminum, zinc and magnesium derivatives of the imidotris(amido)phosphate Me3SiNP((NHBu)-Bu-t)(3). Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 692 (20). pp. 4327-4336. ISSN 0022-328X

Robertson, Stuart D. and Slawin, Alexandra M. Z. and Woollins, J. Derek (2007) Constructing multimetallic systems with the naphthalene-1,8-bis(thiolato) ligand. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (2). pp. 247-253. ISSN 1434-1948

2006

Robertson, S D and Slawin, A M Z and Woollins, J D (2006) The preparation and characterisation of a series of group IV metallocene dithiolato complexes containing a naphthalene backbone. Polyhedron, 25 (4). pp. 823-826. ISSN 0277-5387

Robertson, S D and Slawin, A M Z and Woollins, J D (2006) 2-Iodobenzenesulfonyl chloride. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports, 62. O744-O745. ISSN 1600-5368

Aucott, S M and Kilian, P and Robertson, S D and Slawin, A M Z and Woollins, J D (2006) Platinum complexes of dibenzo[1,2]dithiin, dibenzo[1,2]dithiin oxides and related polyaromatic hydrocarbon ligands. Chemistry - A European Journal, 12 (3). pp. 895-902. ISSN 1521-3765

2005

Aucott, S M and Kilian, P and Milton, H L and Robertson, S D and Slawin, A M Z and Woollins, J D (2005) Bis(cyclopentadienyl)titanium complexes of naphthalene-1,8-dithiolates, biphenyl 2,2 '-dithiolates, and related ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, 44 (8). pp. 2710-2718. ISSN 1520-510X

Aucott, S M and Milton, H L and Robertson, S D and Slawin, A M Z and Woollins, J D (2005) Crystal structures of dibenzo[ce]-1,2-dithiine and its related oxides. Heteroatom Chemistry, 16 (5). pp. 346-351. ISSN 1042-7163

2004

Aucott, S M and Milton, H L and Robertson, S D and Slawin, A M Z and Walker, G D and Woollins, J D (2004) Platinum complexes of naphthalene-1,8-dichalcogen and related polyaromatic hydrocarbon ligands. Chemistry - A European Journal, 10 (7). pp. 1666-1676. ISSN 1521-3765

Aucott, S M and Milton, H L and Robertson, S D and Slawin, A M Z and Woollins, J D (2004) Crystal structures and molecular modeling of 1,8 chalcogenide-substituted naphthalenes. Heteroatom Chemistry, 15 (7). pp. 530-542. ISSN 1042-7163

Aucott, S M and Milton, H L and Robertson, S D and Slawin, A M Z and Woollins, J D (2004) The preparation and characterisation of bimetallic iridium(II) complexes containing derivatised bridging naphthalene-1,8-disulfur or 4,5-dithiolato acephenanthrylene ligands. Dalton Transactions (20). pp. 3347-3352. ISSN 1472-7773