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Nocera, Giuseppe and Robb, Iain and Clark, Kenneth F. and McGuire, Thomas M. and Evans, Laura and Chiba, Shunsuke and Murphy, John A. (2024) Reductive activation of arenes by potassium metal with potassium salts. Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 11 (18). pp. 5099-5106. ISSN 2052-4129

Robb, Iain and Murphy, John A. (2024) Direct, selective α-aryloxyalkyl radical cyanation and allylation of aryl alkyl ethers. Organic Letters, 26 (11). pp. 2218-2222. ISSN 1523-7060

Pratley, Cassie and Fenner, Sabine and Murphy, John A. (2024) Ground state generation and cyclization of aminium radicals in the formation of tetrahydroquinolines. Organic Letters, 26 (6). pp. 1287-1292. ISSN 1523-7060

Tyerman, Seb and Robertson, Craig M. and Murphy, John A. (2024) Radical coupling of aryl halides to arenes facilitated by Ni(COD)(DQ) and other nickel sources. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 22 (5). pp. 1023-1026. ISSN 1477-0520

Clark, Kenneth F. and Tyerman, Seb and Evans, Laura and Robertson, Craig M. and Murphy, John A. (2024) An assay for aryl radicals using BHAS coupling. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 22 (5). pp. 1018-1022. ISSN 1477-0520

Clark, Kenneth F. and Tyerman, Seb and Evans, Laura and Robertson, Craig M. and Nelson, David J. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Murphy, John A. (2023) A hierarchy of ligands controls formation and reaction of aryl radicals in Pd-catalyzed ground state base-promoted coupling reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145 (38). pp. 20849-20858. ISSN 1520-5126

Meger, Filip S. and Murphy, John A. (2023) Recent advances in C–H functionalisation through indirect hydrogen atom transfer. Molecules, 28 (16). 6127. ISSN 1420-3049

Anderson, Joseph M. and Measom, Nicholas D. and Murphy, John A. and Poole, Darren L. (2023) Bridge heteroarylation of bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane derivatives. Organic Letters, 25 (12). 2053–2057. ISSN 1523-7060

Dimitrova, Daniela and McMahon, Connor and Kennedy, Alan R. and Parkinson, John A. and Leach, Stuart G. and Boulton, Lee T. and Pascoe, David D. and Murphy, John A. (2022) A study of the reactivity of cyclic aminomethylammonium mannich salts. Tetrahedron, 128. 133120. ISSN 0040-4020

Bell, Jonathan D. and Robb, Iain and Murphy, John A. (2022) Highly selective α-aryloxyalkyl C–H functionalisation of aryl alkyl ethers. Chemical Science, 13 (43). pp. 12921-12926. ISSN 2041-6539

Pratley, Cassie and Fenner, Sabine and Murphy, John A. (2022) Nitrogen-centered radicals in functionalization of sp2 systems : generation, reactivity, and applications in synthesis. Chemical Reviews, 122 (9). pp. 8181-8260. ISSN 0009-2665

Anderson, Joseph M. and Measom, Nicholas D. and Murphy, John A. and Poole, Darren L. (2021) Bridge functionalisation of bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane derivatives. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60 (47). pp. 24754-24769. ISSN 1521-3773

Kolodziejczak, Krystian and Stewart, Alexander J. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2021) Radical and ionic mechanisms in rearrangements of o-tolyl aryl ethers and amines initiated by the Grubbs-Stoltz reagent, Et3SiH/KOtBu. Molecules, 26 (22). 6879. ISSN 1420-3049

Bell, Jonathan D. and Murphy, John A. (2021) Recent advances in visible light-activated radical coupling reactions triggered by (i) ruthenium, (ii) iridium and (iii) organic photoredox agents. Chemical Society Reviews, 50 (17). pp. 9540-9685. ISSN 0306-0012

Lippa, Rhys A. and Battersby, David J. and Murphy, John A. and Barrett, Tim N. (2021) Synthesis of arylethylamines via C(sp3)–C(sp3) palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86 (4). 3583–3604. ISSN 0022-3263

Lippa, Rhys A. and Barrett, John and Pal, Sandeep and Rowedder, James E. and Murphy, John A. and Barrett, Tim N. (2020) Discovery of the first potent and selective αvβ5 integrin inhibitor based on an amide-containing core. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 208. 112719. ISSN 0223-5234

Smith, Andrew J. and Dimitrova, Daniela and Arokianathar, Jude N. and Clark, Kenneth F. and Poole, Darren L. and Leach, Stuart G. and Murphy, John A. (2020) Et3SiH + KOtBu provide multiple reactive intermediates that compete in the reactions and rearrangements of benzylnitriles and indolenines. Chemical Science, 11 (45). pp. 12364-12370. ISSN 2041-6539

Lawson, Connor A. and Dominey, Andrew P. and Williams, Glynn D. and Murphy, John A. (2020) Visible light-mediated smiles rearrangements and annulations of non-activated aromatics. Chemical Communications, 56 (77). pp. 11445-11448. ISSN 1359-7345

Rohrbach, Simon and Murphy, John A. and Tuttle, Tell (2020) Computational study on the boundary between the concerted and stepwise mechanism of bimolecular SNAr reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142 (35). pp. 14871-14876. ISSN 1520-5126

Lippa, Rhys A. and Murphy, John A. and Barrett, Tim N. (2020) Facile synthesis of 7-alkyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,8-naphthyridines as arginine mimetics using a Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons-based approach. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 16. pp. 1617-1626. ISSN 1860-5397

Arokianathar, Jude N. and Kolodziejczak, Krystian and Bugden, Frances E. and Clark, Kenneth F. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2020) Benzylic C-H functionalisation by [Et3SiH + KOtBu] leads to radical rearrangements in o-tolylaryl ethers, amines. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 362 (11). pp. 2260-2267. ISSN 1615-4150

Smith, Andrew J. and Dimitrova, Daniela and Arokianathar, Jude N. and Kolodziejczak, Krystian and Young, Allan and Allison, Mark and Poole, Darren L. and Leach, Stuart G. and Parkinson, John A. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2020) New reductive rearrangement of N-Arylindoles triggered by the Grubbs-Stoltz reagent Et3SiH/KOtBu. Chemical Science, 11 (14). pp. 3719-3726. ISSN 2041-6539

Shah, Rishi R. and Redmond, Joanna M. and Mihut, Andrei and Menon, Malini and Evans, John P. and Murphy, John A. and Bartholomew, Michelle A. and Coe, Diane M. (2020) Hi-JAK-ing the ubiquitin system : the design and physicochemical optimisation of JAK PROTACs. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 28 (5). 115326. ISSN 0968-0896

Palumbo, Fabrizio and Rohrbach, Simon and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2019) N-Silylation of amines mediated by Et3SiH/KOtBu. Helvetica Chimica Acta, 102 (12). pp. 1-8. e1900235. ISSN 0018-019X

Smith, Andrew J. and Poole, Darren L. and Murphy, John A. (2019) The role of organic electron donors in the initiation of BHAS base-induced coupling reactions between haloarenes and arenes. Science China Chemistry, 62 (11). pp. 1425-1438. ISSN 1869-1870

Rohrbach, Simon and Smith, Andrew J. and Pang, Jia Hao and Poole, Darren L. and Tuttle, Tell and Chiba, Shunsuke and Murphy, John A. (2019) Concerted nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (46). pp. 16368-16388. ISSN 1521-3773

Rohrbach, Simon and Smith, Andrew J. and Pang, Jia Hao and Poole, Darren L. and Tuttle, Tell and Chiba, Shunsuke and Murphy, John A. (2019) Konzertierte nukleophile aromatische Substitutionen. Angewandte Chemie, 131 (46). pp. 16518-16540. ISSN 1521-3773

Nocera, Giuseppe and Murphy, John A. (2019) Ground state cross-coupling of haloarenes with arenes initiated by organic electron donors, formed in situ : an overview. Synthesis, 51. ISSN 0039-7881

Rohrbach, Simon and Shah, Rushabh S. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2019) Neutral organic super electron donors made catalytic. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (33). pp. 11454-11458. ISSN 1521-3773

Turner, Oliver J. and Murphy, John A. and Hirst, David J. and Talbot, Eric P. A. (2018) Hydrogen atom transfer‐mediated cyclisations of nitriles. Chemistry - A European Journal, 24 (70). 18658–18662. ISSN 1521-3765

Cumine, Florimond and Palumbo, Fabrizio and Murphy, John A. (2018) Reduction of nitroarenes, azoarenes and hydrazine derivatives by an organic electron donor. Tetrahedron, 74 (38). pp. 5539-5545. ISSN 0040-4020

Barham, Joshua P. and Dalton, Samuel E. and Allison, Mark and Nocera, Giuseppe and Young, Allan and John, Matthew P. and McGuire, Thomas and Campos, Sébastien and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2018) Dual roles for potassium hydride in haloarene reduction : CSNAr and SET reduction via organic electron donors formed in benzene. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140 (36). pp. 11510-11518. ISSN 1520-5126

Bogdos, Michael K. and Pinard, Emmanuel and Murphy, John A. (2018) Applications of organocatalysed visible-light redox reactions for medicinal chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018 (14). pp. 2035-2064. ISSN 1860-5397

Nocera, Giuseppe and Young, Allan and Palumbo, Fabrizio and Emery, Katie J. and Coulthard, Graeme and McGuire, Thomas and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2018) Electron transfer reactions : KOtBu (but not NaOtBu) photoreduces benzophenone under activation by visible light. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140 (30). 9751–9757. ISSN 1520-5126

Emery, Katie J. and Young, Allan and Arokianathar, J. Norman and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2018) KOtBu as a single electron donor? Revisiting the halogenation of alkanes with CBr4 and CCl4. Molecules, 23 (5). 1055. ISSN 1420-3049

Dalton, Samuel E. and Dittus, Lars and Thomas, Daniel A. and Convery, Máire A. and Nunes, Joao and Bush, Jacob T. and Evans, John P. and Werner, Thilo and Bantscheff, Marcus and Murphy, John A. and Campos, Sebastien (2018) Selectively targeting the kinome-conserved lysine of PI3K (delta) as a general approach to covalent kinase inhibition. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140 (3). pp. 932-939. ISSN 1520-5126

Cumine, Florimond and Young, Allan and Reissig, Hans-Ulrich and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2017) A computational study of anionic alkoxide–allene and amide–allene cyclizations. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017 (46). pp. 6867-6871. ISSN 1434-193X

Emery, Katie J. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2017) Evidence of single electron transfer from the enolate anion of an N,N'-dialkyldiketopiperazine additive in BHAS coupling reactions. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15 (41). pp. 8810-8819. ISSN 1477-0520

Smith, Andrew J. and Young, Allan and Rohrbach, Simon and O'Connor, Erin F. and Allison, Mark and Wang, Hong-Shuang and Poole, Darren L. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2017) Electron transfer and hydride transfer pathways in the Stoltz-Grubbs reducing system (KOtBu-Et3SiH). Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56 (44). 13747–13751. ISSN 1521-3773

Cumine, Florimond and Zhou, Shengze and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2017) A study of diketopiperazines as electron-donor initiators in transition metal-free haloarene-arene coupling. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15. 3324 - 3336. ISSN 1477-0520

Emery, Katie J. and Murphy, John A. and Tuttle, Tell (2017) Effect of solvent on radical cyclisation pathways : SRN1 vs. aryl-aryl bond forming mechanisms. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15 (4). pp. 920-927. ISSN 1477-0520

Emery, Katie J. and Tuttle, Tell and Kennedy, Alan R. and Murphy, John A. (2016) C-C bond-forming reactions of ground-state aryl halides under reductive activation. Tetrahedron, 72 (48). pp. 7875-7887. ISSN 0040-4020

Barham, Joshua P. and John, Matthew P. and Murphy, John A. (2016) Contra-thermodynamic hydrogen atom abstraction in the selective C−H functionalization of trialkylamine N‑CH3 groups. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138 (47). pp. 15482-87. ISSN 1520-5126

Barham, Joshua P. and Coulthard, Graeme and Emery, Katie J. and Doni, Eswararao and Cumine, Florimond and Nocera, Giuseppe and John, Matthew P. and Berlouis, Leonard E. A. and McGuire, Thomas and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2016) KOtBu : a privileged reagent for electron transfer reactions? Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138 (23). pp. 7402-7410. ISSN 1520-5126

Massey, Richard S. and Quinn, Peter and Zhou, Shengze and Murphy, John A. and O'Donoghue, Annmarie C. (2016) Proton transfer reactions of a bridged bis-propyl bis-imidazolium salt. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. ISSN 0894-3230

Anderson, Greg M and Cameron, Iain and Murphy, John A. and Tuttle, Tell (2016) Predicting the reducing power of organic super electron donors. RSC Advances, 6 (14). pp. 11335-11343. ISSN 2046-2069

Barham, Joshua P and Coulthard, Graeme and Kane, Ryan G and Delgado, Nathan and John, Matthew P and Murphy, John A (2016) Double deprotonation of pyridinols generates potent organic electron donor initiators for haloarene-arene coupling. Agewandte Chemie-International Edition, 55. pp. 4492-4496. ISSN 1521-3773

Hanson, Samuel S. and Doni, Eswararao and Traboulsee, Kyle T. and Coulthard, Graeme and Murphy, John A. and Dyker, C. Adam (2015) Pushing the limits of neutral organic electron donors : A tetra(iminophosphorano)-substituted bispyridinylidene. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54 (38). pp. 11236-11239. ISSN 1521-3773

Doni, Eswararao and Zhou, Shengze and Murphy, John A. (2015) Electron transfer-induced coupling of haloarenes to styrenes and 1,1-diphenylethenes triggered by diketopiperazines and potassium tert-butoxide. Molecules, 20 (2). pp. 1755-1774. ISSN 1420-3049

Zhou, Shengze and Doni, Eswararao and Anderson, Greg M. and Kane, Ryan G. and MacDougall, Scott W. and Ironmonger, Victoria M. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2014) Identifying the roles of amino acids, alcohols and 1,2-diamines as mediators in coupling of haloarenes to arenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136 (51). pp. 17818-17826. ISSN 1520-5126

Barham, Joshua and John, Matthew P and Murphy, John A (2014) One-pot functionalisation of N-substituted tetrahydroisoquinolines by photooxidation and tunable organometallic trapping of iminium intermediates. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 10. pp. 2981-2988. ISSN 1860-5397

Doni, E and Murphy, J. A. (2014) Evolution of neutral organic super-electron-donors and their applications. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 50 (46). pp. 6073-6087. ISSN 0022-4936

Murphy, J. A. (2014) Discovery and development of organic super-electron-donors. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 79 (9). 3731−3746. ISSN 0022-3263

Zhou, Sheng-Ze and Anderson, Greg M and Mondal, Bhaskar and Doni, Eswararao and Ironmonger, Vicki and Kranz, Michael and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, J A (2014) Organic super-electron-donors : initiators in transition metal-free haloarene-arene coupling. Chemical Science, 5 (2). pp. 476-482. ISSN 2041-6539

O'Sullivan, Steven and Doni, Eswararao and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A (2014) Metal-free reductive cleavage of C-N and S-N bonds by photoactivated electron transfer from a neutral organic donor. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53 (2). 474–478. ISSN 1521-3773

Farwaha, Hardeep S and Bucher, Gotz and Murphy, John A (2013) A novel neutral organic electron donor with record half-wave potential. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 11. pp. 8073-8081. ISSN 1477-0520

Doni, Eswararao and Mondal, Bhaskar and O'Sullivan, Steven and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A (2013) Overturning established chemoselectivities : selective reduction of arenes over malonates and cyanoacetates by photoactivated organic electron donors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135 (30). pp. 10934-10937. ISSN 1520-5126

Ueda, Mitsuhiro and Uenoyama, Yoshitaka and Terasoma, Nozomi and Doi, Shoko and Kobayashi, Shoji and Ryu, Ilhyong and Murphy, John A. (2013) A construction of 4,4-spirocyclic γ-lactams by tandem radical cyclization with carbon monoxide. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 9. pp. 1340-1345. ISSN 1860-5397

Doni, Eswararao and O'Sullivan, Steven and Murphy, John A (2013) Metal-free reductive cleavage of benzylic esters and ethers, fragmentations result from single and double electron transfers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52 (8). pp. 2239-2242. ISSN 1521-3773

Bochatay, Valentin and Boissarie, Patrick and Murphy, John A and Suckling, Colin and Lang, Stuart (2013) Mechanistic exploration of the palladium-catalysed process for the synthesis of benzoxazoles and benzothiazoles. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 78 (4). pp. 1471-1477. ISSN 0022-3263

Sword, Ryan and O'Sullivan, Steven and Murphy, John A (2013) A novel organic electron donor derived from N-methylisatin. Australian Journal of Chemistry, 66 (3). pp. 314-322. ISSN 0004-9425

Kovacevic, Luka S and Idziak, Christopher and Markevicius, Augustinas and Scullion, Callum and Corr, Michael James and Kennedy, Alan and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A (2012) Superelectrophilic amidine dications : dealkylation by triflate anion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51 (34). pp. 8516-8519. ISSN 1521-3773

Zhou, Sheng-Ze and Farwaha, Hardeep and Murphy, John A (2012) The development of organic super electron donors. CHIMIA, 66 (6). pp. 418-424.

Cahard, Elise and Schoenebeck, Franziska and Garnier, Jean and Cutulic, Sylvain and Zhou, Sheng-Ze and Murphy, John A (2012) Electron transfer to benzenes by photoactivated neutral organic electron donor molecules. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51 (15). pp. 3673-3676. ISSN 1521-3773

Jolly, Phillip I. and Zhou, Shengze and Thomson, Douglas W. and Garnier, Jean and Parkinson, John A. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2012) Imidazole-derived carbenes and their elusive tetraazafulvalene dimers. Chemical Science, 3 (5). pp. 1675-1679. ISSN 2041-6539

Boissarie, Patrick and Hamilton, Zoe and Lang, Stuart and Murphy, John A and Suckling, Colin (2012) Pd-catalyzed three-component synthesis of oxazolines and benzoxazoles. SYNFACTS, 8 (2). p. 138.

Garnier, Jean and THOMSON, Douglas William and Zhou, Sheng-Ze and Jolly, Phillip I and Berlouis, Leonard E A and Murphy, John A (2012) Hybrid super electron donors - preparation and reactivity. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 8. pp. 994-1002. ISSN 1860-5397

Murphy, John A. and Zhou, Sheng-Ze and Jolly, Phillip I and Fleary-Roberts, Nadia and O'Sullivan, Steven and Doni, Eswararao (2012) Reactions of triflate esters and triflamides with an organic neutral super-electron-donor. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 10. pp. 5807-5810. ISSN 1477-0520

Boissarie, Patrick and Hamilton, Zoe and Lang, Stuart and Murphy, John and Suckling, Colin (2011) A powerful palladium-catalyzed multicomponent process for the preparation of oxazolines and benzoxazoles. Organic Letters, 13 (23). pp. 6256-6259. ISSN 1523-7060

Corr, Michael J and Murphy, John A (2011) Evolution in the understanding of [Fe]-hydrogenase. Chemical Society Reviews, 40 (5). pp. 2279-2292. ISSN 0306-0012

Sword, Ryan and Baldwin, Luke A. and Murphy, John A. (2011) Fragmentations observed in the reactions of a-methoxy-c-alkoxyalkyl iodide substrates with super-electron-donors derived from 4-DMAP and N-methylbenzimidazole. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 9 (9). pp. 3560-3570. ISSN 1477-0520

Findlay, Neil and Park, Stuart Robert and Schoenebeck, Franziska and Cahard, Elise and Zhou, Sheng-Ze and Berlouis, Leonard and Spicer, Mark and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John (2010) Reductions of challenging organic substrates by a nickel complex of a noninnocent crown carbene ligand. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132 (44). pp. 15462-15464. ISSN 1520-5126

Murphy, John A. (2010) Physical organic chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 6 (1025). p. 1025. ISSN 1860-5397

Garnier, Jean and Kennedy, A.R. and Berlouis, L.E.A. and Turner, Andrew T. and Murphy, J.A. (2010) Structure and reactivity in neutral organic electron donors derived from 4-dimethylaminopyridine. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 6 (73).

Macleod, Fraser and Lang, Stuart and Murphy, John A. (2010) The 2-(2-Azidoethyl)cycloalkanone strategy for bridged amides and medium-sized cyclic amine derivatives in the Aubé-Schmidt reaction. Synlett, 2010 (4). pp. 529-534. ISSN 0936-5214

Park, Stuart R and Findlay, Neil J and Garnier, Jean and Zhou, Sheng-Ze and Spicer, Mark and Murphy, John A (2009) Electron transfer activity of a cobalt crown carbene complex. Tetrahedron, 65 (52). pp. 10756-10761. ISSN 0040-4020

Cutulic, S.P.Y. and Findlay, N.J. and Zhou, S.Z. and Chrystal, E.J.T. and Murphy, J.A. (2009) Metal-free reductive cleavage of c-o sigma-bonds in acyloin derivatives by an organic neutral super-electron-donor. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 74 (22). pp. 8713-8718. ISSN 0022-3263

Corr, Michael J and Roydhouse, Mark D and Gibson, Kirsty F and Zhou, Sheng-Ze and Kennedy, Alan R and Murphy, John A (2009) Amidine dications as superelectrophiles. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (49). pp. 17980-17985. ISSN 1520-5126

Corr, M.J. and Gibson, K.F. and Kennedy, A.R. and Murphy, J.A. (2009) Amidine dications : isolation and [fe]-hydrogenase-related hydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (26). pp. 9174-9175. ISSN 1520-5126

Hisler, K. and Commeureuc, A.G.J. and Zhou, S.Z. and Murphy, J.A., EPSRC (Funder), WestCHEM (Funder) (2009) Synthesis of indoles via alkylidenation of acyl hydrazides. Tetrahedron Letters, 50 (26). pp. 3290-3293. ISSN 0040-4039

Murphy, J.A. and Schoenebeck, F. and Findlay, N.J. and Thomson, D.W. and Zhou, S.Z. and Garnier, J. (2009) One-carbon extrusion from a tetraazafulvalene. Isolation of aldehydes and a study of their origin. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (18). pp. 6475-6479. ISSN 1520-5126

Mahesh, Mohan and Murphy, J.A. and LeStrat, Franck and Wessel, Hans Peter (2009) Reduction of arenediazonium salts by tetrakis(dimethylamino)ethylene (TDAE): Efficient formation of products derived from aryl radicals. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 5 (1). ISSN 1860-5397

Cutulic, S.P.Y. and Murphy, J.A. and Farwaha, H. and Zhou, S.Z. and Chrystal, E. (2008) Metal-free reductive cleavage of N-O bonds in Weinreb amides by an organic neutral super-electron donor. Synlett (14). pp. 2132-2136. ISSN 0936-5214

Garnier, J. and Murphy, J.A. and Zhou, S.Z. and Turner, A.T., EPRSC (Funder), University of Strathclyde (Funder), AstraZeneca (Funder) (2008) One-pot reduction of aryl iodides using 4-dmap methiodide salt. Synlett (14). pp. 2127-2131. ISSN 0936-5214

Murphy, J.A. and Garnier, J. and Park, S.R. and Schoenebeck, F. and Zhou, S.Z. and Turner, A.T. (2008) Super-electron donors : bis-pyridinylidene formation by base treatment of pyridinium salts. Organic Letters, 10 (6). pp. 1227-1230. ISSN 1523-7060

Schoenebeck, Fransziska and Murphy, John A. and Zhou, Sheng-ze and Uenoyama, Yoshitaka and Miclo, Yves and Tuttle, Tell (2007) Reductive cleavage of sulfones and sulfonamides by neutral organic super electron-donor (S.E.D.) reagent. Journal of American Chemical Society, 129 (44). pp. 13368-13369. ISSN 1520-5126

McKie, Ross and Murphy, J.A. and Park, S.R. and Spicer, M.D. and Zhou, S. (2007) Homoleptic crown n-heterocyclic carbene complexes. Agewandte Chemie-International Edition, 46 (34). pp. 6525-6528. ISSN 1521-3773

Murphy, John A. and Mahesh, Mohan and McPheators, Gary and Anand, R. Vijaya and McGuire, Thomas M. and Carling, Robert and Kennedy, Alan R. (2007) Fragmentation of nitrone triflates to 9-membered rings. Organic Letters, 9 (17). pp. 3233-3236. ISSN 1523-7060

Suckling, C.J. and Murphy, J.A. and Khalaf, A.I. and Zhou, S. and Lizos, D.E. and Nguyen Van Nhien, A. and Yasumatsu, H. and McVie, A. and Young, L.C. and McCraw, C. and Waterman, P.G. and Morris, B.J. and Pratt, J.A. and Harvey, A. (2007) M4 agonists/5HT7 antagonists with potential as antischizophrenic drugs: serominic compounds. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 17 (9). pp. 2649-2655. ISSN 0960-894X

Murphy, J.A. and Zhou, S. and Tuttle, C.T. and Schoenebeck, F. and Mohan, M. and Park, S.R. and Berlouis, L.E.A. and Thomson, D.W. (2007) Generation of aryl anions by double electron transfer to aryl iodides from a neutral ground-state organic super electron donor (SED). Agewandte Chemie-International Edition, 46. pp. 5178-5183. ISSN 1521-3773

Khan, T.A. and Murphy, J.A. (2006) Highly efficient reduction of unactivated aryl and alkyl iodides by a ground-state neutral organic electron donor. Abstracts of papers - American Chemical Society, 231.

Lang, Stuart and Murphy, John (2006) Azide rearrangements in electron-deficient systems. Chemical Society Reviews, 35. pp. 146-156. ISSN 0306-0012

Lang, Stuart and Corr, Michael and Muir, Neil and Khan, Tanweer and Schonebeck, Franziska and Murphy, John and Payne, Andrew and Williams, Andrew (2005) First organophosphorus radical-mediated cyclisations to afford medium-sized rings : eight-membered lactones and seven- and eight-membered lactams. Tetrahedron Letters, 46 (23). pp. 4027-4030. ISSN 0040-4039

Murphy, J.A. and Khan, T.A. and Zhou, S. and Mohan, M. and Thomson, D.W. (2005) Highly efficient reduction of unactivated aryl and alkyl iodides by a ground-state neutral organic electron donor. Angewandte Chemie, 44 (9). pp. 1356-1360. ISSN 1521-3773

Lang, Stuart and Kennedy, Alan R. and Murphy, John A. and Payne, Andrew H. (2003) Amination of arenes through electron-deficient reaction cascades of aryl epoxyazides. Organic Letters, 5 (20). pp. 3655-3658. ISSN 1523-7060

Lizos, D.E. and Murphy, J.A. (2003) Concise synthesis of (±)-horsfiline and (±)-coerulescine by tandem cyclisation of iodoaryl alkenyl azides. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 1 (1). pp. 117-122. ISSN 1477-0520

Murphy, J.A. and Khan, T.A. and Tripoli, R. and Crawford, J.J. and Martin, C.G. (2003) Diethylphosphine oxide (DEPO): high-yielding and facile preparation of indolones in water. Organic Letters, 5 (16). pp. 2971-2974. ISSN 1523-7060

Murphy, J.A. and Zhou, S. and Bommezijn, S. (2002) Formal total synthesis of (+/-)-vindoline by tandem radical cyclization. Organic Letters, 4 (3). pp. 443-445. ISSN 1523-7060

Bommezijn, Sacha and Martin, Concepcion Gonzalez and Kennedy, Alan R. and Lizos, Dimitrios and Murphy, John A. (2001) 1,4-pentadienyl-3-sulfonamides: Frameworks for disfavored radical cascade cyclizations. Organic Letters, 3 (21). pp. 3405-3407. ISSN 1523-7060

Zhou, S.Z. and Bommezijn, S. and Murphy, J.A. (2001) Formal total synthesis of (+/-)Vindoline by tandem radical cyclization. Abstracts of papers - American Chemical Society, 222 (2). U75-U75. ISSN 0065-7727

Murphy, J.A. and Scott, K.A. and Sinclair, R.S. and Martin, C.G. and Kennedy, A.R. and Lewis, N. (2000) A radical based addition-elimination route for the preparation of indoles. Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, 2000 (15). pp. 2395-2408. ISSN 1472-7781

Callaghan, O. and Lampard, C. and Kennedy, A.R. and Murphy, J.A. (1999) A novel route to (+/-)-aspidospermidine: first application of 'radical-polar crossover' reactions to total synthesis. Tetrahedron Letters, 40 (1). pp. 161-164. ISSN 0040-4039

Koizumi, T. and Bashir, N. and Kennedy, A.R. and Murphy, J.A. (1999) Diazadithiafulvalenes as electron donor reagents. Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, 1999 (24). pp. 3637-3643. ISSN 1472-7781

Callaghan, O. and Lampard, C. and Kennedy, A.R. and Murphy, J.A. (1999) A novel total synthesis of (+/-)-aspidospermidine. Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, 1999 (8). pp. 995-1002. ISSN 1472-7781

Book Section

Scullion, Callum and Murphy, J A; Weigand, Wolfgang and Scholhammer, Philippe, eds. (2014) The third hydrogenase. In: Bioinspired Catalysis. John Wiley & Sons Inc., pp. 105-136. ISBN 978-3-527-33308-0

Murphy, John A.; Studer, A and Chatgilialoglu, C, eds. (2012) Organic electron donors. In: Encyclopaedia of Radicals in Chemistry, Biology and Materials. John Wiley & Sons Inc., pp. 817-847. ISBN 9780470971253