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List of works by Adrian C Whitwood

1,2,4-Triazolium ions as flexible scaffolds for the construction of polyphilic ionic liquid crystals

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

A Remarkablecis- andtrans-Spanning Dibenzylidene Acetone Diphosphine Chelating Ligand (dbaphos)

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

A Structurally Characterized Fluoroalkyne

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A combined parahydrogen and theoretical study of H2 activation by 16-electron d8 ruthenium(0) complexes and their subsequent catalytic behaviour

scientific article published on 16 September 2004

A metal-based lumophore tailored to sense biologically relevant oxometalates

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

A mild and selective Pd-mediated methodology for the synthesis of highly fluorescent 2-arylated tryptophans and tryptophan-containing peptides: a catalytic role for Pd(0) nanoparticles?

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

A new polymorph and two inclusion compounds of 9,9'-spirobifluorene

scientific article published on 30 April 2005

A new reaction pathway in organophosphorus chemistry: competing S(N)2 and AE' pathways for nucleophilic attack at a phosphorus-carbon cage compound

scientific article published in May 2006

A para-hydrogen investigation of palladium-catalyzed alkyne hydrogenation

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

A versatile, non-biomimetic route to the preussomerins: syntheses of (+/-)-preussomerins F, K and L.

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Accelerated syntheses of amine-bis(phenol) ligands in polyethylene glycol or “on water” under microwave irradiation

Access to novel fluorovinylidene ligands via exploitation of outer-sphere electrophilic fluorination: new insights into C-F bond formation and activation

scientific article published on 24 December 2015

Activation of B-H, Si-H, and C-F bonds with Tp'Rh(PMe3) complexes: kinetics, mechanism, and selectivity

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Addition of N-heterocyclic carbenes to imines: phenoxide assisted deprotonation of an imidazolium moiety and generation of breslow intermediates derived from imines

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

An E.S.R. investigation of the reactive intermediate generated in the reaction between FeII and H2O2 in aqueous solution. Direct evidence for the formation of the hydroxyl radical

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

An NMR study of cobalt-catalyzed hydroformylation using para-hydrogen induced polarisation

scientific article published on 16 February 2009

AsCat and FurCat: new Pd catalysts for selective room-temperature Stille cross-couplings of benzyl chlorides with organostannanes

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Biocatalytic Aromaticity-Breaking Epoxidation of Naphthalene and Nucleophilic Ring-Opening Reactions

scientific article published on 12 February 2021

C-F Bond activation at Ni(0) and simple reactions of square planar Ni(II) fluoride complexes

scientific article published on 7 September 2005

Catalytic Transfer of Magnetism using a Neutral Iridium Phenoxide Complex.

scientific article published on June 2015

Comparison of rhenium-porphyrin dyads for CO2 photoreduction: photocatalytic studies and charge separation dynamics studied by time-resolved IR spectroscopy.

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Competing C-F activation pathways in the reaction of Pt(0) with fluoropyridines: phosphine-assistance versus oxidative addition

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Condensation of free volume in structures of nematic and hexatic liquid crystals

Copper amino-acid complexes – towards encapsulated metal centres

Copper-mediated construction of spirocyclic bis-oxindoles via a double C-H, Ar-H coupling process

scientific article published on 08 September 2014

Correctionto Iridium(III) Hydrido N-Heterocyclic Carbene–Phosphine Complexes as Catalysts in Magnetization Transfer Reactions.

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

Cu(I) complexes containing a multidentate and conformationally flexible dibenzylidene acetone ligand (dbathiophos): application in catalytic alkene cyclopropanation

scientific article published on 2 March 2011

Deactivation of signal amplification by reversible exchange catalysis, progress towards in vivo application.

scientific article published in June 2015

Detection of intermediates in cobalt-catalyzed hydroformylation using para-hydrogen-induced polarization

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Detection of platinum dihydride bisphosphine complexes and studies of their reactivity through para-hydrogen-enhanced NMR methods

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Dispersion, solvent and metal effects in the binding of gold cations to alkynyl ligands: implications for Au(I) catalysis

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Diversity and design of metal-based carbon monoxide-releasing molecules (CO-RMs) in aqueous systems: revealing the essential trends

scientific article published on 14 March 2009

EPR and modelling studies of hydrogen-abstraction reactions relevant to polyolefin cross-linking and grafting chemistry

scientific article published in April 2003

Electrocatalytic Proton Reduction by a Cobalt(III) Hydride Complex with Phosphinopyridine PN Ligands

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Emissive Metallomesogens Based on 2-Phenylpyridine Complexes of Iridium(III)

scientific article published on 17 March 2011

Energetics of halogen bonding of group 10 metal fluoride complexes

scientific article published on 18 August 2011

Experimental and computational studies of structure and bonding in parent and reduced forms of the azo dye Orange II

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Filling a niche in "ligand space" with bulky, electron-poor phosphorus (III) alkoxides

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

Fine-tuning the efficiency of para-hydrogen-induced hyperpolarization by rational N-heterocyclic carbene design

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Fluorinated liquid crystals formed by halogen bonding

scientific article published on 18 May 2006

Group 6 carbon monoxide-releasing metal complexes with biologically-compatible leaving groups

scientific article published on October 2010

Halogen- and hydrogen-bonded salts and co-crystals formed from 4-halo-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorophenol and cyclic secondary and tertiary amines: orthogonal and non-orthogonal halogen and hydrogen bonding, and synthetic analogues of halogen-bonded biologica

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Halogen-bonded liquid crystals of 4-alkoxystilbazoles with molecular iodine: a very short halogen bond and unusual mesophase stability

scientific article published on 02 April 2013

Harnessing asymmetric N-heterocyclic carbene ligands to optimise SABRE hyperpolarisation

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes between 4-Alkoxystilbazoles and Fluorophenols: Solid-State Structures and Liquid Crystallinity

scientific article published on 19 October 2012

Improving the photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO through immobilisation of a molecular Re catalyst on TiO2

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Intelligent Approach to Solvent Substitution: The Identification of a New Class of Levoglucosenone Derivatives

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Ion-tagged pi-acidic alkene ligands promote Pd-catalysed allyl-aryl couplings in an ionic liquid

scientific article published on 2 September 2009

Ionic N-phenylpyridinium tetracatenar mesogens: competing driving forces in mesophase formation and unprecedented difference in phase stabilisation within a homologous series

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Iridium Cyclooctene Complex That Forms a Hyperpolarization Transfer Catalyst before Converting to a Binuclear C-H Bond Activation Product Responsible for Hydrogen Isotope Exchange

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Iridium α -Carboxyimine Complexes Hyperpolarized with para -Hydrogen Exist in Nuclear Singlet States before Conversion into Iridium Carbonates

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Iridium(III) hydrido N-heterocyclic carbene-phosphine complexes as catalysts in magnetization transfer reactions

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Ischemia-reperfusion injury in cadaveric nonheart beating, cadaveric heart beating and live donor renal transplants

scientific article published in February 2006

Lipid peroxidation-dependent chemiluminescence from the cyclization of alkylperoxyl radicals to dioxetane radical intermediates

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Liquid-crystalline terpyridines

scientific article published in October 2007

Lithiation-electrophilic trapping of N-sulfonyl-activated ethylene aziridines

scientific article published on 17 November 2008

Manganese(I)-Catalyzed C-H Activation: The Key Role of a 7-Membered Manganacycle in H-Transfer and Reductive Elimination

scientific article published on 7 September 2016

Mechanistic insight into novel sulfoxide containing SABRE polarisation transfer catalysts

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Mechanistic insight into the ruthenium-catalysed anti-Markovnikov hydration of alkynes using a self-assembled complex: a crucial role for ligand-assisted proton shuttle processes

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

Mesomorphism and Photophysics of Some Metallomesogens Based on Hexasubstituted 2,2':6', 2''-Terpyridines

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Mild and Regioselective Pd(OAc)2-Catalyzed C-H Arylation of Tryptophans by [ArN2]X, Promoted by Tosic Acid.

scientific article published on 10 July 2017

New perspectives in hydroformylation: a para-hydrogen study

scientific article published on 07 July 2004

Nucleophilic substitution reactions of the tricyclic triphosphorus cage P3(CBu(t))2: a novel route to polyphosphorus phosphenium complexes

scientific article published on 3 April 2008

Observation of protein-derived (BSA) oxygen-centered radicals by EPR spin-trapping techniques

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

One-pot synthesis of functionalized piperid-4-ones: a four-component condensation

scientific article published on 06 June 2008

Optimisation of pyruvate hyperpolarisation using SABRE by tuning the active magnetisation transfer catalyst

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Organolithium-mediated conversion of beta-alkoxy aziridines into allylic sulfonamides: effect of the N-sulfonyl group and a formal synthesis of (+/-)-perhydrohistrionicotoxin

scientific article published on 09 September 2008

Outer-Sphere Electrophilic Fluorination of Organometallic Complexes

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Oxidation of organoplatinum(II) by coordinated dimethylsulfoxide: metal-metal bonded, dinuclear, liquid-crystalline complexes of platinum(III).

scientific article published on August 2010

Oxidative addition of ether O-methyl bonds at a Pt(0) centre

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

Palladium catalysed alkyne hydrogenation and oligomerisation: a parahydrogen based NMR investigation

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Para-hydrogen induced polarization without incorporation of para-hydrogen into the analyte

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Parahydrogen studies of H2 addition to Ir(I) complexes containing chiral phosphine-thioether ligands: implications for catalysis

scientific article published on 26 April 2006

Pd(0)/Cu(I)-mediated direct arylation of 2'-deoxyadenosines: mechanistic role of Cu(I) and reactivity comparisons with related purine nucleosides.

scientific article published in August 2009

Phosphorescent, liquid-crystalline complexes of platinum(ii): influence of the β-diketonate co-ligand on mesomorphism and emission properties

scientific article published on 01 December 2012

Photochemical Reactions of Fluorinated Pyridines at Half-Sandwich Rhodium Complexes: Competing Pathways of Reaction.

scientific article published on 31 December 2013

Photochemistry and photophysics of a Pd(II) metalloporphyrin: Re(I) tricarbonyl bipyridine molecular dyad and its activity toward the photoreduction of CO2 to CO

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Platinum(0)-mediated C-O bond activation of ethers via an SN2 mechanism.

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Polymer imprinting with iron-oxo-hydroxo clusters: [Fe6O2(OH)2(O2CC(Cl)CH2)12(H2O)2], [Fe6O2(OH)2(O2C–Ph–(CH)CH2)12(H2O)2] and [{Fe(O2CC(Cl)CH2)(OMe)2}10]

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Rapid Markovnikov addition of HCl to a pendant alkyne: evidence for a quinoidal cumulene

scientific article published on 01 June 2015

Redox Couple Involving NOx in Aerobic Pd-Catalyzed Oxidation of sp3-C-H Bonds: Direct Evidence for Pd-NO3-/NO2- Interactions Involved in Oxidation and Reductive Elimination.

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Redox-Tagged Carbon Monoxide-Releasing Molecules (CORMs): Ferrocene-Containing [Mn(C^N)(CO)4] Complexes as a Promising New CORM Class.

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Regiochemistry in cobalt-mediated intermolecular Pauson-Khand reactions of unsymmetrical internal heteroaromatic alkynes with norbornene

scientific article published on 02 June 2011

Remarkable anion effects uncovered in the development of a Au(III)-catalyzed tandem nucleophilic substitution-1,5-enyne cycloisomerization process

scientific article published on 15 February 2010

Ruthenium alkynyl, carbene and alkenyl complexes containing pendant uracil groups: an investigation into the formation of alkenyl-phosphonio complexes.

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

Ruthenium-mediated C-H functionalization of pyridine: the role of vinylidene and pyridylidene ligands

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

Selective photochemistry at stereogenic metal and ligand centers of cis-[Ru(diphosphine)2(H)2]: preparative, NMR, solid state, and laser flash studies.

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Self-assembly of a hydrogen bonded framework from a gold phosphine complex with a pendant uracil group

scientific article published on 6 April 2009

Self-complementary nickel halides enable multifaceted comparisons of intermolecular halogen bonds: fluoride ligands vs. other halides.

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Sequential C–F activation and borylation of fluoropyridines via intermediate Rh(i) fluoropyridyl complexes: a multinuclear NMR investigation

scientific article published on 26 June 2007

Simple and versatile selective synthesis of neutral and cationic copper(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes using an electrochemical procedure.

scientific article published on 13 April 2012

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking in halogen-bonded, bent-core liquid crystals: observation of a chemically driven Iso–N–N* phase sequence

scientific article published on 27 February 2008

Spontaneous transfer of parahydrogen derived spin order to pyridine at low magnetic field.

scientific article published in September 2009

Stereochemical nonrigidity of a chiral rhodium boryl hydride complex: a sigma-borane complex as transition state for isomerization

scientific article published on 8 March 2008

Stereocontrolled synthesis and alkylation of cyclic beta-amino esters: asymmetric synthesis of a (-)-sparteine surrogate

scientific article published on 2 October 2007

Stereocontrolled synthesis of the AB rings of samaderine C

scientific article published on 09 January 2013

Stereoselective aziridination of cyclic allylic alcohols using chloramine-T.

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Structural analysis of five-coordinate aluminium(salen) complexes and its relationship to their catalytic activity

scientific article published on 24 December 2020

Structural variation, dynamics, and catalytic application of palladium(II) complexes of di-N-heterocyclic carbene-amine ligands

scientific article published on 17 May 2007

Structure-function relationships in liquid-crystalline halogen-bonded complexes

scientific article published on August 2010

Studies on the synthesis of the ABC rings of (+/-)-hexacyclinic acid

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Syntheses of copper(I)cis-1,3,5-tri-iminocyclohexane complexes.

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Synthesis and characterisation of cis-dioxomolybdenum(VI) complexes of N-substituted 3-hydroxy-2-pyridinones.

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Synthesis and structure of "16-electron" rhodium(III) catalysts fortransfer hydrogenation of a cyclic imine: mechanistic implications

scientific article published on 2 October 2009

Synthesis of a series of new platinum organometallic complexes derived from bidentate Schiff-base ligands and their catalytic activity in the hydrosilylation and dehydrosilylation of styrene

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Synthesis of rhodium(I) and iridium(I) complexes of chiral N-heterocyclic carbenes and their application to asymmetric transfer hydrogenation

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Synthesis of sparteine-like chiral diamines and evaluation in the enantioselective lithiation-substitution of N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)pyrrolidine.

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Synthesis ofP-Stereogenic Compounds via Kinetic Deprotonation and Dynamic Thermodynamic Resolution of Phosphine Sulfides: Opposite Sense of Induction Using (−)-Sparteine

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Synthesis, Mesomorphism, and Photophysics of 2,5-Bis(dodecyloxyphenyl)pyridine Complexes of Platinum(IV)

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Synthesis, characterization, solid-state structures, and spectroscopic properties of two catechol-based luminescent chemosensors for biologically relevant oxometalates

scientific article published on 06 July 2007

Synthesis, coordination chemistry and bonding of strong N-donor ligands incorporating the 1H-pyridin-(2E)-ylidene (PYE) motif

scientific article published in October 2009

Tetra-μ2-acetato-diacetatodi-μ3-hydroxido-tetrakis[piperidinecopper(II)] dihydrate

scientific article published on 10 March 2011

The Contrasting Character of Early and Late Transition Metal Fluorides as Hydrogen Bond Acceptors

scientific article published on 03 September 2015

The effects of chelating agents on radical generation in alkaline peroxide systems, and the relevance to substrate damage

scientific article published in May 2007

The elusive structure of Pd2(dba)3. Examination by isotopic labeling, NMR spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction analysis: synthesis and characterization of Pd2(dba-Z)3 complexes

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

The reaction of an iridium PNP complex with parahydrogen facilitates polarisation transfer without chemical change.

scientific article published in January 2015

Transition metal vinylidene complexes as supramolecular building blocks: nucleobase-mediated self-assembly of crystals with hexagonal symmetry

scientific article published on 29 August 2007

Trimeric liquid crystals assembled using both hydrogen and halogen bonding

scientific article published on 20 October 2008

Unexpected Z-stereoselectivity in the Ramberg-Bäcklund reaction of diarylsulfones leading to cis-stilbenes: the effect of aryl substituents and application in the synthesis of the integrastatin nucleus.

scientific article published on 9 February 2005

Unexpected, photochemically induced activation of the tetrabutylammonium cation by hexachloroplatinate(iv)

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Unprecedented reductive cyclisation of salophen ligands to tetrahydroquinoxalines during metal complex formation

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Using coligands to gain mechanistic insight into iridium complexes hyperpolarized with para-hydrogen

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Using para hydrogen induced polarization to study steps in the hydroformylation reaction

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Using signal amplification by reversible exchange (SABRE) to hyperpolarise 119Sn and 29Si NMR nuclei.

scientific article published on December 2016

[Ru(η5-C5H5)(η6-C10H8)]PF6 as a catalyst precursor for the one-pot direct C-H alkenylation of nitrogen heterocycles

scientific article published in March 2014

cis-1,3,5-Triaminocyclohexane as a facially capping ligand for ruthenium(II)

scientific article published on 22 March 2013

gem-Dimethylcyclopropanation of dibenzylideneacetone using triisopropyl sulfoxonium tetrafluoroborate.

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