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List of works by Stuart D Robertson

1-Alkali-metal-2-alkyl-1,2-dihydropyridines: Soluble Hydride Surrogates for Catalytic Dehydrogenative Coupling and Hydroboration Applications

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2-Iodobenzenesulfonyl chloride

A hetero-alkali-metal version of the utility amide LDA: lithium-potassium diisopropylamide

scientific article published on 9 January 2013

A μ4-oxide-containing a dimeric variant of a sodium dialkyl(amido)zincate reagent

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Accessible heavier s-block dihydropyridines: structural elucidation and reactivity of isolable molecular hydride sources

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Accessing low denticity coordination modes of a high denticity tripodal ligand to complete its coordinative repertoire

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Adding a Structural Context to the Deprotometalation and Trans-Metal Trapping Chemistry of Phenyl-Substituted Benzotriazole.

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

After-effects of lithium-mediated alumination of 3-iodoanisole: isolation of molecular salt elimination and trapped-benzyne products

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Ambient temperature zincation of N-Boc pyrrolidine and its solvent dependency

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Bis(cyclopentadienyl)titanium complexes of naphthalene-1,8-dithiolates, biphenyl 2,2'-dithiolates, and related ligands.

scientific article published in April 2005

Concealed cyclotrimeric polymorph of lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide unconcealed: X-ray crystallographic and NMR spectroscopic studies

scientific article published on 9 September 2013

Constructing Multimetallic Systems with the Naphthalene-1,8-bis(thiolato) Ligand

Contrasting the group 6 metal-metal bonding in sodium dichromate(ii) and sodium dimolybdate(ii) polymethyl complexes: synthetic, X-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies.

scientific article published in February 2017

Crystal structures and molecular modeling of 1,8 chalcogenide-substituted naphthalenes

Crystal structures of dibenzo[ce]-1,2-dithiine and its related oxides

article published in 2005

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

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Developing catalytic applications of cooperative bimetallics: competitive hydroamination/trimerization reactions of isocyanates catalysed by sodium magnesiates

scientific article published in October 2013

Developing lithium chemistry of 1,2-dihydropyridines: from kinetic intermediates to isolable characterized compounds

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

Dizincation of a 2-substituted thiophene: constructing a cage with a [16]crown-4 zincocyclic core

scientific article published on 8 June 2012

Donor-influenced Structure-Activity Correlations in Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions of Lithium Monoamido-Monohydrido-Dialkylaluminates

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Experimental and theoretical investigations of the contact ion pairs formed by reactions of the anions [(EPR2)2N]- (R = (i)Pr, (t)Bu; E = S, Se) with the cations [(TePR2)2N]+ (R = (i)Pr, (t)Bu).

scientific article published in July 2009

Experimental and theoretical investigations of the redox behavior of the heterodichalcogenido ligands [(EP(i)Pr2)(TeP(i)Pr2)N](-) (E = S, Se): cyclic cations and acyclic dichalcogenide dimers

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Exploiting σ/π Coordination Isomerism to Prepare Homologous Organoalkali Metal (Li, Na, K) Monomers with Identical Ligand Sets

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Exposing elusive cationic magnesium-chloro aggregates in aluminate complexes through donor control

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Facile synthesis of a genuinely alkane-soluble but isolable lithium hydride transfer reagent

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Gold complexes of ditelluridoimidodiphosphinate ligands — Reversible oxidation of Au(I) to Au(III) via insertion of gold into a phosphorus–tellurium bond

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Heterobimetallic metallation studies of N,N-dimethylphenylethylamine (DMPEA): benzylic C–H bond cleavage/dimethylamino capture or intact DMPEA complex

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Lithium Dihydropyridine Dehydrogenation Catalysis: A Group 1 Approach to the Cyclization of Diamine Boranes

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Lithium and aluminium carbamato derivatives of the utility amide 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide

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Lithium, sodium and potassium picolyl complexes: syntheses, structures and bonding

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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.

scientific article published on 4 August 2011

Meta-metallation of N,N-dimethylaniline: Contrasting direct sodium-mediated zincation with indirect sodiation-dialkylzinc co-complexation

scientific article published on 06 September 2011

Mixed lithium amide-lithium halide compounds: unusual halide-deficient amido metal anionic crowns

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Modifying alkylzinc reactivity with 2,2'-dipyridylamide: activation of tBu-Zn bonds for para-alkylation of benzophenone

scientific article published on 5 June 2013

Molecular Structures of THF-Solvated Alkali-Metal 2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidides Finally Revealed: X-ray Crystallographic, DFT, and NMR (including DOSY) Spectroscopic Studies

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Monomerizing alkali-metal 3,5-dimethylbenzyl salts with tris(N, N-dimethyl-2-aminoethyl)amine (Me6TREN): structural and bonding implications

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N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized adducts of alkyl magnesium amide, bisalkyl magnesium and Grignard reagents: trapping oligomeric organo s-block fragments with NHCs

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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

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New insights into the chemistry of imidodiphosphinates from investigations of tellurium-centered systems

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Ni[(EPiPr2)2N]2 complexes: stereoisomers (E = Se) and square-planar coordination (E = Te).

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Nickel(ii) complexes of heterodichalcogenido and monochalcogenido imidodiphosphinate ligands: AACVD synthesis of nickel ditelluride

scientific article published on 31 October 2008

Palladium and platinum complexes of tellurium-containing imidodiphosphinate ligands: nucleophilic attack of Li[(P(i)Pr2)(TeP(i)Pr2)N] on coordinated 1,5-cyclooctadiene

scientific article published on 14 August 2009

Platinum complexes of dibenzo[1,2]dithiin, dibenzo[1,2]dithiin oxides and related polyaromatic hydrocarbon ligands.

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Platinum complexes of naphthalene-1,8-dichalcogen and related polyaromatic hydrocarbon ligands.

scientific article published in April 2004

Probing the metallating ability of a polybasic sodium alkylmagnesiate supported by a bulky bis(amido) ligand: deprotomagnesiation reactions of nitrogen-based aromatic substrates.

scientific article published in March 2014

Regioselective heterohalogenation of 4-halo-anisoles via a series of sequential ortho-aluminations and electrophilic halogenations

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SYNTHESIS OF TITANOCENE COMPLEXES USING POLYAROMATIC LIGANDS CONTAINING A DISULFIDE BRIDGE

Single electron transfer (SET) activity of the dialkyl-amido sodium zincate [(TMEDA)·Na(μ-TMP)(μ-tBu)Zn(tBu)] towards TEMPO and chalcone

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Sodium congener of the classical lithium methylchromate dimer: synthetic, X-ray crystallographic, and magnetic studies of Me8Cr2[Na(OEt2)]4.

scientific article published on 12 April 2011

Structurally engineered deprotonation/alumination of THF and THTP with retention of their cycloanionic structures

scientific article published on December 2010

Structurally powered synergic 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine bimetallics: new reflections through lithium-mediated ortho aluminations

scientific article published on 26 April 2011

Structurally stimulated deprotonation/alumination of the TMP anion

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Synthesis, NMR characterisation and X-ray structures of mixed chalcogenido PNP ligands containing tellurium: crystal structures of SeiPr2PNP(H)iPr2 and [NaN(EPiPr2)2]infinity (E = Se, Te).

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Synthesis, multinuclear NMR spectra, and X-ray structures of tBu2PNP(I)tBu2 and EPR2NP(I)R2 (E = Se, Te; R = iPr, tBu).

scientific article published in May 2010

Synthetically important alkali-metal utility amides: lithium, sodium, and potassium hexamethyldisilazides, diisopropylamides, and tetramethylpiperidides

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

THE CHEMISTRY OF (ECN)2(E = S, Se) AND RELATED COMPOUNDS

article published in 2004

The preparation and characterisation of a series of group IV metallocene dithiolato complexes containing a naphthalene backbone

The preparation and characterisation of bimetallic iridium(II) complexes containing derivatised bridging naphthalene-1,8-disulfur or 4,5-dithiolato acephenanthrylene ligands

scientific article published on 7 September 2004

Two alternative approaches to access mixed hydride-amido zinc complexes: synthetic, structural and solution implications

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catena-Poly[sodium-μ2-(N,N,N',N'-tetra-methyl-ethane-1,2-diamine)-κ(2) N:N'-sodium-bis-[μ2-bis-(trimethyl-sil-yl)aza-nido-κ(2) N:N]]

scientific article published on 10 November 2012