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List of works by Charles T O'Hara

A homologous series of regioselectively tetradeprotonated group 8 metallocenes: new inverse crown ring compounds synthesized via a mixed sodium-magnesium tris(diisopropylamide) synergic base

scientific article published in September 2004

A polymeric solvent-free variant of a hydridomagnesium inverse crown

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A structural and computational study of synthetically important alkali-metal/tetramethylpiperidide (TMP) amine solvates

scientific article published in January 2008

Alkali-Metal-Mediated Magnesiations of an N-Heterocyclic Carbene: Normal, Abnormal, and “Paranormal” Reactivity in a Single Tritopic Molecule

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Alkali-Metal-Mediated Zincation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Synthesis and Structures of Mono- and Dizincated Naphthalenes

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Alkoxide binding in inverse crown chemistry: rational synthesis of a series of composite alkali metal–magnesium–alkoxide–diisopropylamides

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Building an extended inverse crown motif via alkali-metal-mediated alpha-magnesiation of furan

scientific article published in January 2006

Complexity in seemingly simple sodium magnesiate systems

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Dehydromethylation of alkali metal salts of the utility amide 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide (TMP)

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Directed ortho-meta'- and meta-meta'-dimetalations: A template base approach to deprotonation

scientific article published in Science

Evaluating cis-2,6-dimethylpiperidide (cis-DMP) as a base component in lithium-mediated zincation chemistry

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Exploring the solid state and solution structural chemistry of the utility amide potassium hexamethyldisilazide (KHMDS).

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

Hexameric Mg-O stacks with six THF-solvated sodium amide appendages: "super" variants of inverse crown ethers generated by cleavage of THF

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Hydride encapsulation in s-block metal inverse crown chemistry

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Introducing Glycerol as a Sustainable Solvent to Organolithium Chemistry: Ultrafast Chemoselective Addition of Aryllithium Reagents to Nitriles under Air and at Ambient Temperature

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Isolation and characterisation of a (-)-sparteine coordinated mixed alkyl/amido sodium magnesiate, a chiral variant of an important utility ate base

scientific article published on 05 August 2008

Isolation and characterisation of the mixed-metal alkyl amide [(TMEDA)Na(mu-Bu)(mu-TMP)Mg(TMP)], an unexpected chelate-trapped intermediate in the formation of inverse crowns

scientific article published on 23 September 2004

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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Monodentate coordination of the normally chelating chiral diamine (R,R)-TMCDA.

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Optimisation of a lithium magnesiate for use in the non-cryogenic asymmetric deprotonation of prochiral ketones

scientific article published on 8 November 2013

Organometallic polymers assembled from cation-pi interactions: use of ferrocene as a ditopic linker within the homologous series [{(Me3Si)2NM}2.(Cp2Fe)]infinity (M=Na, K, Rb, Cs; Cp=cyclopentadienyl).

scientific article published on January 2007

Reactions of (-)-sparteine with alkali metal HMDS complexes: conventional meets the unconventional

scientific article published on 6 August 2009

Regioselective Tetrametalation of Ferrocene in a Single Reaction: Extension of s-Block Inverse Crown Chemistry to the d-Block This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council through grant award no GR/M78113.

scientific article published in October 2001

Remote functionalisation via sodium alkylamidozincate intermediates: access to unusual fluorenone and pyridyl ketone reactivity patterns

scientific article published on 24 February 2011

Selective meta-deprotonation of toluene by using alkali-metal-mediated magnesiation

scientific article published in May 2005

Selective mono- and dimetallation of a group 3 sandwich complex

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

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-mediated magnesiation of thiophene and tetrahydrothiophene: structural contrasts with furan and tetrahydrofuran.

scientific article published in August 2010

Solid state and solution studies of lithium tris(n-butyl)magnesiates stabilised by Lewis donors

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

Stoichiometrically-controlled reactivity and supramolecular storage of butylmagnesiate anions

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Structural Studies of Cesium, Lithium/Cesium, and Sodium/Cesium Bis(trimethylsilyl)amide (HMDS) Complexes

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Structural and metal-halogen exchange reactivity studies of sodium magnesiate biphenolate complexes

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Structural elaboration of the surprising ortho-zincation of benzyl methyl ether

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

Structural elucidation of homometallic anthracenolates synthesised via deprotonative metallation of anthrone

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

Structural variations within group 1 (Li-Cs)+ (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy)- complexes made via metallic reduction of the nitroxyl radical.

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Structurally Defined Reactions of Sodium TMP–Zincate with Nitrile Compounds: Synthesis of a Salt-Like Sodium Sodiumdizincate and Other Unexpected Ion-Pair Products

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Synergic Synthesis of Benzannulated Zincabicyclic Complexes, α-Zincated N Ylides, through Sodium-TMEDA-Mediated Zincation of a Haloarene

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Synthesis and structural chemistry of alkali metal tris(HMDS) magnesiates containing chiral diamine donor ligands

scientific article published on 31 March 2011

Synthesis and structure of a molecular barium Aminebis(phenolate) and its application as an initiator for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters

scientific article published on 17 August 2007

Synthesis of the mixed lithium–potassium–(bis)magnesium N-metallated/N, C-dimetallated amide [Li2K2Mg4{But(Me3Si)N}4{But[Me2(H2C)Si]N}4]: an inverse crown molecule with an atomless cavityElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: NMR s

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Synthetic and Structural Studies of Mixed Sodium Bis(trimethylsilyl)amide/Sodium Halide Aggregates in the Presence of η(2)-N,N-, η(3)-N,N,N/N,O,N-, and η(4)-N,N,N,N-Donor Ligands

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

Synthetic and reactivity studies of hetero-tri-anionic sodium zincates

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Synthetic and structural investigations of alkali metal diamine bis(phenolate) complexes.

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Templated deprotonative metalation of polyaryl systems: Facile access to simple, previously inaccessible multi-iodoarenes

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Transamination chemistry of sodium TMP-zincate: synthesis and crystal structure of a chiral amidozincate.

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Trimagnesium-bridged trinuclear ferrocenophanes cocomplexed with solvated mononuclear alkali metal amide molecules

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Ultrafast amidation of esters using lithium amides under aerobic ambient temperature conditions in sustainable solvents

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Unmasking Representative Structures of TMP-Active Hauser and Turbo-Hauser Bases

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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

cis-2,6-Dimethylpiperidide: a structural mimic for TMP (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide) or DA (diisopropylamide)?

scientific article published on 2 September 2009

s-Block cooperative catalysis: alkali metal magnesiate-catalysed cyclisation of alkynols

scientific article published on 14 May 2019