Alasdair McKay

Facile synthesis of well-controlled poly(1-vinyl imidazole) by the RAFT process

Bo Fan, Jing Wan, Alasdair McKay, Zhenyuan Qu, San H Thang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Polymer Chemistry

Iridium-catalysed 3,5-bis-borylation of phthalonitrile enables access to a family ofC(4h)octaarylphthalocyanines

Katie D Mulholland, Sangbin Yoon, Christopher C Rennie, Eleanor K Sitch, Alasdair McKay, Katharina Edkins, Robert M Edkins

Journal article  |  2020  |  Chemical Communications

Using electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry to explore formation and gas-phase chemistry of silver nanoclusters generated from the reaction of silver salts with NaBH(4)in the presence of bis(diphenylarsino)methane

Howard Z Ma, Alasdair I McKay, Allan J Canty, Richard AJ O'Hair

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) of mixtures of AgBF4 or AgNO3 with the capping ligand bis(diphenylarsino)methan..

Heteroleptic lead and aluminium complexes ligated by a bulky non-symmetrical triazenide

KN Buys, ML Cole, AI McKay

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Bulky bis(aryl)triazenides: just aspiring amidinates? A structural and spectroscopic study

Matthew R Gyton, Anthony R Leverett, Marcus L Cole, Alasdair McKay

Journal article  |  2020  |  Dalton Transactions

Tolerant to air sigma-alkane complexes by surface modification of single crystalline solid-state molecular organometallics using vapour-phase cationic polymerisation: SMOM@polymer

Alexander J Bukvic, Dana Georgiana Crivoi, Hollie G Garwood, Alasdair McKay, Thomas TD Chen, Antonio J Martinez-Martinez, Andrew S Weller

Journal article  |  2020  |  Chemical Communications

Identification of the Side Products That Diminish the Yields of the Monoamidated Product in Metal-Catalyzed C-H Amidation of 2-Phenylpyridine with Arylisocyanates

Alasdair I McKay, Weam AO Altalhi, Lachlan E McInnes, Milena L Czyz, Allan J Canty, Paul S Donnelly, Richard AJ O'Hair

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Organic Chemistry

The Ru(II)-catalyzed amidation of 2-arylpyridines with aryl isocyanates via C-H bond activation is less efficient than described p..

Mechanistic Studies of the Palladium-Catalyzed Desulfinative Cross-Coupling of Aryl Bromides and (Hetero)Aryl Sulfinate Salts.

Antoine de Gombert, Alasdair I McKay, Christopher J Davis, Katherine M Wheelhouse, Michael C Willis

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of the American Chemical Society

Pyridine and related heterocyclic sulfinates have recently emerged as effective nucleophilic coupling partners in palladium-cataly..

Synthesis of Highly Fluorinated Arene Complexes of [Rh(Chelating Phosphine)]( ) Cations, and their use in Synthesis and Catalysis

Alasdair McKay, James Barwick-Silk, Max Savage, Michael C Willis, Andrew S Weller

Journal article  |  2020  |  Chemistry - A European Journal

Palladium-Mediated CO2 Extrusion Followed by Insertion of Isocyanates for the Synthesis of Benzamides: Translating Fundamental Mechanistic Studies To Develop a Catalytic Protocol

Yang Yang, Allan J Canty, Alasdair McKay, Paul S Donnelly, Richard AJ O'Hair

Journal article  |  2020  |  Organometallics