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CRITICAT Research

The research carried out across the CRITICAT program covers homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, biocatalysis and reaction engineering.

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Publications

~~68) Host–Guest-Induced Electron Transfer Triggers Radical-Cation Catalysis~~

~~Rebecca L. Spicer, Athanasios D. Stergiou, Tom A. Young, Fernanda Duarte, Mark D. Symes and Paul J. Lusby~~

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 2134–2139.

~~67) Isothiourea‐Catalyzed Acylative Kinetic Resolution of Tertiary α‐Hydroxy Esters~~

~~Shen Qu, Samuel M. Smith, Víctor Laina‐Martín, Rifahath M. Neyyappadath, Mark D. Greenhalgh and Andrew D. Smith~~

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., DOI: 10.1002/anie.202004354

~~66) Isothiourea‐Catalyzed Synthesis of Pyrrole‐ and Indole‐Functionalized Tetrasubstituted Pyridines~~

~~Shuyue Zhang, Will C. Hartley, Mark D. Greenhalgh, Sean Ng, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and Andrew D. Smith~~

ChemCatChem, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202000882

~~65) Selectivity Control in Gold-Catalyzed Hydroarylation of Alkynes with Indoles: Application to Unsymmetrical Bis(indolyl)methanes~~

~~Euan B. McLean, Francesca M. Cutolo, Orla J. Cassidy, David J. Burns, and Ai-Lan Lee~~

Org. Lett. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02526

~~64) Continuous Flow Preparation of Enantiomerically Pure BINOL(s) by Acylative Kinetic Resolution~~

~~Junshan. L. R. M. Neyyappadath, Andrew D. Smith and Miquel A. Pericàs~~

Adv. Synth. Cat., 2020, 362, 1370

~~63) Heterogeneous Photocatalysis in Flow Chemical Reactors~~

~~Christopher G. Thomson, Ai-Lan Lee and Filipe Vilela~~

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549

~~62) Isothiourea-Catalyzed Atropselective Acylation of Biaryl Phenols via Sequential Desymmetrization / Kinetic Resolution~~

~~Elizabeth S. Munday, Markas A. Grove, Taisiia Feoktistova, Alexander C. Brueckner, Daniel Walden, Claire M. Young, Alexandra M.Z Slawin, Andrew D. Campbell, Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong and Andrew D. Smith~~

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. DOI: 10.1002/ange.201916480

~~61) Continuous-flow Synthesis and Application of Polymer-supported BODIPY Photosensitisers for the Generation of Singlet Oxygen~~

~~Christopher G. Thomson, Callum M. S. Jones, Georgina Rosair, David Ellis, Jose Marques-Hueso, Ai-Lan Lee and Filipe Vilela~~

J. Flow Chem. DOI:10.1007/s41981-019-00067-4

~~60) Naturally Derived Carbon for Water Purification in Rural India~~

~~Gylen Odling, Efthalia Chatzisymeon, Priyadarshini Karve, Satish Ogale, Aruna Ivaturi and Neil Robertson~~

Environmental Technology & Innovation DOI:10.1016/j.eti.2020.100661

~~59) A Marine Viral Halogenase that Iodinates Diverse Substrates~~

Danai S. Gkotsi, Hannes Ludewig, Sunil V. Sharma, Jack A. Connolly, Jagwinder Dhaliwal, Yunpeng Wang, William P. Unsworth, Richard J. K. Taylor, Matthew M. W. McLachlan, Stephen Shanahan, James H. Naismith and Rebecca J. M. Goss

Nat. Chem. 2019, 11, 1091–1097

~~58) Do Gold(III) Complexes Form Hydrogen Bonds? An Exploration of Au(III) Dicarboranyl Chemistry~~

~~Manfred Bochmann, Isabelle Chambrier, David L. Hughes, Rebekah J. Jeans, Alan J. Welch, and Peter H. M. Budzelaar~~

Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 939-947

~~57) Synthesis of Fused Indoline-Cyclobutanone Derivatives via an Intramolecular [2+2] Cycloaddition~~

~~Rifahath M. Neyyappadath, Mark D. Greenhalgh, David B. Cordes, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and Andrew D. Smith~~

Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 5169–5174

~~56) Arene–Ruthenium Complexes of 1,1′-Bis(ortho-carborane): Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalysis~~

~~Rebekah J. Jeans, Antony P. Y. Chan, Laura E. Riley, James Taylor, Georgina M. Rosair, Alan J. Welch and Igor B. Sivaev~~

Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 11751–11761

~~55) Recent Advances in the Deoxydehydration of Vicinal Diols and Polyols~~

~~Liam J. Donnelly, Stephen P. Thomas, and Jason B. Love~~

Chem. Asian J. 2019, 14, 3782–3790

~~54) Gas-Phase Conversion of 1,3-Dithiolane-2-Thione Into 1,3-Dithiolan-2-One Over Molybdenum Trioxide~~

~~R. Alan Aitken, Thomasine E. Curzon and Matthew J. Andrews~~

Front. Chem. 2019, 7, 204.

~~53) Selective Liquid Phase Hydrogenation of Benzaldehyde to Benzyl Alcohol Over Alumina Supported Gold~~

~~Yufen Hao, Chiara Pischetola, Fernando Cárdenas‑Lizana and Mark A. Keane~~

Catal. Lett. 2020, 150, 881-887

~~52) Gas Phase Catalytic Hydrogenation of C4 Alkynols over Pd/Al2O3~~

~~Alberto González-Fernández, Chiara Pischetola and Fernando Cárdenas-Lizana~~

Catalysts 2019, 9, 924

~~51) Photo-generation of cyclic carbonates using hyper-branched Ru–TiO2~~

~~Stelios Gavrielides, Jeannie Z. Y. Tan, Eva Sanchez Fernandez and M. Mercedes Maroto-Valer~~

Faraday Discuss. 2019, 215, 407−421

~~50) Metal‑, Photocatalyst‑, and Light-Free Direct C−H Acylation and Carbamoylation of Heterocycles~~

~~Matthew T. Westwood, Claire J. C. Lamb, Daniel R. Sutherland, and Ai-Lan Lee~~

Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 7119−7123

~~49) Pd(II)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Desymmetrization of Polycyclic Cyclohexenediones: Conjugate Addition versus Oxidative Heck~~

~~Claire J. C. Lamb, Filipe Vilela and Ai-Lan Lee~~

Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 8689−8694

~~48) Selective Primary Alcohol Oxidation of Lignin Streams from Butanol‐Pretreated Agricultural Waste Biomass~~

~~Isabella Panovic, Christopher S. Lancefield, Darren Phillips, Mark J. Gronnow and Nicholas J. Westwood~~

ChemSusChem 2019, 12, 542–548

~~47) Dual Copper- and Photoredox-Catalysed C(sp2)-C(sp3) Coupling~~

~~Euan B. Mclean, Vincent Gauchot, Sebastian Brunen, David J Burns and Ai-Lan Lee~~

Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 4238--4241

~~46) Investigation of Solid Base Catalysts for Biodiesel Production from Fish Oil~~

~~Despoina Papargyriou, Emmanouil Broumidis, Matthew de Vere-Tucker, Stelios Gavrielides, Paul Hilditch, John T. S. Irvine and Alfredo D. Bonaccorsoa~~

Renewable Energy 2019, 139, 661–669

~~44) STA-27, A Porous Lewis Acidic Scandium MOF with an Unexpected Topology Type...~~

Ram Prasad, Sarah Seidner, David Bradford Cordes, Magdalena Lozinska, Daniel Dawson, Megan Thompson, Tina Düren, Kristina Chakarova, Mihail Mihaylov, K. Hadjiivanov, Frank Hoffmann, Alexandra Slawin, Sharon Elizabeth Ashbrook, Matt Clarke and Paul Wright

J. Mater. Chem. A; 2019, 7, 5685-5701

~~43) Photoredox Catalysts Based on Earth-Abundant Metal Complexes~~

~~Bryony M. Hockin, Chenfei Li, Neil Robertson and Eli Zysman-Colman~~

Catal. Sci. Technol. 2019, 9, 889-915

~~42) Aryl Boronic Acid Catalysed Dehydrative Substitution of Benzylic Alcohols for C−O Bond Formation~~

~~Susana Estopiñá‐Durán, Liam J. Donnelly, Euan B. Mclean, Bryony M. Hockin, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and James E. Taylor~~

Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 1–8

Example of mixed authorship publication from CDT Mini-Project

~~41) Bridging the Gap between Laboratory and Application in Photocatalytic Water Purification~~

~~Gylen Odling and Neil Robertson~~

Catal. Sci. Technol. 2019, 9, 533–545

~~40) Catalytic and Anticatalytic Snapshots of a Short-Form ATP Phosphoribosyltransferase~~

~~Magnus S. Alphey, Gemma Fisher, Ying Ge, Eoin R. Gould, Teresa F. G. Machado, Huanting Liu, Gordon J. Florence, James H. Naismith and Rafael G. da Silva~~

ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 5601−5610

~~39) Gas Phase Hydrogenation of Furaldehydes via Coupling with Alcohol Dehydrogenation over Ceria Supported Au-Cu~~

~~Chiara Pischetola, Laura Collado, Mark A. Keane and Fernando Cárdenas-Lizana~~

Molecules 2018, 23, 2905

~~38) Linear Eyring Plots Conceal a Change in the Rate-Limiting Step in an Enzyme Reaction~~

~~Teresa F. G. Machado, Tracey M. Gloster and Rafael G. da Silva~~

Biochemistry 2018, 57, 6757–6761

~~37) Selective and Catalytic Carbon Dioxide and Heteroallene Activation Mediated by Cerium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes~~

Polly L. Arnold, Ryan W. F. Kerr, Catherine Weetman, Scott R. Docherty, Julia Rieb, Faye L. Cruickshank, Kai Wang, Christian Jandl, Max W. McMullon, Alexander Pöthig, Fritz E. Kühn and Andrew D. Smith

Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 8035-8045

~~36) Halogenases: Powerful Tools for Biocatalysis (Mechanisms, Applications and Scope)~~

~~Danai S. Gkotsi, Jag Dhaliwal, Matthew M.W. McLachlan, Keith R. Mulholand and Rebecca J.M. Goss~~

Curr. Opin. Chem. Bio. 2018, 43, 119–126.

~~35) Heterometalation of 1,1′-Bis(ortho-carborane)~~

~~Antony P. Y. Chan, Georgina M. Rosair, and Alan J. Welch~~

Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 8002–8011.

~~34) Evaluating Polymer-supported Isothiourea Catalysis in Industrially-preferable Solvents for the Acylative Kinetic Resolution of Secondary and Tertiary Heterocyclic Alcohols in Batch and Flow~~

Nitul Ranjan Guha, Rifahath M. Neyyappadath, Mark D. Greenhalgh, Ross Chisholm, Samuel M. Smith, Megan L. McEvoy, Claire M. Young, Carles Rodríguez-Escrich, Miquel A. Pericàs, Georg Hähner and Andrew D. Smith

Green Chem. 2018, 20, 4537-4546

~~33) A Bifunctional MOF Catalyst containing Metal‐Phosphine and Lewis Acidic Active Sites~~

~~Ram R. R. Prasad, Daniel M. Dawson, Paul A. Cox, Sharon E. Ashbrook, Paul A. Wright and Matthew L. Clarke~~

Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 15309-15318

~~32) Dual Copper- and Photoredox-Catalysed Reactions~~

~~Euan B. McLean and Ai-Lan Lee~~

Tetrahedron 2018, 74, 4881-4902

Publication arising from literature review produced during six-month taught course

~~31) Borane-Catalysed Hydroboration of Alkynes and Alkenes~~

~~Nate W. J. Ang, Cornelia S. Buettner, Scott Docherty, Alessandro Bismuto, Jonathan R. Carney, Jamie H. Docherty, Michael J. Cowley and Stephen P. Thomas~~

Synthesis 2018, 50, 803-808.

~~30) Aluminum-catalyzed hydroboration of alkenes~~

~~Alessandro Bismuto, Michael J. Cowley and Stephen P. Thomas~~

ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 2001-2205.

~~29) Synthesis of the Natural Product Descurainolide and Cyclic Peptides from Lignin-derived Aromatics~~

O. Stephen Ojo, Brunello Nardone, Stefania F. Musolino, Andrew R. Neal, Liam Wilson, Tomas Lebl, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, David B. Cordes, James E. Taylor, James H. Naismith, Andrew D. Smith and Nicholas J. Westwood

Org. Biomol. Chem. 2018,16, 266-273

~~28) Modulator-controlled Synthesis of Microporous STA-26, an Interpenetrated 8,3-connected Zirconium MOF with the the-i Topology, and its Reversible Lattice Shift~~

Alice Bumstead, David B. Cordes, Daniel M. Dawson, Kristina K. Chakarova, Mihail Y. Mihaylov, Claire L. Hobday, Tina Düren, Konstantin Hadjiivanov, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Sharon E. Ashbrook, Ram R. R. Prasad and Paul A. Wright

Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 6115-6126

~~27) Sequential Ionic Layer Adsorption and Reaction (SILAR) Deposition of Bi4Ti3O12 on TiO2: an Enhanced and Stable Photocatalytic System for Water Purification~~

~~Gylen Odling, Efthalia Chatzisymeon and Neil Robertson~~

Catal. Sci. Technol. 2018, 8, 829-839

~~26) Characterization of the Fast and Promiscuous Macrocyclase from Plant PCY1 Enables the Use of Simple Substrates~~

~~Hannes Ludewig, Clarissa M. Czekster, Emilia Oueis, Elizabeth S. Munday, Mohammed Arshad, Silvia A. Synowsky, Andrew F. Bent and James H. Naismith~~

ACS Chem. Biol. 2018, 13, 801-811

~~25) Acylative Kinetic Resolution of Alcohols Using a Recyclable Polymer-Supported Isothiourea Catalyst in Batch and Flow~~

~~Rifahath Mon Neyyappadath, Ross Chisholm, Mark D. Greenhalgh, Carles Rodríguez-Escrich, Miquel A. Pericàs , Georg Hähner, and Andrew D. Smith~~

ACS Catalysis, 2018, 8, 1067–1075

~~24) Grafting of Technical Lignins through Regioselective Triazole Formation on β-O-4 Linkages~~

~~Isabella Panovic, James R. D. Montgomery, Christopher S. Lancefield, Dhivya Puri, Tomas Lebl and Nicholas J. Westwood~~

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2017, 5 ,10640–10648.

~~23) Auto-Tandem Catalysis: Pd(II)-Catalysed Dehydrogenation/ Oxidative Heck of Cyclopentane-1,3-diones~~

~~Claire J. C. Lamb, Bryan G. Nderitu, Gemma McMurdo, John M. Tobin, Filipe Vilela and Ai-Lan Lee~~

Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 18282-18288

~~22) Characterization of a dual function macrocyclase enables design and use of efficient macrocyclization substrates~~

~~Clarissa M. Czekster, Hannes Ludewig, Stephen A. McMahon and James H. Naismith~~

Nat. Commun. 2017 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00862-4

~~21) Strategies for radiolabelling antibody, antibody fragments and affibodies with fluorine-18 as tracers for positron emission tomography~~

~~Joshua Clark and David O’Hagan~~

J. Fluorine Chem. 2017, 203, 31–46.

Publication arising from literature review produced during six-month taught course

~~20) Aryloxide-Promoted Catalyst Turnover in Lewis Base Organocatalysis~~

~~Will C. Hartley, Timothy J. C. O’Riordan and Andrew D. Smith~~

Synthesis 2017, 49, 3303-3310

Publication arising from literature review produced during six-month taught course

~~19) Multi-electron Reduction of Sulphur and Carbon Disulphide using Binuclear Uranium Borohydride Complexes~~

~~Polly L. Arnold, Charlotte J. Stevens, Nicola L. Bell, Rianne M. Lord, Jonathan M. Goldberg, Gary S. Nichol and Jason B. Love~~

Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 3609-3617

Collaboration with CENTC Student

~~18) Triggering Redox Activity in a Thiophene Compound: Radical Stabilization and Coordination Chemistry~~

~~Massimiliano Curcio, James Pankhurst, Stephen Sproules, Dimitri Mignard and Jason B. Love~~

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 7939-7943

~~17) An Easily-Assembled Soxhlet Extractor to Demonstrate Continuous Extraction~~

~~Kevin M. Jones, Iain A. Smellie and Iain L. J. Patterson~~

J. Chem. Educ. 2017, 94, 819-820

Tried and Tested by CRITICAT Students

~~16) A Comparison of Copper and Acid Site Zeolites for the Production of Nitric Oxide for Biomedical Applications~~

~~Samantha E. Russell, Juan María González Carballo, Claudia Orellana-Tavra, David Fairen-Jimenez and Russell E. Morris~~

Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 3915–3920

~~15) Expansion of the ADOR Strategy for the Synthesis of Zeolites: The Synthesis of IPC-12 from Zeolite UOV~~

~~Valeryia Kasneryk, Mariya Shamzhy, Maksym Opanasenko, Paul S. Wheatley, Samuel A. Morris, Samantha E. Russell, Alvaro Mayoral, Michal Trachta, Jiri Cejka, and Russell E. Morris~~

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 4324-4327

~~14) 6-exo-trig Michael Addition-Lactonizations for Catalytic Enantioselective Chromenone Synthesis~~

~~Rifahath. M. Neyyappadath, David. B. Cordes, Alexandra. M. Z. Slawin and Andrew D. Smith~~

Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 2555-2558

~~13) SILAR BiOI Sensitized TiO2 Films for Visible Light Photocatalytic Degradation of Rhodamine B and 4-Chlorophenol~~

~~Gylen Odling and Neil Robertson~~

ChemPhysChem 2017, 18, 728-735

A press release relating to Gylen and Neil's work can be found HERE

Neil has also discussed his work on Good Morning Scotland. A link to the podcast can be found HERE (~57 mins into the show)

~~12) Enantioselective N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition using α-Aroyloxyaldehydes and Oxaziridines~~

~~Ryan W. F. Kerr, Mark D. Greenhalgh, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Polly L. Arnold and Andrew D. Smith~~

Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2017, 28, 125–134

~~11) Pre-treatment of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks Using Biorenewable Alcohols: Towards Complete Biomass Valorisation~~

Daniel M. Miles-Barrett, Andrew R. Neal, Calum Hand, James R. D. Montgomery, Isabella Panovic, O. Stephen Ojo, Christopher S. Lancefield, David B. Cordes, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Tomas Lebl and Nicholas J. Westwood

Green Chem. 2017, 19, 202-214

~~10) Chemical Modification of Lignin for Renewable Polymers or Chemicals~~

~~Nicholas J. Westwood, Isabella Panovic and Christopher S. Lancefield~~

Biofuels and Biorefineries 183-216

~~9) The Synthesis and Analysis of Lignin-bound Hibbert Ketone Structures in Technical Lignins~~

Org. Biomol. Chem. 2016, 14, 10023-10030

~~8) Isothiourea-Catalysed Acylative Kinetic Resolution of Aryl–Alkenyl (sp2 vs. sp2) Substituted Secondary Alcohols~~

~~Stefania F. Musolino, O. Stephen Ojo, Nicholas J. Westwood, James E. Taylor and Andrew D. Smith~~

Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 18916–18922

~~7) Aluminum Hydride Catalyzed Hydroboration of Alkynes~~

~~Alessandro Bismuto, Stephen P. Thomas and Michael J. Cowley~~

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 15356 –15359

~~6) Catalytic a-Arylation of Imines Leading to N-Unprotected Indoles and Azaindoles~~

~~Enrico Marelli, Martin Corpet, Yury Minenkov, Rifahath M. Neyyappadath, Alessandro Bismuto, Giulia Buccolini, Massimiliano Curcio, Luigi Cavallo and Steven P. Nolan~~

ACS Catal. 2016, 17, 2872-2880

Example of mixed authorship publication from CDT Mini-Project

~~5) BiVO4-TiO2 Composite Photocatalysts for Dye Degradation Formed Using the SILAR Method~~

~~Gylen Odling and Neil Robertson~~

ChemPhysChem 2016, 17, 2872-2880

~~4) Isothiourea-Catalysed Enantioselective Pyrrolizine Synthesis: Synthetic and Computational Studies~~

~~Daniel G. Stark, Patrick Williamson, Emma R. Gayner, Stefania F. Musolino, Ryan W. F. Kerr, James E. Taylor, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Timothy J. C. O'Riordan, Stuart A. Macgregor and Andrew D. Smith~~

Org. Biomol. Chem. 2016, 14, 8957-8965

Highlighted in SynFacts

Example of mixed authorship publication from CDT Mini-Project

~~3) Unprecedented Flexibility of the 1,1′-Bis(o-carborane) Ligand: Catalytically-active Species Stabilised by B-agostic B–H⇀Ru Interactions~~

~~Laura E. Riley, Antony P. Y. Chan, James Taylor, Wing Y. Man, David Ellis, Georgina M. Rosair, Alan J. Welch and Igor B. Sivaev~~

Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 1127-1137

~~2) Why is Anatase a Better Photocatalyst than Rutile? The Importance of Free Hydroxyl Radicals~~

~~Gylen Odling and Neil Robertson~~

ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 1838-1840

~~1) Macrocyclic Platforms for the Construction of Tetranuclear Oxo and Hydroxo Zinc Clusters~~

~~Thomas Cadenbach, James R. Pankhurst, Tommy A. Hofmann, Massimiliano Curcio, Polly L. Arnold, and Jason B. Love~~

Organometallics 2015, 34, 2608–2613

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