Welcome to the homepage of Professor Andrew Weller, Department of Chemistry, University of York. Research in the Weller group is based upon synthetic organometallic chemistry and catalysis, and in particular the generation and stabilisation of transition metal complexes with a low coordination number. These complexes often show very interesting, and novel structures, that display C–H, B–H and C–C bonding modes (via agostic or sigma interactions). Not only are we interested in the fundamentals of synthesis, bonding and structure of these complexes, but we also have a focus on their use and development in challenging catalytic bond transformations, such as C–H, B–H and C–C activation.

LATEST NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

Solid/Gas In Crystallo Reactivity of an Ir(I) Methylidene Complex

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Organometallics 2024, in the press [.pdf]
With S. Macgregor* St Andrews University

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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.. 2024, e202404264 [.pdf]
With S. Duckett*, S. Macgregor*, M. Navarro* and J. Campos*
"HOT Article"

Platinum(II) Phenylpyridyl Schiff Base Complexes as Latent, Photoactivated, Alkene Hydrosilylation Catalysts

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ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 7492 [.pdf]
With S. Duckett* and R. Perutz*

Controlled Cluster Expansion at a Zintl Cluster Surface

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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202316120 [.pdf]
With J. Goicoechea*, Indiana University