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.
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An exciting multidisciplinary PhD project in the group associated with the SusMat0 CDT on "Photonics for Net Zero Enabled by Patternable Boron-Phosphide Polymers": Organometallic catalysis, main-group polymers, nanolithography & device fabrication. UK applicants only.
More details here: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/photonics-for-net-zero-enabled-by-patternable-boron-phosphide-polymers/?p166388
Controlled Cluster Expansion at a Zintl Cluster Surface
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023 [.pdf]
With J. Goicoechea*, Indiana University
In Crystallo Lattice Adaptivity Triggered by Solid-Gas Reactions of Cationic Group 7 Pincer Complexes
Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 10749 [.pdf]
(with H. Jenkins*, J. Lynam*, York, and S. Macgregor* Heriot Watt)
assigned as a "HOT" paper
Dehydropolymerization of Amine-Boranes using Bis(imino)pyridine Rhodium Pre-Catalysis: σ-Amine-Borane Complexes, Nanoparticles, and Low Residual-Metal BN-Polymers that can be Chemically Repurposed
Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e202302110 [.pdf]
assigned as a "HOT" paper
A Comparison of Non-Covalent Interactions in the Crystal Structures of two σ-Alkane Complexes of Rh Exhibiting Contrasting Stabilities in the Solid State.
Faraday Trans. 2023, 244, 222. [.pdf]
(with Stuart Macgregor* Heriot Watt)
Mechanistic Insight into Molecular Crystalline Organometallic Heterogeneous Catalysis Through Parahydrogen Based Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 2629. [.pdf]
(with S. Beaumont, Durham, and S. Duckett, York)
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Solid-State Confinement Effects in Selective exo-H/D exchange in the Rh σ-Norbornane Complex [(Cy2PCH2CH2PCy2)Rh(η2:η2-C7H12)][BArF4]
Helvetica Chimica Acta 2023, e202200154 [.pdf]
(with S. Macgregor* and T. Kramer*)
(special issue dedicated to Jack Dunitz)
Polyphosphinoborane Block Copolymer Synthesis using Catalytic Reversible Chain Transfer Dehydropolymerization.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202216106. [.pdf]
(with I. Manners, University of Victoria)
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