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Publications 1999- 2010


1.	First highly enantioselective allylic alkylations catalysed by platinum complexes. A.J. Blacker, M. L. Clarke, M. S. Loft and J.M.J. Williams. J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun., 1999, 913.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/a901555h

2.	Synthesis and structure of enantiomerically pure platinum complexes of phosphino-oxazolines and their use in asymmetric catalysis. A. J. Blacker, M. L. Clarke, M. S. Loft, M. F. Mahon and J.M.J. Williams. Organometallics, 1999, 18, 2867.	[Link]
	DOI10.1021/om990186e S0276-7333(99)00186-7

3.	Use of Tricyclohexylphosphine to control regioselectivity in palladium catalysed allylic alkylations. A.J. Blacker, M.L.Clarke, M.S. Loft and J.M.J. Williams, Org. Lett. 1999, 1, 1969.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1021/ol9911268

4.	Platinum catalysed allylic alkylation: Reactivity, regioselectivity and enantioselectivity. A. J. Blacker, M. L. Clarke, M. S. Humphries, M. S. Loft, M.F. Mahon and J.M.J. Williams. Chemistry: A Euro. Journal, 2000, 6, 353	[Link]
	DOI 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3765(20000117)6:2<353::AID-CHEM353>3.0.CO;2-U

5.	P-N bond formation as a route to highly electron rich phosphine ligands. M. L. Clarke, D. J. Cole-Hamilton, A. M. Z. Slawin, and J. D. Woollins, J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun., 2000, 2065.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/b004893n

6.	Recent advances in homogenous catalysis using platinum complexes. M. L. Clarke, Polyhedron, 2001, 20, 151.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1016/S0277-5387(00)00634-3

7.	Synthesis, structure, and co-ordination behaviour of a novel multifunctionalised diphosphine containing a P-N-Si-N-P backbone. M. L. Clarke, D. J. Cole-Hamilton, A. M. Z. Slawin, and J. D. Woollins, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 2001, 972.	[Link]
	DOI10.1039/b009722p

8.	First examples of M-Se-P-N-N heterocycles. M. L. Clarke, G. L. Holliday, A. M. Z. Slawin and J. D. Woollins, Inorg. Chem. Commun., 2001, 4, 115.

9.	P-N bond formation as a route to a highly electron rich bidentate phosphine ligand and its use in hydroformylation of olefins. M. Rodriguez i Zubiri, M. L. Clarke, D. J. Cole-Hamilton, A. M. Z. Slawin, and J. D. Woollins, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 2001, 969.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/b101656n

10	Synthesis and structure of novel rhodium complexes of multi-functionalised amine-phosphine ligands. M. L. Clarke, A. M. Z. Slawin, M. Wheatley and J. D. Woollins. J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 2001, 3421.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/b104523g

11.	Synthesis of bulky, electron rich hemilabile phosphines and their application in the Suzuki reaction of aryl chlorides. M. L. Clarke, D. J. Cole-Hamilton, and J. D. Woollins, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 2001, 2721.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/b106784b

12.	Electron rich alkyl- and dialkyl- pyrrolidinylphosphines: An evaluation of their electronic, steric, and catalytic properties. M. L. Clarke, D. J. Cole-Hamilton, A.M.Z. Slawin, and J. D. Woollins, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 2002, 1093.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/b108467d

13.	Co-ordination chemistry and metal catalysed carbonylation reactions using 8-(diphenylphosphinomethyl)aminoquinoline: A ligand that displays mono-, bi-, and tri-dentate co-ordination modes. M. L. Clarke, D. J. Cole-Hamilton, D. F. Foster, A. M. Z. Slawin and J. D. Woollins, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2002, 1624.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/b108467d


14.	Synthesis and co-ordination chemistry of Ph2P(CH2)nNHP iPr2. T. Appleby, S. M. Aucott, M. L. Clarke, A. M. Z. Slawin, and J. D. Woollins, Polyhedron, 2002, 2639.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1016/S0277-5387(02)01236-6

15.	Platinum complexes derived from tertiary amine functionalised phosphines. M. L. Clarke, A. M. Z. Slawin, and J. D. Woollins, Polyhedron, 2003, 22, 19.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1016/S0277-5387(02)01329-3

16.	One ponytail will do: New partially fluorinated phosphine ligands with applications in fluorous biphasic solvent systems. M. L. Clarke, J. Organomet. Chem., 2003, 665, 65.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1016/S0022-328X(02)02045-4

17.	Synthesis and transition metal chemistry of “phosphomide” ligands: A comparision of the reactivity and electronic properties of diphenyl-P-perfluorooctanoylphosphine, P-acetyldiphenylphosphine and P-anisoyldiphenylphosphine, R.A Baber, M. L. Clarke, A G. Orpen and D. A. Ratcliffe, J. Organomet. Chem., 2003, 667, 112.	[Link]

18.	Organometallic chemistry of bromodifluoromethyl substituted phosphines: the development of a novel nickel catalysed P-C bond forming reaction. M. L. Clarke, A. G. Orpen, P. G. Pringle and E. Turley, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 2003, 4393.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/b311799e

19.	Rhodium catalysed hydroformylation of unsaturated esters, M. L. Clarke, Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 4043.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.03.168

20.	The synthesis and applications of phosphines. M. L. Clarke and J. M. J. Williams, chap.2 in Organophosphorus Chemistry: A Practical approach. Ed. P.J. Murphy, OUP, Oxford, 2004.

21.	Palladium catalysed Suzuki coupling using an electron rich, bulky P^N phosphine ligand, M. L. Clarke and J. D. Woollins, in ‘Catalysts for the fine chemicals industry’, Volume 3, Ed. S. R. Roberts, J. Xiao, J. Whittall, and T. E. Pickett, Wiley, 2004.

22.	Organocatalysis gathers pace. M. L. Clarke, Letters in Organic Chemistry, 2004, 1, 292.	[Link]

23.	First microwave accelerated Hiyama couplings: clean cross-coupling of aryl chlorides within minutes. M. L. Clarke, Adv. Synth. Catal., 2005, 347, 303.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1002/adsc.200404196

24.	Phenylphosphatrioxa-adamantanes: bulky, robust, electron-poor ligands which give very efficient rhodium(I) hydroformylation catalysts, M. L. Clarke, A. Marr, A. G. Orpen, P. G. Pringle, A. M. Ward, D. A. Zambrano-Williams, Dalton Trans., 2005, 1079.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/b418259f

25.	The electron-poor phosphines (C6F5)3P and (3,5-(CF3)2C6H3)3P do not mimic phosphites as ligands for hydroformylation. A comparision of the co-ordination chemistry of (C6F5)3P and (3,5-(CF3)2C6H3)3P and the low hydroformylation activity of their rhodium complexes. M. L. Clarke, D. Elliss, K. L. Mason, A. G. Orpen, P. G. Pringle, R. Wingad and D. A. Zaheer, Dalton Trans., 2005, 1294.	[Link}
	DOI 10.1039/b418193j

26.	Branched selective hydroformylation: A useful tool for organic synthesis., M. L. Clarke, Current Organic Chemistry, 2005, 9, 701 (Invited contribution).	[Link]
	DOI 10.2174/1385272053764980

27.	The importance of steric effects on transmetalation, M. L. Clarke and M. Heydt, Organometallics, 2005, 24, 6475.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1021/om050724p

28.	Hydrogenation of aldehydes, ketones, imines, esters and anhydrides: reactivity and chemoselectivity. M. L. Clarke and G. J. Roff, chap 11 in ‘The comprehensive handbook of homogeneous hydrogenation’; Ed’s J. H. N. deVries and C. J. Elsevier, 2006,(Invited contribution).

29.	Highly regioselective rhodium catalysed hydroformylation of unsaturated esters: the first practical method for quaternary selective carbonylation. M. L. Clarke and G. J. Roff, Chemistry: A Euro Journal, 2006, 12, 7978.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1002/chem.200600914

30.	Self- Assembly of organocatalysts: a conceptually new approach to fine-tuning organocatalytic reactions. M. L. Clarke and J. A. Fuentes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 930.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1002/anie.200602912

31.	Hydrogenation of aldehydes, ketones, imines, esters and anhydrides catalysed by a ruthenium complex of a chiral tridentate ligand, M. L. Clarke, M. B. Diaz-Venezuela, and A. M. Z. Slawin, Organometallics, 2007, 26, 16.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1021/om060673b

32.	A highly efficient process for regio-selective hydroformylation and hydroaminovinylation of methyl acrylate, M. L. Clarke and G. J. Roff, Green Chemistry, 2007, 9, 792.	[Link}
	DOI 10.1039/b616918


33.	Diastereo- and enantio-selective hydrogenation of a fluorinated diketone, M. L. Clarke, M. B. France, J. J. R. Frew, F. G. Knight, G. J. Roff, Synlett, 2007, 11, 1739.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1055/s-2007-982566

34.	Microwave accelerated Suzuki coupling of aryl chlorides with electron deficient boronic acids. J. A Fuentes, M. E. France, G. J. Roff, E. J. Milton, and M. L. Clarke, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2007, 3, art.18.	[Link]

35.	The first organocatalytic ene reaction: Isomerisation-free C-C bond formation promoted by H-bonding thio-ureas. M. L. Clarke, C. E. S. Jones, M. B. France, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2007, 3, art. 24.	[Link]
	DOI 10.1186/1860-5397-3-24


36.	Evaluation of C4 diphosphine ligands in rhodium catalysed methanol carbonylation under a syngas atmosphere: synthesis, structure, stability and reactivity of rhodium(I) carbonyl and rhodium (III) acetyl intermediates. G. W. Lamb, M. L. Clarke, A. M. Z. Slawin, B. Williams, and L. Key, Dalton Trans., 2007, 47, 5582	[Link]
	DOI 10.1039/b712974b

37.	A Supramolecular Approach to Modifying Chiral Ligands: Co-ordination Chemistry of a Multifunctionalised Tridentate Amine-Phosphine Ligand. J. A. Fuentes and M. L. Clarke, New J. Chem., 2008, published on the web	[Link]
	DOI: 10.1039/b712612c

38.	Microwave accelerated Suzuki coupling of chloro-aryl phosphine-oxides: A method for introducing diversity into phosphine ligands.K. Damian; M. L. Clarke and C. J. Cobley, J. of Mol. Catalysis A: Chemical, 2008, 284(1-2), 46	[Link]
	DOI: 10.1016/j.molcata.2008.01.001

39	Palladium complexes of new bulky fluorinated diphosphines give particularly active and regioselective catalysts for hydroxycarbonylation of styrene, J. J. R. Frew, M. L. Clarke, U. Mayer, H. Van Rensburg and R. P. Tooze, Dalton Trans., 2008, 15, 1976	[Link]
	DOI: 10.1039/b719012c

40	A rationally designed cocatalyst for the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction, C. E. S. Jones. S. M. Turega, M. L. Clarke and D. Philp, Tetrahedron Lett., 2008, 49(31), 4666	[Link]
	DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2008.05.037

41.	The carbonyl ene reaction, M.L. Clarke and M.B. France, Tetrahedron, 2008, 64(38), 9003	[Link]
	DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2008.06.075

42.

A mechanistic investigation into the elimination of phosphonium salts from rhodium-TRIPHOS complexes under methanol carbonylation conditions. G.W Lamb, Matthew L. Clarke, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and Bruce W. Williams, Dalton Transactions, 36, 4946

[Link]

DOI:10.1039/b803067g

43.

Deoxygenation of pyridine N-oxides by palladium-catalyzed transfer oxidation of trialkylamines., J.A. Fuentes and M. L. Clarke, Synlett, 2008, 17, 2579

[Link]

DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1083508

44.

Enantioselective hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation of bulky ketones catalysed by a ruthenium complex of a chiral tridentate ligand.,B. M. Diaz-Valenzuela, S. D. Phillips, M. B. France, M. E. Gunn and M.L. Clarke, Chemistry- A European Journal, 2009, 15(5), 1227

[Link]

DOI: 10.1002/chem.200801929

45.

Iridium complexes of chiral diamines containing carbon and nitrogen stereocentres: synthesis, structure and evaluation as transfer hydrogenation catalysts., 2009, J.A. Fuentes, M.B. France, A.M.Z. Slawin and M.L. Clarke, New Journal of Chemistry, 2009, 33(3), 466

[Link]

DOI: 10.1039/b812699b

46.

Ligand electronic effects in homogeneous catalysis using transition metal complexes of phosphine ligands, 2009, Organometallic Chemistry, 1st Ed., M.L. Clarke and J.J.R. Frew Editor I.J.S. Fairlamb and J.M. Lynam, RSC Publishing

[Link]

DOI: 10.1039/9781847551030

47.

Palladium-catalysed synthesis of aryl-alkyl ethers using alkoxysilanes as nucleophiles., E.J. Milton, J.A. Fuentes and M.L. Clarke, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2009, 7(12), 2645

[Link]

DOI: 10.1039/b907784g

48.

Palladium-catalyzed P-C bond forming reactions between diphenylphosphine and ortho-substituted aryl bromides., K.S. Damian, M.L. Clarke and C.J Cobley, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 2009, 23(7), 272

[Link]

DOI: 10.1002/aoc.1510

49.

Reaction of a rhodium(I) carbonyl complex of a para-dimethylaminophenyl substituted, G.W. Lamb, D. Law, A.M.Z. Slawin and M.L. Clarke, Inorganic Chemica Acta, 2009, 362(11), 4263

[Link]

DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2009.05.064

50.

Palladium(II) complexes of new bulky bidentate phosphanes: active and highly regioselective catalysts for the hydroxycarbonylation of styrene., J.J R. Frew, K. Damian, H. Van Rensburg, A.M.Z. Slawin, R. P. Tooze, and M. L. Clarke, Chemistry- A European Journal, 2009, 15(40), 10504

[Link]

DOI:10.1002/chem.200901178

51.

Palladium-catalysed Grignard cross-coupling using highly concentrated Grignards in methyl-tetrahydrofuran., E.J. Milton and M.L. Clarke, Green Chemistry, 2010, 12(3), 381

[Link]

DOI:10.1039/b921026a

52.

Regioselective and Enantioselective Hydroformylation of Dialkylacrylamides. Gary M Noonan, David Newton, Cobley, Christopher J. Cobley, Andres Suarez, ; Antonio Pizzano and Matthew L. Clarke, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 2010, 352 (6), 1047

[Link]

DOI: 10.1002/adsc.20090087

53.

On the NH Effect in Ruthenium-Catalysed Hydrogenation of Ketones: Rational Design of Phosphine-Amino-Alcohol Ligands for Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones, Scott D. Phillips, Jose A. Fuentes and Matthew L. Clarke, Chemistry- A European Journal, 2010, 16 (27), 8002

[Link]

DOI: 10.1002/chem.201000790

54.

Palladium complexes of bulky ortho-trifluoromethylphenyl-substituted phosphines: Unusually regioselective catalysts for the hydroxycarbonylation and alkoxycarbonylation of alkenes, Arnald Grabulosa, Jamie J.R. Frew, Jose A. Fuentes, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and Matthew L. Clarke, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2010, 330 (1-2), 18

[Link]

55.

Asymmetric hydroformylation of an enantiomerically pure bicyclic lactam: efficient synthesis of functionalized cyclopentylamines, Gary M. Noonan, Christopher J. Cobley, Tomas Lebl, Matthew L. Clarke, Chemistry- A European Journal, 2010, 16(43), 12788

[Link]

DOI: 10.1002/chem.201002233

56.

Highly Enantioselective Hydroxycarbonylation and Alkoxycarbonylation of Alkenes using Dipalladium Complexes as Precatalysts, Tina M. Konrad, Jose A. Fuentes, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and Matthew L. Clarke, Angewandte Chemie Intl Ed., 2010. 49 (48), 9197

[Link]

DOI: 10.1002/anie.20100441

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