Publications 2010-2014

131. Mechanistic Studies of the Dehydrocoupling and Dehydropolymerization of Amine–Boranes Using a [Rh(Xantphos)] Catalyst

Heather C. Johnson, Erin M. Leitao, George R. Whittel, Ian Manners*, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones* and Andrew S. Weller*

J. Am. Chem. Soc. ,136, 9078-9093, 2014.

130. Self-control tames the coupling of reactive radicals

Guy C. Lloyd-Jones* and Liam T. Ball

Science., 345, 381-382, 2014

Reprint

129. Gold-Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling of Arylsilanes and Arenes: Origin of Selectivity and Improved Precatalyst

Liam T. Ball, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones* and Christopher A. Russell*

J. Am. Chem. Soc. ,136, 254–264, 2014.

Highlighted in JACS Spotlights "Decipher the Code of Gold"

128. Selection of Boron Reagents in Suzuki-Miyaura coupling

Alastair J. J. Lennox and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*

Chem. Soc. Rev., 43, 412-443, 2014.

127. Boron Reagent Activation in Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling

Alastair J. J. Lennox and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*

Chapter in “Modern Cross Coupling: Evolution and Application” Edited by Thomas Colacot, RSC, 2014

126. Quantum Yields for Photochemical Production of NO₂ from Organic Nitrates at Tropospheric Wavelengths

Christina Higgins,Louise Evans, Guy Lloyd-Jones, Dudley Shallcross, David Tew, and Andrew Orr-Ewing*

J. Phys Chem. A, 118, 2756–2764, 2014.

125. Diverse and potentially manipulative signalling with ascarosides in the model nematode C. elegant

Anaid Diaz, Vincent Brunet, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, William Spinner, Barney Wharam and Mark E Viney

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14, 46, 2014

124. Mechanisms of the Thermal and Catalytic Redistributions, Oligomerizations, and Polymerizations of Linear Diborazanes

Alasdair P. M. Robertson, Erin M. Leitao, Titel Jurca, Mairi F. Haddow, Holger Helten,*Guy C. Lloyd-Jones,* and Ian Manners*

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 12670-12683, 2013.

123. Transmetallation in Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling: The Fork in the Trail

Alastair J. J. Lennox and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52, 7362-7370, 2013.

122. Dehydrocoupling of Dimethylamine Borane Catalyzed by Rh(PCy₃)₂H₂Cl

Laura J. Sewell, Miguel A. Huertos, Molly E. Dickinson, Andrew S. Weller* and Guy C Lloyd-Jones

Inorg. Chem. 52, 4509-4516, 2013.

121. Paramagnetic Ti(III) and Zr(III) Metallocene Complexes as Precatalysts for the Dehydrocoupling/Dehydrogenation of Amine-Boranes,

H. Helten, D. Barnali, J. Vance, M. Sloan, M. Haddow, D. Collison, S. Sproules, G. Whittell, G. C. Lloyd-Jones, and I. Manners*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52, 437-440, 2013.

Chosen by the referees as a Very Important Paper (VIP).

120. Gold-Catalyzed Direct Arylation

Liam T Ball, Guy C Lloyd-Jones* and Christopher A. Russell*

Science, 337, 1644-1648, 2012.

Reprint

Highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News: ' Biaryls Spun From Gold'.

119. The Mechanism of Metal-Free Hydrogen Transfer Between Amine-boranes and Aminoboranes

E. Leitao, N. Stubbs, A. Robertson, H. Helten, R. J. Cox, G. C. Lloyd-Jones,* and I. Manners*

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 16805-16816, 2012.

118. Preparation of Organotrifluoroborate Salts: Precipitation-driven Equilibrium under Non-Etching Conditions

Alastair J. J. Lennox and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 9385-9388, 2012.

Chosen by the referees as a Very Important Paper (VIP).

Highlighted in RSC Chemistry World News: ' Fluoroborates without the etch'.

117. Expansion of the Ligand Knowledge Base for C helating P,P-Donor Ligands (LKB-PP)

J. Jover, N. Fey,* J. N. Harvey, G. C. Lloyd-Jones, A. G. Orpen, G J. J. Owen-Smith, P. Murray, D. R. J. Hose, R. Osborne, and M. Purdie

Organometallics. , 31, 5302-5306, 2012.

116. Intermolecular Alkyne Hydroacylation. Mechanistic Insight from the Isolation of the Vinyl Intermediate that Precedes Reductive Elimination

R. Pawley, M. Huertos, G. C. Lloyd-Jones, A. S. Weller,* and M. Willis

Organometallics, 31, 5650-5659, 2012.

114. Development of a generic mechanism for the dehydrocoupling of amine–boranes: a stoichiometric, catalytic and kinetic study of H₃B·NMe₂H using the [Rh(PCy₃)₂]⁺ fragment

Laura J. Sewell, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones* and Andrew S Weller*

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 3598-3610, 2012.

113. Pd-Catalyzed Reaction of Allyl Carbonate with Polyols: the Role of CO₂ in Transesterification versus Etherification of Glycerol

Alvaro Gordillo and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*

Chem. Eur. J. , 18, 2660-2665, 2012.

112. Switching Pathways: Room Temperature Neutral Solvolysis and Substitution of Amides

Marc Hutchby, Chris E. Houlden, Mairi F. Haddow, Simon N. G. Tyler, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones,* and Kevin I. Booker-Milburn*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 548-551, 2012.

Highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News: ' New Twist On Amide Activation'.Highlighted in Nature "News and Views: ' Organic chemistry: Stabilizers cause instability'.Highlighted in Angewandte Chemie: ' A New Twist on Amide Solvolysis'.

111. Gold-Catalysed Oxyarylation of Styrenes, Mono- and gem-Disubstituted Olefins Facilitated by an Iodine(III) Oxidant

Liam T. Ball, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones* and Christopher A. Russell*

Chem. Eur. J., 18, 2931-2937, 2012.

110. The Even-Handed Approach: Strategies for the Deployment of Racemic Chiral Catalysts

Louise A. Evans, Neil S. Hodnett and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 5126-5133, 2012.

109. [(RCN)₂PdCl₂]-Catalyzed E/Z Isomerization of Alkenes: a Non-Hydride Binuclear Addition-Elimination Pathway

Emily H. P. Tan, Guy Lloyd-Jones,* Jeremy N. Harvey,* Alastair J. J. Lennox and Benjamin M. Mills

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 9602-9606, 2011.

108. New Heteroannulation Reactions of N-Alkoxy Benzamides by Pd(II) Catalyzed C-H Activation

J. W. Wrigglesworth, B. Cox, G. C. Lloyd-Jones,* and K. I. Booker-Milburn*

Org. Lett., 13, 5326-5329, 2011.

107. Enantioselective [2+2+2] Cycloisomerisation of Alkynes in the Synthesis of Helicenes: the Search for Effective Chiral Ligands

Irena G. Stará,* Angelina Andronova, Adrian Kollarovič, Štěpán Vyskočil, Sylvain Jugé, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, Patrick J. Guiry and Ivo Stary*

Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun., 76, in press, 2011.

106. 3,3 -Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)-2,2 - dihydroxy-1,1 -binaphthalene

Guy C Lloyd-Jones* and Gareth J. J. Owen Smith

electronic-Encyclopaedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), article RN01345, , in press, 2011.

105. A Metathesis Approach to Volatile Olefins: Synthesis of ¹⁸O-Allyl Alcohol

Guy C. Lloyd-Jones* and Sophie Purser

Chem. Eur. J., 17, 4724–4726, 2011.

104. 2,2-Difunctionalization of Alkenes via Pd(II)-Catalyzed Aza-Wacker Reactions

Luke D. Elliott, Joe W. Wrigglesworth, Brian Cox, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*, and Kevin I. Booker-Milburn*

Org. Lett., 13, 728–731, 2011.

103. 'The Slow-Release Strategy in Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling'; Invited contribution to Special Issue on Cross-Coupling & Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Alastair J. J. Lennox and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones

Israel J. Chem., 50, 664–674, 2010.

102. Expansion of the Ligand Knowledge Base for Monodentate P-Donor Ligands (LKB-P)

Jesús Jover, Natalie Fey,* Jeremy N. Harvey, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, A. Guy Orpen and Gareth J. J. Owen-Smith

Organometallics, 29, 6245–6258, 2010.

101. Arylsilanes: Application to Gold-Catalyzed Oxyarylation of Alkenes

Liam Ball, Michael Green, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones,* and Christopher Russell*

Org. Lett., 12, 4724–4727, 2010.

Highlighted in Synfacts (2011, 1, 76)

100. The Molecularity of the Newman Kwart Rearrangement

Matthew Burns, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*, Jonathan D. Moseley, and Joseph S. Renny

J. Org. Chem., 75, 6347-6353, 2010.

Selected by the Editor as a Featured Article.

99. Electrospray Mass Spectrometric Studies of Two Palladium-Allyl Complexes of the Trost Standard Ligand

Divya Agrawal, Detlef Schroeder*, David A. Sale and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*

Organometallics, 29, 3979-3986, 2010.

98. A Simple and Effective Co-Catalyst for Ring-Closing Enyne-Metathesis Using Grubbs I type Catalysts: A Practical Alternative to "Mori's Conditions"

Guy C. Lloyd-Jones,* Alan J. Robinson, Laurent Lefort and Johannes G. de Vries

Chem. Eur. J. (Invited contribution to Special issue for the 3rd European Chemistry Congress, Nürnberg, Germany, August 2010), 16, 9449-9452, 2010.

Chosen by the referees as a Very Important Paper (VIP)

97. Facile Double-Lithiation of a Transient Urea: Vicarious ortho-metallation of Aniline Derivatives

C. E. Houlden, G. C. Lloyd-Jones,* K. I Booker-Milburn*

Org. Lett., 12, 3090-3092, 2010.

96. Aryl Trifluoroborates in Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling: The Roles of Endogenous Aryl Boronic Acid and Fluoride

Mike Butters, Jeremy N. Harvey, Jesús Jover, Alastair J. J. Lennox, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones,* and Paul M. Murray

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 49, 5156-5160, 2010.

Chosen by the editors as a Hot Paper.

Highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News: 'Mechanism Of Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling Revealed'.

95. Memory and dynamics in Pd-catalyzed allylic alkylation with PN-ligands

Charlotte Johansson, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, Per-Ola Norrby*

Tetrahedron: Asymmetry (Special Issue in honour of Henri Kagan), 21, 1585-1592, 2010.

94. Can _π6 + _π4 = 10? Exploring cycloaddition routes to highly unsaturated 10-membered rings

Roger W. Alder*, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, Jeremy N. Harvey, Josep Oliva

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 8325–8337, 2010.

93. A Computational Study of Phosphine Ligand Effects in Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling

Jesús Jover, Natalie Fey, Mark Purdie, Guy C Lloyd-Jones, Jeremy N. Harvey*

J. Mol. Cat. A, 324, 39-47, 2010.

92. Homogeneous Catalytic Dehydrocoupling/Dehydrogenation of Amine-Borane Adducts by Early Transition Metal, Group 4 Metallocene Complexes

M. Sloan, A. Staubitz, T. Clark, C. Russell, G. C. Lloyd-Jones* and I. Manners*

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 3831-3841, 2010.

91. The use of reactive tracers to determine ambient OH radical concentrations: application within the indoor environment

I. R. White, D. Martin, M. Paz Muñoz, F. K. Petersson, S. J. Henshaw, G. Nickless, G. C. Lloyd-Jones, K. C. Clemitshaw and D. E. Shallcross*

Environmental Science & Technology, 44, 6269-6274, 2010.

Highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News: 'To Track an Oxidant'.