Inorganic chemistry
Ph.D. (Cantab) C.Chem. MRSC
Makeba Murphy-Jolly Ph.D. 2006
Lesley Lewis-Alleyne Ph.D. 2009
Euclides Velazco Ph.D. 2009
Dave Cassie M.Phil. 2010
Adil Hosein Ph.D. 2010
Jay Dixon Ph.D. 2016
University of Bristol 2010
University of Manchester 2014 & 2016
AI. Hosein, AJM. Caffyn (2012). A study of the reaction of perfluoroalkyl Grignard reagents with phosphoryl chloride and phenylphosphonic dichloride. DALTON TRANSACTIONS. 41(43), pp.13504-13508.
AI. Hosein, XF. Le Goff, L. Ricard, AJM. Caffyn (2011). Reaction of Perfluoroalkyl Grignard Reagents with Phosphorus Trihalides: A New Route to Perfluoroalkyl-phosphonous and -phosphonic Acids. Inorganic Chemistry. 50(4), pp.1484-1490.
LC. Lewis-Alleyne, MB. Murphy-Jolly, XF. Le Goff, AJM. Caffyn (2010). Synthesis and complexation of heptafluoroisopropyldiphenylphosphine. DALTON TRANSACTIONS. 39(5), pp.1198-1200.
EJ. Velazco, AJM. Caffyn, XF. Le Goff, L. Ricard (2008). Synthesis, Structure, and Coordination Properties of 1,1′-Bis(bis(trifluoromethyl)phosphino)ferrocene, dfmpf. Organometallics. 27(11), pp.2402-2404.
TJ. Williams, AJM. Caffyn, N. Hazari, PF. Oblad, JA. Labinger, et al. JE. Bercaw. (2008). C-H bond activation by air-stable [(diimine)M(II)(mu2-OH)]2(2+) dimers (M = Pd, Pt). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(8), pp.2418-2419.
RB. Bedford, M. Betham, AJM. Caffyn, JPH. Charmant, LC. Lewis-Alleyne, et al. PD. Long, D. Polo-Ceron, S. Prashar. (2008). Simple rhodium-chlorophosphine pre-catalysts for the ortho-arylation of phenols. Chemical Communications. pp.990-992.
AJM. Caffyn, MJ. Mays (2005). A comparison between the reaction of P2Ph4 with [{Co2(CO)6}2(μ-η2:μ-η2-HOCH2CCCCCH2OH)] and the reaction of [Co2(μ-PPh2)2(CO)6] with HOCH2CCCCCH2OH. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 690(9), pp.2209-2219.
AJM. Caffyn, MJ. Mays, GA. Solan, G. Conole, A. Tiripicchio Synthesis of [Co2(µ-PPh2C3H4)(µ-PPh2)(CO)4]; its reactions with P(OMe)3and with alkynes. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans.. pp.2345-2352.
MB. Murphy-Jolly, LC. Lewis, AJM. Caffyn (2005). The synthesis of tris(perfluoroalkyl)phosphines. Chemical Communications. pp.4479-4480.
AJM. Caffyn, MJ. Mays, GA. Solan, D. Braga, P. Sabatino, et al. G. Conole, M. McPartlin, HR. Powell. Reactions of P2Ph4with alkyne-bridged dicobalt carbonyl complexes; crystal structures of [Co2{µ-C2(CO2Me)2}(µ-P2Ph4)(CO)4], [Co2{µ-PPh2CHCPhC(O)}(µ-PPh2)(CO)4] and [Co2{µ-PPh2C(O)CHCH}(µ-PPh2)(CO)3(PPh3)]. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans.. pp.3103-3114.
AJM. Caffyn, D. Carmichael, F. Mathey, L. Ricard (1997). Reactivity of a (η5-Phospholyl)cobalt Dicarbonyl Complex. Synthesis of [Co2(η5-PC4H2tBu2)2(CO)2] and [Co2(η5-PC4H2tBu2)2(μ-CHCO2Et)(CO)2]. Organometallics. 16(10), pp.2049-2054.
AJM. Caffyn, KM. Nicholas (1993). Stereoselective propargylation mediated by a chiral metal cluster: reactions of [(propargylium)Co2(CO)5{P(OR)3}][BF4] with carbon nucleophiles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 115(14), pp.6438-6439.
AJM. Caffyn, A. Martín, MJ. Mays, PR. Raithby, GA. Solan The influence of the ring substituent, R, on the substitution of carbonyl groups by phosphine ligands in [Co2{µ-PPh2CHCRC(O)}(µ-PPh2)(CO)4](R = H, Ph or SiMe3). J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans.. pp.609-617.
AJM. Caffyn, MJ. Mays, GA. Solan, D. Braga, P. Sabatino, et al. A. Tiripicchio, M. Tiripicchio-Camellini. (1993). Ring-expansion reactions of ligand-bridged dinuclear cobalt complexes with alkynes and with allene: crystal and molecular structures of [Co2{.mu.-PPh2CHCHC(O)CHCHPPh2}(CO)4] and [Co2{.mu.-PPh2CHCHC(O)C(CH2)2}(.mu.-PPh2)(CO)3]. Organometallics. 12(5), pp.1876-1885.
AJM. Caffyn, MJ. Mays, PR. Raithby Synthesis of phosphido-bridged ruthenium–manganese complexes; X-ray crystal structures of [RuMn(µ-H)(µ-PPh2)(η5-C5H5)(CO)5], [Ru2(µ-H)(µ-PPh2)(η5-C5H5)2(CO)2] and [RuMn2(µ-H)(µ-PPh2)2(η5-C5H5)(CO)9]. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans.. pp.2349-2356.
AJM. Caffyn, MJ. Mays, PR. Raithby An improved synthesis and some reactions of a hydrido-bridged ruthenium–manganese complex. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans.. pp.515-519.
AJM. Caffyn, MJ. Mays, G. Conole, M. McPartlin, HR. Powell (1992). The reaction of diphenylphosphine, PPh2H, with an alkyne-bridged dicobalt carbonyl complex; the synthesis crystal structure and reactivity of the complex [CO2{μ-C(CO2Me)CHCO2Me}(μ-PPh2)(CO)4]. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 436(1), pp.83-94.
D. Braga, AJM. Caffyn, MC. Jennings, MJ. Mays, L. Manojlovic-Muir, et al. PR. Raithby, P. Sabatino, KW. Woulfe. Co-ordinated phospholes from the coupling of alkynes with bridging phosphido ligands: the crystal and molecular structures of [Co2{µ-η2:η2′-C4(CO2Me)4PPh2}(µ-PPh2)(CO)4], [Mn2(η4-C4H4PPh2)(µ-PPh2)(CO)6], and [Mn2(µ-η5-C4H4PPh2)(µ-PPh2)(CO)5]. J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.. pp.1401-1403.
AJM. Caffyn, SG. Feng, A. Dierdorf, AS. Gamble, PA. Eldredge, et al. MR. Vossen, PS. White, JL. Templeton. (1991). Unusual proton NMR properties of tungsten(II) tris(pyrazolyl)borate hydride complexes. Organometallics. 10(8), pp.2842-2848.
AJM. Caffyn, KM. Nicholas (1995). Chapter 7A, Volume 12 "Metal Alkyne Complexes in Organic Synthesis: Chemistry of Dinuclear (μ-Propargylium Complexes)". In: Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry Two Chapter 7A, Volume 12. Elsevier,
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