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N-Directed Two-Fold Bromoboration of Diynes Enables Access to Brominated BN-Embedded PAHs
Xiaoran Feng, Zhaobo Liu, Qing-Yun Ni, Bing Wang, Michael J. Ingleson and Kang Yuan, Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 10339.
A Chiral Propeller-Shaped Triple Helicene Shows Multi-Resonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence
Jingxiang Wang, Jhon Sebastian Oviedo Ortiz, Aidan P. McKay, David B. Cordes, Jeanne Crassous, Eli Zysman-Colman, Helv. Chim. Acta, 2024, 107, e202400129.
Isothiourea-Catalysed Acylative Kinetic Resolution of Tertiary Pyrazolone Alcohols
M. T. Westwood, A. O. Farah, H. B. Wise, M. Sinfield, C. Robichon, D. B. Cordes, P. H-Y. Cheong, A. D. Smith, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202407983.
Simple Parameters and Data Processing for Better Signal-to-Noise and Temporal Resolution in In Situ 1D NMR Reaction Monitoring
Annabel Flook and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, J. Org. Chem., 2024, 89, 16586.
Hidden Boron Catalysis: A Cautionary Tale on TMEDA Inhibition
Julie Macleod, Andrew D. Bage, Leonie M. Meyer and Stephen P. Thomas, Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 9564.
Helically chiral multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters and their use in hyperfluorescent organic light-emitting diodes
Jingxiang Wang, Dongyang Chen, Juan Manuel Moreno-Naranjo, Francesco Zinna, Lucas Frederic, David B. Cordes, Aidan P. McKay, Matthew J. Fuchter, Xiaohong Zhang and Eli Zysman-Colman, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 16917.
Hydrogen-Bonded SupramolecularNetwork Triggers High-EfficiencyBlue Room-TemperaturePhosphorescence
Sen Wu, Tao Wang, and Eli Zysman-Colman, CCS Chem., 2024, 6, 2727.
Highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes and light-emitting electrochemical cells employing multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters with bulky donor or acceptor peripheral groups
Jingxiang Wang, Hassan Hafeez, Shi Tang, Tomas Matulaitis, Ludvig Edman, Ifor D. W. Samuel, Eli Zysman-Colman, Aggregate, 2024, 5, e571.
Kinetics and Mechanism of PPh3/Ni-Catalyzed, Zn-Mediated, Aryl Chloride Homocoupling: Antagonistic Effects of ZnCl2/Cl−
Nicole A. Fohn, Yuan Gao, Stephen Sproules, Gary S. Nichol, Colin M. Brennan, Alan J. Robinson and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 29913
Borane-catalysed C2-selective indole reductive functionalisation
Kieran Nicholson, Sarah L. McOnie, Thomas Langer, Gary S. Nichol and Stephen P. Thomas, Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 10748
The current utility and future potential of multiborylated alkanes
Kane A. C. Bastick, Dean D. Roberts & Allan J. B. Watson, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024, 8, 741
A temperature sensor with a wide spectral range based on a dual-emissive TADF dendrimer system
Changfeng Si, Tao Wang, Yan Xu, Dongqing Lin, Dianming Sun & Eli Zysman-Colman, Nat Commun, 2024, 15, 7439
Digichem: computational chemistry for everyone
Oliver S. Lee, Malte C. Gather and Eli Zysman-Colman, Digital Discovery, 2024, 3, 1695
Molecular asymmetry and rigidification as strategies to activate and enhance thermally activated delayed fluorescence in deep-blue MR-TADF emitters
Rangani Wathsala Weerasinghe, John Marques dos Santos, Youhei Chitose, Tomas Matulaitis, Stuart L. Warriner, Debasish Barman, Chin-Yiu Chan, de Youichi Tsuchiya, Eli Zysman-Colman and Chihaya Adachi, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26, 21337
Aryl-Substituted Acridine Donor Derivatives Modulate theTransition Dipole Moment Orientation and Exciton HarvestingProperties of Donor−Acceptor TADF Emitters
Ettore Crovini, Kleitos Stavrou, Prakhar Sahay, Bình Minh Nguyễn, Thomas Comerford, Stuart Warriner, Wolfgang Brütting, Andrew Monkman,
Eli Zysman-Colman, J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128, 14429
Synthesis of Tetra-Substituted 3-Hydroxyphthalide Esters by Isothiourea-Catalysed Acylative Dynamic Kinetic Resolution
Shubham K. Agrawal, Dr. Pankaj K. Majhi, Alister S. Goodfellow, Dr. Raj K. Tak, Dr. David B. Cordes, Dr. Aidan P. McKay, Dr. Kevin Kasten, Prof. Dr. Michael Bühl, Prof. Dr. Andrew D. Smith, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202402909
Molecular asymmetry and rigidification as strategies to activate and enhance thermally activated delayed fluorescence in deep-blue MR-TADF emitters
Rangani Wathsala Weerasinghe, John Marques dos Santos, Youhei Chitose, Tomas Matulaitis, Stuart L. Warriner, Debasish Barman, Chin-Yiu Chan, Youichi Tsuchiya, Eli Zysman-Colman and Chihaya Adachi, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26, 21337
Enhancing Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence through Energy Transfer within a Chiral Polymer Host
Juan Manuel Moreno-Naranjo, Francesco Furlan, Jingxiang Wang, Seán Timothy James Ryan, Tomas Matulaitis, Zhiyu Xu, Qianyi Zhang, Louis Minion, Marta Di Girolamo, Tamás Jávorfi, Giuliano Siligardi, Jessica Wade, Nicola Gasparini, Eli Zysman-Colman, Matthew John Fuchter, Adv. Mater., 2024, 36, 2402194
Kinetics of sulfur-transfer from titanocene (poly) sulfides to sulfenyl chlorides: rapid metal-assisted concerted substitution
Pedro H. Helou de Oliveira, Patrick J. Boaler, Guoxiong Hua, Nathan M. West, Robert T. Hembre, Jonathan M. Penney, Malik H. Al-Afyouni, J. Derek Woollins, Andres Garcia-Dominguez and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 11875
Effect of tert-butyl substitution on controlling the orientation of TADF emitters in guest–host systems
Prakhar Sahay, Ettore Crovini, Kleitos Stavrou, Zhen Zhang, Bınh Minh Nguyen, Daniel Wagner, Peter Strohriegl, Stefan Brase, Andrew Monkman, Eli Zysman-Colman and Wolfgang Brutting, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12, 11041
A Mononuclear [PtCl(tpy)]PF6 Complex for a Yellow Emitting Solution-Processable Organic Light Emitting Diode
Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Rahat Gupta Hannah C. Potter, David B. Cordes, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Ifor D. W. Samuel, Eli Zysman-Colman, and Amlan K. Pal
One-Pot Access to Functionalised Malamides via Organocatalytic Enantioselective Formation of Spirocyclic β-Lactone-Oxindoles and Double Ring-Opening
Alastair J. Nimmo, Kevin Kasten, George White, Julia Roeterdink, Aidan P. McKay, David B. Cordes and Andrew David Smith, Molecules 2024, 29(15), 3635
Alpha-Phenylthioaldehydes for the effective generation of acyl azolium and azolium enolate intermediates
Paul M. D. A. Ewing, Pankaj Kumar Majhi, Callum Prentice, Claire M. Young, Karlotta van Rees, Polly L. Arnold, Eli Zysman-Colman and Andrew D. Smith, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 9369
Catalytic Access to Diastereometrically Pure Four- and Five-Membered Silyl-Heterocycles Using Transborylation
Dominic R. Willcox, Emanuele Cocco, Gary S. Nichol, Armando Carlone, Stephen P. Thomas, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202401737
Enantioselective Synthesis in Continuous Flow: Polymer-Supported Isothiourea-Catalyzed Enantioselective Michael Addition−Cyclization with α‑Azol-2-ylacetophenones
Zhanyu Zhou, Kevin Kasten, Tengfei Kang, David B. Cordes and Andrew D. Smith, Org. Process Res. Dev. 2024, 28, 2041
De-epimerizing DyKAT of beta-lactones generated by isothiourea-catalysed enantioselective [2 + 2] cycloaddition
Aife Conboy, Alister S. Goodfellow, Kevin Kasten, Joanne Dunne, David B. Cordes, Michael Bühl and Andrew D. Smith, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 8896
From Molecules to Materials: Collaborative Research at the Chemistry—Materials Science Interface and Lessons Learned in Cyclophane Chemistry
Zahid Hassan, Eli Zysman-Colman, Jörg Lahann, and Stefan Bräse, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2403365
Ligand-Enabled Copper-Mediated Radioiodination of Arenes
Holly McErlain, Matthew J. Andrews, Allan J. B. Watson, Sally L. Pimlott and Andrew Sutherland, Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 1528
A Simple Device for Automated Mixing of Heterogeneous Solid-Liquid Reactions During In-Situ Monitoring by NMR Spectroscopy
Yuan Gao, Andrew M. R. Hall, Nicole A. Fohn, Edward J. King, Lloyd A. L. Mitchell, George A. Steedman, and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2024, 27, e202400095
Organic Donor–Acceptor Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Photocatalysts in the Photoinduced Dehalogenation of Aryl Halides
Megan Amy Bryden, Dr. Ettore Crovini, Thomas Comerford, Prof. Armido Studer, Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202405081
Compatibility Assessment of Unactivated Internal Alkynes in Rhodium-Catalyzed [2+2+2] Cycloadditions
John M. Halford-McGuff, Aidan P. McKay, Allan J. B. Watson, Syn. Lett., 2024, 35, A-E
A novel B,O,N-doped mesogen with narrowband MR-TADF emission
Julius A. Knoller, Burcu Sonmez, Tomas Matulaitis, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Eli Zysman-Colman and Sabine Laschat, Chem Commun, 2024, 60, 4459
Better Together: Catalyzing Innovation in Organic Synthesis via Academic-Industrial Consortia
Jesús Alcázar, Edward A. Anderson, Huw M. L. Davies, Rio Febrian, Christopher B. Kelly, Timothy Noël, Eric A. Voight, Cayetana Zarate and Eli Zysman-Colman, Org Lett, 2024, 26, 2677
Enhancing photocatalytic performance of atom transfer radical addition (ATRA) reactions in water using immobilized 10-Phenylphenothiazine catalysts on mesoporous silica supports
Montana J. García, Thomas A. Comerford, Carmen Montoro, Eli Zysman-Colman, Jose Alemana, Silvia Cabrera, Journal of Catalysis, 2024, 431, 115368
A fluorene-bridged double carbonyl/amine multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter for efficient green OLEDs
Sen Wu, Ya-Nan Hu, Dianming Sun, Kai Wang, Xiao-Hong Zhang and Eli Zysman-Colman, Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 2489
A Boron, Nitrogen, and Oxygen Doped 𝝅-Extended Helical Pure Blue Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitter for Organic Light Emitting Diodes That Shows Fast kRISC Without the Use of Heavy Atoms
Rangani Wathsala Weerasinghe, Subeesh Madayanad Suresh, David Hall, Tomas Matulaitis, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Stuart Warriner, Yi-Ting Lee, Chin-Yiu Chan, Youichi Tsuchiya, Eli Zysman-Colman, and Chihaya Adachi, Adv. Mater., 2024, 2402289
Efficient Orange Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Employing a Central Aniline Bridged Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter
Rangani Wathsala Weerasinghe, Subeesh Madayanad Suresh, David Hall, Tomas Matulaitis, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Stuart Warriner, Yi-Ting Lee, Chin-Yiu Chan, Youichi Tsuchiya, Eli Zysman-Colman, and Chihaya Adachi, Adv. Mater., 2024, 2402289
[2.2]Paracyclophane-Substituted Chiral Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters for Efficient Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
Yan Xu, Hassan Hafeez, Jasmin Seibert, Sen Wu, Jhon Sebastian Oviedo Ortiz,Jeanne Crassous, Stefan Bräse, Ifor D. W. Samuel, and Eli Zysman-Colman, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 2402036
Speciation and kinetics of fluoride transfer from tetra-n-butylammonium difluorotriphenylsilicate (‘TBAT’)
Maciej M. Kucharski, Allan J. B. Watson and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 4331
Design of Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-Based Donor–Acceptor Chromophores through a Multicomponent Approach
Mareen Stahlberger, Milada Mergel, John Marques dos Santos, Tomas Matulaitis, Martin Nieger, Eli Zysman-Colman, Stefan Bräse, Synlett., 2024, 35, A–I
Modular Synthesis of Complex Benzoxaboraheterocycles through Chelation-Assisted Rh-Catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition
J. M. Halford-McGuff, M. Varga, D. B. Cordes, A. P. McKay, A. J. B. Watson, ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 1846
Mechanophotocatalysis: A Generalizable Approach to Solvent-minimized Photocatalytic Reactions for Organic Synthesis
Francis Millward, Eli Zysman-Colman, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, e202316169
Using pyrrolizine-fused bipolar PAHs as a new strategy towards efficient red and NIR emissive dyes
Krzysztof Bartkowski, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Tomas Matulaitis, Maja Morawiak, Eli Zysman-Colman and Marcin Lindner, Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,755
Understanding divergent substrate stereoselectivity in the isothiourea-catalysed conjugate addition of cyclic alpha-substituted beta-ketoesters to alpha,beta-unsaturated aryl ester
Ding Yuan, Alister S Goodfellow, Kevin Kasten, Zhuan Duan, Tengfei Kang, David B Cordes, Aidan P McKay, Michael Buhl, Gregory R Boyce, Andrew D Smith, Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 14146
TMSCF3-Mediated Conversion of Salicylates into α,α-Difluoro-3-coumaranones: Chain Kinetics, Anion-Speciation, and Mechanism
Hannah B. Minshull and Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 24, 17450
Borylation–Reduction–Borylation for the Formation of 1,4-Azaborines
Shantaram S. Kothavale, Saqib A. Iqbal, Emily L. Hanover, Abhishek K. Gupta, Eli Zysman-Colman, and Michael J. Ingleson, Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 49, 8912
A Chemoselective Polarity-Mismatched Photocatalytic C(sp3)−C(sp2) Cross-Coupling Enabled by Synergistic Boron Activation
Jeremy Brals, Thomas M. McGuire, Allan J. B. Watson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023,62, e2023104
Borylation Directed Borylation of N-alkyl anilines using iodine activated pyrazaboles
C. R. P. Millet, E. Noone, A. V. Schellbach, J. Pahl, J. Łosiewicz, G. S. Nichol and M. J. Ingleson, Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 12041
Brominated B1-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons for the Synthesis of Deep-Red to Near-Infrared Delayed Fluorescence Emitters
Kang Yuan, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Changfeng Si, Marina Uzelac, Eli Zysman-Colman*, and Michael James Ingleson*, Org. Lett., 2023, 25, 31, 5880
Pd-Catalyzed Organometallic-Free Homologation of Arylboronic Acids Enabled by Chemoselective Transmetalation
Kane A. C. Bastick and Allan J. B. Watson, ACS Catal., 2023, 13, 10, 7013
Synthesis of complex aryl MIDA boronates by Rh-catalyzed [2+2+2] cycloaddition
John M. Halford-McGuff, David B. Cordes, Allan J. B. Watson, Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 7759
Mechanism of Cu-Catalyzed Iododeboronation: A Description of Ligand-Enabled Transmetalation, Disproportionation, and Turnover in Cu-Mediated Oxidative Coupling Reactions
Matthew J. Andrews, Ambre Carpentier, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, David B. Cordes, Stuart A. Macgregor, and Allan J. B. Watson, ACS Catal., 2023, 13, 16, 11117
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