Bibliography

This page lists a selection of publications from Professor Gibson's group over the last five years. Some of the papers published in Royal Society of Chemistry journals are available in a PDF format, but only if you have a registered IP address.

Organometallic / Coordination Chemistry

 

Group 6 bis(imido) chemistry

 

Molybdenum and tungsten mono-isodiazene complexes with alkyl ligands as ring-opening metathesis polymerisation procatalysts. Crystal and molecular structures of [Mo(CH2CMe2Ph)3(NNPh2)(OC6F5)], [W(CH2SiMe3)3(NNPh2)(OC6F5)] and [WCl2(NNPh2)(OC6F5)2(thf)]

John R. Dilworth, Vernon C.Gibson, Carl Redshaw, Andrew J.P. White and David J. Williams

Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1999, pp. 2701-2704

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Bis(isodiazene) and related complexes of molybdenum (VI). Syntheses and structures of [Mo(OTf)2(NNPh2)2(py)2], [MoCl(OTf)(NNPh2){NC5H3(CH2(O)Ph2)2-2,6}, [{MoCl(NNPh2)2(mu-Cl)(NH2tBu)}2] and [MoTp'Cl(NNPh2)2] [OTf = O3SCF3, Tp' = tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)hydroborate]

John R. Dilworth, Vernon C.Gibson, Nicola Davies, Carl Redshaw, Andrew J.P. White and David J. Williams

Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1999, pp. 2695-2699

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Synthesis and characterisation of 2,6-diisopropylphenylimido complexes of chromium in oxidation states IV-VI

Kong Chin Chew, William Clegg, Martyn P. Coles, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Vernon C. Gibson, Andrew J.P. White and David J. Williams

Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1999, pp. 2633-2639

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Dibenzylbis(tert-butylimido)molybdenum(VI), containing both eta(1)- and eta(2)-benzyl ligands

William Clegg, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Philip W. Dyer, Vernon C. Gibson and Edward L. Marshall

Acta Crystallographica Section C - Crystal Structure Communications, 1999, Vol. 55, pp.916-918

Synthesis, characterisation and reactivity of the molybdenum (VI) dimethyl complex [Mo(NR)2Me2] (R = 2,6-Pri2C6H3)

Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, Gary L.P. Walker, Judith A.K. Howard, Vanessa J. Hoy, Jacqueline M. Cole, Lyudmila G. Kuzmina and Dinali S. DeSilva

Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1999, pp. 161-165

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Multiple a-agostic interactions in a metal-methyl complex: the neutron structure of [Mo(NC6H3Pri2-2,6)2Me2]


Jacqueline M. Cole, Vernon C. Gibson, Judith A.K. Howard, Garry J. McIntyre and Gary L.P. Walker
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1998, pp.1829-1830

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Bis(adamantylimido) complexes of chromium(VI)

Martyn P. Coles, Vernon C. Gibson, William Clegg and Mark R.J. Elsegood

Polyhedron, 1998, Vol.17, pp.2483-2489


Synthesis and reactivity of the first stable chromium(VI) alkylidene complexes

Martyn P. Coles, Vernon C. Gibson, William Clegg, Mark R.J. Elsegood and Peter A. Porrelli

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1996, pp.1963-1964


Bridged bis(imido)molybdenum complexes: Isolobal analogues of ansa-zirconocenes and bizirconocenes

Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, William Clegg, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Ulrich Siemeling and Thomas Turk

Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1996, pp.4513-4515


Four- versus five- co-ordinate bis(imido) alkene complexes of molybdenum: the contrasting effect of tert-butyl and 2,6-di-iso-propylphenyl-imido

Philip W. Dyer, Vernon C. Gibson and William Clegg

Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1995, pp.3313-3316


Bis(arylimido) complexes of chromium(VI)

Martyn P. Coles, Christopher I. Dalby, Vernon C. Gibson, William Clegg and Mark R.J. Elsegood

Polyhedron, 1995, Vol.14, pp.2455-2459


Four coordinate molybdenum alkene and alkyne complexes bearing ancillary imido ligands

Philip W. Dyer, Vernon C. Gibson, Judith A.K. Howard, Brenda Whittle and Claire Wilson

Polyhedron, 1995, Vol.14, pp.103-111

Group 5 Half-sandwich imido chemistry

 

Half-sandwich imido complexes of niobium bearing alkyne, benzyne and benzylidene ligands: relatives of the zirconocene family

Michael C.W. Chan, Jacqueline Cole, Vernon C. Gibson, Judith A.K. Howard, Christian Lehmann, Andrew D. Poole and Ulrich Siemeling

Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1998, pp.103-111

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Structural and spectroscopic evidence for multiple a-agostic interactions in dialkyl complexes of niobium

Andrew D. Poole, David N. Williams, Alan M. Kenwright, Vernon C. Gibson and William Clegg

Organometallics, 1993, Vol.12, pp.2549-2555

Calixarene complexes

 

Novel aluminium-containing ring systems: An octanuclear structural analogue of a calix[4] pyrrole

Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, Andrew J.P. White, David J. Williams

Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 1999, Vol. 38, pp.961-964


A novel titanium-oxygen ladder structure supported by calix[4]arene ligands, characterised by synchrotron crystallography

William Clegg, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Simon J. Teat, Carl Redshaw and Vernon C. Gibson

Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1998, pp.3037-3039


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Supramolecular metallocalixarene chemistry: linking metallocalixarenes through imido bridges
Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, William Clegg and Mark R.J. Elsegood

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1998, pp.1969-1970

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Novel metal-imido calixarene complexes

Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, William Clegg and Mark R.J. Elsegood

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1995 pp.2371-2372

Fluoromesityl complexes

 

Synthesis and structural characterisation of some novel metalloboroxides bearing boron-boron mesityl and fluoromesityl subsitutents: the molecular structure of the first metallaboroxane complex

Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, William Clegg and Mark R.J. Elsegood

Polyhedron, 1997, Vol.16, pp.2637-2641


Bis(imido) molybdenum(IV) complexes containing h2 diphosphene ligands

Keith Dillon, Vernon C. Gibson, Judith A.K. Howard, Leela J. Sequeira and Jing Wen Yao

Polyhedron, 1996, Vol.15, pp.4173-4177


Vanadium complexes containing the 2,4,6-tris(trifluoromethyl)phenyl ('fluoromes') ligand

Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, Leela J. Sequeira, Keith B. Dillon, William Clegg and Mark R.J. Elsegood
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1996 pp.2151-2152

Ziegler-type Catalysis

 

Iron and cobalt ethylene polymerisation catalysts bearing 2,6-bis(imino)pyridyl ligands: synthesis, structures and polymerisation studies

George J.P. Britovsek, Michael Bruce, Vernon C. Gibson, Brian Kimberley, Peter J. Maddox, Sergio Mastroianni, Stuart J. McTavish, Carl Redshaw, Greg Solan, Stefan Stromberg, Andrew J.P. White and David J. Williams

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1999, vol. 121, pp. 8728-8740


Pendant arm Schiff base complexes of aluminium as ethylene polymerisation catalysts

Paul A. Cameron, Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, John A. Segal, Michael D. Bruce and Andrew J.P. White

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications,1999, pp.1883-1884

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Highly active ethylene polymerisation catalysts based on iron: an ab initio study

Edward A.H. Griffiths, George J.P. Britovsek, Vernon C. Gibson and Ian Gould

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications,1999, pp.1333-1334

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Chromium ethylene polymerisation catalysts bearing reduced Schiff-base N,O-chelate ligands

Vernon C. Gibson, Claire Newton, Carl Redshaw, Gregory A. Solan, Andrew J.P. White and David J. Williams

Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1999, pp.827-829

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The search for new generation olefin polymerisation catalysts: life beyond metallocenes

George J.P. Britovsek, Vernon C. Gibson and Duncan F. Wass

Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English, 1999, Vol.38, pp.428-447


Cationic alkyl aluminium ethylene polymerization catalysts based on monoanionic N,N,N-pyridyliminoamide ligands

Michael Bruce, Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, Gregory A. Solan, Andrew J.P. White and David J. Williams

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications,1998, pp. 2523-2524

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Polystyrene supports for vanadium ethylene polymerisation catalysts

Michael C.W. Chan, Kong Chin Chew, Christopher I. Dalby, Vernon C. Gibson, A. Kohlmann, Ian R. Little and Warren Reed

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications,1998, pp.1673-1674

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Chromium (III) complexes bearing N,N-chelate ligands as ethene polymerization catalysts

Vernon C. Gibson, Peter J. Maddox, Claire Newton, Carl Redshaw, Gregory A. Solan, Andrew J.P. White and David J. Williams

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications,1998, pp.1651-1652

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Novel olefin polymerization catalysts based on iron and cobalt

George J.P. Britovsek, Vernon C. Gibson, Brian S. Kimberley, Peter J. Maddox , Stuart McTavish, Gregory A. Solan, Andrew J.P. White and David J. Williams

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1998, pp.849-850

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High activity ethylene polymerisation catalysts based on chelating diamide ligands

Vernon C. Gibson, Brian S. Kimberley, Andrew J.P. White, David J. Williams and Philip Howard

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1998, pp.313-314

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Well-defined ethylene polymerisation catalysts derived from bis(imido) chromium precursors

Martyn P. Coles, Christopher I. Dalby, Vernon C. Gibson, William Clegg and Mark R.J. Elsegood

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1995, pp.1709-1711

Olefin Metathesis

 

Ring opening metathesis polymerisation (ROMP)

In collaboration with Dr. Michael North

 

A new and highly efficient Grubbs initiator for ring-opening metathesis polymerisation

David A. Robson, Vernon C. Gibson, Gareth Davies and Michael North

Macromolecules, 1999, Vol. 19, pp. 6371-6373


Ring opening metathesis polymerisation of 2,3-diazanorborn-5-ene derivatives

Gareth R. Davies, Vernon C. Gibson, Michael North and David A. Robson

Polymer, 1999, Vol. 40, pp.5329-5241

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The synthesis and ring-opening metathesis polymerization of peptide functionalized norbornenes

Stefano C.G. Biagini, R. Gareth Davies, Vernon C. Gibson*, Matthew R. Giles, Edward L. Marshall, Michael North* and David A. Robson

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1999, pp.235-236

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Living ring-opening metathesis polymerisation of amino ester functionalised norbornenes

Stefano C.G. Biagini, Martyn P. Coles, Vernon C. Gibson*, Matthew R. Giles, Edward L. Marshall and Michael North*

Polymer, 1998, Vol.39, pp.1007-1014


Synthesis of penicillin derived polymers utilising ring-opening metathesis polymerisation methodology

Stefano C.G. Biagini, Vernon C. Gibson*, Matthew R. Giles, Edward L. Marshall and Michael North*

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1997, pp.1097-1098

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Thymine functionalised polymers via living ring-opening metathesis polymerisation

Vernon C. Gibson*, Edward L. Marshall, David A. Robson, Michael North* and Paul J. Williams

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1997, pp.1095-1096

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Metathesis in organic synthesis

In collaboration with Professor Anthony G.M. Barrett and Professor Susan E. Gibson

 

A tripartite asymmetric allylboration - silicon tethered alkene ring closing metathesis - in situ ring opening protocol for the regiospecific generation of functionalized (E)-disubstituted homoallylic alcohols


Mahmood Ahmed, Anthony G.M. Barrett *, Jennifer C. Beall, D. Christopher Braddock, Kevin Flack, Vernon C. Gibson*, Panayiotis A. Procopiou, Matthew M. Salter

Tetrahedron, 1999, Vol.55, pp.3219-3232

Rapid entry into mono-, bi-, and tricyclic beta-lactam arrays via alkene metathesis

Anthony G.M. Barrett*, Simon P.D. Baugh, D. Christopher Braddock, Kevin Flack, Vernon C. Gibson*, Matthew R. Giles, Edward L. Marshall, Panayiotis A. Procopiou, Andrew J. White and David J. Williams

Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1998, Vol.63, pp.7893-7907

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Cross metathesis of the amino acid homoallylglycine

Susan E. Gibson*, Vernon C. Gibson* and Stephen P. Keen

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1997, pp.1107-1108

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Heteroatom metathesis

In collaboration with Dr. Keith B. Dillon

Transition metal catalysed metathesis of phosphorus-phosphorus double bonds

Keith B. Dillon, Vernon C. Gibson and Leela J. Sequeira

Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1995, pp.2429-2430

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