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Chemistry Chaplin Group

Thomas Hood

Research

Leverhulme funded PDRA investigating the activation and transformation of nitrous oxide using metal boryl complexes.

Background

2021 - 2023: PDRA, Ruth WebsterLink opens in a new window research group, University of Bath
2016 - 2021: PhD in Chemistry, Chaplin group, University of Warwick.

Synthesis and organometallic chemistry of rhodium and iridium complexes of macrocyclic PNP and PONOP pincer ligands
Tom Hood 

2012 - 2016: MChem, University of Oxford

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Disney's Robin Hood

Contact

Email: thomas.m.hood(at)warwick.ac.uk
Twitter: @Thomas_M_HoodLink opens in a new window

Publications

ORCID: 0000-0003-2506-2753Link opens in a new window

  1. T. M. Hood, R. S. C. Charman, D. J. Liptrot, and A. B. Chaplin. Copper(I) Catalysed Diboron(4) Reduction of Nitrous Oxide. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202411692Link opens in a new window.
  2. J. E. Smart, J. Emerson-King, R. J. Jeans, T. M. Hood, S. Lau, A. Bara-Estaún, U. Hintermair, P. G. Pringle, and A. B. Chaplin. A Resorcin[4]arene-Based Phosphite-Phosphine Ligand for the Branched-Selective Hydroformylation of Alkyl Alkenes. ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 11803 – 11807.
  3. E. Pocock, M. Diefenbach, T. M. Hood, M. Nunn, E. Richards, V. Krewald, R. L. Webster, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 19839 – 19851Link opens in a new window.
  4. T. M. Hood,* S. Lau and A. B. Chaplin*. Capture of mechanically interlocked molecules by rhodium-mediated terminal alkyne dimerisation. RSC Adv. 2024, 14, 7740 – 7744.
  5. T. M. Hood, S. Lau, M. Diefenbach, L. Firmstone, M. Mahon, V. Krewald, and R. L. Webster. The Complex Reactivity of [(salen)Fe]2(μ-O) with HBpin and Its Implications in Catalysis. ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 11841 – 11850Link opens in a new window.
  6. W. Poole, I. Bustos, T. M. Hood, J. E. Smart and A. B. Chaplin. Iridium complexes of an ortho-trifluoromethylphenyl substituted PONOP pincer ligand. Dalton Trans. 2023, 52, 1096 – 1104Link opens in a new window.
  7. T. M. Hood, S. Lau and Ruth L. Webster. Taming PH3: State of the Art and Future Directions in Synthesis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 16684 – 16697Link opens in a new window.
  8. S. Lau,* T. M. Hood,* and Ruth L. Webster.* Broken Promises? On the Continued Challenges Faced in Catalytic Hydrophosphination. ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 10939 – 10949Link opens in a new window.
  9. T. M. Hood and A. B. Chaplin. Synthesis and reactivity of iridium complexes of a macrocyclic PNP pincer ligand. Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 2472 – 2482.
  10. T. M. Hood and A. B. Chaplin. Reactions of Rh(PNP) pincer complexes with terminal alkynes: homocoupling through a ring or not at all. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 16649 – 16652.Link opens in a new window
  11. T. M. Hood, M. R. Gyton and A. B. Chaplin. Synthesis and rhodium complexes of macrocyclic PNP and PONOP pincer ligands. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 2077 – 2086Link opens in a new window.
  12. T. M. Hood, B. Leforestier, M. R. Gyton and A. B. Chaplin. Synthesis and Structural Dynamics of Five-Coordinate Rh(III) and Ir(III) PNP and PONOP Pincer Complexes. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 7593 – 7601Link opens in a new window.
  13. M. R. Gyton, T. M. Hood and A. B. Chaplin. A Convenient Method for the Generation of {Rh(PNP)}+ and {Rh(PONOP)}+ Fragments: Reversible Formation of Vinylidene Derivatives. Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 2877 – 2880Link opens in a new window.