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Chemistry Chaplin Group

Baptiste Leforestier

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PhD: 2016 - 2020

Synthesis and organometallic chemistry of rhodium and iridium complexes of macrocyclic PCP and POCOP pincer ligands

Destination: PDRA with Anne MiletLink opens in a new window (Université Grenoble Alpes)
2021: Warwick Chemistry 2020 Publication Prize
 

Publications

  1. J. E. Smart, I. Prokes, B. Leforestier,* and A B. Chaplin*. Rhodium(III) and iridium(III) pincer complexes of a neopentyl-substituted PNP pincer ligand which feature agostic interactions. Organometallics, in the press.
  2. B. Leforestier, M. R. Gyton and A. B. Chaplin. Oxidative Addition of a Mechanically Entrapped C(sp)–C(sp) Bond to a Rhodium(I) Pincer Complex. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 23500 – 23504Link opens in a new window.
  3. M. R. Gyton, A. E. Kynman, B. Leforestier, A. Gallo, J. R. Lewandowski and A. B. Chaplin. Isolation and structural characterisation of rhodium(III) η2–fluoroarene complexes: experimental verification of predicted regioselectivity. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 5791 – 5793Link opens in a new window.
  4. B. Leforestier, M. R. Gyton and A. B. Chaplin. Synthesis and group 9 complexes of macrocyclic PCP and POCOP pincer ligands. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 2087 – 2101Link opens in a new window
  5. M. R. Gyton, B. Leforestier and A. B. Chaplin. Rhodium(I) Pincer Complexes of Nitrous Oxide. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 15295 – 15298Link opens in a new window.
  6. G. M. Parker, S. Lau, B. Leforestier and A. B. Chaplin. Probing the Donor Properties of Pincer Ligands Using Rhodium Carbonyl Fragments: An Experimental and Computational Case Study. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 3791 – 3798Link opens in a new window.
  7. 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.
  8. M. R. Gyton, B. Leforestier and A. B. Chaplin. Rhodium(III) and Iridium(III) Complexes of a NHC-Based Macrocycle: Persistent Weak Agostic Interactions and Reactions with Dihydrogen. Organometallics 2018, 37, 3963 – 3971Link opens in a new window.
  9. S. L. Apps, R. E. Alflatt, B. Leforestier, C. M. Storey and A. B. Chaplin. Divergent stereoisomers of molybdenum carbonyl complexes of NHC-based pincer ligands. Polyhedron 2018, 143, 57 – 61Link opens in a new window (Pincer ligands and their applications special edition)