PhD: 2016 - 2020 Synthesis and organometallic chemistry of rhodium and iridium complexes of macrocyclic PCP and POCOP pincer ligands Destination: PDRA with Anne Milet (Université Grenoble Alpes) 2021: Warwick Chemistry 2020 Publication Prize   ORCID: 0000-0001-8547-6021

Publications

8. 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 – 23504.
7. 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 – 5793.
6. 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 – 2101
5. M. R. Gyton, B. Leforestier and A. B. Chaplin. Rhodium(I) Pincer Complexes of Nitrous Oxide. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 15295 – 15298.
4. 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 – 3798.
3. 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 – 7601.
2. 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 – 3971.
1. 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 – 61 (Pincer ligands and their applications special edition)