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  1. Recyclable NHC Catalyst for the Development of a Generalized Approach to Continuous Buchwald–Hartwig Reaction and Workup

    Article • Organic Process Research & Development, February 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    David Nelson

  2. Towards microfluidic reactors for in situ synchrotron infrared studies

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, February 2016, American Institute of Physics

    David Nelson, Dr. Arunabhiram Chutia

  3. Synthesis and characterisation of an N-heterocyclic carbene with spatially-defined steric impact

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  4. On the Mechanism of the Digold(I)-Hydroxide-Catalysed Hydrophenoxylation of Alkynes

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, December 2015, Wiley

    David Nelson

  5. Half-sandwich nickel(II) complexes bearing 1,3-di(cycloalkyl)imidazol-2-ylidene ligands

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, November 2015, Beilstein Institut

    David Nelson

  6. Mechanism of the Transmetalation of Organosilanes to Gold

    Article • ChemistryOpen, September 2015, Wiley

    David Nelson

  7. Accessible Syntheses of Late Transition Metal (Pre)Catalysts Bearing N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, March 2015, Wiley

    David Nelson

  8. Evaluation of an olefin metathesis pre-catalyst with a bulky and electron-rich N-heterocyclic carbene

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, March 2015, Elsevier

    David Nelson

  9. What can NMR spectroscopy of selenoureas and phosphinidenes teach us about the π-accepting abilities of N-heterocyclic carbenes?

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  10. Key processes in ruthenium-catalysed olefin metathesis

    Article • Chemical Communications, June 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  11. Insights into the Decomposition of Olefin Metathesis Precatalysts

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2014, Wiley

    David Nelson

  12. Insights into the Decomposition of Olefin Metathesis Precatalysts

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, June 2014, Wiley

    David Nelson

  13. Methoxy-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

    Article • Organometallics, April 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    David Nelson

  14. Letter to the Editor concerning: “Carbon–Heteroatom Coupling Using Pd–PEPPSI Complexes” by Valente et al.

    Article • Organic Process Research & Development, March 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    David Nelson

  15. Efficient C–N and C–S Bond Formation Using the Highly Active [Ni(allyl)Cl(IPr*OMe)] Precatalyst

    Article • European Journal of Organic Chemistry, March 2014, Wiley

    David Nelson

  16. CO2fixation employing an iridium(i)-hydroxide complex

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  17. How phenyl makes a difference: mechanistic insights into the ruthenium(ii)-catalysed isomerisation of allylic alcohols

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  18. From ruthenium olefin metathesis catalyst to (η5-3-phenylindenyl)hydrido complex via alcoholysis

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  19. Does the rate of competing isomerisation during alkene metathesis depend on pre-catalyst initiation rate?

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  20. Synthesis and Reactivity of New Bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) Iridium(I) Complexes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    David Nelson

  21. Olefin Metathesis by Grubbs–Hoveyda Complexes: Computational and Experimental Studies of the Mechanism and Substrate-Dependent Kinetics

    Article • ACS Catalysis, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    David Nelson

  22. A Highly Active Cationic Ruthenium Complex for Alkene Isomerisation: A Catalyst for the Synthesis of High Value Molecules

    Article • ChemCatChem, July 2013, Wiley

    David Nelson

  23. Exploring the Limits of Catalytic Ammonia–Borane Dehydrogenation Using a Bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) Iridium(III) Complex

    Article • Organometallics, June 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    David Nelson

  24. Iridium(I) Hydroxides: Powerful Synthons for Bond Activation

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, April 2013, Wiley

    David Nelson

  25. Synergic Effects Between N-Heterocyclic Carbene and Chelating Benzylidene–Ether Ligands Toward the Initiation Step of Hoveyda–Grubbs Type Ru Complexes

    Article • ACS Catalysis, January 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    David Nelson

  26. Solvent effects on Grubbs’ pre-catalyst initiation rates

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  27. Deuteration of boranes: catalysed versus non-catalysed processes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  28. Quantifying and understanding the electronic properties of N-heterocyclic carbenes

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  29. Searching for the Hidden Hydrides: The Competition between Alkene Isomerization and Metathesis with Grubbs Catalysts

    Article • European Journal of Organic Chemistry, September 2012, Wiley

    David Nelson

  30. Why is RCM Favoured Over Dimerisation? Predicting and Estimating Thermodynamic Effective Molarities by Solution Experiments and Electronic Structure Calculations

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, October 2011, Wiley

    David Nelson

  31. Toward a Simulation Approach for Alkene Ring-closing Metathesis: Scope and Limitations of a Model for RCM

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, September 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    David Nelson

  32. What is the initiation step of the Grubbs-Hoveyda olefinmetathesiscatalyst?

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  33. On the relationship between structure and reaction rate in olefin ring-closing metathesis

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    David Nelson

  34. Trisubstituted cyclooctene synthesis at the limits of relay ring-closing metathesis: a racemic difluorinated analogue of fucose

    Article • Tetrahedron, November 2009, Elsevier

    David Nelson

  35. Prediction of ring formation efficiency via diene ring closing metathesis (RCM) reactions using the M06 density functional

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, July 2009, Elsevier

    David Nelson

  36. Pyrrolo[3,2,1-ij]quinolin-4-one and Pyrrolo[3,2,1-ij]quinolin-6-one

    Article • Synthesis, June 2009, Thieme Publishing Group

    David Nelson