Charlotte Willans

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• 2024

  Electrochemical removal of toxic metals from reaction media following catalysis

  Willans, C., Husbands, D., Booth, E., Donaldson, N., Willans, R. & Kapur, N., 31 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chemical communications. 67, p. 8876-8879

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• Silver-N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in π-Activation: Synergistic Effects between the Ligand Ring Size and the Anion

  Frith, A., Clarke, A. K., Heyam, A., Lynam, J. M., Newman, P. D., Unsworth, W. P. & Willans, C. E., 27 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Organometallics. 7 p.

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• 2023

  High-throughput computational workflow for ligand discovery in catalysis with the CSD

  Short, M. A. S., Tovee, C. A., Willans, C. E. & Nguyen, B. N., 21 Apr 2023, In: Catalysis Science and Technology. 13, 8, p. 2407–2420 14 p.

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• Rationalizing and Adapting Water-Accelerated Reactions for Sustainable Flow Organic Processes

  Maltby, K. A., Sharma, K., Short, M. A. S., Farooque, S., Hamill, R., Blacker, A. J., Kapur, N., Willans, C. E. & Nguyen, B. N., 12 Jun 2023, In: ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. 11, 23, p. 8675–8684 10 p.

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• 2022

  Development of a multistep, electrochemical flow platform for automated catalyst screening

  Schotten, C., Manson, J., Chamberlain, TW., Bourne, RA., Nguyen, BN., Kapur, N. & Willans, CE., 7 Jul 2022, In: Catalysis Science and Technology. 12, 13, p. 4266-4272 7 p.

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• Steps, hops and turns: examining the effects of channel shapes on mass transfer in continuous electrochemical reactors

  Stephen, HR., Boyall, S., Schotten, C., Bourne, RA., Kapur, N. & Willans, CE., 1 Feb 2022, In: Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. 7, 2, p. 264-268 5 p.

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• 2021

  Alternating polarity for enhanced electrochemical synthesis

  Schotten, C., Taylor, CJ., Bourne, RA., Chamberlain, TW., Nguyen, BN., Kapur, N. & Willans, CE., 1 Jan 2021, In: Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. 6, 1, p. 147-151 5 p.

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• Electrochemical Generation of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes for Use in Synthesis and Catalysis

  Schotten, C., Bourne, RA., Kapur, N., Nguyen, BN. & Willans, CE., 1 Jul 2021, In: Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis. 363, 13, p. 3189-3200 12 p.

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• On-Demand Electrochemical Synthesis of Tetrakisacetonitrile Copper(I) Triflate and Its Application in the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols

  Nicholls, TP., Bourne, RA., Nguyen, BN., Kapur, N. & Willans, CE., 17 May 2021, In: Inorganic Chemistry. 60, 10, p. 6976-6980 5 p.

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• 2020

  A Versatile Electrochemical Batch Reactor for Synthetic Organic and Inorganic Transformations and Analytical Electrochemistry

  Stephen, HR., Schotten, C., Nicholls, TP., Woodward, M., Bourne, RA., Kapur, N. & Willans, CE., 19 Jun 2020, In: ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH. 24, 6, p. 1084-1089 6 p.

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• Correction: Metal complexes as a promising source for new antibiotics (vol 11, pg 2627, 2020)

  Frei, A., Zuegg, J., Elliott, AG., Baker, M., Braese, S., Brown, C., Chen, F., Dowson, CG., Dujardin, G., Jung, N., King, AP., Mansour, AM., Massi, M., Moat, J., Mohamed, HA., Renfrew, AK., Rutledge, PJ., Sadler, PJ., Todd, MH., Willans, CE., & 3 othersWilson, JJ., Cooper, MA. & Blaskovich, MAT., 7 May 2020, In: Chemical Science. 11, 17, p. 4531 1 p.

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• Electrochemistry in continuous systems

  Nicholls, TP., Schotten, C. & Willans, CE., 1 Dec 2020, In: Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. 26, p. 100355 6 p.

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• Making electrochemistry easily accessible to the synthetic chemist

  Schotten, C., Nicholls, TP., Bourne, RA., Kapur, N., Nguyen, BN. & Willans, CE., 7 Jun 2020, In: Green Chemistry. 22, 11, p. 3358-3375 18 p.

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• Mapping the properties of bidentate ligands with calculated descriptors (LKB-bid)

  Fey, N., Koumi, A., Malkov, AV., Moseley, JD., Nguyen, BN., Tyler, SNG. & Willans, CE., 28 Jun 2020, In: Dalton Transactions. 49, 24, p. 8169-8178 10 p.

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• Metal complexes as a promising source for new antibiotics

  Frei, A., Zuegg, J., Elliott, AG., Baker, M., Braese, S., Brown, C., Chen, F., Dowson, CG., Dujardin, G., Jung, N., King, AP., Mansour, AM., Massi, M., Moat, J., Mohamed, HA., Renfrew, AK., Rutledge, PJ., Sadler, PJ., Todd, MH., Willans, CE., & 3 othersWilson, JJ., Cooper, MA. & Blaskovich, MAT., 14 Mar 2020, In: Chemical Science. 11, 10, p. 2627-2639 13 p.

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• Precious metal N-heterocyclic carbene-carbaboranyl complexes: Cytotoxic and selective compounds for the treatment of cancer

  Lord, RM., Holmes, J., Singer, FN., Frith, A. & Willans, CE., 2020, In: JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY. 907, 8 p., 121062.

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• Silver(I) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes Derived from Clotrimazole: Antiproliferative Activity and Interaction with an Artificial Membrane-Based Biosensor

  Mohamed, HA., Shepherd, S., William, N., Blundell, HA., Das, M., Pask, C., Lake, BRM., Phillips, RM., Nelson, A. & Willans, CE., 27 Apr 2020, In: Organometallics. 39, 8, p. 1318-1331 14 p.

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• 2019

  Cyclotriveratrylene-tethered trinuclear palladium(ii)-NHC complexes; reversal of site selectivity in Suzuki-Miyaura reactions

  Fowler, JM., Britton, E., Pask, CM., Willans, CE. & Hardie, MJ., 2019, In: Dalton Transactions. 48, 39, p. 14687-14695 9 p.

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• Tethered N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Carboranyl Silver Complexes for Cancer Therapy

  Holmes, J., Kearsey, RJ., Paske, KA., Singer, FN., Atallah, S., Pask, CM., Phillips, RM. & Willans, CE., 2019, In: Organometallics. 38, 12, p. 2530-2538 9 p.

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• 2018

  Metallo-cryptophane cages from cis-linked and trans-linked strategies

  Cookson, NJ., Fowler, JM., Martin, DP., Fisher, J., Henkelis, JJ., Ronson, TK., Thorp-Greenwood, FL., Willans, CE. & Hardie, MJ., 2018, In: Supramolecular Chemistry. 30, 4, p. 255-266 12 p.

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• Polymer encapsulation of anticancer silver-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

  Mohamed, HA., Khuphe, M., Boardman, SJ., Shepherd, S., Phillips, RM., Thornton, PD. & Willans, CE., 2018, In: RSC Advances. 8, 19, p. 10474-10477 4 p.

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• Preclinical anti-cancer activity and multiple mechanisms of action of a cationic silver complex bearing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands (vol 403, pg 98, 2017)

  Allison, SJ., Sadiq, M., Baronou, E., Cooper, PA., Dunnill, C., Georgopoulos, NT., Latif, A., Shepherd, S., Shnyder, SD., Stratford, IJ., Wheelhous, RT., Willans, CE. & Phillips, RM., 2018, In: Cancer letters. 431, p. 247 1 p.

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• 2017

  Origins of high catalyst loading in copper(I)catalysed Ullmann-Goldberg C-N coupling reactions

  Sherborne, GJ., Adomeit, S., Menzel, R., Rabeah, J., Bruckner, A., Fielding, MR., Willans, CE. & Nguyen, BN., 2017, In: Chemical Science. 8, 10, p. 7203-7210 8 p.

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• Preclinical anti-cancer activity and multiple mechanisms of action of a cationic silver complex bearing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands

  Allison, SJ., Sadiq, M., Baronou, E., Cooper, PA., Dunnill, C., Georgopoulos, NT., Latif, A., Shepherd, S., Shnyder, SD., Stratford, IJ., Wheelhouse, RT., Willans, CE. & Phillips, RM., 2017, In: Cancer letters. 403, p. 98-107 10 p.

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• 2016

  A Straightforward Electrochemical Approach to Imine- and Amine-bisphenolate Metal Complexes with Facile Control Over Metal Oxidation State

  Chapman, MR., Henkelis, SE., Kapur, N., Nguyen, BN. & Willans, CE., 2016, In: ChemistryOpen. 5, 4, p. 351-356 6 p.

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• Chelating N-heterocyclic carbene-carboranes offer flexible ligand coordination to Ir-III, Rh-III and Ru-II: effect of ligand cyclometallation in catalytic transfer hydrogenation

  Holmes, J., Pask, CM. & Willans, CE., 2016, In: Dalton Transactions. 45, 40, p. 15818-15827 10 p.

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• M12L8 metallo-supramolecular cube with cyclotriguaiacylene-type ligand: spontaneous resolution of cube and its constituent host ligand

  Fowler, JM., Thorp-Greenwood, FL., Warriner, SL., Willans, CE. & Hardie, MJ., 2016, In: Chemical Communications. 52, 56, p. 8699-8702 4 p.

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• Rapid, metal-free and aqueous synthesis of imidazo[1,2-a] pyridine under ambient conditions

  Chapman, MR., Kwan, MHT., King, GE., Kyffin, BA., Blacker, AJ., Willans, CE. & Nguyen, BN., 2016, In: Green Chemistry. 18, 17, p. 4623-4627 5 p.

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• Tethered N-heterocyclic carbene-carboranes: unique ligands that exhibit unprecedented and versatile coordination modes at rhodium

  Holmes, J., Pask, CM., Fox, MA. & Willans, CE., 2016, In: Chemical Communications. 52, 38, p. 6443-6446 4 p.

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• 2015

  Activation and Deactivation of a Robust Immobilized Cp*Ir-Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyst: A Multielement in Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study

  Sherborne, GJ., Chapman, MR., Blacker, AJ., Bourne, RA., Chamberlain, TW., Crossley, BD., Lucas, SJ., McGowan, PC., Newton, MA., Screen, TEO., Thompson, P., Willans, CE. & Nguyen, BN., 2015, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137, 12, p. 4151-4157 7 p.

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• Electrochemical flow-reactor for expedient synthesis of copper-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

  Chapman, MR., Shafi, YM., Kapur, N., Nguyen, BN. & Willans, CE., 2015, In: Chemical Communications. 51, 7, p. 1282-1284 3 p.

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• sigma-Alkenyl endo-palladacycle formation via regiospecific functionalisation of an unreactive NHC-tethered C(sp(2))-H bond

  Chapman, MR., Pask, CM., Ariafard, A. & Willans, CE., 2015, In: Chemical Communications. 51, 25, p. 5513-5515 3 p.

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• Solid-state structure, solution-state behaviour and catalytic activity of electronically divergent C, N-chelating palladium-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

  Chapman, MR., Lake, BRM., Pask, CM., Nguyen, BN. & Willans, CE., 2015, In: Dalton Transactions. 44, 36, p. 15938-15948 11 p.

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• Synthesis and anticancer activity of silver(I)-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes derived from the natural xanthine products caffeine, theophylline and theobromine

  Mohamed, HA., Lake, BRM., Laing, T., Phillips, RM. & Willans, CE., 2015, In: Dalton Transactions. 44, 16, p. 7563-7569 7 p.

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• 2014

  Mechanistic Insights into the Oxidative Coupling of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes within the Coordination Sphere of Copper Complexes

  Lake, BRM., Ariafard, A. & Willans, CE., 2014, In: Chemistry : A European Journal. 20, 40, p. 12729-12733 5 p.

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• Remarkable Stability of Copper(II)-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes Void of an Anionic Tether

  Lake, BRM. & Willans, CE., 2014, In: Organometallics. 33, 8, p. 2027-2038 12 p.

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• 2013

  Electrochemical Synthesis of a Tetradentate Copper N-Heterocyclic Carbene Calix[4]arene and Its Transmetalation to Palladium: Activity of the Palladium Complex in Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling

  Bullough, EK., Little, MA. & Willans, CE., 2013, In: Organometallics. 32, 2, p. 570-577 8 p.

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• Structural Diversity of Copper(I)-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes; Ligand Tuning Facilitates Isolation of the First Structurally Characterised Copper(I)-NHC Containing a Copper(I)-Alkene Interaction

  Lake, BRM. & Willans, CE., 2013, In: Chemistry : A European Journal. 19, 49, p. 16780-16790 11 p.

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• 2012

  Enhanced cytotoxicity of silver complexes bearing bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene ligands

  Monteiro, DCF., Phillips, RM., Crossley, BD., Fielden, J. & Willans, CE., 2012, In: Dalton Transactions. 41, 13, p. 3720-3725 6 p.

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• Simple and versatile selective synthesis of neutral and cationic copper(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes using an electrochemical procedure

  Lake, BRM., Bullough, EK., Williams, TJ., Whitwood, A. C., Little, MA. & Willans, CE., 2012, In: Chemical Communications. 48, 40, p. 4887-4889 3 p.

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• Tetrakis(methylimidazole) and tetrakis(methylimidazolium) calix[4]arenes: competitive anion binding and deprotonation

  Bullough, EK., Kilner, CA., Little, MA. & Willans, CE., 2012, In: Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. 10, 14, p. 2824-2829 6 p.

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• 2011

  Tripodal imidazole frameworks: Reversible vapour sorption both with and without significant structural changes

  Willans, CE., French, S., Anderson, KM., Barbour, LJ., Gertenbach, JA., Lloyd, GO., Dyer, RJ., Junk, PC. & Steed, JW., 2011, In: Dalton Transactions. 40, 3, p. 573-582 10 p.

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• 2010

  Deboronation and Deprotonation of ortho-Carborane with N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

  Willans, CE., Kilner, CA. & Fox, MA., 2010, In: Chemistry : A European Journal. 16, 35, p. 10644-10648 5 p.

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• N-heterocyclic carbene adducts of carborane

  Willans, CE., 2010, In: ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 239

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• 2009

  A catenated imidazole-based coordination polymer exhibiting significant CO2 sorption at low pressure

  Willans, CE., French, S., Barbour, LJ., Gertenbach, JA., Junk, PC., Lloyd, GO. & Steed, JW., 2009, In: Dalton Transactions. 33, p. 6480-6482 3 p.

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• A catenated imidazole-based coordination polymer exhibiting significant CO2 sorption at low pressure (pg 6480, 2009)

  Willans, CE., French, S., Barbour, LJ., Gertenbach, JA., Junk, PC., Lloyd, GO. & Steed, JW., 2009, In: Dalton Transactions. 47, p. 10624 1 p.

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• Allosteric effects in a tetrapodal imidazolium-derived calix[4]arene anion receptor

  Willans, CE., Anderson, KM., Potts, LC. & Steed, JW., 2009, In: Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. 7, 13, p. 2756-2760 5 p.

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• Bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) Dipalladium Complexes: Synthesis, Solid-State Conformational Studies and Solution Behaviour

  Willans, CE., Anderson, KM., Paterson, MJ., Junk, PC., Barbour, LJ. & Steed, JW., 2009, In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. 19, p. 2835-2843 9 p.

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• 2008

  Anion binding and luminescent sensing using cationic ruthenium(II) aminopyridine complexes

  Dickson, SJ., Paterson, MJ., Willans, CE., Anderson, KM. & Steed, JW., 2008, In: Chemistry : A European Journal. 14, 24, p. 7296-7305 10 p.

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• 2007

  2,4,6-Tris(bromomethyl)-1,3,5-trimethylbenzene

  Murray, P., Willans, C., Bredenkamp, MW. & Gertenbach, JA., 2007, In: ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION E-CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS. 63, p. O224-O225

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