Joshua Thomas William Bray

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• 2024

  Deciphering complexity in Pd–catalyzed cross-couplings

  Clarke, G. E., Firth, J. D., Ledingham, L. A., Horbaczewskyj, C. S., Bourne, R. A., Bray, J. T. W., Martin, P. L., Eastwood, J. B., Campbell, R., Pagett, A., MacQuarrie, D. J., Slattery, J. M., Lynam, J. M., Whitwood, A. C., Milani, J., Hart, S., Wilson, J. & Fairlamb, I. J. S., 10 May 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, 15 p., 3968.

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• Stereoselective synthesis of an advanced trans-decalin intermediate towards the total synthesis of anthracimycin

  Jeanmard, L., Lodovici, G., George, I., Bray, J. T. W., Whitwood, A. C., Thomas, G. H., Fairlamb, I. J. S., Unsworth, W. P. & Clarke, P. A., 7 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chemical communications. 4 p.

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• 2023

  Opening a Pandora’s Flask on a Prototype Catalytic Direct Arylation Reaction of Pentafluorobenzene: The Ag₂CO₃/Pd(OAc)₂/PPh₃ System

  Platt, G. M. H., Aguiar, P. M., Athavan, G., Bray, J. T. W., Scott, N. W. J., Fairlamb, I. J. S. & Perutz, R. N., 11 Sept 2023, In: Organometallics. 42, p. 2378-2394 17 p.

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• 2022

  Manganese-Mediated C–H Bond Activation of Fluorinated Aromatics and the ortho-Fluorine Effect: Kinetic Analysis by In Situ Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis and Time-Resolved Methods

  Hammarback, L. A., Bishop, A. L., Jordan, C., Athavan, G., Eastwood, J. B., Burden, T. J., Bray, J. T. W., Clarke, F., Robinson, A., Krieger, J. P., Whitwood, A., Clark, I. P., Towrie, M., Lynam, J. M. & Fairlamb, I. J. S., 21 Jan 2022, In: ACS Catalysis. 12, 2, p. 1532-1544 13 p.

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• 2021

  Direct Observation of the Microscopic Reverse of the Ubiquitous Concerted Metalation Deprotonation Step in C-H Bond Activation Catalysis

  Hammarback, L. A., Aucott, B. J., Bray, J. T. W., Towrie, M., Robinson, A., Fairlamb, I. J. S. & Lynam, J. M., 11 Jan 2021, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143, 3, p. 1356-1364 9 p.

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• 2019

  The critical role played by water in controlling Pd catalyst speciation in arylcyanation reactions

  Bray, J. T. W., Ford, M. J., Karadakov, P. B., Whitwood, A. C. & Fairlamb, I. J. S., 1 Jan 2019, In: Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. 4, 1, p. 122-130 9 p.

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• 2017

  Mild and Regioselective Pd(OAc)2-Catalyzed C–H Arylation of Tryptophans by [ArN2]X, Promoted by Tosic Acid

  Reay, A. J., Hammarback, L. A., Bray, J. T. W., Sheridan, T., Turnbull, D., Whitwood, A. C. & Fairlamb, I. J. S., 4 Aug 2017, In: ACS Catalysis. 7, 8, p. 5174-5179 6 p.

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• Redox Couple Involving NOx in Aerobic Pd-Catalyzed Oxidation of sp3‑C−H Bonds: Direct Evidence for Pd−NO3−/NO2− Interactions Involved in Oxidation and Reductive Elimination

  Wenzel, M. N., Owens, P. K., Bray, J. T. W., Lynam, J. M., Aguiar, P. M., Reed, C. P., Lee, J. D., Hamilton, J. F., Whitwood, A. C. & Fairlamb, I. J. S., 25 Jan 2017, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139, 3, p. 1177-1190 14 p.

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• 2016

  Manganese(I)-Catalyzed C−H Activation: The Key Role of a 7-Membered Manganacycle in H-Transfer and Reductive Elimination

  Yahaya, N. P., Appleby, K. M., Teh, M., Wagner, C., Troschke, E., Bray, J. T. W., Duckett, S. B., Hammarback, L. A., Ward, J. S., Milani, J., Pridmore, N. E., Whitwood, A. C., Lynam, J. M. & Fairlamb, I. J. S., 26 Sept 2016, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55, 40, p. 12455-12459 5 p.

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• Photoactivated functionizable tetracarbonyl phenylpyridine manganese(I) complexes as CO-releasing molecules: a direct Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling on a thermally-stable CO-RM

  Ward, J. S., Bray, J. T. W., Aucott, B. J., Wagner, C., Pridmore, N. E., Whitwood, A. C., Moir, J. W. B., Lynam, J. M. & Fairlamb, I. J. S., 2 Nov 2016, In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. 2016, 31, p. 5044-5051 8 p.

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• 2015

  Mechanistic Elucidation of the Arylation of Non-Spectator N-Heterocyclic Carbenes at Copper Using a Combined Experimental and Computational Approach

  Williams, T. J., Bray, J. T. W., Lake, B. R. M., Willans, C. E., Rajabi, N. A., Ariafard, A., Manzini, C., Bellina, F., Whitwood, A. C. & Fairlamb, I. J. S., 27 Jul 2015, In: Organometallics. 34, 14, p. 3497-3507 11 p.

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• 2014

  Pd-catalysed intramolecular regioselective arylation of 2-pyrones, pyridones, coumarins and quinolones by C-H bond functionalization

  Nolan, M.-T., Bray, J. T. W., Eccles, K., Cheung, M. S., Lin, Z., Lawrence, S. E., Whitwood, A. C., Fairlamb, I. J. S. & McGlacken, G. P., 7 Oct 2014, In: Tetrahedron. 70, 40, p. 7120-7127 8 p.

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