Dr Darren Willcox
Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry

Publications
- 2020
- Published
Mechanistic-Insight-Driven Rate Enhancement of Asymmetric Copper-Catalyzed 1,4-Addition of Dialkylzinc Reagents to Enones
Nouch, R., Woodward, S., Willcox, D., Robinson, D. & Lewis, W., 3 Mar 2020, In: Organometallics. p. acs.organomet.0c00005Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
1,3-Carboboration of Iodonium Ylides
Gazis, T., Mohajeri Thaker, B., Willcox, D., Ould, D., Wenz, J., Rawson, J. M., Hill, M., Wirth, T. & Melen, R., 14 Feb 2020, In: Chemical Communications.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC08749D - Published
Asymmetric ketone hydroboration catalyzed by alkali metal complexes derived from BINOL ligands
Willcox, D., Carden, J. L., Ruddy, A. J., Newman, P. D. & Melen, R. L., 2020, In: Dalton Transactions.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
DOI: 10.1039/D0DT00232A - Published
Radical Reactivity of Frustrated Lewis Pairs with Diaryl Esters
Soltani, Y., Dasgupta, A., Gazis, T. A., Ould, D. M. C., Richards, E., Slater, B., Stefkova, K., Vladimirov, V. Y., Wilkins, L. C., Willcox, D. & Melen, R. L., 2020, In: Cell Reports Physical Science. p. 100016Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2019
- Published
Borane-Catalyzed Heterocycle Synthesis
Willcox, D. & Melen, R. L., 1 Sep 2019, In: Trends in Physical Chemistry. 1, 6, p. 625-626 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › peer-review
- Published
Illuminating Lewis Acidity Strength
Willcox, D. & Melen, R. L., 13 Jun 2019, In: Chem. 5, 6, p. 1362-1363 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Streamlined Synthesis of C(sp3)-Rich N-Heterospirocycles Enabled by Visible-Light-Mediated Photocatalysis
Flodén, N. J., Trowbridge, A., Willcox, D., Walton, S. M., Kim, Y. & Gaunt, M. J., 29 May 2019, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141, 21, p. 8426-8430 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03372 - Published
Mechanistic investigation into the C(sp3)-H acetoxylation of morpholinones
Buettner, C. S., Willcox, D., Chappell, B. G. N. & Gaunt, M. J., 2019, In: Chemical Science. 10, 1, p. 83-89 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
DOI: 10.1039/c8sc03434f - 2017
- Published
Kinetic analysis of copper(I)/Feringa-phosphoramidite catalyzed AlEt3 1,4-addition to cyclohex-2-en-1-one
Willcox, D., Nouch, R., Kingsbury, A., Robinson, D., Carey, J. V., Brough, S. & Woodward, S., 6 Oct 2017, In: ACS Catalysis. 7, 10, p. 6901-6908 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2016
- Published
A general catalytic β-C-H carbonylation of aliphatic amines to β-lactams
Willcox, D., Chappell, B. G. N., Hogg, K. F., Calleja, J., Smalley, A. P. & Gaunt, M. J., 18 Nov 2016, In: Science. 354, 6314, p. 851-857 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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