Staff Profile
Teaching
CHY1402 - Data Handling in Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry
CHY2401 - Structural Chemistry (Module Leader)
CHY8833 - Structural and Analytical Chemistry (Module Leader)
Publications
- Doherty S, Knight JG, Alshaikh H, Wilson J, Waddell PG, Wills C, Dixon CM. Arene-Immobilized Ru(II)/TsDPEN Complexes: Synthesis and Applications to the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2021, 2021(3), 226-235.
- Abualnaja M, Cowell J, Jolliffe JD, Wills C, Waddell PG, Clegg W, Hall MJ. Diastereoselective Rearomative Etherifications and Aminations of 2,3,9,9a-Tetrahydro-1H-carbazoles. Tetrahedron 2021, 89, 132144.
- Woodford OJ, Ziessel R, Harriman A, Wills C, Alsimaree AA, Knight JG. Optical spectroscopic properties recorded for simple BOPHY dyes in condensed media: The mirror-symmetry factor. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 2019, 208, 57-64.
- Friedl J, Holland-Cunz MV, Cording F, Pfanschilling FL, Wills C, McFarlane W, Schricker B, Fleck R, Wolfschmidt H, Stimming U. Asymmetric polyoxometalate electrolytes for advanced redox flow batteries. Energy and Environmental Science 2018, 11(10), 3010-3018.
- Probert PM, Leitch AC, Dunn MP, Meyer SK, Palmer JM, Abdelghany TM, Lakey AF, Cooke MP, Talbot H, Wills C, McFarlane W, Blake LI, Rosenmai AK, Oskarsson A, Figueiredo R, Wilson C, Kass GE, Jones DE, Blain PG, Wright MC. Identification of a xenobiotic as a potential environmental trigger in primary biliary cholangitis. Journal of Hepatology 2018, 69(5), 1123-1135.
- Mosaei H, Molodtsov V, Kepplinger B, Harbottle J, Moon C, Jeeves R, Ceccaroni L, Shin Y, Morton-Laing S, Marrs ECL, Wills C, Clegg W, Yuzenkova J, Perry JD, Bacon J, Errington J, Allenby NEE, Hall MJ, Murakami KS, Zenkin N. Mode of Action of Kanglemycin A, an Ansamycin Natural Product that Is Active against Rifampicin Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Molecular Cell 2018, 72(2), 263-274.
- Ndeh D, Munoz JM, Cartmell A, Bulmer D, Wills C, Henrissat B, Gray J. The human gut microbe Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron encodes the founding member of a novel glycosaminoglycan-degrading polysaccharide lyase family PL29. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2018, 293(46), 17906-17916.
- Baksh A, Kepplinger B, Isah H, Probert MR, Clegg W, Wills C, Goodfellow M, Errington J, Allenby N, Hall MJ. Production of 17-O-demethyl-geldanamycin, a cytotoxic ansamycin polyketide, by Streptomyces hygroscopicus DEM20745. Natural Product Research 2017, 31(16), 1895-1900.
- Tyler A, Mosaei H, Morton S, Waddell PG, Wills C, McFarlane W, Gray J, Goodfellow M, Errington J, Allenby N, Zenkin N, Hall MJ. Structural Reassignment and Absolute Stereochemistry of Madurastatin C1 (MBJ-0034) and the Related Aziridine Siderophores: Madurastatins A1, B1 and MBJ-0035. Journal of Natural Products 2017, 80(5), 1558–1562.
- Fleming JT, Wills C, Waddell PG, Harrington RW, Higham LJ. A comparison of MOP-phosphonite ligands and their applications in Rh(I)- and Pd(II)-catalysed asymmetric transformations. Dalton Transactions 2016, 45(39), 15660-15670.
- Doherty S, Knight JG, Perry DO, Ward NAB, Bittner DM, McFarlane W, Wills C, Probert MR. Triaryl-Like MONO-, BIS- and TRISKITPHOS Phosphines: Synthesis, Solution NMR Studies and a Comparison in Gold-Catalysed Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Forming 5-Exo-Dig and 6-Endo-Dig Cyclizations. Organometallics 2016, 35(9), 1265-1278.
- Izod K, Wills C, El-Hamruni S, Harrington RW, Waddell PG, Probert MR. Structural Diversity in Alkaline Earth Metal Complexes of a Phosphine-Borane-Stabilized 1,3-Dicarbanion. Organometallics 2015, 34(11), 2406-2414.
- Lerrick RI, Winstanley TPL, Haggerty K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW, Bultinck P, Herrebout W, Benniston AC, Hall MJ. Axially Chiral BODIPYs. Chemical Communications 2014, 50(36), 4714-4716.
- Nartop D, Clegg W, Harrington RW, Henderson RA, Wills CY. Binding multidentate ligands to Ni2+: kinetic identification of preferential binding sites. Dalton Transactions 2014, 43(8), 3372-3382.
- Izod K, Wills C, Anderson E, Harrington RW, Probert MR. Insights into the stability and structures of phosphine-boranes and their α-metalated derivatives. Organometallics 2014, 33(19), 5283-5294.
- Klonowski P, Goloboy JC, Uribe-Romo FJ, Sun FR, Zhu LY, Gandara F, Wills C, Errington RJ, Yaghi OM, Klemperer WG. Synthesis and Characterization of the Platinum-Substituted Keggin Anion α-H2SiPtW11O404-. Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 53(24), 13239-13246.
- Izod K, Wills C, Probert MR, Harrington RW. Synthesis and structure of an acyclic dialkylstannylene. Main Group Metal Chemistry 2014, 37(5-6), 113-117.
- Doherty S, Knight JG, Ward NAB, Bittner DM, Wills C, McFarlane W, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Electron-Rich Trialkyl-Type Dihydro-KITPHOS Monophosphines: Efficient Ligands for Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling. Comparison with Their Biaryl-Like KITPHOS Monophosphine Counterparts. Organometallics 2013, 32(6), 1773-1788.
- Izod K, Wills C, Harrington RW, Clegg W. Synthesis and structural characterisation of an unusual phosphine-borane-substituted organoplumbate. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2013, 725, 11-14.
- Kandasamy B, Wills C, McFarlane W, Clegg W, Harrington RW, Rodriguez-Fortea A, Poblet JM, Bruce PG, Errington RJ. An Alkoxido-Tin-Substituted Polyoxometalate [(MeO)SnW5O18](3-): The First Member of a New Family of Reactive {SnW5} Lindqvist-Type Anions. Chemistry: A European Journal 2012, 18(1), 59-62.
- Benniston AC, Winstanley TPL, Lemmetyinen H, Tkachenko NV, Harrington RW, Wills C. Large Stokes Shift Fluorescent Dyes Based on a Highly Substituted Terephthalic Acid Core. Organic Letters 2012, 14(6), 1374-1377.
- Bakri R, Booth A, Harle G, Middleton PS, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW, Errington RJ. Rational addition of capping groups to the phosphomolybdate Keggin anion [PMo12O40]3– by mild, non-aqueous reductive aggregation. Chemical Communications 2012, 48(22), 2779-2781.
- Izod K, Wills C, Harrington RW, Clegg W. Agostically-stabilized dialkylstannylenes and plumbylenes. In: Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society: 241st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. 2011, Anaheim, California, USA: American Chemical Society.
- Wills C, Izod K, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Oxidation reactions of a phosphine-borane-stabilised dialkylstannylene. Dalton Transactions 2010, 39(9), 2379-2384.
- Izod K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Synthesis, Structure, and Solution Behavior of a Phosphine-Borane-Stabilized 1,3-Dicarbanion. Organometallics 2010, 29(21), 4774-4777.
- Izod K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Acyclic Dialkylstannylene and -Plumbylene Compounds That Are Monomeric in the Solid State. Organometallics 2009, 28(19), 5661-5668.
- Wills C, Izod K, Young J, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Mixed donor-functionalised phosphinomethanide complexes of the alkali metals; synthesis, structures, and solution dynamics. Dalton Transactions 2009, (31), 6159-6165.
- Izod K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Seven-Membered Cyclic Dialkylstannylene and -Plumbylene Compounds Stabilized by Agostic-type B-H center dot center dot center dot E Interactions [E = Sn, Pb]. Organometallics 2009, 28(7), 2211-2217.
- Izod K, Bowman LJ, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Synthesis and structural characterisation of alkali metal complexes of heteroatom-stabilised 1,4-and 1,6-dicarbanions. Dalton Transactions 2009, (17), 3340-3347.
- Izod K, McFarlane W, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Agostic-type B - H⋯Pb interactions stabilize a dialkylplumbylene. Structure of and bonding in [{nPr2P(BH3)}(Me 3Si)C(CH2)]2Pb. Organometallics 2008, 27(17), 4386-4394.
- Izod K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Alkali metal complexes of a phosphine-borane-stabilised carbanion: Influence of co-ligands on structure. Dalton Transactions 2007, (33), 3669-3675.
- Izod K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Alkaline earth metal complexes of a phosphine-borane-stabilized carbanion: Synthesis, structures, and stabilities. Inorganic Chemistry 2007, 46(10), 4320-4325.
- Izod K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Influence of aromatic ring substituents and co-ligand on the binding mode of a phosphine-borane-stabilized carbanion; crystal structures of [[(Me3Si)2{Ph2P(BH3)}C]KLn]2[Ln = (OEt2)2, pmdeta; pmdeta = N,N,N′,N″,N″-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine]. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2007, 692(22), 5060-5064.
- Izod K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Metalation of trimethylphosphine-borane. Unexpected reactivity of a simple phosphine-borane-stabilized carbanion toward siloxanes. Organometallics 2007, 26(11), 2861-2866.
- Izod K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Heavier alkali metal complexes of a silicon- and phosphine-borane- stabilized carbanion. Organometallics 2006, 25(22), 5326-5332.
- Izod K, Wills C, Clegg W, Harrington RW. Synthesis, crystal structure, and solution behavior of a sterically hindered α-metalated phosphine-borane. Organometallics 2006, 25(1), 38-40.