James E. Radcliffe
University of Manchester
11 Papers
29 Citations
James E. Radcliffe is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lewis acids and bases & Borylation. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 11 publications. Previous affiliations of James E. Radcliffe include Durham University.
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Papers
B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Reductive Amination using Hydrosilanes
TL;DR: A substrate scope exploration using 1 mol % nonpurified B(C6F5)3 and “wet solvents” demonstrates that this is an operationally simple and effective methodology for the production of secondary and tertiary arylamines in high yield, with imine reduction.
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Phosphanyl methanimine (PCN) ligands for the selective trimerization/tetramerization of ethylene with chromium.
James E. Radcliffe,Andrei S. Batsanov,David M. Smith,John A. Scott,Philip W. Dyer,Martin J. Hanton +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, 1-Phosphanyl methanimine ligands, R2P−C(Ph)═NR′, were prepared via a modular, convergent synthesis in good overall yield.
N-methyl-benzothiazolium salts as carbon Lewis acids for Si-H σ bond activation and catalytic (de)hydrosilylation.
TL;DR: The N−Me‐benzothiazolium salts were demonstrated to have comparable Lewis acidity towards hydride as found for the triarylboranes widely used in Si−H σ‐bond activation, however, they display low Lewisacidity towards hard Lewis bases such as Et3PO and H2O in contrast to tri Darylboranes.
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Mechanistic Insights into the B(C6F5)3-Initiated Aldehyde–Aniline–Alkyne Reaction To Form Substituted Quinolines
TL;DR: In this article, a substoichiometric quantity of the Lewis acid B(C6F5)3 is sufficient to initiate the aldehyde-amine-alkyne reaction, in a one-pot methodology that enables the synthesis of functionalized quinoline.
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Reductive α-borylation of α,β-unsaturated esters using NHC-BH 3 activated by I 2 as a metal-free route to α-boryl esters
TL;DR: The combination of NHC–BH3/I2 represents a simple method for the reductive α-borylation of α,β-unsaturated esters to form useful α- boryl esters.