Lecturer in Organic Chemistry

MSci , PhD (London) 

Tel: 0116 252 2126

email: wbc2@le.ac.uk

Research Interests

Our research is focused on the invention of new methodology for organic synthesis. We use transition metal catalysis to develop reactions that are atom and step efficient and enable new synthetic strategies.

To develop new reactions we often need to research the fundamental organometallic chemistry that is the basis for the transformations we are interested in. Hence, our work encompasses aspects of ligand design and organometallic chemistry, which we apply to generate new synthetic methodology. Currently, our major focus is on the use of C-H activation in synthesis.

For further information about our research and publications, please visit our group’s website.

Selected publications

“N-heterocyclic carbene tethered amido complexes of palladium and platinum”

Cross, W.B.; Daly, C.G.; Ackerman, R.L.; George, I.R.; Singh, K. Dalton Trans.

doi: 10.1039/C0DT01149E

“Nucleophilic reactivity of a d⁰ molybdenum oxo moiety”

Cross, W.B.; Anderson, J.C.; Wilson, C. Dalton Trans. 2009, 1201-1205.

doi: 10.1039/b817745g

“Molybdenum oxo-imido aryloxide complexes: oxo analogues of olefin metathesis catalysts”

Cross, W.B.; Anderson, J.C.; Wilson, C.; Blake, A.J. Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 4556-4561.

doi: 10.1021/ic0521269