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Brian F. Yates is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and has contributed broadly to the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their research primarily spans the subfields of Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry, with additional work in Process Chemistry and Technology as well as Pharmaceutical Science.

Their publication record includes significant engagement with topics such as:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry

Brian F. Yates has authored papers in a variety of notable venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ACS Catalysis
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Chem
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Recent published works include:

  • Borane-Catalyzed Stereoselective C-H Insertion, Cyclopropanation, and Ring-Opening Reactions, 2020, Chem
  • Site-Selective Csp3-Csp/Csp3-Csp2 Cross-Coupling Reactions Using Frustrated Lewis Pairs, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane-Catalyzed Carbenium Ion Generation and Autocatalytic Pyrazole Synthesis-A Computational and Experimental Study, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Understanding the Influence of Donor-Acceptor Diazo Compounds on the Catalyst Efficiency of B(C6F5)3 Towards Carbene Formation, 2021, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Borane Catalyzed Selective Diazo Cross-Coupling Towards Pyrazoles, 2021, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis

The scientist's frequent collaborators include:

  • Alireza Ariafard
  • Rasool Babaahmadi
  • Ayan Dasgupta
  • Rebecca L. Melen
  • Sanjukta Pahar

Best Publications

  • Basicity of nucleophilic carbenes in aqueous and nonaqueous solvents-theoretical predictions.

    Alison M. Magill;Kingsley J. Cavell;Brian F. Yates

  • DETECTION OF THE PROTOTYPE PHOSPHONIUM (CH2PH3), SULFONIUM (CH2SH2) AND CHLORONIUM (CH2CLH) YLIDES BY NEUTRALIZATION-REIONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY: A THEORETICAL PREDICTION

    B. F. Yates;W. J. Bouma;L. Radom

  • Detection of the prototype phosphonium (CH2PH3), sulfonium (CH2SH2) and chloronium (CH2ClH) ylides by neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry: a theoretical prediction

    Brian F. Yates;Willem J. Bouma;Leo Radom

  • Oxidative Addition of the Imidazolium Cation to Zerovalent Ni, Pd, and Pt: A Combined Density Functional and Experimental Study

    David S. McGuinness;Kingsley John Cavell;Brian F. Yates;Brian W. Skelton

  • Distonic radical cations : Guidelines for the assessment of their stability

    Brian F. Yates;Willem J. Bouma;Leo Radom

  • Cu-catalyzed fluorination of diaryliodonium salts with KF.

    Naoko Ichiishi;Allan J. Canty;Brian F. Yates;Melanie S. Sanford

  • Connecting Binuclear Pd(III) and Mononuclear Pd(IV) Chemistry by Pd−Pd Bond Cleavage

    David Charles Powers;Eunsung Lee;Alireza Ariafard;Alireza Ariafard;Melanie S. Sanford

  • Ylides and ylidions: a comparative study of unusual gas-phase structures

    Brian F. Yates;Willem J. Bouma;Leo Radom

  • Kinetic and density functional studies on alkyl-carbene elimination from Pd(II) heterocylic carbene complexes: a new type of reductive elimination with clear implications for catalysis.

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  • The Mechanism of the Stetter Reaction – A DFT Study

    Kirsty J. Hawkes;Brian F. Yates

  • A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO GAS-PHASE ION CHEMISTRY

    L. Radom;W. J. Bouma;R. H. Nobes;B. F. Yates

  • An Assessment of Theoretical Protocols for Calculation of the pKa Values of the Prototype Imidazolium Cation

    Alison M. Magill;Brian F. Yates

  • Unprecedented C–H bond oxidative addition of the imidazolium cation to Pt0: a combined density functional analysis and experimental study

    David S. McGuinness;Kingsley J. Cavell;Brian F. Yates

  • Ligand design for α1 adrenoceptor subtype selective antagonists

    John B Bremner;Burak Coban;Renate Griffith;Karina M Groenewoud

  • Atom-Efficient Catalytic Coupling of Imidazolium Salts with Ethylene Involving Ni−NHC Complexes as Intermediates: A Combined Experimental and DFT Study

    Adrien T. Normand;Kirsty J. Hawkes;Nicolas D. Clement;Kingsley J. Cavell

  • Symmetry breaking in the NO2 σ radical: Construction of the 2A1 and 2B2 states with Cs symmetry complete active space self‐consistent‐field wave functions

    Charles P. Blahous;Brian F. Yates;Yaoming Xie;Henry F. Schaefer

  • Organoactinides Promote the Dimerization of Aldehydes: Scope, Kinetics, Thermodynamics, and Calculation Studies

    Manab Sharma;Tamer Andrea;Nigel J. Brookes;Brian F. Yates

  • The syn rotational barrier in butane

    Norman L. Allinger;Roger S. Grev;Brian F. Yates;Henry F. Schaefer

  • Borane-Catalyzed Stereoselective C–H Insertion, Cyclopropanation, and Ring-Opening Reactions

    Ayan Dasgupta;Rasool Babaahmadi;Ben Slater;Brian F. Yates

  • A theoretical study on the protodeauration step of the gold(I)-catalyzed organic reactions

    Rasool BabaAhmadi;Parisa Ghanbari;Nasir Ahmad Rajabi;A. Stephen K. Hashmi

  • Intramolecular hydrogen migration in ionized amines: a theoretical study of the gas-phase analogs of the Hofmann-Loeffler and related rearrangements

    Brian F. Yates;Leo Radom

  • Pyrolysed pitch-polysilane blends for use as anode materials in lithium ion batteries II: the effect of oxygen

    A.M. Wilson;Weibing Xing;G. Zank;B. Yates

  • Infrared spectrum of F.hivin..cntdot.H2O

    Brian F. Yates;Henry F. Schaefer;Timothy J. Lee;Julia E. Rice

Frequent Co-Authors

Kingsley J. Cavell
Kingsley J. Cavell Cardiff University
Allan J. Canty
Allan J. Canty University of Tasmania
Leo Radom
Leo Radom University of Sydney
Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer University of Georgia
A. Stephen K. Hashmi
A. Stephen K. Hashmi Heidelberg University
Melanie S. Sanford
Melanie S. Sanford University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brian W. Skelton
Brian W. Skelton University of Western Australia
Allan H. White
Allan H. White University of Western Australia
Richard A. J. O'Hair
Richard A. J. O'Hair University of Melbourne

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