Brian W. Skelton

Research.com Recognitions

• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Zerovalent palladium and nickel complexes of heterocyclic carbenes: Oxidative addition of organic halides, carbon-carbon coupling processes, and the Heck reaction

  David S. McGuinness;Kingsley J. Cavell;Brian W. Skelton;Allan H. White

  573
  Citations

• Palladium(II) complexes containing mono-, bi- and tridentate carbene ligands. Synthesis, characterisation and application as catalysts in CC coupling reactions

  Alison M Magill;David S McGuinness;Kingsley J Cavell;George J.P Britovsek

  439
  Citations

• Isolation, crystal structure and synthesis of arsenobetaine, the arsenical constituent of the western rock lobster panulirus longipes cygnus George

  John S. Edmonds;Kevin A. Francesconi;Jack R. Cannon;Colin L. Raston

  417
  Citations

• Designed Synthesis of Mononuclear Tris(heteroleptic) Ruthenium Complexes Containing Bidentate Polypyridyl Ligands

  Peter A. Anderson;Glen B. Deacon;Klaus H. Haarmann;F. Richard Keene

  339
  Citations

• Strigolactone Hormones and Their Stereoisomers Signal through Two Related Receptor Proteins to Induce Different Physiological Responses in Arabidopsis

  Adrian Scaffidi;Mark T. Waters;Yueming K. Sun;Brian W. Skelton

  318
  Citations

• Synthesis and reaction chemistry of mixed ligand methylpalladium–carbene complexes

  David S McGuinness;Melinda J Green;Kingsley J Cavell;Brian W Skelton

  313
  Citations

• 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

  296
  Citations

• Luminescence studies of the intracellular distribution of a dinuclear gold(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complex.

  Peter J. Barnard;Louise E. Wedlock;Murray V. Baker;Susan J. Berners-Price

  275
  Citations

• Synthesis and Structural Analysis of a Helical Coordination Polymer Formed by the Self-Assembly of a 2,2'-Bipyridine-Based exo-Ditopic Macrocyclic Ligand and Silver Cations.

  Christian Kaes;Mir Wais Hosseini;Clifton E. F. Rickard;Brian W. Skelton

  269
  Citations

• Harzianic acid, an antifungal and plant growth promoting metabolite from Trichoderma harzianum

  Francesco Vinale;Gavin Flematti;Krishnapillai Sivasithamparam;Matteo Lorito

  267
  Citations

• Cationic, linear Au(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: synthesis, structure and anti-mitochondrial activity

  Murray V. Baker;Peter J. Barnard;Susan J. Berners-Price;Simon K. Brayshaw

  255
  Citations

• Syntheses, Structures, and Spectro-electrochemistry of {Cp*(PP)Ru}C⋮CC⋮C{Ru(PP)Cp*} (PP = dppm, dppe) and Their Mono- and Dications†

  Michael I. Bruce;Benjamin G. Ellis;Paul J. Low;Brian W. Skelton

  254
  Citations

• Nickel(II) Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes as Catalysts for Olefin Dimerization in an Imidazolium Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquid

  David S. McGuinness;Wolfgang Mueller;Peter Wasserscheid;Kingsley J. Cavell

  241
  Citations

• A pyridine bridged dicarbene ligand and its silver(I) and palladium(II) complexes: synthesis, structures, and catalytic applications ☆

  David J. Nielsen;Kingsley J. Cavell;Brian W. Skelton;Allan H. White

  232
  Citations

• Synthesis and structural characterisation of linear Au(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: New analogues of the Au(I) phosphine drug Auranofin

  Murray V. Baker;Peter J. Barnard;Susan J. Berners-Price;Simon K. Brayshaw

  223
  Citations

• Isolation, crystal structure and synthesis of arsenobetaine, a constituent of the western rock lobster, the dusky shark, and some samples of human urine

  Jack R. Cannon;John S. Edmonds;Kevin A. Francesconi;Colin L. Raston

  212
  Citations

• Template syntheses involving carbon acids. Synthesis and characterization of (3,10-dimethyl-3,10-dinitro-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane)copper(II) and (1,9-diamino-5-methyl-5-nitro-3,7-diazanonane)copper(II) cations and nitro group reduction products

  Peter Comba;Neil F. Curtis;Geoffrey A. Lawrance;Alan M. Sargeson

  203
  Citations

• Structural studies on the caesium alums, CsMIII[SO4]2·12H2O

  James K. Beattie;Stephen P. Best;Brian W. Skelton;Allan H. White

  175
  Citations

• The oxidative addition of lodomethane to [PdMe2(bpy)] and the X-ray structure of the organopalladium(IV) product fac-[PdMe3(bpy)l](bpy = 2,2′-bipyridyl)

  Peter K. Byers;Allan J. Canty;Brian W. Skelton;Allan H. White

  164
  Citations

• Cylindricines A and B, novel alkaloids from the ascidian clavelina cylindrica

  Adrian J. Blackman;Caiping Li;David C.R. Hockless;Brian W. Skelton

  164
  Citations

• Dinuclear gold(I) complexes of bridging bidentate carbene ligands: synthesis, structure and spectroscopic characterisation

  Peter J. Barnard;Murray V. Baker;Susan J. Berners-Price;Brian W. Skelton

  158
  Citations