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2025

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84
Citations
23570
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2839
National Ranking
78

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Cameron Jones is a researcher affiliated with Monash University in Australia whose work spans multiple areas of chemistry and materials science. The scientist has made contributions primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry.

The research topics covered by Cameron Jones include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions

The scientist's frequent collaborators have included Laurent Maron, K. Yuvaraj, Deepak Dange, Albert Paparo, and Iskander Douair.

Publishing regularly in several respected venues, Cameron Jones has contributed multiple articles to The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemistry - A European Journal, Chemical Communications, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition, among others.

A selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Cameron Jones includes:

  • Open questions in low oxidation state group 2 chemistry, 2020, Communications Chemistry
  • Sterically controlled reductive oligomerisations of CO by activated magnesium(i) compounds: deltate vs. ethenediolate formation, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Photochemically Activated Dimagnesium(I) Compounds: Reagents for the Reduction and Selective C−H Bond Activation of Inert Arenes, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Reductive Hexamerization of CO Involving Cooperativity Between Magnesium(I) Reductants and [Mo(CO)6]: Synthesis of Well-Defined Magnesium Benzenehexolate Complexes, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Reductive activation of N2 using a calcium/potassium bimetallic system supported by an extremely bulky diamide ligand, 2022, Chemical Communications

Best Publications

  • N-heterocyclic carbene analogues with low-valent group 13 and group 14 elements: syntheses, structures, and reactivities of a new generation of multitalented ligands.

    Matthew Asay;Cameron Jones;Matthias Driess

  • Stable Magnesium(I) Compounds with Mg-Mg Bonds

    Shaun P. Green;Cameron Jones;Cameron Jones;Andreas Stasch;Andreas Stasch

  • β-Diketiminate-Stabilized Magnesium(I) Dimers and Magnesium(II) Hydride Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, Adduct Formation, and Reactivity Studies

    Simon James Bonyhady;Cameron Jones;Sharanappa Nembenna;Andreas Stasch

  • A stable two-coordinate acyclic silylene.

    Andrey V Protchenko;Krishna Hassomal Birjkumar;Deepak Dange;Andrew D Schwarz

  • N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Stabilized Digermanium(0)

    Anastas Sidiropoulos;Cameron Jones;Andreas Stasch;Susanne Klein

  • Low coordinate germanium(II) and tin(II) hydride complexes: efficient catalysts for the hydroboration of carbonyl compounds.

    Terrance J. Hadlington;Markus Hermann;Gernot Frenking;Cameron Jones

  • Dimeric magnesium( I ) β-diketiminates: a new class of quasi-universal reducing agent

    Cameron Jones

  • Bulky guanidinates for the stabilization of low oxidation state metallacycles

    Cameron Jones

  • Stable Adducts of a Dimeric Magnesium(I) Compound

    Shaun Peter Green;Shaun Peter Green;Cameron Jones;Andreas Stasch

  • Synthesis of a stable adduct of dialane(4) (Al2H4) via hydrogenation of a magnesium(I) dimer.

    Simon J. Bonyhady;David Collis;Gernot Frenking;Nicole Holzmann

  • Low-valent group 14 element hydride chemistry: towards catalysis.

    Terrance J. Hadlington;Matthias Driess;Cameron Jones

  • Oxidative Addition of Imidazolium Salts to Ni0 and Pd0: Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Unusually Stable Metal–Hydride Complexes

    Nicolas D. Clement;Kingsley J. Cavell;Cameron Jones;Cornelis J. Elsevier

  • An N-heterocyclic carbene adduct of diatomic tin, :SnSn:

    Cameron Jones;Anastas Sidiropoulos;Nicole Holzmann;Gernot Frenking

  • Stable dimeric magnesium(I) compounds: from chemical landmarks to versatile reagents

    Andreas Stasch;Cameron Jones

  • A digermyne with a Ge-Ge single bond that activates dihydrogen in the solid state.

    Jiaye Li;Christian Schenk;Catharina Goedecke;Gernot Frenking

  • Four-membered group 13 metal(I) N-heterocyclic carbene analogues: Synthesis, characterization, and theoretical studies

    Cameron Jones;Peter Courtney Junk;James A Platts;Andreas Stasch

  • The coordination chemistry and reactivity of group 13 metal(I) heterocycles

    Robert J. Baker;Cameron Jones

  • The reactivity of diazabutadienes toward low oxidation state Group 13 iodides and the synthesis of a new gallium(I) carbene analogue

    Robert J. Baker;Robert D. Farley;Cameron Jones;Marc Kloth

  • Preparation, Characterization, and Theoretical Analysis of Group 14 Element(I) Dimers: A Case Study of Magnesium(I) Compounds as Reducing Agents in Inorganic Synthesis

    Cameron Jones;Simon J. Bonyhady;Nicole Holzmann;Gernot Frenking

  • Enabling and Probing Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination at a Group 14 Metal Center: Cleavage and Functionalization of E–H Bonds by a Bis(boryl)stannylene

    Andrey V. Protchenko;Joshua I. Bates;Liban M. A. Saleh;Matthew P. Blake

  • Structures and Stabilities of Group 13 Adducts [(NHC)(EX3)] and [(NHC)2(E2Xn)] (E=B to In; X=H, Cl; n=4, 2, 0; NHC=N‐Heterocyclic Carbene) and the Search for Hydrogen Storage Systems: A Theoretical Study

    Nicole Holzmann;Andreas Stasch;Cameron Jones;Gernot Frenking

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Stasch
Andreas Stasch University of St Andrews
Peter C. Junk
Peter C. Junk James Cook University
Simon Aldridge
Simon Aldridge University of Oxford
Robert J. Baker
Robert J. Baker Texas Tech University
Gernot Frenking
Gernot Frenking Philipp University of Marburg
Laurent Maron
Laurent Maron Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Colin L. Raston
Colin L. Raston Flinders University
Philip Mountford
Philip Mountford University of Oxford
Glen B. Deacon
Glen B. Deacon Monash University
Anthony F. Hill
Anthony F. Hill Australian National University

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