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Duncan F. Wass is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science and chemistry with significant contributions in materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, biomedical engineering, and catalysis.

The scientist's work covers key topics including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, catalysis for biomass conversion, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds, and catalytic cross-coupling reactions.

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Duncan F. Wass include the following:

  • Manganese Diphosphine and Phosphinoamine Complexes Are Effective Catalysts for the Production of Biofuel Alcohols via the Guerbet Reaction, 2020, Organometallics
  • Transition Metal Cooperative Lewis Pairs Using Platinum(0) Diphosphine Monocarbonyl Complexes as Lewis bases, 2020, Organometallics
  • Rhenium Complexes Bearing Tridentate and Bidentate Phosphinoamine Ligands in the Production of Biofuel Alcohols via the Guerbet Reaction, 2021, Organometallics
  • Radical-initiated P,P-metathesis reactions of diphosphanes: evidence from experimental and computational studies, 2021, Dalton Transactions
  • P,N-type phosphaalkene-based Ir(i) complexes: synthesis, coordination chemistry, and catalytic applications, 2023, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Wass include:

  • Richard L. Wingad
  • Paul G. Pringle
  • Ashley M. King
  • Natalie E. Pridmore
  • Hazel A. Sparkes

Wass has published extensively in scientific venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organometallics
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
  • ChemCatChem

Best Publications

  • The Search for New-Generation Olefin Polymerization Catalysts: Life beyond Metallocenes.

    George J. P. Britovsek;Vernon C. Gibson;Duncan F. Wass

  • High activity ethylene trimerisation catalysts based on diphosphine ligands

    Anthea Carter;Steven A. Cohen;Neil A. Cooley;Aden Murphy

  • Auf der Suche nach einer neuen Generation von Katalysatoren zur Olefinpolymerisation: „Leben”︁ jenseits der Metallocene

    George J. P. Britovsek;Vernon C. Gibson;Duncan F. Wass

  • Chromium-catalysed ethene trimerisation and tetramerisation—breaking the rules in olefin oligomerisation

    Duncan F. Wass

  • Catalytic conversion of ethanol into an advanced biofuel: unprecedented selectivity for n-butanol.

    George R. M. Dowson;Mairi F. Haddow;Jason Lee;Richard L. Wingad

  • Frustrated Lewis Pairs beyond the Main Group: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Small Molecule Activation with Cationic Zirconocene–Phosphinoaryloxide Complexes

    Andy M. Chapman;Mairi F. Haddow;Duncan F. Wass

  • Frustrated Lewis Pairs beyond the Main Group: Cationic Zirconocene-Phosphinoaryloxide Complexes and Their Application in Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Amine Boranes

    Andy M. Chapman;Mairi F. Haddow;Duncan F. Wass

  • The nature of the active species in bis(imino)pyridyl cobalt ethylene polymerisation catalysts.

    Vernon C. Gibson;Martin J. Humphries;Kilian P. Tellmann;Duncan F. Wass

  • Homogeneous Ethanol to Butanol Catalysis—Guerbet Renewed

    Hope Aitchison;Richard L. Wingad;Duncan F. Wass

  • Transition Metal Frustrated Lewis Pairs

    Stephanie R. Flynn;Duncan F. Wass

  • Bis(carbene)pyridine complexes of Cr(III): exceptionally active catalysts for the oligomerization of ethylene.

    David S. Mcguinness;Vernon C. Gibson;Duncan F. Wass;Jonathan W. Steed

  • Nickel Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts Based on Phosphorus Ligands

    Neil A. Cooley;and Simon M. Green;Duncan F. Wass;Katie Heslop

  • The role of bulky substituents in the polymerization of ethylene using late transition metal catalysts: a comparative study of nickel and iron catalyst systems

    George J.P Britovsek;Simon P.D Baugh;Olivier Hoarau;Vernon C Gibson

  • Self‐Healing of an Epoxy Resin Using Scandium(III) Triflate as a Catalytic Curing Agent

    Tim S. Coope;Ulrich F. J. Mayer;Duncan F. Wass;Richard S. Trask

  • 4D sequential actuation: Combining ionoprinting and redox chemistry in hydrogels

    Anna B Baker;Anna B Baker;Duncan F Wass;Richard S Trask

  • Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate Using Four-Coordinate (α-Diimine)iron Catalysts: Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization vs Catalytic Chain Transfer

    Vernon C. Gibson;Rachel K. O'Reilly;Duncan F. Wass;and Andrew J. P. White

  • Highly productive CO2 hydrogenation to methanol - a tandem catalytic approach via amide intermediates.

    M. Everett;D. F. Wass

  • Frustrated Lewis pairs beyond the main group: transition metal-containing systems.

    Duncan F. Wass;Andy M. Chapman

  • One electron oxidation of chromium N,N-bis(diarylphosphino)amine and bis(diarylphosphino)methane complexes relevant to ethene trimerisation and tetramerisation.

    Lucy E. Bowen;Mairi F. Haddow;A. Guy Orpen;Duncan F. Wass

  • Four-coordinate iron complexes bearing α-diimine ligands: efficient catalysts for Atom Transfer Radical Polymerisation (ATRP)

    Vernon C. Gibson;Rachel K. O’Reilly;Warren Reed;Duncan F. Wass

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. Trask
Richard S. Trask University of Bristol
A. Guy Orpen
A. Guy Orpen University of Bristol
Vernon C. Gibson
Vernon C. Gibson Imperial College London
Ian Manners
Ian Manners University of Victoria
Giorgio Strukul
Giorgio Strukul Ca Foscari University of Venice
Rachel K. O'Reilly
Rachel K. O'Reilly University of Birmingham
George J. P. Britovsek
George J. P. Britovsek Imperial College London
Andrew J. P. White
Andrew J. P. White Imperial College London
Roland Fröhlich
Roland Fröhlich University of Münster
Duncan L. Browne
Duncan L. Browne University College London

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