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Kingsley J. Cavell

Kingsley J. Cavell

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Chemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
11433
World Ranking
11099
National Ranking
631

Overview

Kingsley J. Cavell is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials Science, with significant emphasis on Organic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering as key subfields.

The scientist's research contributions focus on topics related to battery materials, catalytic reactions, and advanced material technologies. Main topics of their work include:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Among their recent publications are studies on electrochemical supercapacitors, sodium-ion batteries, and catalytic processes. Notable papers authored or co-authored by Kingsley J. Cavell include:

  • Metal-Organic Framework Materials for Electrochemical Supercapacitors, 2022, Nano-Micro Letters
  • An in situ dual-modification strategy for O3-NaNi1/3Fe1/3Mn1/3O2 towards high-performance sodium-ion batteries, 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Manipulating Local Chemistry and Coherent Structures for High-Rate and Long-Life Sodium-Ion Battery Cathodes, 2024, ACS Nano
  • N-heterocyclic carbene Pd(II) complex supported on Fe3O4@SiO2: Highly active, reusable and magnetically separable catalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions in aqueous media, 2021, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
  • ZIF-12-derived N-doped Fe/Co/S/@C nanoparticles as high-performance composite anode electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries, 2022, Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Kingsley J. Cavell frequently collaborates with several researchers. Among their most frequent co-authors are Nesrin Buğday, Serdar Altın, İsmaıl Özdemır, Siraj Khan, and Wentao Deng.

The scholar's work is published in various venues with repeated contributions to journals such as:

  • Applied Organometallic Chemistry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
  • International Journal of Energy Research

Best Publications

  • Donor-Functionalized Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Palladium(II): Efficient Catalysts for C−C Coupling Reactions

    David S. McGuinness;Kingsley J. Cavell

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

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

  • 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

  • Donor-Functionalised N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Group 9 and 10 Metals in Catalysis: Trends and Directions

    Adrien T. Normand;Kingsley J. Cavell

  • Redox processes involving hydrocarbylmetal (N-heterocyclic carbene) complexes and associated imidazolium salts: ramifications for catalysis

    Kingsley J. Cavell;David S. McGuinness

  • 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

  • Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Reactions Involving Imidazolium Salt/N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Couples as Substrates

    Nicolas David Clement;Kingsley John Cavell

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

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

  • Novel Expanded Ring N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Free Carbenes, Silver Complexes, And Structures

    Manuel Alonso Iglesias;Dirk Johannes Beetstra;James Christopher Knight;Liling Ooi

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Platinum-mediated oxidative addition and reductive elimination of imidazolium salts at C4 and C5.

    Deborha Bacciu;Kingsley John Cavell;Ian Andrew Fallis;Liling Ooi

  • 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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  • First examples of diazepanylidene carbenes and their late-transition-metal complexes

    Manuel Iglesias;Dirk J. Beetstra;Andreas Stasch;Peter N. Horton

  • An Industrially Viable Catalyst System for Palladium-Catalyzed Telomerizations of 1,3-Butadiene with Alcohols

    Ralf Jackstell;Surendra Harkal;Haijun Jiao;Anke Spannenberg

  • Palladium–(N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Hydrogenation Catalysts†

    Jeroen W. Sprengers;Jeroen Wassenaar;Nicolas D. Clement;Kingsley J. Cavell

  • Reaction of CO with a Methylpalladium Heterocyclic Carbene Complex: Product Decomposition RoutesImplications for Catalytic Carbonylation Processes

    David S. McGuinness;Kingsley J. Cavell

  • Single component N-O chelated arylnickel(II) complexes as ethene polymerisation and CO/ethene copolymerisation catalysts. Examples of ligand induced changes to the reaction pathway

    Sylvie Y. Desjardins;Kingsley J. Cavell;Jason L. Hoare;Brian W. Skelton

  • Recent fundamental studies on migratory insertion into metal-carbon bonds

    Kingsley J. Cavell

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian W. Skelton
Brian W. Skelton University of Western Australia
Allan H. White
Allan H. White University of Western Australia
Brian F. Yates
Brian F. Yates University of Tasmania
Benson M. Kariuki
Benson M. Kariuki Cardiff University
Allan J. Canty
Allan J. Canty University of Tasmania
George J. P. Britovsek
George J. P. Britovsek Imperial College London
Cornelis J. Elsevier
Cornelis J. Elsevier University of Amsterdam
Damien Martin Murphy
Damien Martin Murphy Cardiff University
Martin A. Bennett
Martin A. Bennett Australian National University
David J. Jones
David J. Jones University of Melbourne

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