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Overview

Leslie D. Field is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions to the subfields of materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, process chemistry and technology, and catalysis.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis
  • Asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis
  • Inorganic fluorides and related compounds
  • Fluorine in organic chemistry

Leslie D. Field has contributed numerous papers to several frequent publication venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organometallics
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Chemistry
  • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Noteworthy recent publications include:

  • "Binding methane to a metal centre", 2022, Nature Chemistry
  • "Fe(0)-Mediated Reductive Disproportionation of CO2", 2020, Organometallics
  • "[Fp(CH4)]+, [η5-CpRu(CO)2(CH4)]+, and [η5-CpOs(CO)2(CH4)]+: A Complete Set of Group 8 Metal-Methane Complexes", 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "The Reaction of Iron Acetylides with Carbon Dioxide", 2020, Organometallics
  • "Ferralactone formation from iron acetylides and carbon dioxide", 2022, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Frequent co-authors with whom Leslie D. Field has collaborated include:

  • Hsiu L. Li
  • Peter M. Jurd
  • James D. Watson
  • Mohan Bhadbhade
  • Graham E. Ball

Best Publications

  • Steric effects. A study of a rationally designed system

    Garry Bott;Leslie D. Field;Sever Sternhell

  • Intramolecular hydroamination with rhodium(I) and iridium(I) complexes containing a phosphine-N-heterocyclic carbene ligand

    Leslie D. Field;Barbara A. Messerle;Khuong Q. Vuong;Peter Turner

  • Organic Structures from Spectra

    L. D. Field;S. Sternhell;J. R. Kalman

  • Cationic Iridium(I) Complexes as Catalysts for the Alcoholysis of Silanes

    Leslie D. Field;Barbara A. Messerle;Manuela Rehr;Linnea P. Soler

  • Reaction of sp2 carbon-hydrogen bonds in unactivated alkenes with bis(diphosphine) complexes of iron

    Murray V. Baker;Leslie D. Field

  • Hydroamination of Alkynes Catalyzed by a Cationic Rhodium(I) Complex

    Suzanne Burling;Leslie D. Field;Barbara A. Messerle

  • Transient and matrix photochemistry of Fe(dmpe)2H2 (dmpe = Me2PCH2CH2Me2): dynamics of C-H and H-H activation

    Michael K. Whittlesey;Roger J. Mawby;Robert Osman;Robin N. Perutz

  • Diamagnetic .dblarw. paramagnetic equilibria in solutions of bis(dialkylphosphino)ethane complexes of iron

    Murray V. Baker;Leslie D. Field;Trevor W. Hambley

  • Steric effects on atropisomerism in tetraarylporphyrins

    Maxwell J. Crossley;Leslie D. Field;Adrienne J. Forster;Margaret M. Harding

  • Rhodium(I) and iridium(I) complexes containing bidentate phosphine-imidazolyl donor ligands as catalysts for the hydroamination and hydrothiolation of alkynes

    Leslie D. Field;Barbara A. Messerle;Khuong Q. Vuong;Peter Turner

  • Cyclisation of acetylenic carboxylic acids and acetylenic alcohols to oxygen-containing heterocycles using cationic rhodium(I) complexes

    Sarah Elgafi;Leslie D Field;Barbara A Messerle

  • Kinetics of tautomerism in 2-substituted 5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrins: directionality of proton transfer between the inner nitrogens

    Maxwell J. Crossley;Leslie D. Field;Margaret M. Harding;Sever Sternhell

  • Intramolecular Hydroamination Catalyzed by Cationic Rhodium and Iridium Complexes with Bidentate Nitrogen-Donor Ligands

    Suzanne Burling;Leslie D. Field;Barbara A. Messerle;Peter Turner

  • Rhodium(I) and iridium(I) complexes with bidentate N,N and P,N ligands as catalysts for the hydrothiolation of alkynes

    Suzanne Burling;Leslie D. Field;Barbara A. Messerle;Khuong Q. Vuong

  • Reaction of carbon-hydrogen bonds in alkanes with bis(diphosphine) complexes of iron

    Murray V. Baker;Leslie D. Field

  • The first side-on bound metal complex of diazene, HNNH

    Leslie D. Field;Hsiu L. Li;Scott J. Dalgarno;Peter Turner

  • Mononuclear Rhodium(I) Complexes with Chelating N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands − Catalytic Activity for Intramolecular Hydroamination

    Suzanne Burling;Leslie D. Field;Hsiu L. Li;Barbara A. Messerle

  • Base-mediated conversion of hydrazine to diazene and dinitrogen at an iron center.

    Leslie D. Field;Hsiu L. Li;Alison M. Magill

  • Accessing decaphenylmetallocenes of ytterbium, calcium, and barium by desolvation of solvent-separated ion pairs: overcoming adverse solubility properties

    Glen Berenger Deacon;Craig Macdonald Forsyth;Florian Jaroschik;Peter Courtney Junk

  • Insertion of CO2, CS2, and COS into iron(II)-hydride bonds.

    Leslie D. Field;Eric T. Lawrenz;Warren J. Shaw;Peter Turner

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor W. Hambley
Trevor W. Hambley University of Sydney
Scott J. Dalgarno
Scott J. Dalgarno Heriot-Watt University
Jack E. Baldwin
Jack E. Baldwin University of Oxford
George A. Olah
George A. Olah University of Southern California
Robert M. Adlington
Robert M. Adlington University of Oxford
Edward P. Abraham
Edward P. Abraham University of Oxford
David J. Young
David J. Young Charles Darwin University
Ronald J. Smernik
Ronald J. Smernik University of Adelaide
Thomas Maschmeyer
Thomas Maschmeyer University of Sydney
Maxwell J. Crossley
Maxwell J. Crossley University of Sydney

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