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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 1988 - Meldola Medal and Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Robert E. Mulvey is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a more focused subfield involvement in Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's publications address a range of topics, including:

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

Mulvey has contributed extensively to several publication venues, frequently appearing in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemical Communications

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Alkali-Metal Mediation: Diversity of Applications in Main-Group Organometallic Chemistry" (2020) in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Rubidium and caesium aluminyls: synthesis, structures and reactivity in C-H bond activation of benzene" (2022) in Chemical Communications
  • "Alkali Metal (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs) Mediation in Magnesium Hexamethyldisilazide [Mg(HMDS)2] Catalysed Transfer Hydrogenation of Alkenes" (2021) in ChemCatChem
  • "Alkalimetall-Mediatoren: Vielfältige Anwendungen in der metallorganischen Chemie der Hauptgruppenelemente" (2020) in Angewandte Chemie
  • "Alkali Metal Dihydropyridines in Transfer Hydrogenation Catalysis of Imines: Amide Basicity versus Hydride Surrogacy" (2023) in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Alan R. Kennedy
  • Stuart D. Robertson
  • Sumanta Banerjee
  • Thomas Xaver Gentner

Throughout their career, Robert E. Mulvey has received recognition in the form of awards such as the Meldola Medal and Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1988 and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Deprotonative metalation using ate compounds: synergy, synthesis, and structure building

    Robert E. Mulvey;Florence Mongin;Masanobu Uchiyama;Yoshinori Kondo

  • Meldola Medal Lecture. Ring-stacking and ring-laddering in organonitrogenlithium compounds: the development of concepts with wide applicability throughout lithium structural chemistry

    Robert E. Mulvey

  • Modern Ate Chemistry: Applications of Synergic Mixed Alkali-Metal−Magnesium or −Zinc Reagents in Synthesis and Structure Building

    Robert E. Mulvey

  • Avant-garde metalating agents: structural basis of alkali-metal-mediated metalation.

    Robert E. Mulvey

  • Synthetically Important Alkali‐Metal Utility Amides: Lithium, Sodium, and Potassium Hexamethyldisilazides, Diisopropylamides, and Tetramethylpiperidides

    Robert E. Mulvey;Stuart D. Robertson

  • s-Block metal inverse crowns: synthetic and structural synergism in mixed alkali metal–magnesium (or zinc) amide chemistry

    Robert E. Mulvey

  • Deprotonierende Metallierungen mit 'at‐Verbindungen: Synergie, Synthese und Strukturaufbau

    Robert E. Mulvey;Florence Mongin;Masanobu Uchiyama;Yoshinori Kondo

  • Synthetic and structural developments in hetero-s-block-metal chemistry: new ring-laddering, ring-stacking and other architectures

    Robert E. Mulvey

  • Alkali-Metal-Mediated Synergistic Effects in Polar Main Group Organometallic Chemistry

    Stuart D. Robertson;Marina Uzelac;Robert E. Mulvey

  • Alkali-metal mediation: diversity of applications in main-group organometallic chemistry

    Thomas X. Gentner;Robert E. Mulvey

  • Directed ortho-meta′- and meta-meta′-dimetalations: A template base approach to deprotonation

    Antonio J. Martínez-Martínez;Alan R. Kennedy;Robert E. Mulvey;Charles T. O’Hara

  • Synergic sedation of sensitive anions: alkali-mediated zincation of cyclic ethers and ethene

    Alan R. Kennedy;Jan Klett;Robert E. Mulvey;Dominic S. Wright

  • Intermetallic Lithium−Magnesium Hexamethyldisilazide: Synthesis and Structure, Discovery of an Oxygen-Centered Variant, and a Reaction with Benzonitrile That Produces a Novel Amidinate Cage Compound with a Trigonal Bipyramidal Li4MgO Core

    Alan R. Kennedy;Robert E. Mulvey;René B. Rowlings

  • A homologous series of regioselectively tetradeprotonated group 8 metallocenes: new inverse crown ring compounds synthesized via a mixed sodium-magnesium tris(diisopropylamide) synergic base.

    Prokopis C. Andrikopoulos;David R. Armstrong;William Clegg;Carly J. Gilfillan

  • Sodium dialkyl-amidozincates : Alkyl or amido bases? An experimental and theoretical case study

    Prokopis C. Andrikopoulos;David R. Armstrong;Helen R. L. Barley;William Clegg

  • Lithium diamidodihydridoaluminates: bimetallic cooperativity in catalytic hydroboration and metallation applications

    Victoria A. Pollard;Samantha A. Orr;Ross McLellan;Alan R. Kennedy

  • Cleave and capture chemistry illustrated through bimetallic-induced fragmentation of tetrahydrofuran

    Robert E Mulvey;Victoria Louise Blair;William Clegg;Alan Robert Kennedy

  • Unmasking Representative Structures of TMP-Active Hauser and Turbo-Hauser Bases

    Pablo García-Álvarez;David V. Graham;Eva Hevia;Alan R. Kennedy

  • Ladder structures in lithium amide chemistry: syntheses, solid-state, and solution structures of donor-deficient lithium pyrrolidide complexes, [cyclic] {[H2C(CH2)3NLi]3.cntdot.PMDETA}2 and [cyclic] {[H2C(CH2)3NLi]2.cntdot.TMEDA}2, and ab initio MO calculations probing ring vs ladder vs stack structural preferences

    David R. Armstrong;Donald Barr;William Clegg;Susan M. Hodgson

  • Alkali metal cation-pi interactions stabilized solely by [M{N(SiMe3)(2)}(3)](-) anions (M = Mg or Zn): The competing influence of alkali metal center dot center dot center dot C(Me) agostic interactions

    Glenn C. Forbes;Alan R. Kennedy;Robert E. Mulvey;Brett A. Roberts

  • Mixed-metal sodium-magnesium macrocyclic amide chemistry: A template reaction for the site selective dideprotonation of arene molecules

    David R. Armstrong;Alan R. Kennedy;Robert E. Mulvey;René B. Rowlings

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan R. Kennedy
Alan R. Kennedy University of Strathclyde
William Clegg
William Clegg Newcastle University
Eva Hevia
Eva Hevia University of Bern
Dominic S. Wright
Dominic S. Wright University of Cambridge
Stephen T. Liddle
Stephen T. Liddle University of Manchester
Biprajit Sarkar
Biprajit Sarkar University of Stuttgart
John Parkinson
John Parkinson University of Toronto
Tell Tuttle
Tell Tuttle University of Strathclyde
Paul R. Raithby
Paul R. Raithby University of Bath
David C. Sherrington
David C. Sherrington University of Strathclyde

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