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Details for Dr Michael Green
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Michael Green |
| Job title | Visiting Senior Research Fellow |
| Department | School of Chemistry University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.Sc.(Hull), Ph.D.(Lond.), D.Sc.(Bristol) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | organometallic chemistry mononuclear phosphaalkyne complexes cyclo and linear-oligomerisation reactions |
| Areas of expertise | My research group is concerned with two interrelated areas of organometallic chemistry. Firstly, we study the reactivity of mononuclear h2(4e)-bonded phosphaalkyne (ButCºP) complexes (1, 2) which has the objective of providing new insights into cyclo- and linear-oligomerisation reactions and the synthesis of, for example, analogues of tropone and polyacetylenes (3), but with alternate phosphorus centres. Secondly, we are very interested in developing new synthetic protocols for transition metal phosphido and arsenido complexes [M]ºE (E = P or As) (4), with a view to using such species to transfer phosphorus and arsenic atoms to other metal centres, unsaturated organic molecules and perhaps most important of all boron, aluminum, gallium and iridium centres. These main group structures could lead to new semi-conductor materials and inorganic analogues of fullerenes and nanotubes. |