John Kennedy

Research section: Inorganic Chemistry

KEYWORDS Cluster Chemistry Polyhedral Boron-containing cluster compounds Boranes, metallaboranes, heteroboranes

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Polyhedral boron-containing cluster chemistry: a general study of new aspects of the chemistry of boranes, metallaboranes, heteroboranes metallaheteroboranes, etc.; large 'macropolyhedral' and 'megaloborane' clusters, monocarbaboranes, high heteroatom loadings and the cross-over between cluster behaviour and conventional structures, new classes of cluster shapes, new reaction chemistries (in particular reaction chemistry of metallaboranes), structure and NMR properties, fluxionalities, ab initio calculations. Intermolecular and intramolecular big-molecule phenomena; supramolecular assemblies. Ceramic precursor chemistry.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

An approach to megaloboranes. Mixed and multiple cluster fusions involving iridaborane and platinaborane cluster compounds. Crystal structure determinations by conventional and synchrotron methods. J. Bould, W. Clegg, S. J. Teat, L. Barton, N. P. Rath, M. Thornton-Pett and J. D. Kennedy. Boron Chemistry at the Millennium, special edition of Inorg. Chim. Acta, 1999, 289, 95-124.

Polyhedral boron-containing cluster chemistry. Aspects of architecture beyond the icosahedron: some recent supermolecular and supramolecdevelopments. S. L. Shea, J. Bould, M. G. S. Londesborough, S. D. Perera,A. Franken, D. L. Ormsby, T. Jelínek, B. ^Êtíbr, J. Holub, C.M. Thornton-Pett, and J. D. Kennedy. Pure Appl. Chem., 2003, 75, 1239-1248.

Polyhedral monocarbaborane chemistry. Some C-phenylated eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve-vertex species. A. Franken, T. Jelínek, R. G. Taylor, D. L. Ormsby, C. A. Kilner, W. Clegg and J. D. Kennedy, Dalton Trans., 2006, 5753-5769. DOI: 10.1039/b609908d

Metallaborane Reaction Chemistry. Part 12. Some Interactions of Acetylenes and Isocyanides with Selected Metallaboranes. J. Bould, M. Bown, R. J. Coldicott, E. J Ditzel, N. N.Greenwood, I. Macpherson, P. MacKinnon, M. Thornton-Pett and J. D Kennedy, J. Organomet. Chem. (EUROBORON 3 Special Edition), 2005, 690, 2701-2720. DOI:10.1016/j.jorganchem.2005.02.028