Prof Adrian Chaplin

Professor of Chemistry
Health & Safety Chair

a.b.chaplin@warwick.ac.uk
+44 (0)2476 1 51765
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About Me

Biography

Professor; University of 海角社区, UK (08/2023 - present).
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and then Reader; University of 海角社区, UK (2011 - 2023).
EPSRC funded postdoctoral research assistant; and research groups, University of Oxford, UK (2009 - 2011).
R. J. P. Williams Junior Research Fellow; Wadham College, Oxford, UK (2009 - 2011) .
EPSRC funded postdoctoral research assistant; research group, University of Oxford, UK (2007 - 2009).
Docteur 猫s Sciences (PhD); research group, Ecole Polytechnique F茅d茅rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (2007).
BSc (Hons); Massey University, New Zealand (2002).

Recognition

2023 RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize [press releaseLink opens in a new window].
2015 RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize []
2014 ERC Starting Grant [].
2011 Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Research interests

Synthetic organometallic chemistry, encompassing fundamental aspects of structure and bonding, mechanism elucidation, reaction discovery and catalyst design. Research in my group is focused on the catalytic remediation and repurposing of nitrous oxide (N₂O), organometallic chemistry of late transition metal metalloradicals, and application of supramolecular-inspired encapsulating and interlocked ligands in small molecule activation reactions and catalysis. Our experimental work benefits from excellent research facilities and infrastructure at the University of 海角社区 and we proactively collaborate with experts in computational chemistry to support and drive our research forward.

[further details on the Chaplin group webpages]

Publications (selected)

T. M. Hood, S. H. Dewick, J. Liu, E. Richards* and A. B. Chaplin*. In Crystallo Hydrogenation of Nitrous Oxide Using a Rhodium(II) Hydride Complex. .
T. M. Hood, R. S. C. Charman, D. J. Liptrot* and A. B. Chaplin*. Copper(I) Catalysed Diboron(4) Reduction of Nitrous Oxide. .
J. E. Smart, J. Emerson-King, R. J. Jeans, T. M. Hood, S. Lau, A. Bara-Esta煤n, U. Hintermair, P. G. Pringle, and A. B. Chaplin*. A Resorcin[4]arene-Based Phosphite-Phosphine Ligand for the Branched-Selective Hydroformylation of Alkyl Alkenes. .
T. Kr盲mer,* M. R. Gyton, I. Bustos, M. J. G. Sinclair, S.-y. Tan, C. J. Wedge, S. A. Macgregor and A. B. Chaplin*. Stability and C鈥揌 Bond Activation Reactions of Palladium(I) and Platinum(I) Metalloradicals: Carbon-to-Metal H-Atom Transfer and an Organometallic Radical Rebound Mechanism. .
B. Leforestier, M. R. Gyton and A. B. Chaplin*. Oxidative addition of a mechanically entrapped C(sp)鈥揅(sp) bond to a rhodium(I) pincer complex. .
C. M. Storey, A. Kalpokas, M. R. Gyton, T. Kr盲mer* and A. B. Chaplin*. A shape changing tandem Rh(CNC) catalyst: preparation of bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1,5,7-trienes from terminal aryl alkynes. .
M. R. Gyton, B. Leforestier and A. B. Chaplin*. Rhodium(I) Pincer Complexes of Nitrous Oxide. .
C. M. Storey, M. R. Gyton, R. E. Andrew and A. B. Chaplin*. Terminal Alkyne Coupling Reactions through a Ring: Mechanistic Insights and Regiochemical Switching. .

[complete list on the Chaplin group webpages]

Teaching and supervision