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181) , Joe Stanley, Rowan Radmall, William Pointer, Gary Walker, David M. Haddleton and Martin Wills, ACS Omega 2026, 11, 35869–35879. online 9th June 2026.
180) . Shweta K. Gediya and Martin Wills, Organics 2026, 7(3), 28; 7030028.
Two new tethered complexes were prepared and tested in ATH - 11 was prepared via arene substitution, 13 was prepared through the reaction of a cyclohexadiene (formed via a Diels-Alder strategy) with RuCl3. Introduction of the tether in 13 restores activity compared to the untethered analogue 12.
179) Will Scott, Richard C. Knighton, Mohan K. Balasubramanian and Martin Wills, . ChemRxiv, 26th September 2025. This is an open access preprint. We prepared the fluorescent labelled alkynes below and used them to label an azide-containing protein:
178) Noha Khamis, Guy J. Clarkson, Scott Habershon and Martin Wills, . Organometallics, 2025, 44, 1267-1275. Published open access online June 3rd 2025.
177) . Raja Mohanrao, Clyde S. Pinto, Andrejus Suchenko, Guy J. Clarkson, Martin Wills, Stefan Roesner, Michael Shipman, Mohan K. Balasubramanian, ChemistrySelect 2025, 10, e202405738. doi: 10.1002/slct.202405738. Published 27th February 2025. An earlier version of this paper was deposited in .
176) . Ye Zheng, Zhenyu Chen, Guy J. Clarkson, Stephen A. Marshall, Jianliang Xiao, Christopher J. Schofield, Martin Wills and Andrew V. Stachulski, R. Soc. Open Sci. 2025, 12, 241607. Published 19th February 2025. The results of a collaborative project between the Universities Liverpool, Oxford and 糖心TV.
175) . Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Daniel W. Lester, J.S. Town, Amy M. McKenna, Martin Wills, Energy and Fuels 2024, 38, 16473–16489. Published online 20/8/2024. A collaboration led by Dr Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano on separation of fractions of bio-oil and their analysis.
174) , James Paul Charles Coverdale, Rebecca A. Bedford, Oliver W. L. Carter, Shanshan Cao, Martin Wills, Peter J. Sadler, ChemBioChem 2024, 25, e202400374. Published 24th May 2024. A collaboration on organometallic anticancer compounds.
173) , Noha Khamis, Ye Zheng, Marianna N. Diamantakis, Guy J. Clarkson, Jie Liu, and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem. 2024, 89, 2759–2763. Published online 3rd February 2024.
172) . Sam Forshaw, Jeremy S. Parker, William T. Scott, Richard C. Knighton, Neelam Tiwari, Samson M. Oladeji, Andrew C. Stevens, Yean Ming Chew, Jami Reber, Guy J. Clarkson, Mohan K. Balasubramanian and Martin Wills, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2024, 22, 590-605. DOI: 10.1039/D3OB01712E. Accepted Manuscript 8/12/2023.
171) . Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Hugh E. Jones, Mark P. Barrow and Martin Wills, RSC Advances, 2023, 13, 17727-17741.
170) Sy, Adam M. Cowden, Abigail L. Whittock, Emily L. Holt, Vasilios G. Stavros and Martin Wills, RSC Advances, 2023, 13, 17017 – 17027.
169) . Abigail L. Whittock, Adam M. Cowden, Martin Wills and Vasilios G. Stavros, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2023, 25,7401-7406. Published online, 06 Feb 2023. A collaborative project led by Prof Vas Stavros.
A series of simplified mycosporine-glycine analogues were prepared through a short sequence. The compounds demonstrated photoprotective properties.
168) , Noha Khamis, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, Dalton Transactions, 2022, 51, 13462 - 13469, DOI: 10.1039/D2DT02411J, published online 19/8/2022.
167) . Ye Zheng and Martin Wills, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2022, 20, 3742 - 3746. Accepted 12th April 2022. DOI: 10.1039/d2ob00569g.
166) , Jonathan Barrios-Rivera, YingjianXu, Guy J.Clarkson and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron 2022, 103, 132562. Available online 19 November 2021, Article 132562. .
165) , Shweta K. Gediya, Vijyesh K. Vyas, Guy J. Clarkson, and Martin Wills, Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 7803-7807. Published online 29/9/2021.
164) '', Ye Zheng, Jaime Martinez-Acosta, Mohammed Khimji, Luiz Claudio Barbosa, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills ChemCatChem. 2021, 13, 4384-4391. Accepted article online 23rd July 2021; Article share to a readably copy
related mini-review: by Ye Zheng, Jaime A. Martinez-Acosta, Mohammed Khimji, Luiz C. A. Barbosa, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills
Chem. Proc. 2022, 8(1), 35; 14 November 2021.
Review 36) Book Chapter 'Tethered Ruthenium Catalysts in Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation', Chapter 7 in , 2021, Wiley-VCH, Editors: Phannarath Phansavath, Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal. ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-527-34610-3.
163) . Pavel A. Dub*, Nikolay V. Tkachenko, Vijyesh K. Vyas, Martin Wills, Justin S. Smith, and Sergei Tretiak. Organometallics, 2021 40, 1402–1410, ASAP. Publication Date (Web):April 27, 2021. This is a computational study to explain the differences in selectivity in the reactions below:
162) , Abigail L. Whittock, Nazia Auckloo, Adam M. Cowden, Matthew A. P. Turner, Jack M. Woolley, Martin Wills, Christophe Corre, and Vasilios G. Stavros, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021, 12, 3641–3646. ASAP. Publication Date (Web):April 7, 2021.
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Vijyesh K. Vyas, Guy J. Clarkson, Martin Wills, Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 3179–3183. asap published 5th April 2021. ACS articles on demand link:
160) . Thomas H. Hall, Hannah Adams, Vijyesh K. Vyas, K. L. Michael Chu and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron, 2021, article number 131771.
2016-2020
159) , Shweta K. Gediya, Guy J. Clarkson, and Martin Wills, J.Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 11309-11330. ASAP 19th August 2020. ACS articles on demand .
Review 35) '', Jonathan Barrios-Rivera, Yingjian Xu, Martin Wills and Vijyesh Vyas, Organic Chemistry Frontiers 2020, 7, 3312-3342. accepted 2nd September 2020, first published 3rd September 2020.
158) Jonathan Barrios-Rivera, Yingjian Xu, Martin Wills, Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 6283-6287. DOI 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02034. ASAP 4th August 2020. This ACS agives up to
50 reprints in the first 12 months
157), Vijyesh K. Vyas, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 14265-14269. Accepted article online 28th May 2020.
156) , Ye Zheng, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 3717-3721. ASAP from 16/4/20. Featured in Org. Chem. Highlights: Enantioselective Synthesis of Alcohols and Amines.
155) , Conor Dean, Sundaram Rajkumar, Stefan Roesner, Nessa Carson, Guy James Clarkson, Martin Wills, Matthew L Jones and Mike Shipman* Chemical Science, 2020, 11, 1636 - 1642. Accepted on 23 Dec 2019 and first published on 02 Jan 2020. The lead author is Prof Mike Shipman and the paper describes his group's work on the development of routes to enantiomerically-enriched cyclic hydrazine.
Review 34) '' Jonathan Barrios-Rivera, Yingjian Xu and Martin Wills, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2019, 17, 1301-1321, first published on 04 Jan 2019.
154) , Sam Forshaw, Richard C. Knighton, Jami Reber, Jeremy S. Parker, Nikola P. Chmel and Martin Wills, RSC Advances, 2019, 9, 36154-36161. Open Access from the RSC website. Selected for the themed collection on '' September 2021.
153) (S)-(-)-Fluorenylethylchloroformate (FLEC); preparation using asymmetric transfer hydrogenation and application to the analysis and resolution of amines, Mohammad A. Amin, Michelle A. Camerino, Simon J. Mountford, Xiao Ma, David T. Manallack, David K. Chalmers, Martin Wills,* and Philip E. Thompson*, Tetrahedron 2019, 75, Article Number 130591, accepted 2nd September 2019. .
45 mg of catalyst generates, after recrystallisation, 3.80g of product in >97% ee (72% yield):
152) Alessandro Del Grosso, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2019, 496, article 119043, published online 31/7/2019. Open access from the Elsevier website.
151) . Jonathan Barrios-Rivera,鈥 Yingjian Xu*鈥 and Martin Wills * Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 7223-7227. ASAP accepted 26/7/2019. Results from a joint project with GoldenKeys High-tech Materials Co., Ltd., China.
Featured on front cover.
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Richard C. Knighton, Krishna Sharma, Naomi S. Robertson, David R. Spring and Martin Wills, ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 2160–2167. A 鈥渄ouble strained alkyne鈥 was been prepared and evaluated in strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition reactions with azides. Accepted January 10th 2019. Open access from the ACS website. PMCID# PMC6648819 through ACS' Certified Deposit program.
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Anish Mistry, Richard C. Knighton, Sam Forshaw, Zakaria Dualeh, Jeremy S. Parker and Martin Wills, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2018, 16, 8965 - 8975. DOI: 10.1039/C8OB01768A. Published online 12/11/2018. Open access from the RSC website.
A series of strained alkynes, based on the 2,2鈥-dihydroxy-1,1鈥-biaryl structure, were prepared in a short sequence from readily-available starting materials.
148) . Richard C. Knighton, Vijyesh K. Vyas, Luke H. Mailey, Bhalchandra M. Bhanage, Martin Wills, J. Organomet. Chem. 2018, 875, 72-79. Click for access to the article before 6th November 2018! Several new tethered catalysts are formed via arene-exchange and demonstrate excellent activity in ketone reduction.
147)
Jack M. Woolley, Michael Staniforth, Michael D. Horbury, Gareth W. Richings, Martin Wills , and Vasilios G. Stavros*, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9, 3043–3048. Open access via the ACS website. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00921. Publication Date (Web): May 11, 2018.
146) '' Feng Chen, Isolda Romero-Canel贸n, Joan J. Soldevila-Barreda, Ji-Inn Song, James P. C. Coverdale, Guy J. Clarkson, Jana Kasparkova , Abraha Habtemariam, Martin Wills, Viktor Brabec and Peter J. Sadler, Organometallics 2018, 37,1555–1566. Open access via the ACS website. Publication Date (Web): April 23, 2018 (Article) DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00132.
145) '' Renta Jonathan Chew* and Martin Wills* J. Catal. 2018, 361, 40-44.
144) ' Renta Jonathan Chew* and Martin Wills* J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 2980–2985. Article ASAPDOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b03229. Publication Date (Web): February 6, 2018.
143) , Roy Hodgkinson, V谩clav Jur膷铆k, Hans Nedden, Andrew Blackaby, Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett. 2018, 59, 930-933. Accepted 23 January 2018, Available online 1 February 2018. 30/3/18. .
142) 鈥, Vijyesh K. Vyas, Richard C. Knighton, Bhalchandra M. Bhanage, and Martin Wills, Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 975–978. Publication Date (Web): January 31, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b03884. A remarkable selectivity pattern for reduction of challenging substrates. Open access from the ACS website:
141) , James P. C. Coverdale, Isolda Romero-Canel贸n, Carlos Sanchez-Cano, Guy J. Clarkson, Abraha Habtemariam, Martin Wills & Peter J. Sadler, Nature Chemistry 2018, 10, 347–354, published online 8th January 2018.
abstract : '...Here we use highly stable chiral half-sandwich organometallic Os(II) arene sulfonyl diamine complexes, [Os(arene)(TsDPEN)] (TsDPEN, N-(p-toluenesulfonyl)-1,2-diphenylethylenediamine), to achieve a highly enantioselective reduction of pyruvate, a key intermediate in metabolic pathways. Reduction is shown both in aqueous model systems and in human cancer cells, with non-toxic concentrations of sodium formate used as a hydride source...'
140) ,
Alessandro Del Grosso, Alexander E. Chamberlain, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills*, Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 1451-1470. Published online (advance article) 5th January 2018, DOI 10.1039/C7DT03250A. Open access from the RSC website.
139)
Rina Soni, Katherine E. Jolley, Silvia Gosiewska, Guy J. Clarkson, Zhijia Fang, Thomas H. Hall, Ben N. Treloar, Richard C. Knighton, and Martin Wills, Organometallics 2018, 37, 48–64. Publication Date (Web): December 20, 2017 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00731
138) , Thomas J. Brown, Madeleine Cumbes, Louis J. Diorazio, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 10489–10503. Publication Date (Web): September 18, 2017, 10.1021/acs.joc.7b01990. Open access from ACS website.
137)
Alessandro Del Grosso, Lavrentis-Dimitrios Galanopoulos, Cookson K. C. Chiu, Guy J. Clarkson, Peter B. O鈥 Connor and Martin Wills* Org. Biomol.Chem. 2017, 15, 4517 - 4521: Open access from RSC website:
136) , Sam Forshaw, Alexander J. Matthews, Thomas J. Brown, Louis J. Diorazio, Luke Williams and Martin Wills*. Org. Lett, 2017, 19, 2789-2792. (collaboration with AstraZeneca). Open access from ACS website.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b00756, Publication Date (Web): May 16, 2017 pp 2789–2792.
Review 33) ', Hans G. Nedden, Antonio Zanotti-Gerosa and Martin Wills. Jointly authored with Johnson Matthey, Cambridge. First published: 15 August 2016. The Chemical Record, 2016, 16, 2619–2639. Open-access.
135) '' Ying Fu, Carlos Sanchez-Cano, Rina Soni, Isolda Romero-Canelon, Jessica M. Hearn, Zhe Liu, Martin Wills and Peter J. Sadler, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 8367-8378. Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C6DT01242F, Paper First published online : 25 Apr 2016.
The following complexes were evaluate for anticancer activity and the N-Me derivatives showed excellent activity:
134) I, Roy C Hodgkinson, Alessandro Del Grosso, Guy J Clarkson and M Wills, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 3992 - 4005. DOI: 10.1039/C5DT04610F
Complexes below were applied to asymmetric transfer hydrogenation and pressure hydrogenation of ketones:
Review 32) ReviewTopics in Current Chemistry, April 2016, 374:14
First online: 14 March 2016.
A review of methods for imine reduction, including asymmetric reductions.
2011-2015
133) P, Ruixia Liu, Gang Zhou, Thomas H. Hall, Guy J Clarkson, Martin Wills,* and Weiping Chen, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2015, 357, 3453-3457.
132) , Rina Soni, Thomas H. Hall, David J. Morris, Guy J. Clarkson, Matthew R. Owen, Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett. 2015, 56, 6397-6401. Available online 30 September 2015. Click on for free access until 16th December 2015.
131) , Rina Soni, Thomas H Hall, Benjamin P Mitchell, Matthew R Owen, and Martin Wills J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80,
6784鈭6793. ASAP. June 12, 2015 (Article)DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b00990.
Open access from ACS website.
130) , James P. C. Coverdale,Dr. Carlos Sanchez-Cano,Dr. Guy J. Clarkson,Dr. Rina Soni,Prof.鈥匘r. Martin Wills* and Prof.鈥匘r. Peter J. Sadler*, Chemistry; A European Journal, 2015, 21, 8043–8046. Open access from the website. Article first published online: 8 APR 2015 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201500534.
129) '' Andrew J. Rawlings, Louis J. Diorazio, and Martin Wills, Org.Lett. 2015, 17, 1086-1089. ASAP DOI: 10.1021/ol503587n published online 17th February 2015.
Open access from ACS website.
128) ', Katherine E Jolley, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, J. Organomet. Chem. 2015, 776, 157-162.
127) ', Roy Hodgkinson, V谩clav Jur膷铆k, Antonio Zanotti-Gerosa, Hans G眉nter Nedden, Andrew Blackaby, Guy J. Clarkson, and Martin Wills, Organometallics 2014, 33, 5517-5524.
126) ''
Alexander A. Bisset, Allan Dishington, Teyrnon Jones, Guy J. Clarkson, Martin Wills, Tetrahedron 2014, 70, 7207-7220.
125) '', Zhijia Fang and Martin Wills, Organic Letters, 2014, 16, 374-377. Publication Date (Web): December 30, 2013. DOI: 10.1021/ol4032123.
124) '' Zhijia (Amphi) Fang, Guy J. Clarkson, Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 6834-6837 DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2013.10.010, online from Oct 10th 2013. Highlighted in SYNFACTS (http://www.thieme-connect.com/ejournals/toc/synfacts ).
123) , Ying Fu, Rina Soni, Mar铆a J. Romero, Ana M. Pizarro, Luca Salassa, Guy J. Clarkson, Jessica M. Hearn, Abraha Habtemariam, Martin Wills, Peter J. Sadler, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 鈥19鈥, 15199-15209. published online: 23 SEP 2013. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201302183. Highlighted on the ChemistryViews website. The short news article is available at http://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/5163551/Mirror_Images_Chiral_Affects_in_Osmium_Complexes.html. On WRAP.
122) '', Rina Soni, Katherine E Jolley, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 5110–5113. DOI: 10.1021/ol4024979. Publication Date (Web): September 26, 2013. You can download this via the ACS articles on demand system using this link:
http://pubs.acs.org/articlesonrequest/AOR-se2t8w5DJp8U39UNM8y9.
Open access from ACS website.
121) '', Victoria A. Marlow, Dean Rea, Shabir Najmudin, Martin Wills, and Vilmos F眉l枚p, ACS Chemical Biology, 2013, 8, 2339-2344. DOI: 10.1021/cb400429h. Publication Date (Web): August 14, 2013 (Articles). The mechanism of acation of acetolactate decarboxylase was investigated using X-ray crystallography with co-ordinated mimics and kinetic studies of transition state inhibitors. WRAP.
120) ' Zhijia Fang and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 8594–8605. published online 15/8/13.
119) 鈥楿.鈥 Charlotte M. Zammit and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2013, 24, 844-852. DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2013.05.022.
118) 鈥樷. Moftah O. Darwish, Alistair Wallace, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 4250-4253. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2013.05.141.
117) 鈥.鈥 Ben Moreton, Zhijia Fang, Martin Wills and Giovanni Costantini, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 6477-6479. A paper from our collaboration with the Costantini group, which featured on the cover of the journal. The Scanning Tunneling Microscope image below shows the enantiomerically-pure ester on a gold surface. The absolute configuration of the molecule is directly observed.
Review 31) 鈥樷?鈥 M. Darwish and M. Wills, Catal. Sci. Technol. 2012, 2 (2), 243 - 255; .
116) '', Alexander A. Bisset, Akira Shiibashi, Jasmine L. Desmond, Allan Dishington, Teyrnon Jones, Guy J. Clarkson, Takao Ikariya and Martin Wills' Chem. Commun. 2012, 鈥48鈥, 11978 - 11980, http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C2CC36807B. 
115) ' Tarn C. Johnson, William G. Totty and Martin Wills, Organic Letters, 2012, 14, 5230–5233. (Highlighted in Synfacts 2013 9(1), 0062).
114) '', Katherine E. Jolley, Antonio Zanotti-Gerosa Fred Hancock, Alan Dyke, Damian M. Grainger, Jonathan A. Medlock, Hans G. Nedden, Jacques J. M. Le Paih, Stephen J. Roseblade, A. Seger, V. Sivakumar, Ivan Prokes, David J Morris and Martin Wills, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2012, 354, 2545-2555.
113) ''' Vimal Parekh, James A Ramsden and Martin Wills, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2012, 2 (2), 406-414. DOI:10.1039/C1CY00364J. Published online: http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C1CY00364J. WRAP.
A Ru(II) catalyst containing an ether-tether exhibits excellent activity and versatility in asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones and an imine.
112) '鈥 Jonathan P. Hopewell, Jos茅 E. D. Martins, Tarn C. Johnson, Jamie Godfrey and Martin Wills, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 134-145, DOI:10.1039/C1OB06010D. WRAP.
111) '.' Charles V. Manville, Gordon Docherty, Ranbir Padda and Martin Wills, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 6893–6901.
110) 'An Unexpected Directing Effect in the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of a,a-Disubstituted Ketones', Rina Soni, John-Michael Collinson, Guy C. Clarkson, and Martin Wills, O. Highlighted in Synfacts. available :
109) 鈥 Tarn C. Johnson, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, Organometallics 2011, 30, 1859-1868. (om-2010-01101r).
108) , Rina Soni, Fung Kei Cheung,Guy C. Clarkson, Jose E. D. Martins, Mark A. Grahamand Martin Wills, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 3290-3294, DOI: 10.1039/j.
2010-2006
107) 'Gold-Catalysed Cyclic Ether Formation from Diols', Xiaolu Jiang, Emma K. London, David J. Morris, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills,
106) '', Jos茅 E.D. Martins, Miguel A. Contreras Redondo and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2010, 21, 2258-2264.
105) 'S', Silvia Gosiewska, Rina Soni, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 4214-4217. WRAP.
104) '', Daurgirdas T. Racys, Dean Rea, Vilmos Fulop and Martin Wills, Bioorg Med. Chem. 2010, 18, 4775-4782. WRAP.
103) '', Vimal Parekh, James A. Ramsden and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2010, 21, 1549-1556.
102) '', Artur Majewski, David J. Morris, Kevin Kendall and Martin Wills, ChemSusChem, 2010, 3, 431-434.
101) '' Fung Kei (Kathy) Cheung, Adam J. Clarke, Guy J. Clarkson, David J. Fox, Mark A. Graham Changxue Lin, Andriana Lorente Crivill茅 and Martin Wills, Dalton Trans. 2010, 39, 1395 - 1402. WRAP.
100) '', David J. Morris, A. Simon Partridge, Charles V. Manville, Daurgirdas T. Racys, Gary Woodward, Gordon Docherty and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 209-212. WRAP.
(note added 27/11/12; PODPEN was the best ligand in a Warfarin synthesis; J. Dong and D.-M. Du, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 8125-8131).
99) '', David J. Morris, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, Organometallics, 2009, 28, 4133-4140. (om900099u).
98) '', Jos茅 E. D. Martins and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 5782-5786. WRAP.
97) 鈥樷 Jos茅 E. D. Martins, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, Org. Lett. 2009, 11 847-850. (ol802801p).
96) 鈥.', Jos茅 E. D. Martins, David J. Morris and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 688-692.
95) 鈥樷, Jos茅 E. D. Martins, David J. Morris, Bhavana Tripathi and Martin Wills, J. Organomet. Chem., 2008, 693, 3527-3532.
94) 鈥樷 Martin Wills, Daljit S. Matharu and Jos茅 E. D. Martins, Chemistry; An Asian Journal, 2008, 3, 1374-1383.
93) 鈥樷, Jos茅 E. D. Martins and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2008, 19, 1250-1255.
92) 鈥樷, Fung K. Cheung, Changxue Lin, Franco Minissi, Adriana Lorente Crivill茅, Mark A. Graham, David J. Fox and Martin Wills, Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 4659-4662.
91) 鈥樷, Fung Kei Cheung, Mark A. Graham,Franco Minissi and Martin Wills, Organometallics, 2007, 26, 5346-51.
90) 鈥.鈥 Glynn D. Williams, Charles E. Wade, Guy Clarkson and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2007, 18, 664-670.
89) 鈥樷, Fung Kei Cheung, Aidan M. Hayes, David J. Morris and Martin Wills, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2007, 5, 1093-1103. (b700744b).
88) 鈥樷, Atsushi Nagasawa, Changxue Lin and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Res. 2007, 1-4.
87) 鈥樷 David J. Morris, Gordon Docherty, Gary Woodward, and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 949-943.
86) 鈥' Yingjian (Andy) Xu, Gordon F. Docherty,Gary Woodward and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2006, 17, 2925-2929. Doi:10.1016/j.tetasy.2006.10.036.
85) 鈥.鈥 David J. Morris, Aidan M. Hayes and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem., 2006, 71, 7035-7044 (jo061154l).
84) 鈥溾, Daljit S. Matharu, Guy J. Clarkson, David J. Morris and Martin Wills, Chem. Commun. 2006, 3232-3234.
83) 鈥溾, Jerome Hannedouche, Philip Peach, David J. Cross,Jennifer A. Kenny, Inderjit Mann, Ian Houson,Lynne Campbell, Tim Walsgrove, and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron, 2006. 62, 1864-76.
2005-2001
82) '', Daljit S. Matharu, David J. Morris, Aparecida M. Kawamoto, Guy J. Clarkson, and Martin Wills, Organic Letters, 2005, 7, 5489 – 5491 (ol052559f).
81) 鈥.鈥, Glynn D. Williams, Charles E. Wade and Martin Wills, Chem. Commun., 2005, 4735-4737 (B509231).
80) .鈥, Yingjian (Andy) Xu, Guy Clarkson, Gordon Docherty, Carl North, Gary Woodward and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70,8079-8087 (JO051176s).
79) 鈥溾, Aveline S. Y. Yim, and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron, 2005, 61,7994-8004.
78) ".", Aidan M. Hayes, David J. Morris, Guy J. Clarkson and Martin Wills, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 7318-9.
77) 鈥"鈥, Fung Kei (Kathy) Cheung, Aidan M. Hayes, Jerome Hannedouche, Aveline S. Y. Yim, and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 3188 – 3197.
76) 鈥樷, Saj Bashir, Roger Mutter, A. E. Giannakopulos, Martin Wills and Peter J Derrick, ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA, 2004, 519, 181-187.
75) 鈥.鈥, Liliana B. Nohara, Aparecida M. Kawamoto, Marta F.K. Takahashi, Martin Wills, Evandro L. Nohara and Mirabel C. Rezende, Polimeros: Ciencia e Tecnologia, 2004, 14, 122-128.
74) 鈥溾, Y. Xu, N. W. Alcock, G. J. Clarkson, G. Docherty, G. Woodward and M. Wills, Organic Letters, 2004, 6, 4105-4107. Featured in Anne Thayer article on CHiral Chemistry in Chemical and Engineering news, sept 5th 2005, 40-47.
73) 鈥溾, Stephanie Bastin, Richard J. Eaves, Christopher W. Edwards, Osamu Ichihara, Mark Whittaker, and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69, 5405 – 5412.
72) 鈥 鈥, Aidan Hayes, Guy Clarkson and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2004, 15, 2079-84.
71) 鈥溾, Guy J. Clarkson, Jeff R. Ansell, David J. Cole-Hamilton, Peter J. Pogorzelec, John Whittell and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2004, 15, 1787-92.
70) 鈥溾, Jerome Hannedouche, Guy Clarkson and Martin Wills, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 986-987 (JA0392768).
69) 鈥溾, David J. Cross, Ian Houson, Aparecida M. Kawamoto and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett., 2004, 45, 843-846.
68) 鈥溾, Jeffrey R. Ansell, Nathanial W. Alcock and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Res., 2003, 728-729.
67) 鈥溾, Glynn D. Williams, Richard A. Pike, Charles E. Wade, and Martin Wills, Organic Lett., 2003, 4227-4230.
66) 鈥溾, Christopher W. Edwards, Mark R. Shipton, Nathanial W. Alcock, Howard Clase and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron, 2003, 59, 6473-6480.
65) 鈥樷樷 Christopher W. Edwards, David M. Haddleton, David Morsley, Mark R. Shipton and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron, 2003, 59, 5823-5830.
64) '', Gerard Hobley, Keith Stuttle and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron, 2003, 59, 4739 - 4748.
63) 鈥樷, David J. Morris, John M. Clough, Raymond V. H. Jones, Hannah McCann and Martin Wills, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2003, 1, 1486 - 1497.
62) 鈥樷, Aparecida M. Kawamoto and Martin Wills, Quimica Nova, 2002, 25, 921-925.
61) 鈥溾, Nathanial J. Alcock, Inderjit Mann, Philip Peach and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2002, 13, 2485-2490.
60) 鈥溾, Ahmed Bourghida, Louise F. Walker, Stephen Connolly and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1 2002, 965 - 981.
59) 鈥溾, Jerome Hannedouche, Jennifer A. Kenny and Martin Wills, Synlett, 2002, 263-266.
58) 鈥溾, Jennifer A. Kenny, Matthew J. Palmer, Tim Walsgrove, Aparecida M. Kawamoto and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1., 2002, 416-427.
57) 鈥溾, Heather Tye, Colin Eldred and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett., 2002, 43, 155-158.
56) 鈥溾. Ahmed Bourghida, Vince Wiatz and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett., 2001, 42, 8689-8692.
55) 鈥", Donald Smyth, Heather Tye and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 1. 2001, 2840 - 2849.
54) "鈥, Wilson Leung, Sarah Cosway, Raymond V. H. Jones, Hannah McCann and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 1, 2001, 2588-2594.
53) 鈥溾, David J. Cross, Jennifer A. Kenny, Ian Houson, Lynne Campbell, Tim Walsgrove and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2001, 12, 1801-1806.
52) 鈥溾, Aparecida M. Kawamoto and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 1, 2001, 1916-1928.
51) 鈥溾, Roger Mutter, Ian B. Campbell, Eva M. de la Neva, Andrew T. Merritt and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem., 2001, 66, 3284-3290.
50) 鈥溾, Albert J. R. Heck, Pauline J. Bonnici, Eefjan Breukink, David J. Morris and Martin Wills, Chemistry; Eur J., 2001, 7, 910-916.
1996-2000
49) 鈥樷, Aparecida M. Kawamoto and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2000, 11, 3257-61.
48) 鈥溾, Roger Mutter, Eva M. de la Neva and Martin Wills, Chem. Commun., 2000, 1675-6.
47) 鈥溾, Christopher W. Edwards, Mark Shipton and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett., 2000, 41, 8615 -8619.
46) 鈥: Simon Breeden, David J. Cole-Hamilton, Douglas F. Foster, Gary J. Schwarz and Martin Wills, Angew. Chem., Int. Edn., 2000, 39, 4106-9.
45) 鈥溾, Jennifer A. Kenny, Kees Versluis, Albert J. R. Heck, Tim Walsgrove and Martin Wills, Chem. Commun, 2000, 99-100.
44) 鈥溾, Martin Wills, Matthew J. Palmer, Athene R. C. Smith, Jennifer A. Kenny, Tim Walsgrove Molecules, 2000, 5, 1-15. WRAP. Open access from Molecules website.
43) 鈥溾, Martin Wills and Simon W. Breeden, J. Org. Chem., 1999, 64, 9735-9738.
42) 鈥溾, Athene R. C. Smith, Jennifer A. Kenny, Albert J. R. Heck, J. Jantien Kettenes-van der Bosch and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1999, 10, 3267-70.
41) 鈥溾 Jennifer A. Kenny, Matthew J. Palmer, Athene R. C. Smith, Tim Walsgrove and Martin Wills, Synlett, 1999, 1615.
40) Martin Wills, Mark Gamble, Matthew Palmer, Athene R. C. Smith, John R. Studley and Jennifer A. Kenny 鈥淣鈥 J. Mol. Catal. A; Chemical, 1999, 146, 139-148. (a paper resulting from an invited lecture at the 鈥9th International Symposium on Relations between Heterogenous and Homogenous Catalysis鈥, Southampton, July 1998).
39) 鈥溾, Matthew J. Palmer, John R. Studley, Tim Walsgrove and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron, 1998, 54, 8827.
38) 鈥". Mark P. Gamble, Athene R. C. Smith and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem, 1998, 63, 6068.
37) "", Louise Walker, Stephen Connolly, and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett, 1998, 39, 5273 .
36) 鈥溾, Barry Burns, N. Paul King, Heather Tye, John R. Studley, Mark Gamble and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1998, 1027
35) "", Heather Tye, Colin Eldred, Mary F. Mahon and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1998, 457.
34) "", Matthew Palmer, Tim Walsgrove and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem., 1997, 62, 5226.
33) "", Heather Tye, Donald Smyth, Colin Eldred and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1997, 1053.
32) "", Douglas J. Critcher, Stephen Connolly and Martin Wills, J. Org. Chem., 1997, 62, 6638.
31) "", Matthew Palmer, John R. Studley, Tim Walsgrove and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett., 1997, 38, 2315.
30) "", Barry Burns, Mark P. Gamble, Athene R. C. Simm, John R. Studley Nathaniel W. Alcock and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1997, 8, 73.
29) "", Mark P. Gamble, John R. Studley and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1996, 7, 3071.
28) "", Guy Brenchley, Michael Fedouloff, Eric Merifield and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1996, 7, 2809.
27) "", John R. Studley, Mark Gamble and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Letters, 1996, 37, 2853.
26) "", David R. J. Hose, Mary F. Mahon, Kieran C. Molloy, Tony Raynham and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. I., 1996, 691.
25) "", Roger J. Butlin, Ian D. Linney, Mary F. Mahon, Heather Tye and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. I., 1996, 95.
1990-1995
24) "", Guy Brenchley, Michael Fedouloff, Mary F. Mahon, Eric Merifield, Kieran C. Molloy and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron, 1995, 51 10581.
23) "", Heather Tye, Colin Eldred and Martin Wills, Synlett, 1995, 770.
22) "", Douglas J. Critcher, Stephen Connolly and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett., 1995, 36, 3763.
21) "", Douglas J. Cricher, Stephen C. Connolly, Mary F. Mahon and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1995, 139.
20) "", David R. J. Hose, Tony Raynham and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett, 1994, 35, 5303.
19) "", Barry Burns, N. Paul King, John R. Studley, Heather Tye and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1994, 5, 801.
18) "", Guy Brenchley, Eric Merifield, Martin Wills and Michael Fedouloff, Tetrahedron Lett., 1994, 35, 2791.
17) "", Ian D. Linney, Heather Tye, Martin Wills and Roger J. Butlin, Tetrahedron Lett., 1994, 35, 1785.
16) "". Barry Burns, John R. Studley and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett, 1993, 34, 7105.
15) ".", Barry Burns, Eric Merifield, Mary F. Mahon, Kieran C. Molloy and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1993, 2245.
14) "", David R. J. Hose, Tony Raynham and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1993, 4, 2159.
13) "", John R. Studley and Martin Wills, J. Organomet. Chem., 1993, 455, C3-C5.
12) "", Roger J. Butlin, Ian D. Linney, Douglas J. Critcher, Mary F. Mahon, Kieran C. Molloy and Martin Wills, J. Chem Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1993, 1581.
11) "" Martin Wills, Roger J. Butlin and Ian D. Linney, Tetrahedron Lett., 1992, 33, 5427.
10) "" Martin Wills, Roger J. Butlin, Ian D. Linney and Richard W. Gibson, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Transactions I, 1991, 3383-3385.
9) "", Martin Wills, Ian D. Linney, Christopher Lacy, Mary F. Mahon and Kieran C. Molloy, Synlett., 1991, 836-840.
Postdoctoral Research (Lead author is W. Oppolzer)
8) (Prepared by C. Chapius) "", Christian Chapius, Gerald Bernardinelli, Arend J. Kingma and Martin Wills, Helv. Chim. Acta., 1997, 80, 1607.
7) "", Wolfgang Oppolzer, Martin Wills, Martha J. Kelly, Marcel Signer and Julian Blagg, Tetrahedron Lett., 1990, 31, 5015.
6) "", Wolfgang Oppolzer, Martin Wills, Christian Starkemann and Gerald Bernardinelli, Tetrahedron Lett., 1990, 31, 4117.
Postgraduate research work (Lead author is S. G. Davies)
5) "", Stephen G. Davies, David Middlemiss, Alan Naylor and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Comm., 1990, 797.
4) "", Stephen G. Davies, David Middlemiss, Alan Naylor and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett., 1989, 30, 2971.
3) "", Stephen G. Davies, David Middlemiss, Alan Naylor and Martin Wills, Tetrahedron Lett., 1989, 30, 587.
2) "", Stephen G. Davies and Martin Wills, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1987, 1647.
1) "", Stephen G. Davies and Martin Wills, J. Organomet. Chem., 1987, 328, C29-C3.