Selected Recent Publications

[1] The First Unambiguous Characterisation of a Neutral Phosphorus Ylide - Lithium Complex: Isolation, Structure and Ab Initio MO Investigations of [(PhCH2)2NLi.CH2Ph3]2, D. R. Armstrong, M. G. Davidson and D. Moncrieff

Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 1995, 34, 478.

[2] Protonation of an Ylide Leads to a Unique C-H...O Hydrogen Bonded Dimer: The First Synthesis, Isolation and Structural Characterisation of a Phosphonium Aryloxide, M. G. Davidson.

J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun., 1995, 919.

[3] Phosphonium Ylides as Hydrogen Bond Acceptors - Intermolecular C-H...C Interactions in the Crystal Structure of Triphenylphosphonium Benzylide, A. S. Batsanov, M. G. Davidson, J. A. K. Howard, S. Lamb and C. Lustig.

Chem. Commun., 1996, 1791.

[4] Definitive Crystal Structures of ortho-, meta-, and para-Carboranes: Supramolecular Structures Directed Solely by C-H...O Hydrogen Bonding to Hexamethylphosphoramide, M. G. Davidson, T. G. Hibbert, J. A. K. Howard, A. Mackinnon and K. Wade.

Chem. Commun., 1996, 2285.

[5] A Stable Methylphosphine Oxide-Lithium Amide Complex: A Structural and MO Calculational Investigation of the Mechanism of Proton Abstraction by Alkali Metal Reagents, D. R. Armstrong, M. G. Davidson, R. P. Davies, H. J. Mitchell, R. M. Oakley, P. R. Raithby, R. Snaith and S. Warren.

Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 1996, 35, 1942.

[6] Experimental and Molecular Orbital Calculational Study of Stereoselective Horner-Wittig Reaction with Phosphine Oxides: Control of Stereoselectivity by Lithium, D. R. Armstrong, D. Barr, M. G. Davidson, G. Hutton, P. O'Brian, R. Snaith and S. G. Warren.

J. Organomet. Chem., 1997, 529, 29.

[7] The First Structural Characterisation of a Phosphonium Amide: Synthesis, Isolation and Molecular Structure of (Ph3Et)+(NPh2)-, M. G. Davidson and S. Lamb.

Polyhedron, 1997, 16, 4393.

[8] Synthesis and X-ray Structures N-lithioiminophosphorane-Lithium Bromide Adducts, A. S. Batsanov. M. G. Davidson, J. A. K. Howard, S. Lamb, C. Lustig and R. D. Price.

Chem. Commun., 1997, 1211.

[9] Synthesis and X-ray Structures of Tetralithium Derivatives of Tert-butyl-calix[4]arene Containing Unique Cores Based on a Square Pyramidal Geometry, M. G. Davidson J. A. K. Howard, S. Lamb and C. W. Lehmann.

Chem. Commun., 1997, 1607

[10] Low Temperature Neutron and X-ray Diffraction Study of Imino(triphenyl)phosphorane, M. G. Davidson, A. E. Goeta, J. A. K. Howard, C. W. Lehmann, G. M. McIntyre and R. D. Price.

J. Organomet. Chem., 1998, 550, 449.

[11] The First Synthesis, Isolation and X-ray Structure of a Phosphonium Phosphide (Ph3PMe)+{[C2H6(CF3)3-2,4,6]2P}-, M. G. Davidson, K. B. Dillon, J. A. K. Howard, S. Lamb and M. D. Roden.

J. Organomet. Chem., 1998, 550, 481.

[12]  The Metallation of Imino(triphenyl)phosphorane by Ethylmagnesium Chloride: The Synthesis, Isolation and X-ray Structure of [Ph3P=NMgCl.O=P(NMe2)3]2, A. S. Batsanov, P.D. Bolton, R. C. B. Copley, M. G. Davidson, J. A. K. Howard, C. Lustig and R. D. Price.

J. Organomet. Chem., 1998, 550, 445.