Dr Rebecca Melen
Projects as PI
- Activating diazo compounds with boranes in flow (02/09/2022 - 01/09/2024)
- A mechanistic understanding of metal-free catalysis using Lewis acidic boranes (01/06/2020 - 30/06/2022)
- Applications of main group elements in synthesis and catalysis (09/10/2014 - 08/10/2015)
- Bifunctional boron lewis acids for catalysis (31/03/2017 - 30/09/2019)
- C-C bond forming reactions using lewis acidic boranes (29/06/2015 - 28/09/2015)
Projects as Co-Investigator
- Single or Double? A radical approach to synthesis via frustrated Lewis Pairs (01/06/2020 - 25/07/2024)
- Sustainable Catalysis for Clean Growth (01/11/2021 - 31/10/2026)
- Sustainable Catalysis for Clean Growth (01/11/2021 - 31/10/2026)
- The productive merger of organocatalysis and frustrated lewis pairs (01/04/2016 - 24/09/2019)
Research Datasets
- 1,3-Carboboration of iodonium ylides - Gazis TA, Mohajeri Thaker BAJ, Willcox D, et al. (2020). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2019.0090828346. Organometallic complexes
- Accessing Highly Substituted Indoles via B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Secondary Alkyl Group Transfer - data - Elsherbeni S, Melen R, Pulis A, et al. (2023). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2023.0296158061. Chemical synthesis
- B(3,4,5-F3H2C6)3 Lewis acid-catalysed C3-allylation of indoles: data - Alotaibi N, Babaahmadi R, Pramanik M, et al. (2023). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2023.0252049034. Acid/base Catalysis
- B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Direct C3 Alkylation of Indoles and Oxindoles - data - Basak S, Alvarez-Montoya A, Winfrey L, et al. (2020). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2020.0104936560. Chemical Synthetic Methodology
- B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed (E)-Selective Isomerization of Alkenes: data - Kustiana BA, Elsherbeni SA, Linford-Wood TG, et al. (2022). Cardiff University. 10.17035/d.2022.0216695569. Chemical synthesis