Wild, Professor S. Bruce BSc New South Wales PhD Manchester, FRACI, FRSC, FAA - Inorganic Stereochemistry and Asymmetric Synthesis
 

2008

Byrne LT, Hondow NS, Koutsantonis GA, Skelton BW, Torabi AA, White AH, Wild SB, Carbonyl substitution chemistry of some trimetallic transition metal cluster complexes with polyfunctional ligands. J. Organomet. Chem. (2008), 693(10), 1738-1750. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2008.01.040
 

Coote ML, Krenske EH, Maulana I, Steinbach J, Wild SB Reactivity of phosphiranes toward nucleophiles: theoretical and experimental investigations. Heteroatom Chem. (2008), 19(2), 178-181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hc.20405
 

Kilah NL, Weir ML, Wild SB Tertiary arsine-stabilised arsenium salts: syntheses and comparisons with phosphine analogues. Dalton Trans. (2008), (18), 2480-2486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b800965a
 

2007

Coote ML, Hodgson JL, Krenske EH, Namazian M, Wild SB Radical ring-opening polymerization of phosphorus heterocycles: computational design of suitable phosphetane monomers. Aust. J. Chem. (2007), 60(10), 744-753. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH07121
 

Coote ML, Hodgson JL, Krenske EH, Wild SB Anionic ring-opening polymerization of small phosphorus heterocycles and their borane adducts: an ab initio investigation. Heteroat. Chem. (2007), 18(2), 118-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hc.20323
 

Ford JL, Gugger PA, Wild SB, Mendz GL Phenylphosphonate transport by Helicobacter pylori. Helicobacter (2007), 12(6), 609-615. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-5378.2007.00550.x
 

Kilah NL, Petrie S, Stranger R, Wielandt JW, Willis AC, Wild SB Triphenylphosphine-stabilized diphenyl-arsenium, -stibenium, and -bismuthenium salts. Organometallics (2007), 26(25), 6106-6113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om700512h
 

Kitto HJ, Rae AD, Webster RD, Willis AC, Wild SB Synthesis, structure, and electrochemistry of di- and zerovalent nickel, palladium, and platinum monomers and dimers derived from an enantiopure (S,S)-tetra(tertiary phosphine). Inorg. Chem. (2007), 46(19), 8059-8070. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic700912q
 

2006

Habermehl N C, Angus P M, Kilah N L, Norén L, Rae A D, Willis A C, Wild S B Asymmetric transformation of a double-stranded, dicopper(I) helicate containing achiral bis(bidentate) Schiff bases. Inorg. Chem. (2006), 45(4), 1445-1462. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic051478c   [Erratum: Inorg. Chem. (2006), 45(22), 9146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic0680009]
 

Petrie S, Stranger R, Rae A D, Willis A C, Zhou X, Wild S B Tertiary arsine adducts of iodoarsines: a structural and theoretical investigation. Organometallics (2006), 25(1), 164-171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om0580396
 

Warr R J, Willis A C, Wild S B Inorganic asymmetric synthesis: asymmetric synthesis of a two-bladed propeller, octahedral metal complex. Inorg. Chem. (2006), 45(21), 8618-8627. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic060856q
 

Wielandt J W, Kilah N L, Willis A C, Wild S B Self-assembly of square-planar halide complexes of phosphine-stabilised stibenium salts. Chem. Commun. (2006), (35), 3679-3680. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b607136h
 

Wolf R, Finger M, Limburg C, Willis A C, Wild S B, Hey-Hawkins E Reactivity of cyclooligophosphanes: synthesis and structural characterisation of cyclo-1,4-(BH3)2(P4Ph4CH2) and cyclo-1,2-(BH3)2(P5Ph5). Dalton Trans. (2006), (6), 831-837. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b511833f
 

2005

Swiegers, G.F., Wild, S.B. Temperature-dependent cooperative coiling of helical conformers of enantiopure oligo(tertiary phosphines). Aust. J. Chem. (2005), 58(12), 831-833. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH05253
 

2004

Brasch, N.E., Hamilton, I.G., Krenske, E.H., Wild, S.B. π-Ligand exchange on phosphenium ions: reversible exchange between free and coordinated alkynes in phosphirenium salts. Organometallics (2004), 23(2), 299–302.
 

Kitto, H.J., Rae, A.D., Willis, A.C., Zank, J., Wild, S.B. Synthesis and structure of the helicate (M)-(–)-[Pt2{(R,R)-tetraphos}2](CF3SO3)4•4.5H2O. Z. Naturforsch., B: Chem. Sci. (2004), 59b(11&12), 1458–1461.
 

2003

Blake, C.J., Cook, V.C., Keniry, M.A., Kitto, H.J., Rae, A.D., Swiegers, G.F., Willis, A.C., Zank, J., Wild, S.B. Diastereoselectivity and molecular recognition in the self-assembly of double-stranded dinuclear metal complexes of the type {M2{(R*,S*)-tetraphos}2] (PF6)2 (M = Ag and Au). Inorg. Chem. (2003), 42(26), 8709-8715.
 

Delfs C.D., Kitto H.J., Stranger, R., Swiegers G.F., Wild S.B., Willis A.C., Wilson G.J. Photoluminescence properties of four-coordinate gold(I)-phosphine complexes of the types [Au(diphos)2]PF6 and [Au2(tetraphos)2](PF6)2. Inorg. Chem. (2003), 42(14), 4469-4478.

 

2002

Baldwin, D.S., Bowden, B.F., Duckworth, P.A., Lindoy, L.F., McCool, B.J., Meehan, G.V., Vasilescu, I.M., Wild, S.B. New macrocyclic ligands. XIV. Synthesis and X-ray structures of potentially pentadentate ligands incorporating non-symmetrically arranged N4S-, N3OS-, N2O2S- and N2S2O-heteroatoms. Aust. J. Chem. (2002), 55, 597-603.
 

Bowyer, P.K., Cook, V.C., Gharib-Naseri, N., Gugger, P.A., Rae, A.D., Swiegers, G.F., Willis, A.C., Zank, J., Wild, S.B. Configurationally homogeneous diastereomers of a linear hexa(tertiary phosphine): enantioselective self-assembly of a double-stranded parallel helicate of the type (P)-[Cu3(hexaphos)2](PF6)3. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) (2002), 99, 4877-4882.
 

Cook, V.C., Willis, A.C., Zank, J., Wild, S.B. Synthesis and resolution of (R*,R*)-(±)-1,1,4,7,10,10-hexaphenyl-1,10-diarsa-4,7-diphosphadecane: new ligand for the stereoselective self-assembly of dicopper(I), disilver(I), and digold(I) helicates. Inorg. Chem. (2002), 41, 1897-1906.
 

Gugger, P.A., Willis, A.C., Wild, S.B., Heath, G.A., Webster, R.D., Nelson, J.H. Enantioselective synthesis of a conformationally rigid, sterically encumbered, 2 arsino-7-phosphanorbornene. J. Organomet. Chem. (2002), 643-644, 136-153.
 

Nelson, J.H., Ghebreyessus, K.Y., Cook, V.C., Edwards, A.J., Wielandt, W., Wild, S.B., Willis, A.C. Synthesis and characterization of [(η6-arene)RuCl2(R2AsCH=CH 2)] and tethered arsinopropylarene-ruthenium(II) complexes. Organometallics (2002), 21, 1727-1733.
 

Porter, K.A., Willis, A.C., Zank, J., Wild, S.B. Phosphine-stabilised arsenium salts: water-stable, labile, coordination complexes. Inorg. Chem. (2002), 41, 6380-6386.

 

2001

Pabel, M., Wild, S.B. Macro- and spiro-heterocycles. In Phosphorus-Carbon Heterocyclic Chemistry: The Rise of a New Domain, Ed. F. Mathey, Pergamon: Amsterdam (2001), Chapter 6.1, pp 631-669.
 

Wild, S.B. Specialist periodical report: Organophosphorus Chemistry, Volume 30, edited by: D.W. Allen, J. Tebby. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1 (2001), 1342. (Book Review)

 

2000

Dogan, J., Schulte, J.B., Swiegers, G.F., and Wild, S.B. Mechanism of phosphorus-carbon bond cleavage by lithium in tertiary phosphines. An optimized synthesis of 1,2-bis(phenylphosphino)ethane. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 65, 951-957 (2000).
 

Jee, B., Zank, J., Dance, I.G., Wild, S.B., Klüfers, P., and Willis, A.C. The crystal packing and engineering prospects of Hellwinkel’s salt: [P(2,2’-biphenylyl)2]+[P(2,2’-biphenylyl) 3]-.CrystEngComm, 35 (2000). http://www.rsc.org/ej/ce/2000/B004292G/index.html
 

Sølling, T.I., Wild, S.B., and Radom, L. Are the approach directions of σ and π nucleophiles to the sulfur atom of thiiranium and thiirenium ions different? Chemistry-A European Journal, 6, 590-591 (2000).
 

Sølling, T.I., Wild, S.B., and Radom, L. Formation of three-membered phosphorus heterocycles via ligand-exchange reactions in mono-adducts of the phosphenium ion: an ab initio investigation.International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 201, 205-213 (2000).

 

1999

Airey, A.L., Bowyer, P.K., Cook, V.C., Gharib Naseri, N., Swiegers, G.F., Willis, A.C., and Wild, S.B. Self-assembly of di- and tri-nuclear metal helicates containing homochiral poly(tertiary phosphines) and related compounds. Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements, 144-146, 285-288 (1999).
 

Sølling, T.I., Wild, S.B., and Radom, L. A G2 ab initio investigation of ligand-exchange reactions involving mono- and bi-adducts of the phosphenium ion. Inorganic Chemistry, 38, 6049-6054 (1999).
 

Sølling, T.I., Wild, S.B., and Radom, L. Are pi-ligand exchange reactions in thiirenium and thiiranium ions feasible? An ab initio investigation. Chemistry -A European Journal, 5, 509-514 (1999).
 

Sølling, T.I., Wild, S.B., and Radom, L. Exchange and insertion reactions involving borane adducts of phosphirane and phosphirene: a G2(MP2) ab initio investigation. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 580, 320-327 (1999).

 

1998

Bowyer, P.K., Porter, K.A., Rae, D., Willis, A.C. and Wild, S.B. From helicate to infinite coordination polymer: crystal and molecular structures of silver(I) complexes of readily prepared di-Schiff bases. Chemical Communications, 1153-1154 (1998).
 

Hockless, D.C.R., Lindoy, L.F., Swiegers, G.F. and Wild, S.B. Acid-catalysed rearrangements between 3,4-dihydro-2H-1,5-benzooxazocine and  benzothiazocine and their macrocyclic (16-membered, 24-membered and 32-membered) oligomers. Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions I, 117-122 (1998).
 

McKeage, M.J., Papathanasiou, P., Salem, G., Sjaarda, A., Swiegers, G.F., Waring, P. and Wild, S.B. Antitumour activity of gold(I), silver(I) and copper(I) complexes containing chiral tertiary phosphines. Metal-Based Drugs, 5, 217-223 (1998).
 

Pabel, M. and Wild, S.B. Six-membered heterocycles containing phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth as a single heteroatom. In Rodd’s Chemistry of Carbon Compounds (Second Supplements to the 2nd Edition) -Heterocyclic Compounds (Vol. Ed M. Sainsbury) Vol. IV, Ch. 29, 273-363, Elsevier Science: Amsterdam (1998).
 

Sølling, T.I., McDonald, M.A., Wild, S.B. and Radom, L. Novel pi-ligand exchange and insertion reactions involving three-membered phosphorus heterocycles: an ab initio investigation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 120, 7063-7068 (1998).

 

1997

Airey, A.L., Swiegers, G.F., Willis, A.C. and Wild, S.B. Self-assembly of homochiral double helix and side-by-side helix conformers of double-stranded disilver(I)- and digold(I)-tetra(tertiary phosphine) helicates. Inorganic Chemistry, 36, 1588-1597 (1997).
 

Chesnut, D.B., Quin, L.D. and Wild, S.B. The characterization of NMR shielding in monocyclic phosphines. Heteroatomic Chemistry, 8, 451-457 (1997).
 

Hockless, D.C.R., Gugger, P.A., Leung, P.H., Mayadunne, R.C., Pabel, M. and Wild, S.B. Facile interconversations between diastereomers of chloro-bridged palladium(II) dimers of orthometallated (±)-dimethyl[1-(1-naphthyl)ethyl]amine. Tetrahedron, 53, 4083-4094 (1997).
 

Hockless, D.C.R., McDonald, M.A., Pabel, M. and Wild, S.B. Facile syntheses and interconversions between simple phosphiranium and phosphirenum salts. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 529, 189-196 (1997).
 

Wild, S.B. Resolutions of tertiary phosphines and arsines with orthometallated palladium(II)-amine complexes. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 166, 291-311 (1997).

 

1996

Airey, A.L., Hockless, D.C.R., Swiegers, G.F. and Wild, S.B. Crystal structure of [SP-5-(R*,R*)]-(±)-chloro(1,1,4,7,10,10-hexaphenyl-1,4,7,10-tetraphosphadecane)-nickel(II) hexafluorophosphate, C42H42ClF6NiP5. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 211, 939-941 (1996).
 

Airey, A.L., Hockless, D.C.R., Swiegers, G.F. and Wild, S.B. Crystal structure of [SP-4-(R*,R*)]-(±)-(1,1,4,7,10,10-hexaphenyl-1,4,7,10-tetraphosphadecane)nickel(II) perchlorate, C42H42Cl2O8NiP4. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 211, 937-938 (1996).
 

Bader, A., Pabel, M., Willis, A.C. and Wild, S.B. First resolution of a free secondary phosphine chiral at phosphorus and stereospecific formation and structural characterisation of a homochiral secondary phosphine-borane complex. Inorganic Chemistry, 35, 3874-3877 (1996).
 

Hockless, D.C.R., Kang, Y.B., McDonald, M.A., Pabel, M., Willis, A.C. and Wild, S.B. Direct syntheses of 1-phenylphosphetane and 1-phenylphosphirane. Crystal and molecular structures of neutral and cationic cyclotrimerization precursor complexes. Organometallics, 15, 1301-1306 (1996).
 

Hockless, D.C.R., Wild, S.B., McDonagh, A.M., Whittal, I.R. and Humphrey, M.G. trans-Dichlorobis[(R,R)-1,2-phenylenebis(methylphenylphosphine- P)]ruthenium(II). Acta Crystallographica, Section C, 52, 1639-1641 (1996).
 

Leong, A.J., Lindoy, L.F., Hockless, D.C.R., Swiegers, G.F. and Wild, S.B. The interaction of transition and post-transition metal ions with 14- and 16-membered trans N2X2-donor macrocycles (X = NH, O, S): stabilities and X-ray structures. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 246, 371-377 (1996).
 

Pabel, M.and Wild, S.B. Rings containing arsenic, antimony or bismuth. In Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry II, Volume 9 - Seven-Membered and Larger Rings and Fused Derivatives (Vol. Ed. G.R. Newkome), Chapter 9.35, 971-992, Elsevier Science: Oxford, UK, (1996).
 

Pabel, M. and Wild, S.B. Rings containing phosphorus. In Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry II, Volume 9 - Seven-Membered and Larger Rings and Fused Derivatives (Vol. Ed. G.R. Newkome), Chapter 9.34, 947-969, Elsevier Science: Oxford, UK, (1996).
 

Pabel, M. and Wild, S.B. Rings containing silicon to lead. In Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry II, Volume 9 - Seven-Membered and Larger Rings and Fused Derivatives (Vol. Ed. G.R. Newkome), Chapter 9.36, 993-1022, Elsevier Science: Oxford, UK, (1996).
 

Pabel, M., Willis, A.C. and Wild, S.B. [R-(R*,R*)]-(η5-Cyclopentadienyl)[1,2-phenylenebis(methylphenylphosphine- P)]-(1-phenylphosphirane-P)iron(II) hexafluorophosphate. Acta Crystallographica, Section C, 52, 557-559 (1996).
 

Pabel, M., Willis, A.C. and Wild, S.B. First resolution of a free fluorophosphine chiral at phosphorus. Resolution and reactions of free and coordinated (±)-fluorophenylisopropylphosphine. Inorganic Chemistry, 35, 1244-1249 (1996).

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