Dr. Matthew Roy

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsInorganic Molecular Chemistry
Keywordsmain group, abundant element catalysis, geometric perturbation, element-ligand cooperation, planar silicon

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
InstitutionUniversity of Oxford
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Shigeyoshi InoueInstitut für Siliciumchemie, Technische Universität München, Garching
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2022

Programme(s)

2021Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2022A. Heilmann, M. M. D. Roy, A. E. Crumpton, L. P. Griffin, J. Hicks, J. M. Goicoechea, S. Aldridge: Coordination and Homologation of CO at Al(I): Mechanism and Chain Growth, Branching, Isomerization, and Reduction. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022,
2022M. Fischer, M. M. D. Roy, S. Hüller, M. Schmidtmann, R. Beckhaus: Reaction of a bis(pentafulvene)titanium Complex with an N-Heterocyclic Olefin: C–H Activation Leads to Resonance Between a Titanium Vinyl and Titanium Alkylidene Complex. In: Dalton Transactions, 2022,
2022M. Fischer, M. M. D. Roy, L. L. Wales, M. A. Ellwanger, A. Heilmann, S. Aldridge: Structural Snapshots in Phosphinidene Transfer: Synthetic, Structural and Reaction Chemistry of a Sn=P Double Bond. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022,
2021Roy, M.M.D. and Baird, S.R. and Dornsiepen, E. and Paul, L.A. and Miao, L. and Ferguson, M.J. and Zhou, Y. and Siewert, I. and Rivard, E.: A Stable Homoleptic Divinyl Tetrelene Series. In: Chemistry - A European Journal, 27, 2021, 8572-8579
2021Matthew M. D. Roy and Andreas Heilmann and Mathias A. Ellwanger and Simon Aldridge: Generation of a pi-Bonded Isomer of [P4]4- by Aluminyl Reduction of White Phosphorus and its Ammonolysis to PH3. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60, 2021, 26550--26554
2021Roy, M.M.D. and Oma{\~n}a, A.A. and Wilson, A.S.S. and Hill, M.S. and Aldridge, S. and Rivard, E.: Molecular Main Group Metal Hydrides. In: Chemical Reviews, 2021,
2021Roy, M.M.D. and Hicks, J. and Vasko, P. and Heilmann, A. and Baston, A.-M. and Goicoechea, J.M. and Aldridge, S.: Probing the Extremes of Covalency in M-Al bonds: Lithium and Zinc Aluminyl Compounds. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 60, 2021, 22301-22306
2021Roy, M.M.D. and Baird, S.R. and Ferguson, M.J. and Rivard, E.: Toward N-heterocyclic carbene stabilized zinc sulfides. In: Mendeleev Communications, 31, 2021, 173-175
2020Hupf, E. and Kaiser, F. and Lummis, P.A. and Roy, M.M.D. and McDonald, R. and Ferguson, M.J. and Kühn, F.E. and Rivard, E.: Linking Low-Coordinate Ge(II) Centers via Bridging Anionic N-Heterocyclic Olefin Ligands. In: Inorganic Chemistry, 59, 2020, 1592-1601
2019Roy, M.M.D. and Ferguson, M.J. and McDonald, R. and Zhou, Y. and Rivard, E.: A vinyl silylsilylene and its activation of strong homo- and heteroatomic bonds. In: Chemical Science, 10, 2019, 6476-6481
2018Roy, M.M.D. and Miao, L. and Ferguson, M.J. and McDonald, R. and Rivard, E.: An unexpected Staudinger reaction at an N -heterocyclic carbene-carbon center. In: Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 96, 2018, 543-548
2018Matthew M. D. Roy and Michael J. Ferguson and Robert McDonald and Eric Rivard: Approaching monocoordination at a silver(i) cation. In: Chemical Communications, 2018,
2018Roy, M.M.D. and Fujimori, S. and Ferguson, M.J. and McDonald, R. and Tokitoh, N. and Rivard, E.: Neutral, Cationic and Hydride-substituted Siloxygermylenes. In: Chemistry - A European Journal, 24, 2018, 14392-14399
2017Roy, M.M.D. and Lummis, P.A. and Ferguson, M.J. and McDonald, R. and Rivard, E.: Accessing Low-Valent Inorganic Cations by Using an Extremely Bulky N-Heterocyclic Carbene. In: Chemistry - A European Journal, 23, 2017, 11249-11252
2017Matthew M. D. Roy and Eric Rivard: Pushing Chemical Boundaries with N-Heterocyclic Olefins (NHOs): From Catalysis to Main Group Element Chemistry. In: Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017,
2016Matthew M. D. Roy and Michael J. Ferguson and Robert McDonald and Eric Rivard: Investigation of N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Supported Group 12 Triflates as Pre-catalysts for Hydrosilylation/Borylation. In: Chemistry - A European Journal, 22, 2016, 18236--18246
2016Matthew M. D. Roy and Michael J. Ferguson and Eric Rivard: N-Heterocyclic Carbene Reactivity Towards Mercurous Chloride. In: Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, 642, 2016, 1232--1235
2014David J. Wolstenholme and Matthew M. D. Roy and Michael E. Thomas and G. Sean McGrady: Desorption of hydrogen from light metal hydrides: concerted electronic rearrangement and role of H---H interactions. In: Chem. Commun., 50, 2014, 3820--3823