Dr. James Watson

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsInorganic Molecular Chemistry
KeywordsC-H activation, Reactive cations, Organometallic chemistry, Coordination Chemistry

Current contact address

CountryAustralia
CitySydney
InstitutionUniversity of New South Wales (UNSW)
InstituteSchool of Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ingo KrossingInstitut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg

Programme(s)

2025Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Sellin, Malte and Watson, James D. and Fischer, Julia and Schmitt, Manuel and Ball, Graham E. and Field, Leslie D. and Krossing, Ingo: A Dinitrogen Complex without Donor Ligands: Isolation and Characterization of a [Mn(CO)5(η1-N2)]+ Salt. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147, 2025, 35164-35171
2025Watson, James D. and Mizdrak, Dejan and Field, Leslie D. and Ball, Graham E.: Coordination of ethane, pentane and cyclopentane to a cationic osmium complex: comparisons in alkane binding. In: Chem. Sci., 16, 2025, 8532-8541
2025Sellin, Malte and Watson, James D. and Fischer, Julia and Ball, Graham E. and Field, Leslie D. and Krossing, Ingo: Promoting Alkane Binding: Crystallization of a Cationic Manganese(I)-Pentane σ-Complex from Solution. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64, 2025, e202507494
2022James. D. Watson and Leslie. D. Field and Graham. E. Ball: Binding methane to a metal centre. In: Nature Chemistry, 14, 2022, 801--804
2022Peter M. Jurd and Hsiu L. Li and Mohan Bhadbhade and James D. Watson and Leslie D. Field: Ferralactone formation from iron acetylides and carbon dioxide. In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 961, 2022, 122252
2022Watson, James D. and Field, Leslie D. and Ball, Graham E.: [Fp(CH4)]+, [η5-CpRu(CO)2(CH4)]+, and [η5-CpOs(CO)2(CH4)]+: A Complete Set of Group 8 Metal–Methane Complexes. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 2022, 17622-17629
2020Li, Hsiu L. and Scottwell, Synøve Ø. and Watson, James D. and Elton, Timothy E. and Yu, Hon C. and Bhadbhade, Mohan and Field, Leslie D.: Functionally Altered Ruthenaindenes with Electron-Rich and Electron-Poor Substituents. In: Organometallics, 39, 2020, 433-442
2020Amanda Benton and James D. Watson and Stephen M. Mansell and Georgina M. Rosair and Alan J. Welch: The Lewis acidity of borylcarboranes. In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 907, 2020, 121057
2019Watson, James D. and Benton, Amanda and Tricas, Hugo and Rosair, Georgina M. and Welch, Alan J.: Crystal structure of 1-hepta-fluoro-tolyl-closo-1,2-dicarbadodeca-borane. In: Acta Crystallographica Section E, 75, 2019, 512--515
2019Benton, Amanda and Durand, Derek J. and Copeland, Zachariah and Watson, James D. and Fey, Natalie and Mansell, Stephen M. and Rosair, Georgina M. and Welch, Alan J.: On the Basicity of Carboranylphosphines. In: Inorganic Chemistry, 58, 2019, 14818-14829