Martyn Coles

@Coles_lab

Practitioner of Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington.

New Zealand Joined February 2021

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Martyn Coles @Coles_lab Sep 16, 2025

Bimetallic Al–M complexes derived from low-valent aluminium sources (M = s-/p-block metal)
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Hopefully a useful resource for those working with bimetallic Al–M complexes

pubs.rsc.org Bimetallic Al–M complexes derived from low-valent aluminium sources (M = s-/p-block metal) Bimetallic complexes containing direct metal–metal bonds occupy an important position in many aspects of coordination chemistry and catalysis. The reactivi

Martyn Coles @Coles_lab Jul 6

Heterobimetallic aluminium/group 4 complexes derived from single-electron processes initiated by an aluminyl anion

Things don't always go according to plan... A very challenging study now published in Dalton Trans.

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pubs.rsc.org Heterobimetallic aluminium/group 4 complexes derived from single-electron processes initiated by an... The reactivity of sodium and potassium aluminyls with group 4 metallocene dichloride compounds is described. The potassium aluminyl K[Al(NON)] reacts with

Martyn Coles @Coles_lab Aug 12, 2025

The aluminyl anion performing as a reducing agent...

Reductive Deamination of a Diaminogermylene Promoted by an Aluminyl Anion: Isolation of Ge(I), Ge(0) and Ge(‐I) Products - Angewandte Chemie International Edition (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com Reductive Deamination of a Diaminogermylene Promoted by an Aluminyl Anion: Isolation of Ge(I),... The potassium aluminyl K[Al(NON)] reacts with Ge[N(SiMe3)2]2 by a sequential reductive deamination pathway. The initially formed aluminacyclodigermene contains Ge(I) centres and may be considered as...

Martyn Coles @Coles_lab Jul 21, 2025

C–C Bond Formation at an Aluminacyclopropane | Organometallics (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…).
Published as part of the Organometallics special issue “Organometallic Chemistry Beyond the Transition Metals: Fundamentals and Applications of the P-Block”.

pubs.acs.org C–C Bond Formation at an Aluminacyclopropane Abstract. The reactivity of the aluminacyclopropane compound K[Al(NON)(η2-C2H4)] (NON = κN,N’-[O(SiMe2NDipp)2]2–; Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H3) toward isocyanid

Martyn Coles @Coles_lab Feb 12, 2025

Our first report of our [Ga(NON)] anion - not quite the same as the aluminyl...
Started by Matt (@EvansInorganic ) and studied in detail by Andrea (@oreilinorganic)

Ken Lo @bhkenlo Feb 12, 2025

Reductive Coupling of Ketones: Contrasting the Reactivity of an Aluminyl and a Gallyl Anion | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Fulton, Coles and co-workers @InorgChem #gallyl #aluminyl #CDP #reductive_coupling #ketones

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