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Robert Less
Fellow

Dr Robert Less

Official Fellow; Official Fellow in Chemistry; Director of Studies

Contact
rjl1003@cam.ac.uk⁠
Website

Degrees & Honours:

  • MA (Cantab)
  • PhD (Cantab)

Research Interests:

  • Inorganic Chemistry

Biography:

Robert joined Murray Edwards in October 2017 as a Chemistry Teaching Fellow. His research interests have spanned many areas within the broad field of Inorganic Chemistry. He has a special interest in main-group chemistry and metallo-organic frameworks.

He completed his PhD in 1999 in the Department of Chemistry in Cambridge under the supervision of Dr. Jeremy Rawson, where he investigated the magnetic properties of sulfur-nitrogen heterocycles before undertaking postdoctoral research in the groups of Prof. Paul Raithby in Bath and Dr. Paul Lickiss and Dr. Rob Davies at Imperial College London.

He has been working at the Department of Chemistry in Cambridge in the group of Prof. Dominic Wright since 2006.

Authored work

  • A [HN(BH:NH)2]2- Dianion, Isoelectronic with a β-Diketiminate
    Less, Robert J.; Hanf, Schirin; Garcia-Rodriguez, Raul; Bond, Andrew D.; Wright, Dominic S.
    Organometallics (2017), Ahead of Print,
    DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00436

     

    Structural Studies of Perfluoroaryldiselenadiazolyl Radicals: Insights into Dithiadiazolyl Chemistry
    Melen, Rebecca L.; Less, Robert J.; Pask, Christopher M.; Rawson, Jeremy M.
    Inorganic Chemistry (2016), 55(22), 11747-11759.
    DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01771

     

    Synthesis and structure of the extended phosphazane ligand [(1,4-C6H4){N(μ-PNtBu)2NtBu}2]4-
    Sevilla, Raquel; Less, Robert J.; Garcia-Rodriguez, Raul; Bond, Andrew D.; Wright, Dominic S.
    Dalton Transactions (2016), 45(5), 1868-1871.
    DOI:10.1039/C5DT04393J

     

    Use of crown ethers to isolate intermediates in ammonia-borane dehydrocoupling reactions
    Less, Robert J.; Garcia-Rodriguez, Raul; Simmonds, Hayley R.; Allen, Lucy K.; Bond, Andrew D.; Wright, Dominic S.
    Chemical Communications (2016), 52(18), 3650-3652.
    DOI:10.1039/C6CC00088F

     

    Group 14 metal-metal bonds
    Less, Robert J.; Wright, Dominic S.
    Edited By: Liddle, Stephen T
    Molecular Metal-Metal Bonds (2015), 485-517.
    DOI:10.1002/9783527673353.ch14

     

    Multiple deprotonation of primary aromatic diamines by LiAlH4
    Less, Robert J.; Allen, Lucy K.; Steiner, Alexander; Wright, Dominic S.
    Dalton Transactions (2015), 44(9), 4141-4147.
    DOI:10.1039/C4DT03802A

     

    Direct access to [(Mes*P)2As]-, a 1,3-diphosphaarsa-2-allyl anion, isoelectronic with the allyl anion (Mes* = 2,4,6-tBu3C6H2)
    Dixon, Lily S. H.; Allen, Lucy K.; Less, Robert J.; Wright, Dominic S.
    Chemical Communications (2014), 50(23), 3007-3009.
    DOI:10.1039/c3cc49627a

     

    Reactivity and catalytic activity of tert-butoxy-aluminum hydride reagents
    Less, Robert J.; Simmonds, Hayley R.; Wright, Dominic S.
    Dalton Transactions (2014), 43(15), 5785-5792.
    DOI:10.1039/C4DT00152D

     

    Towards the Synthesis of Guanidinate- and Amidinate-Bridged Dimers of Mn and Ni
    Stokes, Francesca A.; Kloo, Lars; Harford, Philip J.; Peel, Andrew J.; Less, Robert J.; Wheatley, Andrew E. H.; Wright, Dominic S.
    Australian Journal of Chemistry (2014), 67(7), 1081-1087.
    DOI:10.1071/CH14271

Subject
Natural Sciences