Duncan F. Wass

High activity ethylene trimerisation catalysts based on diphosphine ligandsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: experimental details for catalyst screening runs, together with a typical gas uptake profile. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b2/b201335e/

Anthea Carter, Steven A. Cohen, Neil A. Cooley et al. · Chemical Communications · 2002 · 316 citations

Engineering, Catalyst Screening Runs, Chemistry +16

Frustrated Lewis Pairs beyond the Main Group: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Small Molecule Activation with Cationic Zirconocene–Phosphinoaryloxide Complexes

Andy M. Chapman, M.F. Haddow, Duncan F. Wass · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2011 · 247 citations

Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Inorganic Synthesis +15

Chromium-catalysed ethene trimerisation and tetramerisation—breaking the rules in olefin oligomerisation

Duncan F. Wass · Dalton Transactions · 2007 · 222 citations

Chemical Engineering, Cross-coupling Reaction, Engineering +10

Catalytic Conversion of Ethanol into an Advanced Biofuel: Unprecedented Selectivity for <i>n</i>‐Butanol

George Dowson, M.F. Haddow, Jason Lee et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2013 · 214 citations

Engineering, Bioenergy, Energy Conversion +18

Frustrated Lewis Pairs beyond the Main Group: Cationic Zirconocene–Phosphinoaryloxide Complexes and Their Application in Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Amine Boranes

Andy M. Chapman, M.F. Haddow, Duncan F. Wass · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2011 · 210 citations

Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Amine Borane Dehydrogenation +13