Selected Publications

Books:

Recent Journal Articles:

• Pearce, K.G.; Canham, E.P.F.; Nixon, J.F.; Crossley, I.R.
  Chem. Eur. J., 2021, in press
  

  "A Diphosphaborolediide"

• J.F. Nixon, L. Nyulaszi and D. Szieberth
  Heteroatom Chem. 2015, 26, 307-312
  

  "Remarkable Differences in Amine Substitution Reactions of Trichloromethyl and Trifluoromethyl Difluorophosphines, CX₃PF₂ (X = F, Cl): A Computational Study"

• N. Tsoureas, A. F. R. Kilpatrick, J. F. Nixon, O.T.Summerscales, F. G. N. Cloke and P. B. Hitchcock
  Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2013, 716, 4085
  

  “First example of a two-electron reduction of a phospha-alkyne. Synthesis and structural characterisation of the Di-Uranium (IV) pentalene complex  [{U(η⁵-C₅Me₅)(η⁸-C₈H₄(SiⁱPr₃-1,4)₂)}₂-η-^tBuCP]”

• K. Harikrishna Reddy, D. Usharani, J. F. Nixon, and E. D. Jemmis
  Chem Eur. J., 2012, 17,  9142
  “Structure and Bonding in Stannadiphospholes and their dianions [SnC₂P₂R₂]_m (R= H, ^tBu m=0, -2): A comparative study with C₅H₅⁺and C₅H₅- analogues”

• S. Deng, C. Schwarzmaier, M. Zabel, J. F. Nixon, M. Bodensteiner, E. V. Peresypkina, G. Balazs and M. Scheer
  Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2011, 2991
  "Remarkable differences in the coordination chemistry of structurally related 1,2,4-triphosphaferrocenes with copper (I) halides and silver(I) salts"
• C. W. Tate, P. B. Hitchcock, G. A. Lawless, L. Nyulaszi, Z. Benko and J. F. Nixon
  C. R. Chem., 2010, 18, 1082
  ‘‘Structural and bonding aspects of molybdenum tricarbonyl complexes of 1,3,5-tritertiarybutyl-2,4,6-triphosphabenzene, P₃C₃Bu^t₃ and some λ^3, λ^3,, λ^5, -  and λ^3,, λ^5, λ^5,, -alkylated derivatives"
• S. B. Clendenning P. B. Hitchcock, G. A. Lawless, J. F. Nixon and C. W. Tate
  J. Organomet. Chem., 2010, 695, 717
  "Differences in ligating behaviour of 2,4,6-tritertiarybutyl-phosphabenzene and 2,3,4-tritertiarybuyl -1,3,5-triphosphabenzene"
• A. Schindler, M. Zabel, J. F. Nixon and M. Scheer
  Z. Naturfosch. Tiel B, 2009, 64, 1429
  “Hexaphosphaferrocene, [Fe(η⁵-P₃C₂Bu^t₂)₂] , as a connecting moiety in  oligomeric and polymeric compounds”
  
  
• M. M. Al-Ktaifani, M. P. Coles, I. R. Crossley, L. J. Evans, P. B. Hitchcock, G. A. Lawless, J. F. Nixon
  J. Organomet. Chem., 2009, 694, 4223
  "Opening “JAWS”.  Functionalisation of the Hexaphosphapentaprismane cage, P₆C₄^tBu₄, affording X₂P₆C₄^tBu₄, (X = Me, I). Crystal and molecular structures of X₂P₆C₄^tBu₄ (X = Me, I) and [cis-PtCl₂Me₂P₆C₄^tBu₄]."
  
  
• D. Usha Rani, A. Poduska, J. F. Nixon, and E. D. Jemmiis
  

  Chem. Eur. J., 2009, 15, 8429
  "Electronic Structure and Bonding in Neutral and Dianionic Boradiphospholes: R'BC₂P₂R₂ (R= H, Bu^t, R'=H, Ph)"

• M. M. Al-Ktaifani,  P. B. Hitchcock and J.  F. Nixon
  J. Mol. Struct., 2009, 922, 109
  ‘Aluminium triiodide induced complexation and structural rearrangement of the hexaphospha-pentaprismane cage, P₆C₄^tBu₄"

• Deng, C.  Schwarzmaier, M. Zabel, J. F. Nixon, Al.Y. Timoshkin and M. Scheer
  Organometallics, 2009, 28, 1075
  "Coordination Behaviour of the 1, 2, 3 –triphosphaferrocene [CpFe(η ⁵-P₃C₂(H)Ph)] with organometallic moieties"

• N. M. West, P. S. White, J.L. Templeton and J. F. Nixon
  Organometallics, 2009,  28, 1425
  "Cycloaddition reactions of terminal alkynes and phosphaalkynes with an isolable five-coordinate β-Diiminate Pt(IV) Dihydrosilyl Complex"

• F.G.N. Cloke, J. C. Green, P. B. Hitchcock, J. F. Nixon, J. L. Suter and D. J.Wilson
  Dalton Trans., 2009, 1164
  "Syntheses, Structural studies and Density Functional Theory calculations of the "pseudo" tetraphospha-metallocenes  [M(η -P₂C₃Bu^t₃)₂], (M= Ni, Pd, Pt)"

• S.Deng,  C. Schwarzmaier, U.Vogel, M. Zabel, J. F. Nixon and M. Scheer
  Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 4870
  "Unexpected differences in the coordination behaviour of 1,2,4-triphosphaferrocenes towards Cu(I) chloride"

• Y. Zhang, F.S. Tham, J. F. Nixon, C. Taylor, J.C Green and C.A. Reed
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47,  3801
  "The low Basicity of Phosphabenzenes: First examples of Protonation, Alkylation and Silylation reactions"

• M. M. Al-Ktaifani, P. B. Hitchcock, M. F. Lappert, J. F. Nixon and P. Uiterweerd
  Dalton Trans., 2008, 2825
  "Specific insertion reactions of a germylene, stannylene and plumbylene into the unique P-P bond of the hexaphospha-pentaprismane cage, P₆C₄^tBu₄: Crystal and Molecular structures of P₆C₄^tBu₄ER₂ (E = Ge, Sn, R = N(SiMe₃)₂; E = Pb, R = (C₆H₃(NMe₂)₂)"

• G. K. B. Clentsmith, F. G. N. Cloke, M.D. Francis, J.R. Hanks, P. B. Hitchcock and  J. F. Nixon
  J. Organomet. Chem., 2008, 693, 2287
  "Synthesis and structural characterisation of lanthanide and actinide complexesderived from the 3,5-di-tert-butyl-1, 2, 4-triphospholyl ring anion, P₃C₂Bu^t-. Crystal and molecular structures of  [M(η⁵-P₃C₂Bu^t₂)₂(η²-P₃C₂Bu^t₂)] (M = Sc, Y, Tm, and U)"

• M. M. Al-Ktaifani, P. B. Hitchcock and J. F. Nixon
  Dalton Trans., 2008, 1132
  "Facile insertion and halogen migration reactions of the hexaphosphapentaprismane cage, P₆C₄^tBu₄ , with zerovalent and divalent platinum complexes"

• M. M. Al-Ktaifani, P. B. Hitchcock and J. F. Nixon
  J. Organomet. Chem., 2008, 693, 725
  "Protonation of the lithio derivatives of the 1, 2, 4-tri-phosphaferrocenes, [LiFe(η⁴- P₂C₂^tBu₂PBu)(η⁵-C₅R₅)], (R = H, Me). Crystal and molecular structure of [Fe(η⁴-P₃C₂^tBu₂BuH)(η⁵-(C₅Me₅)]"

• M. M. Al-Ktaifani, PB. Hitchcock and J. F. Nixon
  J. Organomet. Chem., 2008, 693, 611
  "Lithiation and alkylation reactions of the tri-phosphaferrocenes, [Fe(η⁵-P₃C₂^tBu₂)(η⁵-C₅R₅)], (R = H and Me): Crystal and molecular structures of the LiFe(η⁴-P₂C₂^tBu₂PⁿBu)(η⁵-C₅Me₅)₂ dimer, [Fe(η⁴-P₂C₂^tBu₂PⁿBuMe)(η⁵-C₅Me₅)] and cis-[PtCl₂(PMe₃)Fe(η⁴-P₂C₂^tBu₂PⁿBuMe)(η⁵-C₅H₅)]"

• M.D. Francis, P.B. Hitchcock, J. F. Nixon and L. Nyulászi
  Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2008, 1735
  "Reactivity of [M(η⁴-P₂C₂^tBu₂)], (M = Ge, Sn), with tert-butylphosphaethyne, P≡C^tBu.  Synthesis, structural characterisation and computational studies of the novel zwitterionic organophosphorus cage compounds [MP₄C₄^tBu₄] (M = Ge, Sn)"