Dr Jamie Hicks
Areas of expertise
- Inorganic Chemistry 0302
- Organometallic Chemistry 039904
- Transition Metal Chemistry 030207
- Main Group Metal Chemistry 030204
Biography
Jamie Hicks obtained his Ph.D. from Monash University, Melbourne (2012-2015) under the supervision of Prof. Cameron Jones. He worked on the synthesis and reactivity of low-coordinate, low-oxidation state transition metal complexes for which he won a number of awards, including the Springer Thesis prize (2016) and the 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize. He then undertook a postdoctoral position at the same institution under the joint supervision of Prof. Stuart Batten and Dr. David Turner (2015-2016), working on the incorporation of amines into porous coordination polymers. Jamie then moved to the UK to undertake his second postdoctoral appointment at the University of Oxford (2016-2019), under the joint supervision of Profs Jose Goicoechea and Simon Aldridge, working on the synthesis and reactivity of nucleophilic aluminium complexes. Jamie has recently returned to Australia as a DECRA Fellow; his current work involves the synthesis of highly reactive heterobimetallic complexes for N2 activation.
Publications
- Hicks, J, Vasko, P, Goicoechea, J et al 2018, 'Synthesis, structure and reaction chemistry of a nucleophilic aluminyl anion', Nature, vol. 557, pp. 92-95.
- Hicks, J, Mansikkamäki, A, Vasko, P et al. 2019, 'A nucleophilic gold complex', Nature Chemistry, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 237-241.
- Hicks, J, Vasko, P, Goicoechea, J et al. 2019, 'Reversible, Room-Temperature C-C Bond Activation of Benzene by an Isolable Metal Complex', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 141, no. 28, pp. 11000-11003.
- Hicks, J, Juckel, M, Paparo, A et al 2018, 'Multigram Syntheses of Magnesium(I) Compounds Using Alkali Metal Halide Supported Alkali Metals as Dispersible Reducing Agents', Organometallics, vol. 37, no. 24, pp. 4810-4813.
Projects and Grants
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- Earth Abundant Metal Complexes for Nitrogen Activation (Primary Investigator)
- Terminal Anionic Magnesium and Calcium Hydride Complexes: Turning Environmental Pollutants into Fine Chemicals (Primary Investigator)
- Heterometallic Iron-Molybdenum Complexes for Nitrogen Activation (Primary Investigator)