Professor Stanley Bruce Wild
BSc (UNSW) PhD (Manchester) FAA
Emeritus Professor
ANU College of Science
T:
02 6248 7035
Areas of expertise
- Main Group Metal Chemistry 030204
- Structural Chemistry And Spectroscopy 030606
- Organic Chemical Synthesis 030503
- Non Metal Chemistry 030205
- Chemical Characterisation Of Materials 030301
- Biologically Active Molecules 030401
- Transition Metal Chemistry 030207
- Organometallic Chemistry 039904
Publications
- Crowley, J, Jackson, W & Wild, S 2016, 'Professor Brice Bosnich, FRS (1936–2015)', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 2016, pp. 485-488.
- Wielandt, J, Petrie, S, Kilah, N et al 2016, 'Self-Assembly of Square-Planar Halide Complexes of Trimethylphosphine-Stabilized Diphenyl-Arsenium,-Stibenium, and-Bismuthenium Hexafluorophosphates', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 524-532.
- Lu, D, Sundaram, A, Coote, M et al 2015, 'Sulfur Derivatives of the Natural Polyarsenical Arsenicin A: Biologically Active, Organometallic Arsenic−Sulfur Cages Related to the Minerals Realgar and Uzonite', Organometallics, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 829-840.
- Kilah, N & Wild, S 2012, 'Phosphine complexes of an enantiomerically pure, atropisomeric arsenium ion', Organometallics, vol. 31, pp. 2658-2666.
- Lu, D, Coote, M, Ho, J et al 2012, 'Resolution and improved synthesis of (±)-arsenicin A: a natural adamantane-type tetraarsenical possessing strong anti-acute promelocytic leukemia cell line activity', Organometallics, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1808-1816.
- Sundaram, A, Coote, M, Lu, D et al. 2011, 'Origin of the unusual ultraviolet absorption of arsenicin A', Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 115, no. 17, pp. 4530-4534.
- Lu, D, Rae, A, Salem, G et al. 2010, 'Arsenicin A, A Natural Polyarsenical: Synthesis and Crystal Structure', Organometallics, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 32-33.
- Coote, M, Namazian, M & Wild, S 2010, 'A computational study of the radical ring-opening polymerization of diphosphetanes', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 1189-1194.
- Weir, M, Cade, I, Kilah, N et al. 2009, 'Asymmetric Synthesis of Bis(tertiary arsines): Highly Stereoselective Alkylations of Diastereomers of a Chiral Phosphine-Stabilized Bis(arsenium triflate)', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 48, no. 15, pp. 7482-7490.
- Kilah, N & Wild, S 2009, 'Product Class 13: Triakylphosphine Oxides, Sulfides, Selenides, Tellurides, and Imides', in F. Mathey (ed.), Organophosphorus Compounds (inl. RO-P and RN-P): Series: Science of synthesis: Houben-Weyl methods of molecular transformations. Category 5, Compounds with one saturated carbon-heteroatom bond, Georg Thieme Verlag, New York, pp. 595-632.
- Kilah, N, Weir, M & Wild, S 2008, 'Tertiary arsine-stabilised arsenium salts: syntheses and comparisons with phosphine analogues', Dalton Transactions, no. 18, pp. 2480-2486.
- Coote, M, Krenske, E, Maulana, I et al. 2008, 'Reactivity of phosphiranes toward nucleophiles: Theoretical and experimental investigations', Heteroatom Chemistry, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 178-181.
- Byrne, L, Hondow, N, Koutsantonis, G et al 2008, 'Carbonyl substitution chemistry of some trimetallic transition metal cluster complexes with polyfunctional ligands', Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 693, no. 10, pp. 1738-1750.
- Coote, M, Krenske, E, Porter, K et al 2008, 'Asymmetric Synthesis of a Tertiary Arsine by Nucleophilic Addition to a Chiral Phosphine-Stabilized Arsenium Salt', Organometallics, vol. 27, no. 19, pp. 5099-5107.
- Gugger, P, Hockless, D, Kilah, N et al 2008, 'Resolution of (±)-nipecotic acid ((±)-3-piperidinecarboxylic acid) by separation of palladium(II) diastereomers containing orthometallated (S)-(–)-1-[1-(dimethylamino)ethyl]naphthalene', Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 19, no. 15, pp. 1810-1812.
- Warr, R, Willis, A & Wild, S 2008, 'Inorganic Asymmetric Synthesis: Diastereoselective Syntheses of Mono- and Dinuclear Complexes Containing Octahedral, Two-Bladed Propeller, Bis(pyridine-2-aldehyde 2'-pyridylhydrazone)iron(II) Stereocenters', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 47, no. 20, pp. 9351-9362.
- Coote, M, Hodgson, J, Krenske, E et al. 2007, 'Anionic ring-opening polymerization of small phosphorus heterocycles and their borane adducts: an ab initio investigation', Heteroatom Chemistry, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 118-128.
- Coote, M, Hodgson, J, Krenske, E et al. 2007, 'Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization of Phosphorus Heterocylces: Computational Design of Suitable Phosphetane Monomers', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 744-753.
- Ford, J, Gugger, P, Wild, S et al. 2007, 'Phenylphosphonate Transport by Helicobacter pylori', Helicobacter (Oxford), vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 609-615.
- Kilah, N, Petrie, S, Stranger, R et al 2007, 'Triphenylphosphine-Stabilized Diphenyl-Arsenium, -Stibenium, and -Bismuthenium Salts', Organometallics, vol. 26, no. 25, pp. 6106-6113.
- Kitto, H, Rae, A, Webster, R et al 2007, 'Synthesis, Structure, and Electrochemistry of Di- and Zerovalent Nickel, Palladium, and Platinum Monomers and Dimers Derived from an Enantiopure (S,S)-Tetra(Tertiary Phosphine)', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 19, pp. 8059-8070.
- Petrie, S, Stranger, R, Rae, A et al. 2006, 'Tertiary Arsine Adducts of Iodoarsines: A Structural and Theoretical Investigation', Organometallics, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 164-171.
- Warr, R, Willis, A & Wild, S 2006, 'Inorganic asymmetric synthesis: asymmetric synthesis of a two-bladed propeller, octahedral metal complex', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 21, pp. 8618-8627.
- Wolf, R, Finger, M, Limburg, C et al. 2006, 'Reactivity of cyclooligophosphanes: synthesis and structural characterisation of cyclo-1,4-(BH3)2(P4Ph4CH2) and cyclo-1,2-(BH3)2(P5Ph5)', Dalton Transactions, vol. 2006, no. 6, pp. 831-837.
- Wielandt, J, Kilah, N, Willis, A et al. 2006, 'Self-assembly of square-planar halide complexes of phosphine-stabilised stibenium salts', Chemical Communications, vol. 2006/35, pp. 3679-3680.
- Habermehl, N, Angus, P, Kilah, N et al 2006, 'Asymmetric Transformation of a Double-Stranded, Dicopper(I) Helicate Containing Achiral Bis(bidentate) Schiff Bases', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 1445-1462.
- Swiegers, G & Wild, S 2005, 'Temperature-dependent cooperative coiling of helical conformers of enantiopure oligo(tertiary phosphines)', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 58, no. 12, pp. 831-833.
- Brasch, N, Hamilton, I, Krenske, E et al 2004, Pi-Ligand exchange on phosphenium ions: reversible exchange between free and coordinated alkynes in phosphirenium salts', Organometallics, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 299-302.
- Kitto, H, Rae, A, Willis, A et al 2004, 'Synthesis and structure of the helicate (M)-(�)-[Pt2{(R,R)-tetraphos}2](CF3SO3)4.4.5H2O', Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung Section B, vol. 59b, no. 11 & 12, pp. 1458-1461.
- Delfs, C, Kitto, H, Stranger, R et al. 2003, 'Photoluminescence properties of four-coordinate gold(I)-phosphine complexes of the types [Au(diphos)2]PF6 and [Au2(tetraphos)2](PF6)2', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 14, pp. 4469-4478.
- Blake, C, Cook, V, Keniry, M et al 2003, 'Diastereoselectivity and molecular recognition in the self-assembly of double-stranded dinuclear metal complexes of the type {M2{(R,S)-tetraphos}2] (PF6)2 (M = Ag and Au)', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 26, pp. 8709-8715.
- Baldwin, D, Bowden, B, Duckworth, P et al. 2002, 'New macrocyclic ligands. XIV. Synthesis and X-ray structures of potentially pentadentate ligands incorporating non-symmetrically arranged N4S-, N3OS-, N2O2S- and N2S2O-heteroatoms.', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 55, no. -, pp. 597-603.
- Bowyer, P, Cook, V, Gharib-Naseri, N et al. 2002, 'Configurationally homogeneous diastereomers of a linear hexa(tertiary phosphine): Enantioselective self-assembly of a double-stranded parallel helicate of the type (P)-[Cu3(hexaphos)2](PF6)3', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 99, no. 8, pp. 4877-4882.
- Porter, K, Willis, A, Zank, J et al. 2002, 'Phosphine-stabilised arsenium salts: Water-stable, labile, coordination complexes.', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 41, no. -, pp. 6380-6386.
- Gugger, P, Willis, A, Wild, S et al. 2002, 'Enantioselective synthesis of a conformationally rigid, sterically encumbered, 2-arsino-7-phosphanorbornene.', Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 643-644, no. -, pp. 136-153.
- Nelson, J, Ghebreyessus, K, Cook, V et al. 2002, 'Synthesis and characterization of [(η6-arene)RuCl2(R2AsCH=CH2)] and tethered arsinopropylarene�ruthenium(II) complexes.', Organometallics, vol. 21, no. -, pp. 1727-1733.
- Cook, V, Willis, A, Zank, J et al 2002, 'Synthesis and resolution of (R,R)-(�)-1,1,4,7,10,10-hexaphenyl-1,10-diarsa-4,7-diphosphadecane: New ligand for the stereoselective self-assembly of dicopper(I), disilver(I), and digold(I) helicates', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 41, no. -, pp. 1897-1906.
- Pabel, M & Wild, S 2001, 'Macro- and spiro-heterocycles', in Francois Mathey (ed.), Phosphorus-Carbon Heterocyclic Chemistry: The Rise of a New Domain, Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK, pp. 631-669.
- Dogan, J, Schulte, J, Swiegers, G et al. 2000, 'Mechanism of Phosphorus-Carbon Bond Cleavage by Lithium in Tertiary Phosphines. An Optimized Synthesis of 1,2-Bis(phenylphosphino)ethane', Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 65, pp. 951-957.
- Solling, T, Wild, S & Radom, L 2000, 'Formation of three-membered phosphorus heterocycles via ligand-exchange reactions in mono-adducts of the phosphenium ion: an ab initio investigation', International Journal of Mass Spectrometry.
- Jee, B, Zank, J, Dance, I et al 2000, 'The crystal packing and engineering prospects of Hellwinkel's salt: [P(2,2-biphenylyl)2]+[P(2,2-biphenylyl)3]-', CrystEngComm, vol. 35, pp. 1-5.
- Solling, T, Wild, S & Radom, L 1999, 'Exchange and insertion reactions involving borane adducts of phosphirane and phosphirene: a G2(MP2) ab initio investigation', Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 580, pp. 320-327.
- Airey, A, Bowyer, P, Cook, V et al 1999, 'Self-assembly of di- and tri-nuclear metal helicates containing homochiral poly(tertiary phosphines) and related compounds', Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements, vol. 144-146, pp. 285-288.
- Solling, T, Wild, S & Radom, L 1999, 'A G2 ab initio investigation of ligand-exchange reactions involving mono- and bis-adducts of the phosphenium ion', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 38, pp. 6049-6054.
- Solling, T, Wild, S & Radom, L 1999, 'Are pi-ligand exchange reactions of thiirenium and thiiranium ions feasible? An ab initio investigation', Chemistry, A European Journal, vol. 5, pp. 509-514.
