Matthew Gyton
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Profile

Career

University of New South Wales, Ph.D (2015)

Warwick University, Research Fellow (2015-2020)

Research

Overview

Matt is a postdoctoral research associate jointly working with Prof. Andrew Weller on a Leverhulme trust funded research project. This project is examining fundamental reactivity of solid/gas chemistry at late transition metal complexes in well-defined single-crystal environments, with a focus on hyperpolarisation catalysis of simple gaseous substrates and how that can be applied to the synthesis of extremely reactive organometallic complexes with very weakly coordinating ligands.

Publications

Full publications list

• Storey, C. M.; Gyton, M. R.; Andrew, R. E.; Chaplin, A. B. Terminal Alkyne Coupling Reactions through a Ring: Mechanistic Insights and Regiochemical Switching. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57 (37), 12003–12006. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201807028.
• Cole, M. L.; Gyton, M. R.; Harper, J. B. Metal Complexes of an Ionic Liquid-Derived Carbene. Aust. J. Chem. 2011, 64 (8), 1133. DOI: 10.1071/CH11227.
• Emerson-King, J.; Knighton, R. C.; Gyton, M. R.; Chaplin, A. B. Rotaxane Synthesis Exploiting the M(I)/M(III) Redox Couple. Dalton Trans. 2017, 46 (35), 11645–11655. DOI: 10.1039/C7DT02648J.
• Gyton, M. R.; Leforestier, B.; Chaplin, A. B. Rhodium(III) and Iridium(III) Complexes of a NHC-Based Macrocycle: Persistent Weak Agostic Interactions and Reactions with Dihydrogen. Organometallics 2018, 37 (21), 3963–3971. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00595.
• Storey, C. M.; Kalpokas, A.; Gyton, M. R.; Krämer, T.; Chaplin, A. B. A Shape Changing Tandem Rh(CNC) Catalyst: Preparation of Bicyclo[4.2.0]Octa-1,5,7-Trienes from Terminal Aryl Alkynes. Chem. Sci. 2020, 11 (8), 2051–2057. DOI: 10.1039/C9SC06153C.
• Leforestier, B.; Gyton, M. R.; Chaplin, A. B. Oxidative Addition of a Mechanically Entrapped C(Sp)–C(Sp) Bond to a Rhodium(I) Pincer Complex. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202009546.
• Gyton, M. R.; Cole, M. L.; Harper, J. B. Ionic Liquid Effects on Mizoroki–Heck Reactions: More than Just Carbene Complex Formation. Chem. Commun. 2011, 47 (32), 9200. DOI: 10.1039/c1cc12082d.
• Furfari, S. K.; Gyton, M. R.; Twycross, D.; Cole, M. L. Air Stable NHCs: A Study of Stereoelectronics and Metallorganic Catalytic Activity. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51 (1), 74–76. DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06809B.
• Hood, T. M.; Gyton, M. R.; Chaplin, A. B. Synthesis and Rhodium Complexes of Macrocyclic PNP and PONOP Pincer Ligands. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49 (7), 2077–2086. DOI: 10.1039/C9DT04474D.
• Gyton, M. R.; Bhadbhade, M.; Cole, M. L. A Flexible, Extremely Sterically Demanding Triazenide Ligand: Synthesis and Coordination Chemistry. Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2019, 645 (11), 768–776. DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201900050.
• Gyton, M. R.; Leforestier, B.; Chaplin, A. B. Rhodium(I) Pincer Complexes of Nitrous Oxide. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58 (43), 15295–15298. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201908333.
• Leforestier, B.; Gyton, M. R.; Chaplin, A. B. Synthesis and Group 9 Complexes of Macrocyclic PCP and POCOP Pincer Ligands. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49 (7), 2087–2101. DOI: 10.1039/C9DT04835A.
• Gyton, M. R.; Hood, T. M.; Chaplin, A. B. A Convenient Method for the Generation of {Rh(PNP)} + and {Rh(PONOP)} + Fragments: Reversible Formation of Vinylidene Derivatives. Dalton Trans. 2019, 48 (9), 2877–2880. DOI: 10.1039/C8DT05049J.
• Gyton, M. R.; Leverett, A. R.; Cole, M. L.; McKay, A. I. Bulky Bis(Aryl)Triazenides: Just Aspiring Amidinates? A Structural and Spectroscopic Study. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49 (17), 5653–5661. DOI: 10.1039/D0DT00285B.
• Hood, T. M.; Leforestier, B.; Gyton, M. R.; Chaplin, A. B. Synthesis and Structural Dynamics of Five-Coordinate Rh(III) and Ir(III) PNP and PONOP Pincer Complexes. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58 (11), 7593–7601. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00957.
• Storey, C. M.; Gyton, M. R.; Andrew, R. E.; Chaplin, A. B. Terminal Alkyne Coupling Reactions Through a Ring: Effect of Ring Size on Rate and Regioselectivity. Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26 (64), 14715–14723. DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002962.
• Gyton, M. R.; Kynman, A. E.; Leforestier, B.; Gallo, A.; Lewandowski, J. R.; Chaplin, A. B. Isolation and Structural Characterisation of Rhodium(III) η 2-Fluoroarene Complexes: Experimental Verification of Predicted Regioselectivity. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49 (18), 5791–5793. DOI: 10.1039/D0DT01137A.