Phil Andrews Research Group

Jonathan MacLellan Post-doctoral fellow Commenced: 26th April, 2006 Phone: +61 3 9905 5511 Fax: +61 3 9905 4597 Jonathan.Maclellan@sci.monash.edu.au

Educational qualifications

• 2003: Ph.D. in Organometallic Chemistry, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) Supervisor, Professor Robert E. Mulvey. Thesis: ‘Structural Insights into Superbase Chemistry and Related Inverse Crown Base Systems.’
• 2003: Research Assistant – University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland).
• 1999: B.Sc. Honours in Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland).

Research Areas

• Synthesis and Structure of Group I organometallics
• Structural Investigations of Superbases
• Inverse Crown Chemistry
• Group II Organometallics.

Selected Publications

• Synthesis of the mixed lithium-magnesium, mixed amide [(R,R/S,S)-{(TMP)2[Me3SiNSi(Me2)CH2]2Li2Mg2}] a conformationally-locked structure of five fused rings inducing two stereogenic nitrogen centres. Lorna Barr, Alan R. Kennedy, Jonathan G. MacLellan, Jennifer H. Moir, Robert E. Mulvey, Philip J. A. Rodger; Chem. Commun., (2000), 1757.
• A new approach to lithium-heavier alkali metal interchange reactions: synthesis of a tetralithium pentasodium mixed alkoxide-amide dome-shaped cage compound with an encapsulated hydroxide molecule. Alan R. Kennedy, Jonathan G. MacLellan, Robert E. Mulvey, Alan Robertson; J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans.; (2000), 4112.
• Landmark crystal structure of an experimentally utilized tetralithium-tetrapotassium amide-alkoxide superbase. Alan R. Kennedy, Jonathan G. MacLellan, Robert E. Mulvey; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 40, (2001), 3245.
• New homo- and hetero-alkali metal alkoxide cages; crystal structures of [{Me2NCH2CH2OLi}8] and [{Me2NCH2CH2O}12Li8K6(O)}]. Philip C. Andrews, Jonathan G. MacLellan, Robert E. Mulvey, P. J. Nichols; J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., (2002), 1651.
• A new Na/Mg inverse crown ether. Alan R. Kennedy, Jonathan G. MacLellan, Robert E. Mulvey; Acta Cryst., Sect. C, (2003), M302.