Rate My Professor Adrian Chaplin

Chaplin's research focuses on the synthetic and physical organometallic chemistry of late transition metal complexes for small molecule activation and catalysis. His interests encompass the activation of alkanes and nitrous oxide, supramolecular-inspired encapsulating and interlocking ligands, low-coordination number complexes, late transition metals in unusual oxidation states, and pincer ligand applications. Key publications include "Copper(I) Catalysed Diboron(4) Reduction of Nitrous Oxide" (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024), "Stability and C–H Bond Activation Reactions of Palladium(I) and Platinum(I) Metalloradicals" (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023), "A Resorcin[4]arene-Based Phosphite-Phosphine Ligand for the Branched-Selective Hydroformylation of Alkyl Alkenes" (ACS Catal., 2024), "Oxidative addition of a mechanically entrapped C(sp)–C(sp) bond to a rhodium(I) pincer complex" (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020), and "Rhodium(I) Pincer Complexes of Nitrous Oxide" (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019). He has received the Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2011), ERC Starting Grant (2014), RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2015), and RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize (2023), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.