Answering important biological and chemical questions

(Z)-4,4’-Stilbene dicarboxylic acid, the overlooked metal-organic framework linker

L. R. Hunter, J. D. Sellars, J. Karlsson, M. R. Probert, CrystEngComm, 2023, 25, 2353

DOI link: 10.1039/D3CE00138E

A reversible pressure-induced bond rearrangement of flexible lanthanide 2,5-bis(allyloxy)terephthalate coordination polymer networks

L. R. Hunter, J. D. Sellars, M. R. Probert, CrystEngComm, 2022, 24, 8208 DOI link: 10.1039/d2ce00499b

CrystEngComm Front Cover

DOI link https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CE90167F

Identification of Substituted Amino Acid Hydrazides as Novel Anti-Tubercular Agents, Using a Scaffold Hopping Approach

Alistair K. Brown, Ahmed K. B. Aljohani, Fatimah M. A. Alsalem, Joseph L. Broadhead, Jason H. Gill, Yucheng Lu and Jonathan D. Sellars, Molecules 2020, 25(10), 2387; DOI link: 10.3390/molecules25102387

A structural exploration of anisole accessed through extreme crystallisation conditions

Ellie Louvain Smith, Joe Ridout, Jonathan David Sellars and Michael Richard Probert, CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 4422-4426; DOI link: 10.1039/C9CE00870E

Identification of Novel Benzoxa-[2,1,3]-diazole Substituted Amino Acid Hydrazides as Potential Anti-Tubercular Agents

Alistair K. Brown, Ahmed K. B. Aljohani, Jason H. Gill, Patrick G. Steel and Jonathan D. Sellars, Molecules, 2019, 24(4), 811; DOI link: 10.3390/molecules24040811

Identification of Novel Benzoxa-[2,1,3]-diazole Substituted Amino Acid Hydrazides as Potential Anti-Tubercular Agents

Melissa Brazier-Hicks, Kathryn M Knight, Jonathan D Sellars, Patrick G Steel, Robert Edwards, Pest. Manag. Sci, 2018, 74: 828-836; DOI link: 10.1002/ps.4859

Rational development of novel activity probes for the analysis of human cytochromes P450

Jonathan D Sellars, Mark Skipsey, Sebastian Gravell, Hamza Abumansour, Ghasaq J Kashtl, Jawaria Irfan, Mohamed Khot, Klaus Pors, Laurence H Patterson, Chris W Sutton, ChemMedChem, 2016, 11(11): 1122-1128; DOI link: 10.1002/cmdc.201600134](http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.201600134)

The first intramolecular silene Diels–Alder reactions

Michal Czyzewski, Jonathan D. Sellars, Tamaz Guliashvili, Julius Tibbelin, Lisa Johnstone, Justin Bower, Matthew Box, Robert D. M. Davies, Henrik Ottosson and Patrick G. Steel, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 2919-2921; DOI link: 10.1039/C3CC49526D

The maize benzoxazinone DIMBOA reacts with glutathione and other thiols to form spirocyclic adducts

David P.Dixon, Jonathan D.Sellars, Alan M.Kenwright, Patrick G.Steel, Phytochemistry, 2012, 77, 171-178; DOI link: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.01.019

Transition metal-catalysed cross-coupling reactions of P-activated enols

Jonathan D Sellars, Patrick G. Steel, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, 40, 5170-5180; DOI link: 10.1039/C1CS15100B

Fluorescence quenched quinone methide based activity probes – a cautionary tale

Jonathan D. Sellars, Marie Landrum, Aileen Congreve, David P. Dixon, Jackie A. Mosely, Andrew Beeby, Robert Edwards and Patrick G. Steel, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 1610-1618; DOI link: 10.1039/B920443A

Application of silacyclic allylsilanes to the synthesis of β-hydroxy-δ-lactones: synthesis of Prelactone B

Jonathan D. Sellars, Patrick G. Steel, Tetrahedron, 2009, 65, 28, 5588-5595; DOI link: 10.1016/j.tet.2009.01.116

Advances in the Synthesis of Aryltetralin Lignan Lactones

Jonathan D. Sellars, Patrick G. Steel, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2007, 23, 3815-3828; DOI link: 10.1002/ejoc.200700097

Hosomi–Sakurai reactions of silacyclohexenes

Nicholas J. Hughes, Robert D. C. Pullin, Mahesh J. Sanganee, Jonathan D. Sellars, Patrick. G. Steel and Michael J. Turner, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2007, 5, 2841-2848; DOI link: 10.1039/B709318G

Silenes in organic synthesis: a concise synthesis of (±)-epi-picropodophyllin

Robert D. C. Pullin, Jonathan D. Sellars, Patrick G. Steel, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2007, 5, 3201-3206; DOI link: 10.1039/B710370K

Silenes in organic synthesis: a short synthesis of prelactone B

Jonathan D. Sellars, Patrick G. Steel, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2006, 4, 3223-3224; DOI link: 10.1039/B608989E

Hosomi–Sakurai reactions of silacyclic allyl silanes

Jonathan D. Sellars, Patrick G. Steel, Michael J. Turner, Chem. Commun., 2006, 2385-2387; DOI link: 10.1039/B602642G