Dr Kieren Evans
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Profile

Biography

• University of York - MChem (2011-2015)
• Heriot-Watt University - PhD (2016-2020)
• Cardiff University - Post Doctoral Research Associate (2021-2022) 

Research

Overview

Kieren’s research has focused on the areas of catalysis and inorganic chemistry. His current research aims to use hyperpolarisation to enable the enhancement of less common nuclei in the monitoring of reaction intermediates. 

Publications

Selected publications

K. J. Evans, P. A. Morton, C. Luz, C. Miller, O. Raine, J. M. Lynam, and S. M. Mansell, Rhodium Indenyl NHC and Fluorenyl-Tethered NHC Half-Sandwich Complexes: Synthesis, Structures and Applications in the Catalytic C−H Borylation of Arenes and Alkanes, Chem. Eur. J., 2021, 27, 17824-17833. DOI: 10.1002/chem.202102961

K. J. Evans, P. A. Morton, C. Sangster, and S. M. Mansell, One-step synthesis of heteroleptic rare-earth amide complexes featuring fluorenyl-tethered N-heterocyclic
carbene ligands, Polyhedron, 2021, 197, 115021. DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2021.115021 

T. Bischof, K. J. Evans, M. F. Haddow and S. M. Mansell, An indenide-tethered N-heterocyclic stannylene, Acta Crystallogr., Sect. E: Crystallogr. Commun., 2020, E76, 254-256. DOI:10.1107/S205698902000047X

K. J. Evans, and S. M. Mansell, Functionalised N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands in Bimetallic Architectures, Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 5927-5941.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201905510

K. J. Evans, C. L. Campbell, M. F. Haddow, C. Luz, P. A. Morton, and S. M. Mansell, Lithium Complexes with Bridging and Terminal NHC Ligands: The Decisive Influence of an Anionic Tether, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2019, 4894-4901.
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201901003 

K. J. Evans and S. M. Mansell, Synergic Deprotonation Generates Alkali-Metal Salts of Tethered Fluorenide-NHC Ligands Co-Complexed to Alkali-Metal Amides, Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 3766-3769. DOI:10.1002/chem.201806278 

K. J. Evans, B. Potrykus, and S. M. Mansell, On the Reactivity of N-tert-Butyl-1,2 Diaminoethane: Synthesis of 1-tert-Butyl-2-Imidazoline, Formation of an Intramolecular Carbamate Salt from the Reaction with and Generation of a Hydroxyalkyl-Substituted Imidazolinium Salt, Heteroat. Chem., 2019, 1094173.
DOI: 10.1155/2019/1094173 

T. O. Ronson, M. J. Burns, M. H. H. Voelkel, K. J. Evans, J. M. Lynam, R. J. K. Taylor, and I. J. S. Fairlamb, Total Synthesis and Stereochemical Revision of Phacelocarpus 2-Pyrone A, Chem Eur. J., 2015, 21, 18905-18909. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201504089