Professor Michael North

Professor of Organic Chemistry and joint director of the URC in Catalysis and Intensified Processing

 

Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerisation (ROMP) of Norbornene Derivatives

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1.     M.P. Coles, V.C. Gibson, L. Mazzariol, M. North, W.G. Teasdale, C.M. Williams, and D. Zamuner; 'Amino Acid derived Homochiral Polymers via Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerisation', J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 2505-2506.

 

2.     S.C.G. Biagini, S.M. Bush, V.C. Gibson, L. Mazzariol, M. North, W.G. Teasdale, C.M. Williams, G. Zagotto, and D. Zamuner; 'The Synthesis of N-Norbornenyl-Amino Acids: Monomers for the Preparation of Well Defined Polymers', Tetrahedron, 1995, 51, 7247-7262.

 

3.     M. North, M.B. Hursthouse, and K.M.A. Malik; 'Dimethyl N,N-(Endo-himmoyl)-(R,R)-cysteine', Acta. Crystallographica Section C, 1997, 1701-1703.

 

4.     V.C. Gibson, E.L. Marshall, M. North, D.A. Robson, and P.J. Williams; 'Thymine functionalised polymers via living ring-opening metathesis polymerisation', Chem. Commun., 1997, 1095-1096.

 

5.     S.C.G. Biagini, V.C. Gibson, M.R. Giles, E.L. Marshall, and M. North; 'Synthesis of penicillin derived polymers utilising ring-opening metathesis polymerisation methodology', Chem. Commun., 1997, 1097-1098.

 

6.     S.C.G. Biagini, V.C. Gibson, M.R. Giles, E.L. Marshall, M. North, D.A. Robson, and P.J. Williams; 'Highly Functionalised Polymers via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerisation', Polymer Preprints, Japan (Engl. Ed.), 1997, 46, 619.

 

7.     S.C.G. Biagini, V.C. Gibson, E.L. Marshall, M. North, and P. Williams; 'The Synthesis and ROMP of Heterocyclic Monomers', ECHET96, http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ectoc/echet96/papers/115/index.htm. Published on CD-ROM by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1997.

 

8.     S.C.G. Biagini, M.P. Coles, V.C. Gibson, M.R. Giles, E.L. Marshall, and M. North; 'Living ring-opening metathesis polymerisation of amino ester functionalised norbornenes', Polymer, 1998, 39, 1007-1013.

 

9.     S.C.G. Biagini, R.G. Davies, V.C. Gibson, M.R. Giles, E.L. Marshall, M. North, and D.A. Robson; ‘The Synthesis and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Peptide Functionalized Norbornenes’, Chem. Commun., 1999, 235-236.

 

10. R.G. Davies, V.C. Gibson, M. North, and D.A. Robson; ‘Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization of 2,3-Diazanorborn-5-ene Derivatives’, Polymer Commun., 1999, 40, 5239-5241.

 

11. D.A. Robson, V.C. Gibson, R.G. Davies, and M. North; 'A New and Highly Efficient Grubbs Initiator for Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerisation', Macromolecules, 1999, 32, 6371-6373.

 

12. S.C.G. Biagini, R.G. Davies, V.C. Gibson, M.R. Giles, E.L. Marshall, and M. North; ‘Ruthenium Initiated Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerisation of Amino-Acid and –Ester Functionalised Norbornenes and a Highly selective Chain-End Functionalisation Reaction Using Molecular Oxygen’ Polymer Commun., 2001, 42, 6669-6671.

 

13. R.G. Davies, V.C. Gibson, M.B. Hursthouse, M.E. Light, E.L. Marshall, M. North, D.A. Robson, I. Thompson, A.J.P. White, D.J. Williams and P.J. Williams; ‘Synthesis of Nucleic-Acid Base containing Norbornene derivatives as Monomers for Ring-Opening-Metathesis-Polymerization’ J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 1, 2001, 3365-3381.

 

14. S.C.G. Biagini, V.C. Gibson, M.R. Giles, E.L. Marshall and M. North; ‘Copolymerization of Amino-Acid and Amino-Ester Functionalized Norbornenes via Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization’ J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem. 2008, 46, 7985-7995.

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