Muldoon, Mark - Queen's University - School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

个人简介

Mark hails from Wishaw in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He obtained his BSc (1998) and PhD (2003) from Strathclyde University in Glasgow. His PhD studies (supervised by Drs Charles Gordon and Ian Dunkin) were physical‑organic in nature and focused on understanding the physiochemical properties and solvent effects of ionic liquids. Following his PhD, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Joan Brennecke (an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering) at the University of Notre Dame, USA. While at Notre Dame (2003-2005), he examined the thermodynamic and physiochemical properties of ionic liquids and ionic liquid / supercritical CO2 biphasic systems. From 2005-2007 he held a prestigious Ramsay Memorial Fellowship at the University of St Andrews, working with Professor David Cole-Hamilton. During this time he examined Rh catalysed hydroformylation of long chain olefins using continuous flow CO2 expanded solvents and ionic liquid/supercritical CO2 systems. In 2007 he was appointed as an RCUK Fellow / Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast. His research at QUB focuses on homogeneous catalysis and spans from fundamental research such as developing (and understanding) new catalysts to working with industrial partners on the development of sustainable processes.

研究领域

We are particularly interested in developing methods for carrying out selective oxidation reactions. Oxidation reactions are often key for the synthesis of many important chemicals (pharmaceuticals, agrichemicals, fragrances and materials), however many of the established methods for carrying out oxidation reactions result in large amounts of waste and rely on undesirable reagents. Such methods are impractical as well as unsustainable; therefore there is a dire need to develop effective catalysts that utilise molecular oxygen (O2) or hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as the terminal oxidant. We are interested the following areas: discovering new homogeneous (molecular) catalysts mechanistic studies to enable catalyst design developing new catalytic methodologies for organic synthesis addressing the problems of catalyst decomposition to improve catalyst performance (i.e. obtain high catalyst turnover numbers)

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Cationic Palladium(II) Complexes for Catalytic Wacker-Type Oxidation of Styrenes to Ketones using O2 as the Sole Oxidant Hongxin Chai, Qun Cao, Laura M. Dornan, N. Louise Hughes, Clare L. Brown, Peter Nockemann, Jiarong Li and Mark J. Muldoon*, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem, 2017, 5604. Link Recent Developments in Catalytic Alcohol Oxidation Using Nitroxl Radicals Laura M. Dornan, N. Louise Hughes and Mark J. Muldoon*, in Science of Synthesis: Catalytic Oxidation in Organic Synthesis, 2017, 1, 529. Link Mechanism of Catalytic Oxidation of Styrenes with Hydrogen Peroxide in the Presence of Cationic Palladium(II) Complexes Katherine L. Walker, Laura M. Dornan, Richard N. Zare, Robert M. Waymouth*, and Mark J. Muldoon*, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 12495. Link Palladium(II) Catalysed Oxidative Aminocarbonylation for the Synthesis of 2-Ynamides: Addressing the Challenges of Solvents and Gas Mixtures N.L. Hughes, C.L. Brown, A. A. Irwin, Q. Cao and M. J. Muldoon*, ChemSusChem, 2017, 10, 675. Link Using Chiral Ionic Liquid Additives to Enhance Asymmetric Induction in a Diels-Alder Reaction P. Goodrich*, H. Q. Nimal Gunaratne, L. Hall, Y. Wang, L. Jin, M.J . Muldoon*, A.P.C. Ribeiro, A. J .L. Pombeiro, V. I. Pârvulescu, P. Davey and C. Hardacre* Dalton Trans, 2017, 46, 1704. Link Synthesis of 2-Alkynoates via Pd(II)-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbonylation of Terminal Alkynes and Alcohols carbonyl graph abs Q. Cao, N.L. Hughes and M.J. Muldoon*, Chem. Eur. J., 2016, 22, 11982 Link Cationic Palladium(II) Complexes as Catalysts for the Oxidation of Terminal Olefins to Methyl Ketones using Hydrogen Peroxidew acker absQ. Cao, D.S. Bailie, R. Fu and M.J. Muldoon*, Green Chem.,2015, 17, 2750. Link Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Ortholactones K. L. Baddeley, Q. Cao, M. J. Muldoon* and M. J. Cook,* Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 7726. Link A Highly Efficient Palladium(II)/Polyoxometalate Catalyst System for Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols L.M. Dornan and M. J. Muldoon*, Cat. Sci. Technol., 2015, 5, 1428. Link The development of new N,O-ligated Pd(II) complexes that are highly active catalysts for the selective oxidation of alcohols: L.M. Dornan, G.M.A. Clendenning, M.B. Pitak, S.J. Coles and M.J. Muldoon*, Cat. Sci. Technol., 2014, 4, 2526. Link And D.S. Bailie, G.M.A. Clendenning, L. McNamee and M.J. Muldoon*, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 7238. Link An efficient Cu(II)-bis(oxazoline)-based polymer immobilised ionic liquid phase catalyst for asymmetric carbon–carbon bond formation S. Doherty, J. G. Knight, J. R. Ellison, P. Goodrich, L. Hall, C. Hardacre, M. J. Muldoon, S. Park, A. Ribeiro, C. A. N. de Castro, M. J. Lourenço and P. Davey, Green Chemistry, 2014, 16, 1470. Link Aerobic oxidation catalysis with stable radicals Q. Cao, L. M. Dornan, L. Rogan, N. L. Hughes, and M.J. Muldoon, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 4524. Link Copper(I)/ketoABNO catalysed aerobic alcohol oxidation L. Rogan, N. L. Hughes, Q. Cao, L. M. Dornan and M.J. Muldoon, Cat. Sci. Technol., 2014, 4, 1720 .Link Copper/TEMPO Catalysed Synthesis of Nitriles from Aldehydes or Alcohols using Aqueous Ammonia and with Air as the Oxidant L.M. Dornan, Q. Cao, J.C.A. Flanagan, J.J. Crawford, M.J. Cook* and M.J. Muldoon,* Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 6030. Link The synthesis of N-heterocycles via copper/TEMPO catalysed aerobic oxidation of amino alcohols J.C. A. Flanagan, L. M. Dornan, M. G. McLaughlin, N. G. McCreanor, M.J. Cook* and M. J. Muldoon*, Green Chemistry, 2012, 14, 128. Link Influence of Ionic Liquids on the Crystalline Stricture of Nanocolloids, Chen. M.J. Muldoon, K. Anderson and P. André, CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 3330. Continuous flow hydroformylation using supported ionic liquid phase catalysts with carbon dioxide as a carrier, U. Hintermair, Z. Gong, A. Serbanovic, M.J. Muldoon, C.C. Santini and D. J. Cole-Hamilton, Dalton Transactions, 2010, 39, 8501. Modern multiphase catalysis: new developments in the separation of homogeneous catalysts, M.J. Muldoon*, Dalton Transactions, 2010, 39, 337. (Special “New Talent” issue and article which received journal cover) Notes on the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Methyl Acetoacetate in Neoteric Solvents,T. Floris, P. Kluson, M.J. Muldoon and H Pelantova, Catalysis Letters, 2010, 134, 279. Solventless continuous flow homogeneous hydroformylation of 1-octene, A.C. Frisch, P.B. Webb, G. Zhao, M.J. Muldoon, P.J. Pogorzelec and D.J. Cole-Hamilton, Dalton Transactions, 2007, 5531. Improving carbon dioxide solubility in ionic liquids M.J. Muldoon, S.N.V.K. Aki, J.L. Anderson, J.K. Dixon and J.F. Brennecke, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2007, 111, 9001. Supported ionic liquid phase catalysis with supercritical flow, U. Hintermair, G. Zhao, C. Santini-Scampucci, M.J. Muldoon and D.J. Cole-Hamilton; Chemical Communications, 2007, 462.