External Examiner for 14 PhD examinations David John Cole-Hamilton (External examiner), 2005 → … Other (examining, reviewing) Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry, David John Cole-Hamilton (Recipient), 2005 → 2006 Prize (including medals and awards) Work written up in Chemistry and Engineering News (twice), The Independent and described on German Radio David John Cole-Hamilton (Participant), 2005 → … Participation in TV programme

We are studying catalysts which will give very high selectivity to desirable products often via cascade reactions. In Scheme 1, α,ω-diesters are formed in a single cascade reaction by the methoxycarbonylation of alkynes. The same catalyst catalyses the methoxy-carbonylation to the α, Β-unsaturated ester (the reaction can be stopped here), the double bond isomerisation and the second methoxycarbonyation, which only occurs when the double bond is in the least thermodynamically favoured terminal position.

linkHighly selective formation of unsaturated esters or cascade reactions to alpha, omega-diesters by the methoxycarbonylation of alkynes by palladium complexes of 1,2-bis(ditertbutylphosphinomethyl)benzene A. A. N. Magro, L. Robb, P. J. Pogorzelec, A. M. Z. Slawin, G. R. Eastman and D. J. Cole-Hamilton, Chemical Science 2010, 1(6), 723-730. See C&E News, 11th January, 2010, p 8 (News of the week) linkThe synthesis of amines by the homogeneous hydrogenation of secondary and primary amides A. A. Núñez Magro, G. R. Eastham and D. J. Cole-Hamilton Chem. Commun, 2007, 3154-6 linkContinuous Flow Hydroformylation of Alkenes in Supercritical Fluid – Ionic Liquid Biphasic Systems P. B. Webb, M. F. Sellin, T. E. Kunene, S. Williamson, A. M. Z. Slawin and D. J Cole-Hamilton J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 15577 -15588 (Featured in C&E News, The Independent and on German Radio) linkSupported ionic liquid phase catalysis with supercritical flow. U. Hintermair, G. Y. Zhao, C. C. Santini, M. J. Muldoon, and D. J. Cole-Hamilton Chem. Commun., 2007, 1462-4 linkAqueous-biphasic hydroformylation of alkenes promoted by "weak" surfactants, S. L. Desset, S. W. Reader and D. J. Cole-Hamilton, Green Chem., 2009, 11, 630-637 linkCarbon Dioxide Induced Phase Switching for Homogeneous-Catalyst Recycling, S. L. Desset and D. J. Cole-Hamilton, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 1472-1474 (Hot paper, featured in C&E News and in C&E News Review of the Year, 2009 21st December, p 36) linkContinuous flow homogeneous alkene metathesis with built-in catalyst separation, R. Duque, E. Ochsner, H. Clavier, F. Caijo, S. P. Nolan, M. Mauduit and D. J. Cole-Hamilton, Green Chem., 2011, 13, 1187-1195