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Hemingway, JM, Quirk, JA, Lu, E & Dawson, JA 2026, 'Grain Boundary‐Driven Lattice Dynamics in a Solid‐State Li‐Ion Conductor', Advanced Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.75295
Kondo, K, Lowe, M, Davison, N, Waddell, PG, Armstrong, RJ, Lu, E, Kubota, K & Ito, H 2026, 'Mechanochemical synthesis of organosodium compounds through direct sodiation of organic halides', Nature Synthesis, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 669-679. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-025-00949-7
Yang, X, Hemingway, JM, Kanna, W, Davison, N, Hayashi, H, Male, L, Waddell, PG, Dawson, JA & Lu, E 2026, 'Tandem Reactivity of Metal−Carbon and Carbon−Silicon Bonds in Mononuclear α‐Silyl Organolithium or Organosodium Complexes Towards CO, CO2 and Heteroallenes', Angewandte Chemie, vol. 138, no. 21, e8906317. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.8906317
Yang, X, Hemingway, JM, Kanna, W, Davison, N, Hayashi, H, Male, L, Waddell, PG, Dawson, JA & Lu, E 2026, 'Tandem Reactivity of Metal−Carbon and Carbon−Silicon Bonds in Mononuclear α‐Silyl Organolithium or Organosodium Complexes Towards CO, CO2 and Heteroallenes', Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) , vol. 65, no. 21, e8906317. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.8906317
Lowe, M, Gallant, BM, Davison, N, Hopkinson, MN, Kubicki, DJ, Lu, E & Armstrong, RJ 2025, 'A reductive mechanochemical approach enabling direct upcycling of fluoride from polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) into fine chemicals', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 147, no. 44, pp. 40895-40899. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c14052
Yang, X, Davison, N, Lowe, ME, Waddell, PG, Armstrong, RJ, McMullin, CL, Hopkinson, MN & Lu, E 2025, 'C=O methylenation mediated by organo-alkali metal reagents: metal identity and ligand effects', Chemical Science, vol. 16, no. 24, pp. 11151-11160. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC02313K
Hemingway, JM, Yang, X, Waddell, PG, Cornelio, J, Lowe, ME, Dawson, JA, Slater, PR, Armstrong, RJ & Lu, E 2025, 'Non-aqueous separation of lithium and sodium perchlorates by selective coordination with a hexadentate semi-flexible amine ligand', Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5qi01799h
Zhang, H, Davison, N, Hemingway, JM, Male, L, Waddell, PG, Deakin, J, Tuna, F, Dawson, JA & Lu, E 2025, 'Reactivity of a Sodium Anion with Alkenes: 1‑Electron vs 2‑Electron Reductions', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 64, no. 51, pp. 25195-25204. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04279
Davison, N, Hemingway, JM, Waddell, PG & Lu, E 2024, 'Lithium, sodium and potassium enolate aggregates and monomers: syntheses and structures', Dalton Transactions, vol. 53, pp. 4719-4728. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4DT00211C
Bowles, AWJ, Quirk, JA, Liu, Y, Morritt, GH, Freitag, M, Whitehead, GFS, Woodward, AW, Brookfield, A, Goodwin, CAP, Collison, D, Tuna, F, McMullin, CL, Dawson, JA, Lu, E & Ortu, F 2024, 'Mechanochemical Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of a Room Temperature Stable Calcium Electride', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 42, pp. 28914-28924. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c09408
Davison, N, Hemingway, JM, Wills, C, Stolar, T, Waddell, PG, Dixon, CM, Barron, L, Dawson, JA & Lu, E 2024, 'Mechanochemical Synthesis of a Sodium Anion Complex [Na + (2,2,2-cryptand)Na – ] and Studies of Its Reactivity: Two-Electron and One-Electron Reductions', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 32, pp. 15247-15258. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c02914
Davison, N, Quirk, JA, Tuna, F, Collison, D, McMullin, CL, Michaels, H, Morritt, GH, Waddell, PG, Gould, JA, Freitag, M, Dawson, JA & Lu, E 2023, 'A room-temperature-stable electride and its reactivity: Reductive benzene/pyridine couplings and solvent-free Birch reductions', Chem, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 576-591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2022.11.006
Davison, N, Khatun, T, Arce-Garcia, I, Gould, JA, Dawson, JA & Lu, E 2023, 'Facile Mechanochemical Reduction and Lithium-Ion Doping of Transition-Metal Oxides', European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 35, e202300344. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202300344
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Angerhofer, A, Auvray, T, Balema, V, Baláž, M, Batteas, JD, Blair, RG, Boldyreva, E, Bolm, C, Borchardt, L, Borchers, TH, Braunschweig, AB, Browne, DL, Carpick, RW, Ciaccia, M, Craig, S, Emmerling, F, Ferguson, M, Fiore, C, Friščić, T, Grätz, S, Halasz, I, Hamzehpoor, E, Ito, H, James, S, Kim, JG, Lamaty, F, Lampronti, GI, Laurencin, D, Leitch, J, Lu, E, Lukin, S, Mack, J, Maini, L, Martini, A, Mazzeo, PP, Michalchuk, AAL, Mittelette, S, Mohamed, S, Moores, A, Mortera-Carbonell, ADJ, Nagapudi, K, Niidu, A, Puccetti, F, Stahorský, M & Vugrin, L 2023, 'Kinetics and basic understanding: general discussion', Faraday Discussions, vol. 241, pp. 306-340. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2FD90082C
Review article
Lowe, ME, Hopkinson, MN, Kubicki, DJ, Lu, E & Armstrong, RJ 2026, 'Recent advances in the degradation of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) at low temperature (≤100 °C)', Chemical Science. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6sc03192g
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