Dr. Terrance J. Hadlington

ERC Starting Grant

Sustainable Cooperative Catalysis
Chair of Inorganic Chemistry with Focus on New Materials

Academic Career and Research Areas

Dr. Hadlington received his MChem degree from the University of Bath in 2011. He then moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he conducted his PhD research with Prof. Cameron Jones at Monash University, utilizing heavier tetrylenes in catalysis. During this time, he also spent four months at the University of Oxford, working with Prof. Simon Aldridge. He then relocated to Berlin as a UniCat Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Matthias Driess. In late 2019, Dr. Hadlington started his independent research career at the TU Munich, initially supported by a Liebig Fellowship of the FCI, and now by an ERS Starting Grant. He has additionally received funding from the Boehringer Ingelheim Stifftung and the DFG. 

The current research foci of the Hadlington group (b. 1988) look towards the discovery of new bond activation pathways and catalytic processes which utilise earth-abundant main group (s- and p-block) and transition (3d) elements. This focuses particularly on the developement of new non-innocent ligand concepts, e.g. the "Single-Center ambiphiles" and polyphosphinidenes, which work in concert with a transition metal to achieve efficient catalytic turnover. A key goal here is the discovery of new ammonia activation mechanisms, and ultimately to achieve the hydroamination of alkenes with ammonia.

Awards

  • Starting Grant of the European Research Council (since 2023)
  • ADUC Prize of the German Chemical Society (2023)
  • BASF-Nachwuchpreis of the German Chemical Society (2022)
  • Exploration Grant of the Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung  (2022)

Kalkuhl, T., Fernandez, I., Hadlington, T. J.*, Cooperative hydrogenation catalysis at a constrained gallylene-nickel(0) interface. Chem., 2024, DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2024.10.016.

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Keil, P. M. Ezendu, S., Schulz, A., Kubisz, M., Szilvási, T., Hadlington, T. J.*, Thermodynamic Modulation of Dihydrogen Activation Through Rational Ligand Design in GeII–Ni0 Complexes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 23606−23615.

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Schulz, A., Kalkuhl, T. L., Keil, P. M., Hadlington, T. J.*, T-shaped Ni0 Systems Featuring Cationic Tetrylenes: Direct Observation of L/Z-type Ligand Duality, and Alkene Hydrogenation Catalysis, Angew. Chem. 2023, e202305996.

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Keil, P. M., Soyemi, A., Weisser, K., Szilvási, T., Limberg, C., Hadlington, T. J.*, Cationic Tetrylene-Iron(0) Complexes: Access Points for Cooperative, Reversible Dihydrogen Activation and Open-Shell Iron(-I) Ferrato-Tetrylenes. Angew. Chem.Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202218141.

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Hadlington, T.J.*, Szilvasi T., Accessing the Main-Group Metal Formyl Scaffold through CO-Activation in Beryllium Hydride Complexes. Nature Comm. 2022, 12, Article number: 461.

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