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I’m not going back to chemistry, at least not as far as I know, but I’ve recently had cause to wonder what came out of my PhD. My former supervisor has supplied references and PDFs:
- Pyrolysis of Stabilised Phosphorus Ylides as a Route to New Hetero Carbenes, R. A. Aitken, M. J. Drysdale, A. Ford, P. E. Y. Milne, D. W. Russell, B. M. Ryan and M. Whittaker, Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon, 1993, 75, 31–34.
- Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis of Sulfinyl Stabilised Phosphorus Ylides: Generation and Reactivity of Sulfinylcarbenes, R. A. Aitken, M. J. Drysdale and B. M. Ryan, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1993, 1699–1700.
- Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis of Alkoxycarbonyl/Sulfinyl Stabilised Phosphorus Ylides: Generation and Intramolecular Insertion of Alkoxycarbonyl(sulfenyl)carbenes, R. A. Aitken, M. J. Drysdale and B. M. Ryan, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 805–806.
- Effect of Added Benzoic Acid on the Phase-transfer Catalysed Permanganate Oxidation of Organosulfur Compounds, R. A. Aitken, S. T. E. Mesher, F. C. Ross and B. M. Ryan, Synthesis, 1997, 787–791.
- Flash vacuum pyrolysis of stabilised phosphorus ylides. Part 13. Extrusion of Ph3P from sulfinyl ylides and reactivity of the resulting sulfinyl carbenes, R. A. Aitken, M. J. Drysdale and B. M. Ryan, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1998, 3345–3348.
- Flash vacuum pyrolysis of stabilised phosphorus ylides. Part 15. Generation of alkoxycarbonyl(sulfenyl)carbenes and their intramolecular insertion to give alkenyl sulfides, R. A. Aitken, J. M. Armstrong, M. J. Drysdale, F. C. Ross and B. M. Ryan, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1999, 593–604.
- The X-ray structures of sulfoxides, A. L. Fuller, R. A. Aitken, B. M. Ryan, A. M. Z. Slawin and J. D. Woollins, J. Chem. Crystallogr., 2009, 39, 407–415.
I have to admit I didn’t have any part in writing these papers.
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