SCHOOL OF Chemistry

Distinguished Awards and Achievements

D.Sc. NUI Galway (1974)
Member of Royal Irish Academy (1979)
Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellow of Inst. Chem. Ireland
Member International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry
Chair National Committee for Chemistry Royal Irish Academy (1989-1992)
Chair Royal Society of Chemistry Ireland (1993-1996)
President Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (1986-1988)
Boyle-Higgins Gold Medal of Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (1998)

Research Interests

1. Cycloaddition, cyclisation and oxidation reactions with organic compounds of nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur. 1,3-Dipoles.
2.  Reaction mechanisms and reactive intermediates.
3.  Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
   

Books, Monographs and Major Reviews

Lead Tetra-acetate in Synthetic Reagents, vol. III pp. 277-419, Horwood Chichester, 1977.
Mercuric Acetate, Synthetic Reagents Vol. IV, pp. 15-145 Horwood, Chichester, 1981.
Tetrazoles, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chem., Vol. 5 pp. 791-838, Pergamon, Oxford, 1984.
Advances in Tetrazole Chemistry, Adv. Heterocycl. Chem., 1977, 21, 323-435.
Six-membered Rings with Three Heteroatoms, Rodd’s Chemistry of Carbon Compounds Supp. to 2nd Edn., Vol. IV, Part J. Elsevier, 1995, p. 241-281.
Tetrazoles, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chem. II, vol. 4, pp. 621-678, Pergamon, Oxford 1996.
Pentazoles, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chem. II, vol. 4, pp. 897-904, Pergamon Oxford, 1996.
Comparative Reactions of Nitrogen Compounds with the Isoelectronic Series Mercury (II), Thallium (III) and Lead (IV) Acetates. Principles of Oxidation Reactions, Chem. Rev., 1984, 84, 249-276.
The Diazotisation of Heterocyclic Primary Amines, Chem. Rev., 1975, 75, 241-257.

Recent Publications

1. Richard N. Butler and Anthony G. Coyne. Water: Nature’s Reaction Enforcer—Comparative Effects for Organic Synthesis “In-Water” and “On-Water”. Chem. Rev., 2010, 110(10), 6302-6337.  DOILink   
2. Luke A. Burke and Richard N. Butler, Computational Investigation of Rearrangements in Huisgen Cycloadducts of Azolium N-Dicyanomethanide 1,3-Dipoles with Alkynes: A Mechanistic Panoply, J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74 (15), pp 5199–5210. DOILink
3. Richard N. Butler, John M. Hanniffy, John C. Stephens, and Luke A. Burke, A Ceric Ammonium Nitrate N-Dearylation of N-p-Anisylazoles Applied to Pyrazole, Triazole, Tetrazole, and Pentazole Rings: Release of Parent Azoles. Generation of Unstable Pentazole, HN5/N5-, in Solution J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 1354-1364. DOILink
4. Richard N. Butler, Anthony G. Coyne, Patrick McArdle, Lisa M. Sibley and Luke A. Burke, Uncharacteristic thione behavior in a Huisgen cycloaddition reaction: a kinetic and theoretical study, Tetrahedron Letters, 2007, 48, 6684-6687. DOILink
5. Richard N. Butler, Anthony G. Coyne and Eamon M. Moloney, 2007, Organic synthesis in water: 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions at ambient temperature with aqueous suspensions of solid reactants, Tetrahedron Letters, 2007, 48, 3501–3503. DOILink

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