Yr Athro Simon Pope
Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry
- Email:
- popesj@cardiff.ac.uk
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- +44 (0)29 2087 9316
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Research Group: Inorganic Chemistry
Research Interests
- Development of new ligand scaffolds for d- and f-block coordination chemistry
- Design and synthesis of luminescent probes based on multifunctional metal complexes aimed at biologically important targets
- Developing responsive bimodal imaging agents for fluorescence microscopy and MRI applications
- Investigations into the attachment of functionalized lumophores onto gold and silver nanoparticles
- Studies into novel hybrid materials for photovoltaic applications
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Teaching
CH2117 Environmental Chemistry
CH3202 Applications of Molecular Spectroscopy
PhD University of Southampton (1999, G. Reid). Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Bristol (2000-2, M. D. Ward. Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester (2002-6, S. Faulkner). Appointed as Lecturer, Cardiff, in 2006.
2019
- Day, A. H.et al. 2019. Synthetic routes, characterization and photophysical properties of luminescent, surface functionalized nanodiamonds. Carbon 152, pp. 335-343. (10.1016/j.carbon.2019.05.081)
- Phillips, K. A.et al. 2019. Dual visible/NIR emission from organometallic iridium(III) complexes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 893, pp. 11-20. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2019.04.019)
- Al-Riyahee, A. A.et al. 2019. Syntheses, X-ray structures and characterisation of luminescent chromium(III) complexes incorporating 8-quinolinato ligands. Polyhedron 157, pp. 396. (10.1016/j.poly.2018.10.019)
2018
- Groves, L. M.et al. 2018. Fluorescent functionalised naphthalimides and their Au(i)- NHC complexes for potential use in cellular bioimaging. Dalton Transactions, pp. -. (10.1039/C8DT04069A)
- Soltani, Y.et al. 2018. Synthesis and photophysical properties of imine borane adducts towards vapochromic materials. Dalton Transactions 47(36), pp. 12656-12660. (10.1039/C8DT03019G)
- Groves, L. M.et al. 2018. Synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent aminophosphines and their coordination to gold(i). Dalton Transactions 47(28), pp. 9324-9333. (10.1039/C8DT02256A)
- Pope, S. J.et al. 2018. Ligand tuneable, red-emitting iridium(III) complexes for efficient triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion performance. Chemistry - A European Journal 24(34), pp. 8577-8588. (10.1002/chem.201801007)
- Langdon-Jones, E. E., Ward, B. and Pope, S. 2018. Synthesis and luminescence properties of cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes incorporating conjugated benzotriazole units. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 861, pp. 234-243. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2018.02.019)
2017
- Carter, K. P.et al. 2017. Exploring the promotion of synthons of choice: halogen bonding in molecular lanthanide complexes characterized via X-ray diffraction, luminescence spectroscopy, and magnetic measurements. Zeitschrift für ganische und allgemeine Chemie 643(23), pp. 1948-1955. (10.1002/zaac.201700341)
- Langdon-Jones, E. E.et al. 2017. Luminescent 1,8-Naphthalimide-Derived ReI Complexes: syntheses, spectroscopy, X-ray structure and preliminary bioimaging in fission yeast cells. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2017(44), pp. 5279-5287. (10.1002/ejic.201700549)
- Miletiić, T.et al. 2017. A twisted bay-substituted quaterrylene phosphorescing in the NIR spectral region. Helvetica Chimica Acta 100(11), article number: e1700192. (10.1002/hlca.201700192)
- Cudré, Y.et al. 2017. Tris-heteroleptic iridium complexes based on cyclometalated ligands with different cores. Inorganic Chemistry -American Chemical Society- 56(19), pp. 11565-11576. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01307)
- Ould, D. M. C.et al. 2017. Investigations into the photophysical and electronic properties of pnictoles and Their pnictenium counterparts. Organometallics 37(5), pp. 712-719. (10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00564)
- Bonello, R. O.et al. 2017. Synthesis and characterisation of phosphorescent rhenium(I) complexes of hydroxy- and methoxy-substituted imidazo[4,5- f ]-1,10-phenanthroline ligands. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 841, pp. 39-47. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.04.021)
- Pope, S. J.et al. 2017. From ligand to phosphor: rapid, machine-assisted syntheses of substituted iridium(III)-pyrazolate complexes with tuneable luminescence. Chemistry - a European Journal 23(39), pp. 9407-9418. (10.1002/chem.201701551)
- Amoroso, A. J., Fallis, I. A. and Pope, S. J. A. 2017. Chelating agents for radiolanthanides: applications to imaging and therapy. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 340, pp. 198-219. (10.1016/j.ccr.2017.01.010)
- Jana, A., Pope, S. and Ward, M. D. 2017. D → f energy transfer in heteronuclear Ir(III)/Ln(III) near-infrared luminescent complexes. Polyhedron 127, pp. 390-395. (10.1016/j.poly.2017.02.016)
- Pope, S. J. A.et al. 2017. Anticancer, azonafide-inspired fluorescent ligands and their rhenium(I) complexes for cellular imaging. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2017(3), pp. 759-766. (10.1002/ejic.201601271)
2016
- Jiménez, J.et al. 2016. Frontispiece: Lanthanide tetrazolate complexes combining single-molecule magnet and luminescence properties: The effect of the replacement of tetrazolate N3 by β-Diketonate Ligands on the anisotropy energy barrier. Chemistry - a European Journal 22(41) (10.1002/chem.201684162)
- Jiménez, J.et al. 2016. Lanthanide tetrazolate complexes combining single-molecule magnet and luminescence properties: the effect of the replacement of tetrazolate n3 by β-diketonate ligands on the anisotropy energy barrier. Chemistry - a European Journal 22(41), pp. 14548-14559. (10.1002/chem.201601457)
- Carter, K. P.et al. 2016. Supramolecular assembly of molecular rare-earth–3,5-dichlorobenzoic acid–2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine materials: structural systematics, luminescence properties, and magnetic behavior. Inorganic Chemistry 55(14), pp. 6902-6915. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00408)
- Stacey, O. J.et al. 2016. Chromophore-labelled, luminescent platinum complexes: syntheses, structures, and spectroscopic properties. Dalton Transactions 45, pp. 10297-10307. (10.1039/C6DT01335J)
- Bennett, S. D.et al. 2016. Scandium complexes bearing bis(oxazolinylphenyl)amide ligands: an analysis of their reactivity, solution-state structures and photophysical properties. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2016(18), pp. 2932-2941. (10.1002/ejic.201600223)
- Stacey, O. J.et al. 2016. Near-IR luminescent lanthanide complexes with 1,8-diaminoanthraquinone-based chromophoric ligands. Dalton Transactions 45(15), pp. 6674-6681. (10.1039/C5DT04351D)
- Lowe, J. A.et al. 2016. Alkyl chain functionalised, cyclometalated platinum(II) complexes: syntheses, luminescence properties and X-ray crystal structure. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 805, pp. 87-93. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2016.01.015)
2015
- Carter, K. P.et al. 2015. Controlling dimensionality via a dual ligand strategy in Ln-thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylic acid-terpyridine coordination polymers. Dalton Transactions 44(36), pp. 15843-15854. (10.1039/C5DT02596F)
- Thangavelu, S. G., Pope, S. J. A. and Cahill, C. L. 2015. Synthetic, structural, and luminescence study of uranyl coordination polymers containing chelating terpyridine and trispyridyltriazine ligands. Crystengcomm 17(32), pp. 6236-6247. (10.1039/C5CE00984G)
- Herrera, J. M.et al. 2015. Studies on bifunctional Fe(ii)-triazole spin crossover nanoparticles: time-dependent luminescence, surface grafting and the effect of a silica shell and hydrostatic pressure on the magnetic properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 3(30), pp. 7819-7829. (10.1039/C5TC00685F)
- Stacey, O. J.et al. 2015. Water soluble, cyclometalated Pt(II)–Ln(III) conjugates towards novel bimodal imaging agents. Chemical Communications 51(61), pp. 12305-12308. (10.1039/C5CC02623G)
- Amoroso, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2015. Using lanthanide ions in molecular bioimaging. Chemical Society Reviews 44(14), pp. 4723-4742. (10.1039/C4CS00293H)
- Stacey, O. J.et al. 2015. Phosphorescent, cyclometalated cinchophen-derived platinum complexes: syntheses, structures, and electronic properties. Inorganic Chemistry, article number: 150619121705005. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00817)
- Langdon-Jones, E. E.et al. 2015. Alkynyl-naphthalimide fluorophores: gold coordination chemistry and cellular imaging applications. Inorganic Chemistry 54(13), pp. 6606-6615., article number: 150618152106000. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00954)
- Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 2015. Application of d- and f-block fluorescent cell imaging agents. In: Long, N. and Wong, W. eds. The Chemistry of Molecular Imaging.. USA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 275-298., (10.1002/9781118854754.ch12)
- Stokes, E. C.et al. 2015. Cationic, luminescent cyclometalated iridium(iii) complexes based on substituted 2-phenylthiazole ligands. Dalton Transactions 44(18), pp. 8488-8496. (10.1039/C4DT03054K)
2014
- Gunnlaugsson, T. and Pope, S. J. 2014. Chapter 6: lanthanide ion complexes as chemosensors. In: Bettencourt-Dias, A. ed. Luminescence of Lanthanide Ions in Coordination Compounds and Nanomaterials.. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 231., (10.1002/9781118682760.ch06)
- Langdon-Jones, E. E. and Pope, S. J. A. 2014. Recent developments in gold(i) coordination chemistry: luminescence properties and bioimaging opportunities. Chemical Communications- Royal Society of Chemistry 50, pp. 10343-10354. (10.1039/c4cc03259d)
- Langdon-Jones, E. E. and Pope, S. J. A. 2014. The coordination chemistry of substituted anthraquinones: Developments and applications. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 269, pp. 32-53. (10.1016/j.ccr.2014.02.003)
- Taylor, R. G. D.et al. 2014. An organometallic complex revealing an unexpected, reversible, temperature induced SC-SC transformation. Crystengcomm 16(21), pp. 4641-4652. (10.1039/c4ce00070f)
- Regan, E. M.et al. 2014. A novel cobalt complex for enhancing amperometric and impedimetric DNA detection. Electrochimica Acta 128, pp. 10-15. (10.1016/j.electacta.2013.10.028)
- Fisher, C. M.et al. 2014. A benzimidazole functionalised DO3A chelator showing pH switchable coordination modes with lanthanide ions. Dalton Transactions 43, pp. 9567-9578. (10.1039/c4dt00519h)
- Langdon-Jones, E. E.et al. 2014. Fluorescent Rhenium-Naphthalimide conjugates as cellular imaging agents. Inorganic Chemistry 53(7), pp. 3788-3797. (10.1021/ic500142z)
- Ruiz, J.et al. 2014. Closely-related ZnII2LnIII2 complexes (LnIII = Gd, Yb) with either magnetic refrigerant or luminescent single-molecule magnet properties. Inorganic Chemistry 53(7), pp. 3586-3594. (10.1021/ic403097s)
- Hallett, A. J.et al. 2014. Silver nanoparticles functionalised with a luminescent iridium complex: phosphorescent hybrid materials. Transition Metal Chemistry 39(2), pp. 195-198. (10.1007/s11243-013-9789-2)
- Bennett, S. D.et al. 2014. Chiral lanthanide complexes: coordination chemistry, spectroscopy, and catalysis. Dalton Transactions 43(15), pp. 5871-5885. (10.1039/c4dt00114a)
- Palacios, M. A.et al. 2014. Bifunctional ZnII LnIII dinuclear complexes combining field induced SMM behavior and luminescence: Enhanced NIR lanthanide emission by 9-anthracene carboxylate bridging ligands. Inorganic Chemistry 53(3), pp. 1465-1474. (10.1021/ic402597s)
- Carter, K. P., Pope, S. J. A. and Cahill, C. L. 2014. A series of Ln-p-chlorobenzoic acid-terpyridine complexes: lanthanide contraction effects, supramolecular interactions and luminescent behavior. CrystEngComm 16(10), pp. 1873-1884. (10.1039/c3ce42267d)
- Bonello, R. O.et al. 2014. Luminescent rhenium(I) complexes of substituted imidazole[4,5-f]-1,10-phenanthroline derivatives. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 749, pp. 150-156. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2013.08.031)
2013
- Stacey, O. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2013. New avenues in the design and potential application of metal complexes for photodynamic therapy. RSC Advances 3(48), pp. 25550-25564. (10.1039/c3ra45219k)
- El-Betany, A. M.et al. 2013. The synthesis and study of fluorescent PAMAM-based dendritic molecules. Tetrahedron 69(39), pp. 8439-8445. (10.1016/j.tet.2013.07.054)
- Cantos, P. M., Pope, S. J. A. and Cahill, C. L. 2013. An exploration of homo- and heterometallic UO22+ hybrid materials containing chelidamic acid: synthesis, structure, and luminescence studies. CrystEngComm 15(44), pp. 9039-9051. (10.1039/c3ce41655k)
- Bennett, S. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Ward, B. D. 2013. Near-IR luminescent neodymium complexes: spectroscopic probes for hydroamination catalysis. Chemical Communications 49(54), pp. 6072-6074. (10.1039/c3cc42923g)
- Smith, R. A.et al. 2013. Cyclometalated cinchophen ligands on iridium(iii): towards water-soluble complexes with visible luminescence. Dalton Transactions 42(28), pp. 10347-10357. (10.1039/c3dt51098k)
- Titos-Padilla, S.et al. 2013. Photophysical properties of [Ir(tpy)2]3+-doped silica nanoparticles and synthesis of a colour-tunable material based on an Ir(core)–Eu(shell) derivative. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 1(24), pp. 3808-3815. (10.1039/c3tc30466c)
- Langdon-Jones, E. E.et al. 2013. Using substituted cyclometalated quinoxaline ligands to finely tune the luminescence properties of iridium(III) complexes. Inorganic Chemistr 52(1), pp. 448-456. (10.1021/ic301853t)
- Thangavelu, S. G.et al. 2013. Synthesis, Structures, and Luminescent Properties of Uranyl Terpyridine Aromatic Carboxylate Coordination Polymers. Inorganic Chemistry 52(4), pp. 2060-2069. (10.1021/ic3024698)
- Mughal, S.et al. 2013. The tetratriptycenoporphyrazines revisited. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 17(08n09), pp. 778-784. (10.1142/S1088424613500351)
2012
- Hallett, A. J.et al. 2012. Enhanced photooxidation sensitizers: the first examples of cyclometalated pyrene complexes of iridium(iii). Chemical Communications 48(88), pp. 10838-10840. (10.1039/c2cc35907c)
- Routledge, J. D.et al. 2012. Tuning the electronics of phosphorescent, amide-functionalized, cyclometalated IrIII complexes: Syntheses, structures, spectroscopy and theoretical Studies. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2012(25), pp. 4065-4075. (10.1002/ejic.201200647)
- Balasingham, R.et al. 2012. Gold(I) complexes derived from alkynyloxy-substituted anthraquinones: Syntheses, luminescence, preliminary cytotoxicity, and cell imaging studies. Organometallics 31(16), pp. 5835-5843. (10.1021/om300475y)
- Mullice, L. A.et al. 2012. Gold(I) complexes incorporating emissive mercapto-pteridine ligands: Syntheses, X-ray structure, luminescence and preliminary cytotoxic evaluation. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2012(18), pp. 3054-3060. (10.1002/ejic.201200147)
- Jones, J. E.et al. 2012. Water-soluble, luminescent iridium(III)–ytterbium(III) complexes using dipyrido[3,2-a:2′,3′-c]phenazine derivatives as bridging units. Dalton Transactions 41(34), pp. 10372-10381. (10.1039/c2dt31115a)
- Hallett, A. J. and Pope, S. J. 2012. First examples of luminescent zinc(II)-bisquinoxalinato complexes: synthesis, spectroscopic and theoretical studies. Inorganica Chimica Acta 387, pp. 145-150. (10.1016/j.ica.2012.01.008)
- Balasingham, R. G.et al. 2012. Biologically compatible, phosphorescent dimetallic rhenium complexes linked through functionalized alkyl chains: syntheses, spectroscopic properties, and applications in imaging microscopy. Inorganic Chemistry 51(3), pp. 1419-1426. (10.1021/ic201654d)
- Cox, N. M.et al. 2012. Probing solution behaviour of metallosupramolecular complexes using pyrene fluorescence. Dalton Transactions 41(5), pp. 1568-1573. (10.1039/c1dt11831e)
- Lloyd, D., Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. 2012. Novel metal-based luminophores for biological imaging. In: Geddes, C. D. ed. Reviews in Fluorescence 2010.. Reviews in Fluorescence Vol. 7. New York: Springer, pp. 15-44., (10.1007/978-1-4419-9828-6_2)
2011
- Andrews, M., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 2011. Functional luminescent lanthanide complexes: modulation of visible luminescence from europium complexes. Polyhedron 30(12), pp. 2055-2061. (10.1016/j.poly.2011.05.008)
- Jones, J. E.et al. 2011. Amino-anthraquinone chromophores functionalised with 3-picolyl units: structures, luminescence, DFT and their coordination chemistry with cationic Re(I) di-imine complexes. Dalton Transactions 40(14), pp. 3498-3509. (10.1039/C0DT01383H)
- Jones, J. E.et al. 2011. Bimodal, dimetallic lanthanide complexes that bind to DNA: the nature of binding and its influence on water relaxivity. Chemical Communications 47(12), pp. 3374-3376. (10.1039/C1CC00111F)
- Hallett, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2011. Towards near-IR emissive rhenium tricarbonyl complexes: Synthesis and characterisation of unusual 2,2'-biquinoline complexes. Inorganic Chemistry Communications 14(10), pp. 1606-1608. (10.1016/j.inoche.2011.06.021)
- Andrews, M.et al. 2011. Luminescent probes based on water-soluble, dual-emissive lanthanide complexes: metal ion-induced modulation of near-IR emission. Chemical Communications 47(1), pp. 206-208. (10.1039/c0cc00210k)
- Hardwick, H. C.et al. 2011. Structural, spectroscopic and redox properties of uranyl complexes with a maleonitrile containing ligand. Dalton Transactions 40(22), pp. 5939-5952. (10.1039/c0dt01580f)
- Hallett, A. J., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 2011. New 2,3-disubstituted-5-hydroxyquinoxaline ligands and their coordination chemistry with cyclometallated iridium(iii): syntheses, structures and tunable electronic properties. Dalton Transactions 40(37), pp. 9474-9481. (10.1039/c1dt10707k)
- Carcedo, C.et al. 2011. Chiral silver and gold rings: synthesis and structural, spectroscopic, and photophysical properties of Ag and Au metallamacrocycles of bridging NHC ligands. Organometallics 30(9), pp. 2553-2562. (10.1021/om200125w)
2010
- Hallett, A. J.et al. 2010. Neutral and cationic cyclometallated Ir(III) complexes of anthra[1,2-d]-imidazole-6,11-dione-derived ligands: Syntheses, structures and spectroscopic characterisation. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 695(22), pp. 2401-2409. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2010.07.017)
- Knighton, R. C.et al. 2010. A one-step synthesis towards new ligands based on aryl-functionalised thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole chromophores. Tetrahedron Letters 51(41), pp. 5419-5422. (10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.07.172)
- Yeo, B. R.et al. 2010. The Re(I) coordination chemistry of a series of pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazine-derived ligands: Syntheses, characterisation and crystal structures. Polyhedron 29(3), pp. 1088-1094. (10.1016/j.poly.2009.11.013)
- Mullice, L. and Pope, S. J. A. 2010. The development of responsive, luminescent lifetime probes based upon axially functionalised fac-[Re(CO)3(di-imine)(L)]+ complexes. Dalton Transactions 39(25), pp. 5908-5917. (10.1039/c0dt00109k)
- Andrews, M.et al. 2010. Responsive, di-metallic lanthanide complexes of a piperazine-bridged bis-macrocyclic ligand: modulation of visible luminescence and proton relaxivity. Dalton Transactions 39(14), pp. 3407-3411. (10.1039/b923988j)
- Coogan, M. P.et al. 2010. Probing intracellular oxygen by quenched phosphorescence lifetimes of nanoparticles containing polyacrylamide-embedded [Ru(dpp(SO3Na)2)3]Cl2. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 9(1), pp. 103-109. (10.1039/b9pp00071b)
- Bagley, M. C., Lin, Z. and Pope, S. J. A. 2010. Microwave-assisted synthesis and complexation of luminescent cyanobipyridyl-zinc(ii) bis(thiolate) complexes with intrinsic and ancillary photophysical tunability. Dalton Transactions 39(13), pp. 3163-3166. (10.1039/c001898h)
- Perry, W. S.et al. 2010. Synthesis and photophysical properties of kinetically stable complexes containing a lanthanide ion and a transition metal antenna group. Dalton Transactions 39(45), pp. 10974-10983. (10.1039/c0dt00877j)
2009
- Andrews, M. B., Laye, R. H. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. A luminescent rhenium(I) complex of 2,7-dimethyl-1,8-naphthyridine: synthesis, spectroscopy and X-ray crystal structure. Transition Metal Chemistry 34(5), pp. 493-497. (10.1007/s11243-009-9221-0)
- Bagley, M. C., Lin, Z. F. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. Rapid synthesis of 3-cyanopyridine-derived chromophores with two-dimensional tunability and solvatochromic photophysical properties. Chemical Communications(34), pp. 5165-5167. (10.1039/b910664b)
- Coogan, M. P.et al. 2009. Rhenium fac-tricarbonyl bisimine complexes: luminescence modulation by hydrophobically driven intramolecular interactions. New Journal of Chemistry 33(5), pp. 1094-1099. (10.1039/b819453j)
- Coogan, M. P.et al. 2009. A rhenium tricarbonyl 4'-oxo-terpy trimer as a luminescent molecular vessel with a removable silver stopper. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 48(27), pp. 4965-4968. (10.1002/anie.200900981)
- Mullice, L. A.et al. 2009. The coordination chemistry of fluorescent pyridinyl- and quinolinyl-phthalimide ligands with the {Au-I-PPh3} cationic unit. Dalton Transactions(34), pp. 6836-6842. (10.1039/b905123f)
- Thorp-Greenwood, F. L.et al. 2009. Syntheses, structural studies and spectroscopic characterisation of pyridyl-phthalimide complexes of fac-(CO)(3)Re-I-diimines. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 694(9-10), pp. 1400-1406. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2008.12.048)
- Andrews, M. B.et al. 2009. Sensitized Lanthanide-Ion Luminescence with Aryl-Substituted N-(2-Nitrophenyl)acetamide-Derived Chromophores. Helvetica Chimica Acta 92(11), pp. 2159-2172. (10.1002/hlca.200900108)
- Jones, J. E. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. Sensitised near-IR lanthanide luminescence exploiting anthraquinone-derived chromophores: syntheses and spectroscopic properties. Dalton Transactions(39), pp. 8421-8425. (10.1039/b913902h)
- Hallett, A. J.et al. 2009. Luminescent, water-soluble gold nanoparticles functionalised with 3MLCT emitting rhenium complexes. Chemical Communications(28), pp. 4278-4280. (10.1039/b905692k)
- Bullock, S. J.et al. 2009. Coumarin-based luminescent ligand that forms helicates with dicationic metal ions. Dalton Transactions(47), pp. 10570-10573. (10.1039/b913103e)
- Bagley, M. C., Lin, Z. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. Barium manganate in microwave-assisted oxidation reactions: synthesis of solvatochromic 2,4,6-triarylpyrimidines. Tetrahedron Letters 50(49), pp. 6818-6822. (10.1016/j.tetlet.2009.09.116)
2008
- Andrews, M. B.et al. 2008. Quinoxaline sensitised lanthanide ion luminescence: Syntheses, spectroscopy and X-ray crystal structure of Na{1,4,7-tris[(N-diethyl)carbamoylmethyl]-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane -10-(2-methylquinoxaline)}I-3 C7H8. Polyhedron 27(11), pp. 2365-2371. (10.1016/j.poly.2008.04.010)
- Amoroso, A. J.et al. 2008. 3-Chloromethylpyridyl bipyridine fac-tricarbonyl rhenium: a thiol-reactive luminophore for fluorescence microscopy accumulates in mitochondria. New Journal of Chemistry 32(7), pp. 1097-1102. (10.1039/b802215a)
- Baca, S. G.et al. 2008. Cyanide-bridged Os(II)/Ln(III) coordination networks containing [Os(phen)(CN)(4)](2-) as an energy donor: Structural and photophysical properties. Inorganic Chemistry 47(9), pp. 3736-3747. (10.1021/ic702353c)
- Felton, C. E.et al. 2008. A wavelength and lifetime responsive cryptate-containing fluorescent probe for zinc ions in water. Chemical Communications 2008(46), pp. 6185-6187. (10.1039/b813775g)
- Mullice, L. A.et al. 2008. Rhenium complexes of chromophore-appended dipicolylamine ligands: syntheses, spectroscopic properties, DNA binding and X-ray crystal structure. New Journal of Chemistry 32(12), pp. 2140-2149. (10.1039/b800999f)
- Koullourou, T.et al. 2008. Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of a prototype single molecule dual imaging agent comprising a heterobimetallic rhenium-gadolinium complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(7), pp. 2178-2179. (10.1021/ja710859p)
2007
- Lazarides, T.et al. 2007. Ligand-field excited states of hexacyanochromate and hexacyanocobaltate as sensitisers for near-infrared luminescence from Nd(III) and Yb(III) in cyanide-bridged d–f assemblies. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 6(11), pp. 1152-1157. (10.1039/b708683k)
- Herrera, J.et al. 2007. Photophysical and Structural Properties of Cyanoruthenate Complexes of Hexaazatriphenylene. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129(37), pp. 11491-11504. (10.1021/ja072672w)
- Adams, C. J.et al. 2007. Synthesis, structures and properties of a new series of platinum-diimine-dithiolate complexes. Dalton Transactions 2007(39), pp. 4446-4456. (10.1039/b709252k)
- Amoroso, A. J.et al. 2007. Rhenium fac tricarbonyl bisimine complexes: biologically useful fluorochromes for cell imaging applications. Chemical Communications(29), pp. 3066-3068. (10.1039/b706657k)
- Talbot-Eeckelaers, C.et al. 2007. Luminescence from Neptunyl(VI) Species in Solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129(9), pp. 2442-2443. (10.1021/ja068522n)
- Ronson, T. K.et al. 2007. Polynuclear lanthanide complexes of a series of bridging ligands containing two tridentate N,N′,O-donor units: structures and luminescence properties. Dalton Transactions 2007(10), pp. 1006-1022. (10.1039/b618258e)
- Lazarides, T.et al. 2007. Anthracene as a sensitiser for near-infrared luminescence in complexes of Nd(iii), Er(iii) and Yb(iii): an unexpected sensitisation mechanism based on electron transfer. Dalton Transactions 2007(15), pp. 1484-1491. (10.1039/b700714k)
- Pope, S. J. A. 2007. Dual-emissive complexes: Visible and near-infrared luminescence from bis-pyrenyl lanthanide(III) complexes. Polyhedron 26(17), pp. 4818-4824. (10.1016/j.poly.2007.06.036)
2006
- Ronson, T. K.et al. 2006. Luminescent PtII(bipyridyl)(diacetylide) Chromophores with Pendant Binding Sites as Energy Donors for Sensitised Near-Infrared Emission from Lanthanides: Structures and Photophysics of PtII/LnIII Assemblies. Chemistry - a European Journal 12(36), pp. 9299-9313. (10.1002/chem.200600698)
- Sénéchal-David, K.et al. 2006. Sensitized Near-Infrared Lanthanide Luminescence from Nd(III)- and Yb(III)-Based Cyclen−Ruthenium Coordination Conjugates. Inorganic Chemistry 45(25), pp. 10040-10042. (10.1021/ic061706i)
- Pope, S. J. A. and Laye, R. H. 2006. Design, synthesis and photophysical studies of an emissive, europium based, sensor for zinc. Dalton Transactions(25), pp. 3108-3113. (10.1039/b605837j)
- Sambrook, M. R.et al. 2006. Sensitised near infrared emission from lanthanides via anion-templated assembly of d–f heteronuclear [2]pseudorotaxanes [Letter]. New Journal of Chemistry 30(8), pp. 1133-1136. (10.1039/b601017b)
- Pope, S. J. A.et al. 2006. Self-assembly of luminescent ternary complexes between seven-coordinate lanthanide(iii) complexes and chromophore bearing carboxylates and phosphonates. Dalton Transactions 2006(23), pp. 2907-2912. (10.1039/b600598e)
- Herrera, J.et al. 2006. Structural and Photophysical Properties of Coordination Networks Combining [Ru(Bpym)(CN)4]2- or [{Ru(CN)4}2(μ-bpym)]4- Anions (bpym = 2,2‘-Bipyrimidine) with Lanthanide(III) Cations: Sensitized Near-Infrared Luminescence from Yb(III), Nd(III), and Er(III) Following Ru-to-Lanthanide Energy Transfer. Inorganic Chemistry 45(10), pp. 3895-3904. (10.1021/ic0521574)
- Herrera, J.et al. 2006. Polynuclear cyanoruthenate chromophores based on hexaaza-triphenylene containing up to twelve cyanides: photophysical and structural properties. Chemical Communications 2006(17), pp. 1851-1853. (10.1039/b601876a)
2005
- Davies, G. M.et al. 2005. Photophysical properties of Pr(iii) and Er(iii) complexes of poly(pyrazolyl)borates. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 4(10), pp. 829-834. (10.1039/b508382f)
- Davies, G. M.et al. 2005. Structural and Photophysical Properties of Coordination Networks Combining [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2-Anions and Lanthanide(III) Cations: Rates of Photoinduced Ru-to-Lanthanide Energy Transfer and Sensitized Near-Infrared Luminescence. Inorganic Chemistry 44(13), pp. 4656-4665. (10.1021/ic050512k)
- Bichenkova, E. V.et al. 2005. DNA Mismatch Detection by Resonance Energy Transfer between Ruthenium(II) and Osmium(II) Tris(2,2‘-bipyridyl) Chromophores. Inorganic Chemistry 44(12), pp. 4112-4114. (10.1021/ic050586w)
- González-Lorenzo, M.et al. 2005. Structural and Photophysical Properties of Lathanide(III) Complexes with a Novel Octadentate Iminophenolate Bibracchial Lariat Ether. Inorganic Chemistry 44(12), pp. 4254-4262. (10.1021/ic048172a)
- Pope, S. J. A.et al. 2005. Metal-to-ligand charge-transfer sensitisation of near-infrared emitting lanthanides in trimetallic arrays M2Ln (M = Ru, Re or Os; Ln = Nd, Er or Yb). Dalton Transactions 2005(8), pp. 1482-1490. (10.1039/b500849b)
- Faulkner, S., Pope, S. J. A. and Burton-Pye, B. P. 2005. Lanthanide Complexes for Luminescence Imaging Applications. Applied Spectroscopy Reviews 40(1), pp. 1-31. (10.1081/ASR-200038308)
2004
- Pope, S. J. A.et al. 2004. Self-Assembly of Heterobimetallic d-f Hybrid Complexes: Sensitization of Lanthanide Luminescence by d-Block Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Excited States. Journal of the American Chemical Society 126(31), pp. 9490-9491. (10.1021/ja047523h)
- Pope, S. . J. A., Coe, B. J. and Faulkner, S. 2004. Re(i) sensitised near-infrared lanthanide luminescence from a hetero-trinuclear Re2Ln array. Chemical Communications 2004(13), pp. 1550-1551. (10.1039/b402270j)
- Adams, C. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2004. Diimine-Acetylide Compounds of Ruthenium: The Structural and Spectroscopic Effects of Oxidation. Inorganic Chemistry 43(11), pp. 3492-3499. (10.1021/ic035181v)
- Miller, T. A.et al. 2004. Photoinduced Ru–Yb energy transfer and sensitised near-IR luminescence in a coordination polymer containing co-crystallised [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2− and Yb(III) units. Dalton Transactions 2004(10), pp. 1524-1526. (10.1039/b404820b)
- Faulkner, S.et al. 2004. Pyrene-sensitised near-IR luminescence from ytterbium and neodymium complexes. Dalton Transactions 2004(9), pp. 1405-1409. (10.1039/b401302f)
2003
- Shavaleev, N. M.et al. 2003. Sensitized Near-Infrared Emission from Complexes of YbIII, NdIII and ErIII by Energy-Transfer from Covalently Attached PtII-Based Antenna Units. Chemistry - a European Journal 9(21), pp. 5283-5291. (10.1002/chem.200305132)
- Faulkner, S. and Pope, S. J. A. 2003. Lanthanide-Sensitized Lanthanide Luminescence: Terbium-Sensitized Ytterbium Luminescence in a Trinuclear Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society 125(35), pp. 10526-10527. (10.1021/ja035634v)
- Pope, S. J. A.et al. 2003. Synthesis and luminescence properties of dinuclear lanthanide complexes derived from covalently linked macrocyclic ligands. Dalton Transactions 2003(19), pp. 3780-3784. (10.1039/b309115e)
- Pope, S. . J. A.et al. 2003. Synthesis and luminescence properties of a kinetically stable dinuclear ytterbium complex with differentiated binding sites. Chemical Communications 2003(13), pp. 1550-1551. (10.1039/b303012a)
- Shavaleev, N. M.et al. 2003. Sensitised near-infrared emission from lanthanides using a covalently-attached Pt(ii) fragment as an antenna group. Chemical Communications 2003(10), pp. 1134-1135. (10.1039/b301878d)
- Shavaleev, N. M.et al. 2003. Visible-light sensitisation of near-infrared luminescence from Yb(iii), Nd(iii) and Er(iii) complexes of 3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)tetrazine. Dalton Transactions 2003(5), pp. 808-814. (10.1039/b300294b)
2002
- Morales, A. F.et al. 2002. Interplay of Light Antenna and Excitation “Energy Reservoir” Effects in a Bichromophoric System Based on Ruthenium−Polypyridine and Pyrene Units Linked by a Long and Flexible Poly(ethylene glycol) Chain. Inorganic Chemistry 41(25), pp. 6711-6719. (10.1021/ic025811d)
2001
- Pope, S. J. A.et al. 2001. Folding of a poly(oxyethylene) chain as probed by photoinduced energy transfer between Ru– and Os–polypyridine termini. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions 2001(15), pp. 2228-2231. (10.1039/b104637n)
2000
- Heuer, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 2000. Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural characterisation of copper, silver and gold complexes of the mixed P/O-donor ligand Ph2P(CH2)2O(CH2)2O(CH2)2PPh2. Polyhedron 19(7), pp. 743-749. (10.1016/S0277-5387(00)00291-6)
1999
- Campbell, T.et al. 1999. Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural characterisation of chromium(0), molybdenum(0) and tungsten(0) complexes involving primary and secondary phosphines. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 592(2), pp. 296-305. (10.1016/S0022-328X(99)00570-7)
- Connolly, J.et al. 1999. Co(III) and Cr(III) complexes of diphosphadithia ligands and the crystal structure of [CoCl2(L3)]PF6·CH2Cl2 (L3=Ph2P(CH2)2S(o-C6H4)S(CH2)2PPh2). Polyhedron 18(26), pp. 3553-3558. (10.1016/S0277-5387(99)00285-5)
- Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 1999. Phosphine, arsine and stibine complexes of manganese(I) carbonyl halides: synthesis, multinuclear NMR spectroscopic studies, redox properties and crystal structures. Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton Transactions 1999(10), pp. 1615-1622. (10.1039/a900875f)
- Connolly, J.et al. 1999. Cationic manganese(I) tricarbonyl complexes with group 15 and 16 donor ligands: synthesis, multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and crystal structures. Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton Transactions 1999(14), pp. 2343-2352. (10.1039/a902820j)
1998
- Davies, S. C.et al. 1998. Synthesis, spectroscopic and EXAFS studies of vanadium complexes of trithioether ligands and crystal structures of [VCl3([9]aneS3)] and [VI2(thf )([9]aneS3)] ([9]aneS3 = 1,4,7-trithiacyclononane). Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton Transactions 1998(13), pp. 2191-2198. (10.1039/a802404i)
- Connolly, J.et al. 1998. Pd(II) and Pt(II) complexes with chalcogenide derivatized phosphathia ligands. Polyhedron 17(13-14), pp. 2331-2336. (10.1016/S0277-5387(97)00508-1)
- Patel, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 1998. Rhodium complexes with secondary phosphine and phosphinite ligands and the crystal structures of [(PPh2OH)2(PPh2O)Rh(μ-Cl)3Rh(PPh2OH)(PPh2O)2] and [(PPh2OH)(PPh2O)Cl(NCMe)Rh(μ-Cl)2Rh(PPh2OH)(PPh2O)Cl(NCMe)] · 2thf. Polyhedron 17(13-14), pp. 2345-2351. (10.1016/S0277-5387(97)00460-9)
1995
- Pope, S. J. A. and West, Y. D. 1995. Use of the FT Raman spectrum of Na2MoO4 to study sample heating by the laser. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 51(12), pp. 2011-2017. (10.1016/0584-8539(95)01470-X)
- Pope, S. J. A. and West, Y. D. 1995. Comparison of the FT Raman spectra of inorganic tetrahedral ions over the temperature range 77 to 473 K. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 51(12), pp. 2027-2037. (10.1016/0584-8539(95)01509-1)
CH2117 Environmental Chemistry
CH3202 Applications of Molecular Spectroscopy
- development of new ligand scaffolds for d- and f-block coordination chemistry
- design and synthesis of luminescent probes based on multifunctional metal complexes aimed at biologically important targets
- developing responsive bimodal imaging agents for fluorescence microscopy and MRI applications
- investigations into the attachment of functionalized lumophores onto gold and silver nanoparticles
- studies into novel hybrid materials for photovoltaic applications
All of the work undertaken in our group involves a wide variety of synthetic chemistry with a strong emphasis on photophysical characterisation. The general theme of the work is the design of responsive multifunctional molecules. These can be sensors or probes for a variety of applications ranging from targeted biomedical imaging to the detection of toxic organic residues in drinking water. In all cases we aim to use an understanding of the photophysical properties of metal-based coordination compounds as a design tool. For example, we recently reported a luminescent europium complex which selectively binds zinc in physiological conditions. This fundamentally alters the emissive properties of the probe due to the modulation of the inner sphere coordination environment.
