Collaborations

Gernot Frenking (Marburg) and Lili Zhao (Nanjing)

We are collaborating with Gernot Frenking (Marburg) and Lil Zhao (Nanjing) to look at aspects of mechanism in the reactivity of metal aluminyl complexes with unsaturated substrates. The first part of this study can be found in this article recently published in Chemical Science which centred on Caitilín's experimental work on carbon dioxide sequestration and transformation.

(C. McManus, J. Hicks, X. Cui, L. Zhao, G. Frenking, J.M. Goicoechea, S. Aldridge, Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 13458-13468)

Jose Goicoechea (Oxford)

We have been collaborating with our colleague Jose Goicoechea for a number of years on a range of projects spanning groups 13, 14 and 15 chemistry. This has included some recent work on low valent aluminium chemistry - including the paper above detailing the first example of a lithium aluminyl compound.

(M.M.D Roy, J. Hicks, P. Vasko, A. Heilmann, A.-M. Baston, J.M. Goicoechea, S. Aldridge, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 22301-22306)

Cameron Jones (Monash)

The group has collaborated for many years with the group of Cameron Jones at Monash University in Melbourne - primarily on the synthetic and reaction chemistry of low valent main group species. This includes the paper above - part of which was the work of Oxford final year undergraduate Andy Gair who spent his 'Part 2' year in the Jones lab at Monash. Currently Marcel Schorpp is working in Oxford on a joint project between the two groups, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.

(D. Dange, A. Gair, D. Jones, M. Juckel, S. Aldridge, C. Jones, Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 3208-3216)

Alison Edwards (ANSTO)

We have collaborated with Alison Edwards at ANSTO in Australia, on a number of projects which involve the use of neutron diffraction techniques for key characterization data. In particular this has been employed in determining accurate structural models for hydrogen-containing molecules, where the H-tom positions are key to defining reaction pathways.

(J.A.B. Abdalla, A. Caise, C. Sindlinger, R. Tirfoin, A.L. Thompson, A.J. Edwards, S. Aldridge, Nature Chem. 2017, 9, 1256-1262)

Steve Faulkner and Bart Cornelissen (Oxford)

We have collaborated with Steve Faulkner in Oxford on projects involving the binding and detection of various anionic analytes, particularly cyanide and fluoride. More recently we have been involved with Steve and Bart Cornelissen (Oncology) in the development of borane-derived 18F tags for PET imaging...

(J.D. Routledge, X. Zhang, M. Connolly, M. Tropiano, O.A. Blackburn, A.M. Kenwright, P.D. Beer, S. Aldridge, S. Faulkner, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 7783-7786).

Paul Kamer

We collaborated with the late Paul Kamer - both during his time at St Andrews and at LIKAT - on the design and catalytic applications of single-component Frustrated Lewis Pairs (FLPs) based on xanthene and related backbones, having met up to discuss science at one of the meetings organised by the UK Catalysis Hub...

(P. Vasko, I. Zulkifly, M.Á. Fuentes, Z. Mo, J. Hicks, P.C.J. Kamer, S. Aldridge, Chem.-Eur. J. 2018, 24, 10531-10540).