Dr Stephen Sproules
- Lecturer in inorganic Chemistry (School of Chemistry)
telephone:
01413303716
email:
Stephen.Sproules@glasgow.ac.uk
A5-14, School of Chemistry, Joseph Black Building
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3587-0375Research interests
PhD opportunities are available.
Quantum information science promises to revolutionise information and communications technologies via secure communication, precision measurement, and ultra-powerful simulation and computation. The realisation of these technologies will massively enhance our ability to secure and process the ever-increasing volumes of information that drives our global economy. Our research is directed towards developing new molecular qubits and linking them together to form the basic unit for a computer: a quantum gate. The programme involves the synthesis of mono- and multinuclear complexes with ligand-based unpaired spins, i.e., ligand radicals. These molecules are examined with a suite of physical techniques, including electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), magnetometry, x-ray diffraction (XRD) and absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and electrochemistry, augmented with theoretical calculations.
Publication Highlights
- Tris(dithiolene) Chemistry: A Golden Jubilee, S. Sproules, Prog. Inorg. Chem., 2013, 58, 1-186.
- Experimental Fingerprints for Redox-Active Terpyridine in [Cr(tpy)2](PF6)n (n = 3–0), and the Remarkable Electronic Structure of [Cr(tpy)2]1–, C. C. Scarborough, K. M. Lancaster, S. DeBeer, T. Weyhermüller, S. Sproules and K. Wieghardt, Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 3718-3732.
- The Rhenium Tris(dithiolene) Electron Transfer Series: Calibrating Covalency, S. Sproules, T. Weyhermüller, R. Goddard and K. Wieghardt, Inorg. Chem., 2011, 50, 12623-12631.
- Long-Range Spin Coupling: A Tetraphosphine-Bridged Palladium Dimer, K. Arumugam, M. C. Shaw, J. T. Mague, E. Bill, S. Sproules and J. P. Donahue, Inorg. Chem., 2011, 50, 2995-3002.
- Dithiolene Radicals: Sulfur K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Harry’s Intuition, S. Sproules and K. Wieghardt, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2011, 255, 837-860.
Research groups
Publications
Selected publications
Bajo, S., Laidlaw, G., Kennedy, A. R. and Sproules, S. (2017) Oxidative addition of aryl electrophiles to a prototypical nickel(0) complex: mechanism and structure/reactivity relationships. Organometallics, 36(8), pp. 1662-1672. (doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00208)
Curcio, M., Pankhurst, J. R., Sproules, S. , Mignard, D. and Love, J. B. (2017) Triggering redox activity in a thiophene compound: radical stabilization and coordination chemistry. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(27), pp. 7939-7943. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201703576) (PMID:28471076)
Sproules, S. , Eagle, A. A., George, G. N., White, J. M. and Young, C. G. (2017) Mononuclear sulfido-tungsten(V) complexes: completing the Tp*MEXY (M = Mo, W; E = O, S) series. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(9), pp. 5189-5202. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00331) (PMID:28414431)
Kaspar, M., Altmann, P. J., Pöthig, A., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. R. (2017) A macrocyclic ‛Co0’ complex: the relevance of ligand non-innocence to reactivity. Chemical Communications, 53, pp. 7282-7285. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC02239E) (PMID:28425509)
Pankhurst, J. R., Bell, N. L. , Zegke, M., Platts, L. N., Lamfsus, C. A., Maron, L., Natrajan, L. S., Sproules, S. , Arnold, P. L. and Love, J. B. (2017) Inner-sphere vs. outer-sphere reduction of uranyl supported by a redox-active, donor-expanded dipyrrin. Chemical Science, 8(1), pp. 108-116. (doi: 10.1039/C6SC02912D) (PMID:28451154) (PMCID:PMC5304617)
Vantourout, J. C., Miras, H. N. , Isidro-Llobet, A., Sproules, S. and Watson, A. J.B. (2017) Spectroscopic studies of the Chan–Lam amination: a mechanism-inspired solution to boronic ester reactivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(13), pp. 4769-4779. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b12800) (PMID:28266843)
All publications
2024
Fohn, N. A., Gao, Y., Sproules, S. , Nichol, G. S., Brennan, C. M., Robinson, A. J. and Lloyd-Jones, G. C. (2024) Kinetics and mechanism of PPh3/Ni-catalyzed, Zn-mediated, aryl chloride homocoupling: antagonistic effects of ZnCl2/Cl–. Journal of the American Chemical Society, (doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c12088) (Early Online Publication)
Yiu, W. K., Wilkinson, D., Cariello, M. , Giza, M., Pant, N., Mohammed, N., Vella, B., Sproules, S. , Cooke, G. and Docampo, P. (2024) N-doping of bio-inspired electron transporting materials: the influence of charge-transfer complexation. Energy Advances, (doi: 10.1039/D4YA00369A) (Early Online Publication)
MacLeod, C. I., Keramidas, O. D., Moiras, H. N. and Sproules, S. (2024) Electronic and molecular structures of a series of nickel Bis-1,1-dithiolates. Chemistry: A European Journal, 30(46), e202401710. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202401710)
Grunshaw, T., Wood, S. H., Sproules, S. , Parrott, A., Nordon, A., Shapland, P. D. P., Wheelhouse, K. M. P. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. (2024) A mechanistic investigation of the N-hydroxyphthalimide catalyzed benzylic oxidation mediated by sodium chlorite. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 11, pp. 7933-7945. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.4c00583) (PMID:38748510)
2023
Alhathlaul, N., Ertekin, Z. , Sproules, S. and Symes, M. D. (2023) Room temperature electro-carboxylation of styrene and stilbene derivatives: A comparative study. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 950, 117892. (doi: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2023.117892)
Wang, B., Barnes, J., Ferrara, S. J., Sproules, S. , Zhang, X., Mague, J. T. and Donahue, J. P. (2023) Fully reduced and mixed-valent multi-copper aggregates supported by tetradentate diamino bis(thiolate) ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00784)
2022
van Rees, K., Rajeshkumar, T., Maron, L., Sproules, S. and Love, J. B. (2022) Role of the meso substituent in defining the reduction of uranyl dipyrrin complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 61(50), pp. 20424-20432. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03048) (PMID:36472325) (PMCID:PMC9768749)
Kumar, S., Selvachandran, M., Wu, C., Pascal, R. A., Zhang, X., Grusenmeyer, T., Schmehl, R. H., Sproules, S. , Mague, J. T. and Donahue, J. P. (2022) Heterotrimetallic assemblies with 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(diphenylphosphino)benzene bridges: Constructs for controlling the separation and spatial orientation of redox-active metallodithiolene groups. Inorganic Chemistry, 61(44), pp. 17804-17818. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03112) (PMID:36282620)
Cariello, M. , Dietrich, B. , Thomson, L., Gauci, V., Boyer, A. , Sproules, S. , Cooke, G. , Seddon, A. and Adams, D. J. (2022) A self‐assembling flavin for visible photooxidation. Chemistry: A European Journal, 28(49), e202201725. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202201725) (PMID:35722972) (PMCID:PMC9541220)
Sproules, S. (2022) Electronic versatility of vanadium in tris-chelates with redox-active ligands. Dalton Transactions, 51(15), pp. 5772-5776. (doi: 10.1039/D2DT00672C) (PMID:35348162)
Randle, R. I., Cavalcanti, L., Sproules, S. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Aggregate dependent electrochromic properties of amino acid appended naphthalene diimides in water. Materials Advances, 3(7), pp. 3326-3331. (doi: 10.1039/D2MA00207H)
Johnson Humphrey, E. L.B., Kennedy, A. R., Sproules, S. and Nelson, D. J. (2022) Evaluating a dispersion of sodium in sodium chloride for the synthesis of low-valent nickel complexes. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2022(7), e202101006. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.202101006)
van Rees, K., Hield, E. K., Carpentier, A., Maron, L., Sproules, S. and Love, J. B. (2022) Exploring the redox properties of bench-stable uranyl(VI) diamido–dipyrrin complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 61(7), pp. 3249-3255. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03744) (PMID:35129967)
2021
Black, C., Currie, G., Whiston, K., Sproules, S. and Jackson, S. D. (2021) Oxidative dehydrogenation of 1-butene to 1,3-butadiene over metal ferrite catalysts. Topics in Catalysis, 64(17), pp. 907-915. (doi: 10.1007/s11244-021-01426-z)
Kumar, S., Selvachandran, M., Arumugam, K., Shaw, M. C., Wu, C., Maurer, M., Zhang, X., Sproules, S. , Mague, J. T. and Donahue, J. P. (2021) Open-ended metallodithiolene complexes with the 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(diphenylphosphino)benzene ligand: modular building elements for the synthesis of multimetal complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 60(17), pp. 13177-13192. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01573) (PMID:34370468)
Sproules, S. (2021) Oxo versus sulfido coordination at tungsten: a spectroscopic and correlated ab initio electronic structure study. Inorganic Chemistry, 60(12), pp. 9057-9063. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01055) (PMID:34096284)
Paul, A., Shipman, M. A., Onabule, D. Y., Sproules, S. and Symes, M. D. (2021) Selective aldehyde reductions in neutral water catalysed by encapsulation in a supramolecular cage. Chemical Science, 12(14), pp. 5082-5090. (doi: 10.1039/D1SC00896J)
Sproules, S. (2021) Electronic structure study of divanadium complexes with rigid covalent coordination: potential molecular qubits with slow spin relaxation. Dalton Transactions, 50(14), pp. 4778-4782. (doi: 10.1039/d1dt00709b) (PMID:33877176)
2020
Papanikolaou, M. G., Elliott, A., McAllister, J. , Gallos, J. K., Keramidas, A. D., Kabanos, T. A., Sproules, S. and Miras, H. N. (2020) Electrocatalytic hydrogen production by dinuclear cobalt(ii) compounds containing redox-active diamidate ligands: a combined experimental and theoretical study. Dalton Transactions, 49(44), pp. 15718-15730. (doi: 10.1039/D0DT02617D) (PMID:33146215)
Greaves, M., Ronson, T. O., Lloyd-Jones, G. C., Maseras, F., Sproules, S. and Nelson, D. J. (2020) Unexpected nickel complex speciation unlocks alternative pathways for the reactions of alkyl halides with dppf-nickel(0). ACS Catalysis, 10(18), pp. 10717-10725. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.0c02514)
Damgaard-Møller, E., Krause, L., Lassen, H., Malaspina, L. A., Grabowsky, S., Bamberger, H., McGuire, J., Miras, H. N. , Sproules, S. and Overgaard, J. (2020) Investigating complex magnetic anisotropy in a Co(II) molecular compound: a charge density and correlated ab initio electronic structure study. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(18), pp. 13190-13200. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01489) (PMID:32869986)
Obanda, A., Valerius, K., Mague, J. T., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2020) Group 10 metal dithiolene bis(isonitrile) complexes: synthesis, structures, properties and reactivity. Organometallics, 39(15), pp. 2854-2870. (doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00375)
Greatorex, S., Fokin, S. V., Kulmaczewski, R., Yamada, M., Cespedes, O., Yoshinari, N., Konno, T., Sproules, S. , Ovcharenko, V. I. and Halcrow, M. A. (2020) Modulating the magnetic properties of copper(II)/nitroxyl heterospin complexes by suppression of the Jahn–Teller distortion. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(13), pp. 8657-8662. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01345) (PMID:32525669)
Goodwin, C. A.P., Réant, B. L.L., Vettese, G. F., Kragskow, J. G.C., Giansiracusa, M. J., DiMucci, I. M., Lancaster, K. M., Mills, D. P. and Sproules, S. (2020) Heteroleptic samarium(III) chalcogenide complexes: opportunities for giant exchange coupling in bridging σ- and π-radical lanthanide dichalcogenides. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(11), pp. 7571-7583. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00470) (PMID:32421315) (PMCID:PMC7268190)
Gibson, D. et al. (2020) Durable infrared optical coatings based on pulsed DC-sputtering of hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H). Applied Optics, 59(9), pp. 2731-2738. (doi: 10.1364/AO.378266)
Credendino, L. and Sproules, S. (2020) Modulating iron spin states with radical ligands: a density functional theoretical study. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 9(3), pp. 421-430. (doi: 10.1002/ajoc.201900626)
2019
Sproules, S. (2019) Comment on “Stabilization of low-valent iron(I) in a high-valent vanadium(V) oxide cluster”. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 58(30), pp. 10043-10047. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201811125) (PMID:31267608)
Shipman, M. A., Sproules, S. , Wilson, C. and Symes, M. D. (2019) Towards a better understanding of the electrosynthesis of 2,5-dicarboxy-2,5-dihydrofurans: structure, mechanism and influence over stereochemistry. Royal Society Open Science, 6(7), 190336. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.190336) (PMID:31417736) (PMCID:PMC6689595)
Bara, D. J. , Wilson, C. , Mörtel, M., Khusniyarov, M. M., Ling, S., Slater, B., Sproules, S. and Forgan, R. S. (2019) Kinetic control of interpenetration in Fe-biphenyl-4,4′-dicarboxylate metal-organic frameworks by coordination and oxidation modulation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(20), pp. 8346-8357. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b03269) (PMID:31017428)
Moore, J. T. et al. (2019) Enhanced Fe-centered redox flexibility in Fe–Ti heterobimetallic complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 58(9), pp. 6199-6214. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00442) (PMID:30957996)
Greatorex, S., Vincent, K. B., Baldansuren, A., McInnes, E. J.L., Patmore, N. J., Sproules, S. and Halcrow, M. A. (2019) Rigidification of a macrocyclic tris-catecholate scaffold leads to electronic localisation of its mixed valent redox product. Chemical Communications, 55, pp. 2281-2284. (doi: 10.1039/C8CC10122A) (PMID:30720027)
McGuire, J., Miras, H. N. , Richards, E. and Sproules, S. (2019) Enabling single qubit addressability in a molecular semiconductor comprising gold-supported organic radicals. Chemical Science, 10(5), pp. 1483-1491. (doi: 10.1039/C8SC04500C) (PMID:30809365) (PMCID:PMC6354843)
McGuire, J., Wilson, B., McAllister, J., Miras, H. N. , Wilson, C. , Sproules, S. and Farnaby, J. H. (2019) Molecular and electronic structure of the dithiooxalato radical ligand stabilised by rare earth coordination. Dalton Transactions, 48, pp. 5491-5495. (doi: 10.1039/C9DT00688E) (PMID:30892339)
Passadis, S. S., Hadjithoma, S., Kalampounias, A. G., Tsipis, A. C., Sproules, S. , Miras, H. N. , Keramidas, A. D. and Kabanos, T. A. (2019) Synthesis, structural and physicochemical characterization of a new type Ti6-oxo cluster protected by a cyclic imide dioxime ligand. Dalton Transactions, 48, pp. 5551-5559. (doi: 10.1039/C9DT00658C) (PMID:30785155)
Wilson, R. K., Dhers, S., Sproules, S. , McInnes, E. J.L. and Brooker, S. (2019) Three manganese complexes of anionic N4-donor Schiff-base macrocycles: 1 monomeric Mn(II) and Mn(III), and dimeric Mn(IV). Australian Journal of Chemistry, 72, pp. 805-810. (doi: 10.1071/CH19209)
2018
McGuire, J., Miras, H. N. , Donahue, J. P., Richards, E. and Sproules, S. (2018) Ligand radicals as modular organic electron spin qubits. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(66), pp. 17598-17605. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201804165) (PMID:30291646)
Birney, R. et al. (2018) Amorphous silicon with extremely low absorption: beating thermal noise in gravitational astronomy. Physical Review Letters, 121, 191101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.191101)
Gonzalez, L., Liu, C., Dietrich, B. , Su, H., Sproules, S. , Cui, H., Honecker, D., Adams, D. J. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Transparent-to-dark photo- and electrochromic gels. Communications Chemistry, 1, 77. (doi: 10.1038/s42004-018-0075-2)
Hickson, J. R., Horsewill, S. J., McGuire, J., Wilson, C. , Sproules, S. and Farnaby, J. H. (2018) The semiquinone radical anion of 1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione: synthesis and rare earth coordination chemistry. Chemical Communications, 54(80), pp. 11284-11287. (doi: 10.1039/C8CC05591B) (PMID:30239538)
Draper, E. R. , Dietrich, B. , Brasnett, C., Sproules, S. , McDonald, T. O., Seddon, A. M. and Adams, D. J. (2018) P-type low-molecular-weight hydrogelators. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 39(17), 1700746. (doi: 10.1002/marc.201700746) (PMID:29333741)
Broere, D. L.J., Mercado, B. Q., Bill, E., Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. and Holland, P. L. (2018) Alkali cation effects on redox-active formazanate ligands in iron chemistry. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(16), pp. 9580-9591. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00226) (PMID:29629752)
Goodwin, C. A.P., Réant, B. L.L., Kragskow, J. G.C., DiMucci, I. M., Lancaster, K. M., Mills, D. P. and Sproules, S. (2018) Heteroleptic samarium(III) halide complexes probed by fluorescence-detected L3-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Dalton Transactions, 47(31), pp. 10613-10625. (doi: 10.1039/C8DT01452C) (PMID:29790545)
Hickson, J. R., Horsewill, S., Bamforth, C., McGuire, J., Wilson, C. , Sproules, S. and Farnaby, J. H. (2018) The modular synthesis of rare earth-transition metal heterobimetallic complexes utilizing a redox-active ligand. Dalton Transactions, 47(31), pp. 10692-10701. (doi: 10.1039/C8DT01262H) (PMID:29897068)
Lāce, I., Sproules, S. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Using sugar-based additives to prolong the lifetime of air-stable radicals in self-assembled perylene bisimides. ChemNanoMat, 4(8), pp. 776-780. (doi: 10.1002/cnma.201800153)
Curcio, M., Henschel, D., Huettenschmidt, M., Sproules, S. and Love, J. (2018) Radical relatives: facile oxidation of hetero-diarylmethene anions to neutral radicals. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(16), pp. 9592-9600. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00554) (PMID:29969020)
Broere, D. L.J., Mercado, B. Q., Lukens, J. T., Vilbert, A. C., Banerjee, G., Lant, H. M.C., Lee, S. H., Bill, E., Sproules, S. and Holland, P. L. (2018) Reversible ligand-centered reduction in low- coordinate iron formazanate complexes. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(37), pp. 9417-9425. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201801298) (PMID:29663542)
Cross, E. R., Sproules, S. , Schweins, R., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Controlled tuning of the properties in optoelectronic self-sorted gels. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(28), pp. 8667-8670. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b05359) (PMID:29944359)
BLACK, C., Spence, R. R., Whiston, K., Sproules, S. and Jackson, S. D. (2018) Effect of excess iron on oxidative dehydrogenation of 1-butene over a series of zinc ferrite catalysts. Progress in Petrochemical Science, 2(2), 000534.
Stark, H. S., Altmann, P. J., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. R. (2018) Structural characterization and photochemical properties of mono-and bimetallic Cu-Mabiq complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(11), pp. 6401-6409. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00471) (PMID:29767971)
Cioncoloni, G., Roger Barba, I., Wheatley, P. S., Wilson, C. , Morris, R. E., Sproules, S. and Symes, M. D. (2018) Proton-coupled electron transfer enhances the electrocatalytic reduction of nitrite to no in a bioinspired copper complex. ACS Catalysis, 8(6), pp. 5070-5084. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00361)
Pankhurst, J. R., Curcio, M., Sproules, S. , Lloyd-Jones, G. C. and Love, J. B. (2018) Earth-abundant mixed-metal catalysts for hydrocarbon oxygenation. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(10), pp. 5915-5928. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00420) (PMID:29708740)
Arumugam, K., Selvachandran, M., Obanda, A., Shaw, M. C., Chandrasekaran, P., Caston Good, S. L., Mague, J. T., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2018) Redox-active metallodithiolene groups separated by insulating tetraphosphinobenzene spacers. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(7), pp. 4023-4038. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00201) (PMID:29533607)
Miras, H. N. , Sartzi, H., Long, D.-L. , Sproules, S. and Cronin, L. (2018) Directed self-assembly, symmetry breaking, and electronic modulation of metal oxide clusters by pyramidal heteroanions. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(17), pp. 4399-4411. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201705711) (PMID:29315925)
Nicolaou, M., Papanikolaou, M., Tsipis, A., Kabanos, T., Keramidas, A., Sproules, S. and Miras, H. N. (2018) Design and assembly of covalently functionalised polyoxofluorovanadate molecular hybrids. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(15), pp. 3836-3845. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201705730) (PMID:29319211)
Draper, E. R. , Archibald, L. J., Nolan, M. C., Schweins, R., Zwijnenburg, M. A., Sproules, S. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Controlling photoconductivity in PBI films by supramolecular assembly. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(16), pp. 4006-4010. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201800201) (PMID:29405458) (PMCID:PMC5887895)
Khan, S., Sproules, S. , Natrajan, L., Harms, K. and Chattopadhyay, S. (2018) End-on cyanate or end-to-end thiocyanate bridged dinuclear copper(II) complexes with a tridentate Schiff base blocking ligand: Synthesis, structure and magnetic studies. New Journal of Chemistry, 42(3), pp. 1634-1641. (doi: 10.1039/C7NJ03990E)
2017
Haas, R. M., Hern, Z., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. (2017) An unsymmetric ligand framework for noncoupled homo- and heterobimetallic complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(24), pp. 14738-14742. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02294)
Bhattacharyya, A., Bauzá, A., Sproules, S. , Natrajan, L. S., Frontera, A. and Chattopadhyay, S. (2017) A polynuclear and two dinuclear copper(II) Schiff base complexes: Synthesis, characterization, self-assembly, magnetic property and DFT study. Polyhedron, 137, pp. 332-346. (doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2017.08.010)
Obanda, A., Martinez, K., Schmehl, R. H., Mague, J. T., Rubtsov, I. V., MacMillan, S. N., Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2017) Expanding the scope of ligand substitution from [M(S2C2Ph2] (M = Ni2+, Pd2+, Pt2+) to afford new heteroleptic dithiolene complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(17), pp. 10257-10267. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00971) (PMID:28820242)
Cioncoloni, G., Sproules, S. , Wilson, C. and Symes, M. D. (2017) Unprecedented inequivalent metal coordination environments in a mixed-ligand dicobalt complex. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2017(31), pp. 3707-3713. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.201700803)
Roger, I., Wilson, C. , Senn, H. M. , Sproules, S. and Symes, M. D. (2017) An investigation into the unusual linkage isomerization and nitrite reduction activity of a novel tris(2-pyridyl) copper complex. Royal Society Open Science, 4(8), 170593. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.170593)
Kaspar, M., Altmann, P. J., Pöthig, A., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. R. (2017) A macrocyclic ‛Co0’ complex: the relevance of ligand non-innocence to reactivity. Chemical Communications, 53, pp. 7282-7285. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC02239E) (PMID:28425509)
Curcio, M., Pankhurst, J. R., Sproules, S. , Mignard, D. and Love, J. B. (2017) Triggering redox activity in a thiophene compound: radical stabilization and coordination chemistry. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(27), pp. 7939-7943. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201703576) (PMID:28471076)
Campbell, R., Kennedy, A. R., McLellan, R., Robertson, S. D., Sproules, S. and Mulvey, R. E. (2017) Contrasting the group 6 metal-metal bonding in sodium dichromate(II) and sodium dimolybdate(II) polymethyl complexes: synthetic, X-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies. Dalton Transactions, 46(17), pp. 5650-5659. (doi: 10.1039/C6DT04644D) (PMID:28145549)
Bajo, S., Laidlaw, G., Kennedy, A. R. and Sproules, S. (2017) Oxidative addition of aryl electrophiles to a prototypical nickel(0) complex: mechanism and structure/reactivity relationships. Organometallics, 36(8), pp. 1662-1672. (doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00208)
Leblanc, N., Sproules, S. and Powell, A. K. (2017) An alternative method to access diverse N,N′-diquaternised-3,3′-biquinoxalinium “biquinoxen” dications. New Journal of Chemistry, 41(8), pp. 2949-2954. (doi: 10.1039/C7NJ00531H)
Vantourout, J. C., Miras, H. N. , Isidro-Llobet, A., Sproules, S. and Watson, A. J.B. (2017) Spectroscopic studies of the Chan–Lam amination: a mechanism-inspired solution to boronic ester reactivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(13), pp. 4769-4779. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b12800) (PMID:28266843)
Sproules, S. , Eagle, A. A., George, G. N., White, J. M. and Young, C. G. (2017) Mononuclear sulfido-tungsten(V) complexes: completing the Tp*MEXY (M = Mo, W; E = O, S) series. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(9), pp. 5189-5202. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00331) (PMID:28414431)
Pankhurst, J. R., Bell, N. L. , Zegke, M., Platts, L. N., Lamfsus, C. A., Maron, L., Natrajan, L. S., Sproules, S. , Arnold, P. L. and Love, J. B. (2017) Inner-sphere vs. outer-sphere reduction of uranyl supported by a redox-active, donor-expanded dipyrrin. Chemical Science, 8(1), pp. 108-116. (doi: 10.1039/C6SC02912D) (PMID:28451154) (PMCID:PMC5304617)
Sproules, S. (2017) Molecules as electron spin qubits. In: Chechik, V. and Murphy, D. M. (eds.) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance. Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 61-97. ISBN 9781782628576 (doi: 10.1039/9781782629436-00061)
2016
Ferrando-Soria, J. et al. (2016) Switchable Interaction in Molecular Double Qubits. Chem, 1(5), pp. 727-752. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2016.10.001)
Cioncoloni, G., Senn, H. M. , Sproules, S. , Wilson, C. and Symes, M. (2016) The electronic and solvatochromic properties of [Co(L)(bipyridine)2]+ (L = o-catecholato, o-benzenedithiolato) species: a combined experimental and computational study. Dalton Transactions, 45(39), pp. 15575-15585. (doi: 10.1039/C6DT02807A)
Kundu, S., Mondal, A., Weyhermüller, T., Sproules, S. and Ghosh, P. (2016) Molecular and electronic structures of copper-cuprizone and analogues. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 451, pp. 23-30. (doi: 10.1016/j.ica.2016.06.040)
Leblanc, N., Sproules, S. , Fink, K., Sanguinet, L., Alévêque, O., Levillain, E., Rosa, P. and Powell, A. K. (2016) A fascinating multifaceted redox-active chelating ligand: introducing the N,N′-dimethyl-3,3′-biquinoxalinium “methylbiquinoxen” platform. Chemical Science, 7(6), pp. 3820-3828. (doi: 10.1039/C5SC04904K)
Spencer, N. A., Ditzel, E. J., Hargreaves, J. S. J. and Sproules, S. (2016) Radicals in carbonaceous residue deposited on mordenite from methanol. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(18), pp. 7036-7044. (doi: 10.1039/C6TA01053A)
2015
Anamimoghadam, O., Symes, M. D. , Long, D. L. , Sproules, S. , Cronin, L. and Bucher, G. (2015) Electronically stabilized nonplanar phenalenyl radical and its planar isomer. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(47), pp. 14944-14951. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b07959) (PMID:26526672)
Barnett, B. R., Moore, C. E., Chandrasekaran, P., Sproules, S. , Rheingold, A. L., DeBeer, S. and Figeroa, J. S. (2015) Metal-only Lewis pairs between group 10 metals and Tl(I) or Ag(I): insights into the electronic consequences of Z-type ligand binding†. Chemical Science, 6(12), pp. 7169-7178. (doi: 10.1039/C5SC03104D)
Loughrey, J. J., Patmore, N. J., Baldansuren, A., Fielding, A. J., McInnes, E. J. L., Hardie, M., Sproules, S. and Halcrow, M. (2015) Platinum(II) complexes of mixed-valent radicals derived from cyclotricatechylene, a macrocyclic tris-dioxolene. Chemical Science, 6(12), pp. 6935-6948. (doi: 10.1039/C5SC02776D)
Fernandez, A., Moreno Pineda, E., Muryn, C. A., Sproules, S. , Moro, F., Timco, G. A., McInnes, E. J. L. and Winpenny, R. E. P. (2015) g-engineering in hybrid rotaxanes to create AB and AB2 electron spin systems: EPR spectroscopic studies of weak interactions between dissimilar electron spin qubits. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 54(37), pp. 10858-10861. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201504487) (PMID:26224489)
Leblanc, N., Sproules, S. , Pasquier, C., Auban-Senzier, P., Raffy, H. and Powell, A. K. (2015) Approaching the limit of CuII/CuImixed valency in a CuIBr2–N-methylquinoxalinium hybrid compound. Chemical Communications, 51(64), pp. 12740-12743. (doi: 10.1039/C5CC04142B)
Puttock, E. V., Banerjee, P., Kaspar, M., Drennan, L., Yufit, D. S., Bill, E., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. R. (2015) A series of [Co(Mabiq)Cl2-n] (n = 0, 1, 2) compounds and evidence for the elusive bimetallic form. Inorganic Chemistry, 54(12), pp. 5864-5873. 26035475. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00636)
Dragan, A., Kubczyk, T. M., Rowley, J. H., Sproules, S. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. (2015) Arene oxidation with malonoyl peroxides. Organic Letters, 17(11), pp. 2618-2621. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00953) (PMID:25966313)
Yan, Y., Mague, J. T., Donahue, J. and Sproules, S. (2015) Unprecedented spin localisation in a metal-metal bonded dirhenium complex. Chemical Communications, 51(25), pp. 5482-5485. (doi: 10.1039/C4CC09397F) (PMID:25525649)
Bhowmik, P., Bhattacharyya, A., Harms, K., Sproules, S. and Chattopadhyay, S. (2015) Anion directed cation templated synthesis of three ternary copper(II) complexes with a monocondensed N2O donor Schiff base and different pseudohalides. Polyhedron, 85, pp. 221-231. (doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2014.08.021)
Jeanmaire, D., Timco, G. A., Gennari, A., Sproules, S. , Williams, K. J., Winpenny, R. E.P. and Tirelli, N. (2015) Binary behaviour of an oxidation-responsive MRI nano contrast agent. Chemical Communications, 51(6), pp. 1074-1076. (doi: 10.1039/C4CC08024F)
Tomson, N. C., Williams, K. D., Dai, X., Sproules, S. , DeBeer, S., Warren, T. H. and Wieghardt, K. (2015) Re-evaluating the Cu K pre-edge XAS transition in complexes with covalent metal–ligand interactions. Chemical Science, 6, pp. 2474-2487. (doi: 10.1039/C4SC03294B)
2014
Witt, A., Heinemann, F. W., Sproules, S. and Khusniyarov, M. M. (2014) Modulation of magnetic properties at room temperature: Coordination-Induced Valence Tautomerism (CIVT)in a cobalt dioxolene complex. Chemistry: A European Journal, 20(35), pp. 11149-11162. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201402129)
Loughrey, J. J., Sproules, S. , McInnes, E. J.L., Hardie, M. J. and Halcrow, M. A. (2014) Stable mixed-valent radicals from platinum(II) complexes of a bis(dioxolene) ligand. Chemistry: A European Journal, 20(21), pp. 6272-6276. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201304848)
Magee, S. A., Sproules, S. , Barra, A.-L., Timco, G. A., Chilton, N. F., Collison, D., Winpenny, R. E. P. and McInnes, E. J. L. (2014) Large zero-field splittings of the ground spin state arising from antisymmetric exchange effects in heterometallic triangles. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 53(21), pp. 5310-5313. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201400655)
Shinde, Y., Sproules, S. , Kathawate, L., Pav, S., Konkimalla, B. and Salunke-Gawali, S. (2014) Separation and isolation of tautomers of 2-hydroxy-4-naphthoquinone-1-oxime derivatives by liquid chromatography: antiproliferative activity and DFT studies. Journal of Chemical Sciences, 126(1), pp. 213-225. (doi: 10.1007/s12039-013-0549-9)
Jayarathne, U., Chandrasekaran, P., Greene, A. F., Mague, J. T., DeBeer, S., Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2014) X-ray absorption spectroscopy systematics at the tungsten L-edge. Inorganic Chemistry, 53(16), pp. 8230-8241. (doi: 10.1021/ic500256a)
Sproules, S. (2014) Tris(dithiolene) Chemistry: A Golden Jubilee. In: Karlin, K.D. (ed.) Progress in Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 58. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 1-144. ISBN 9781118792797 (doi: 10.1002/9781118792797.ch01)
Walsh, J. P. S., Sproules, S. , Chilton, N., Barra, A.-L., Timco, G. A., Collision, D., McInnes, E. J. L. and Winpenny, R. E. P. (2014) On the possibility of magneto-structural correlations: detailed studies of di-nickel carboxylate complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 53(16), pp. 8464-8472. (doi: 10.1021/ic501036h)
2013
Kathawate, L., Sproules, S. , Pawar, O., Markad, G., Haram, S., Puranik, V. and Salunke-Gawali, S. (2013) Synthesis and molecular structure of a zinc complex of the vitamin K3 analogue phthiocol. Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, 1048, pp. 223-229. (doi: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2013.05.057)
Arumugam, K., Varnado, C.D., Sproules, S. , Lynch, V. M. and Bielawski, C. W. (2013) Redox-switchable ring-closing metathesis: catalyst deisgn, synthesis, and study. Chemistry: A European Journal, 19(33), pp. 10866-10875. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201301247)
Yan, Y., Keating, C., Chandrasekaran, P., Jayarathne, U., Mague, J. T., DeBeer, S., Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. , Rubtsov, I. V. and Donahue, J. P. (2013) Ancillary ligand effects upon dithiolene ligand noninnocence in tungsten bis(dithiolene) compounds. Inorganic Chemistry, 52(11), pp. 6743-6751. (doi: 10.1021/ic4009174)
Shuvaev, K. V., Sproules, S. , Rautiainen, J. M., McInnes, E. J. L., Collison, D., Anson, C. E. and Powell, A. K. (2013) A self-assembled Cu(II)4 [2×2] grid with organic radicals. Dalton Transactions, 42(7), pp. 2371-2381. (doi: 10.1039/C2DT31946B)
Lindsay, S., Lo, S. K., Maguire, O. R., Bill, E., Probert, M. R., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. R. (2013) Syntheses and electronic structure of bimetallic complexes containing a flexible redox-active bridging ligand. Inorganic Chemistry, 52(2), pp. 898-909. (doi: 10.1021/ic302087f)
Helten, H., Dutta, B., Vance, J.R., Sloan, M.E., Haddow, M.F., Sproules, S. , Collison, D., Whittell, G.R., Lloyd-Jones, G.C. and Manners, I. (2013) Paramagnetic titanium(III) and zirconium(III) metallocene complexes as precatalysts for the dehydrocoupling/dehydrogenation of amine-boranes. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 52(1), pp. 437-440. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201207903)
Bowman, A. C., England, J., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2013) Electronic structures of homoleptic [Tris(2,2′-bipyridine)M]ncomplexes of the early transition metals (M = Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta;n= 1+, 0, 1–, 2–, 3−): an experimental and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 52(4), pp. 2242-2256. (doi: 10.1021/ic302799s)
2012
England, J., Scarborough, C. C., Weyhermüller, T., Sproules, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2012) Electronic Structures of the Electron Transfer Series [M(bpy)3]n, [M(tpy)2]n, and [Fe(tbpy)3]n(M = Fe, Ru;n= 3+, 2+, 1+, 0, 1-): A Mössbauer Spectroscopic and DFT Study. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2012(29), pp. 4605-4621. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.201200232)
Silakov, A., Olsen, M. T., Sproules, S. , Reijerse, E. J., Rauchfuss, T. B. and Lubitz, W. (2012) An EPR/ENDOR, Mössbauer, and quantum chemical investigation of diiron complexes mimicking the active oxidized state of [FeFe]hydrogenase. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(15), pp. 8617-8628. (doi: 10.1021/ic3013766)
Scarborough, C. C., Sproules, S. , Doonan, C. J., Hagen, K. S., Weyhermüller, T. and Weighardt, K. (2012) Scrutinizing low-spin Cr(II) complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(12), pp. 6969-6982. (doi: 10.1021/ic300882r)
Bowman, A. C., Sproules, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2012) Electronic structures of the [V(tbpy)3]z (z = 3+, 2+, 0, 1–) electron transfer series. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(6), pp. 3707-3717. (doi: 10.1021/ic202711s)
Scarborough, C. C., Lancaster, K. M., DeBeer, S., Weyhermüller, T., Sproules, S. and Weighardt, K. (2012) Experimental fingerprints for redox-active terpyridine in [Cr(tpy)2](PF6)n (n = 3–0), and the remarkable electronic structure of [Cr(tpy)2]1–. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(6), pp. 3718-3782. (doi: 10.1021/ic2027219)
Yan, Y., Chandrasekaran, P., Mague, J. T., DeBeer, S., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2012) Redox-controlled interconversion between trigonal prismatic and octahedral geometries in a monodithiolene tetracarbonyl complex of tungsten. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(1), pp. 346-361. (doi: 10.1021/ic201748v)
Lancaster, K.M., Zaballa, M.-E., Sproules, S. , Sundararajan, M., DeBeer, S., Richards, J.H., Vila, A.J., Neese, F. and Gray, H.B. (2012) Outer-sphere contributions to the electronic structure of type zero copper proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(19), pp. 8241-8253. (doi: 10.1021/ja302190r)
2011
Scarborough, C. C., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) Electronic and molecular structures of the members of the electron transfer series [Cr(tbpy)3]n (n = 3+, 2+, 1+, 0): an X-ray absorption spectroscopic and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(24), pp. 12446-12462. (doi: 10.1021/ic201123x)
Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T., Goddard, R. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) The rhenium tris(dithiolene) electron transfer series: calibrating covalency. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(24), pp. 12623-12631. (doi: 10.1021/ic2016534)
Surawatanawong, P., Sproules, S. , Neese, F. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) Electronic structures and spectroscopy of the electron transfer series [Fe(NO)L2]z (z = 1+, 0, 1–, 2–, 3–; L = dithiolene). Inorganic Chemistry, 50(23), pp. 12064-12074. (doi: 10.1021/ic201565d)
Tomson, N. C., Crimmin, M. R., Petrenko, T., Rosebrugh, L. E., Sproules, S. , Boyd, W. C., Bergman, R. G., DeBeer, S., Toste, F. D. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) A step beyond the Feltham-Enemark notation: spectroscopic and correlated ab initio computational support for an antiferromagnetically coupled M(II)-(NO)- description of Tp*M(NO) (M = Co, Ni). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(46), pp. 18785-18801. (doi: 10.1021/ja206042k)
Sproules, S. , Banerjee, P., Weyhermüller, T., Yan, Y., Donahue, J. P. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) Monoanionic molybdenum and tungsten tris(dithiolene) complexes: a multifrequency EPR study. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(15), pp. 7106-7122. (doi: 10.1021/ic2006265)
Sproules, S. , Eagle, A. A., Taylor, M. K., Gable, R. W., White, J. M. and Young, C. G. (2011) Paramagnetic oxotungsten(V) complexes containing the hydrotris(3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl)borate ligand. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(10), pp. 4503-4514. (doi: 10.1021/ic200161m)
Arumugam, K., Shaw, M. C., Mague, J. T., Bill, E., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2011) Long-range spin coupling: a tetraphosphine-bridged palladium dimer. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(7), pp. 2995-3002. (doi: 10.1021/ic102493g)
Sproules, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) Dithiolene radicals: sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy and Harry’s intuition. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 255(7-8), pp. 837-860. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.12.006)
2010
Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. , Palmer, J. H., Richards, J. H. and Gray, H. B. (2010) Outer-sphere effects on reduction potentials of copper sites in proteins: the curious case of high potential type 2 C112D/M121E Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(41), pp. 14590-14595. (doi: 10.1021/ja105731x)
Sproules, S. , Kapre, R. R., Roy, N., Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2010) The molecular and electronic structures of monomeric cobalt complexes containing redox noninnocent o-aminobenzenethiolate ligands. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 363(12), pp. 2702-2714. (doi: 10.1016/j.ica.2010.03.042)
Sproules, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2010) o-dithiolene and o-aminothiolate chemistry of iron: synthesis, structure and reactivity. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 254(13-14), pp. 1358-1382. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2009.12.012)
Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2010) Six-membered electron transfer series [V(dithiolene)3]z (z = 1+, 0, 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-). An X-ray absorption spectroscopic and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 49(11), pp. 5241-5261. (doi: 10.1021/ic100344f)
Milsmann, C., Sproules, S. , Bill, E., Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer George, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2010) Stabilization of high-valent FeIVS6-cores by dithiocarbamate(1−) and 1,2-dithiolate(2−) ligands in octahedral [FeIV(Et2dtc)3−n(mnt)n](n−1)− complexes (n=0, 1, 2, 3): a spectroscopic and density functional theory computational study. Chemistry: A European Journal, 16(12), pp. 3628-3645.
2009
Sproules, S. , Benedito, F. L., Bill, E., Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer George, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2009) Characterization and electronic structures of five members of the electron transfer series [Re(benzene-1,2-dithiolato)3]z (z = 1+, 0, 1-, 2-, 3-): a spectroscopic and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 48(23), pp. 10926-10941. (doi: 10.1021/ic9010532)
Banerjee, P., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer George, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2009) Electronic structure of the [Tris(dithiolene)chromium]z (z = 0, 1-, 2-, 3-) electron transfer series and their manganese(IV) analogues. An X-ray absorption spectroscopic and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 48(13), pp. 5829-5847. (doi: 10.1021/ic900154v)
Roy, N., Sproules, S. , Bothe, E., Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2009) Polynuclear complexes containing the redox noninnocent Schiff base ligand 2-[(E)-2-mercaptophenylimino]methyl-4,6-di-tert-butylphenolate(2-). European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2009(18), pp. 2655-2663. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.200900168)
Roy, N., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2009) Trivalent iron and ruthenium complexes with a redox noninnocent (2-mercaptophenylimino)-methyl-4,6-di-tert-butylphenolate(2-) ligand. Inorganic Chemistry, 48(8), pp. 3783-3791. (doi: 10.1021/ic8023716)
2008
Roy, N., Sproules, S. , Bill, E., Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2008) Molecular and electronic structure of the square planar bis(o-amidobenzenethiolato)iron(III) anion and its bis(o-quinoxalinedithiolato)iron(III) analogue. Inorganic Chemistry, 47(23), pp. 10911-10920. (doi: 10.1021/ic801109n)
Spikes, G. H., Sproules, S. , Bill, E., Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2008) One- and two-electron reduced 1,2-diketone ligands in [CrIII(L•)3] (S = 0) and Na2(Et2O)2[VIV(LRed)3] (S = 1/2). Inorganic Chemistry, 47(23), pp. 10935-10944. (doi: 10.1021/ic801122m)
Ghosh, M., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2008) (α-Diimine)chromium complexes: molecular and electronic structures; a combined experimental and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 47(13), pp. 5963-5970. (doi: 10.1021/ic800290s)
2005
Sproules, S. A. , Morgan, H. T., Doonan, C. J., White, J. M. and Young, C. G. (2005) Synthesis and characterisation of second-generation metallodithiolene complexes of the type [Tp*ME(dithiolene)] (M = Mo, W; E = O, S) and a novel ‘organoscorpionate’ complex of tungsten. Dalton Transactions, 2005(21), pp. 3552-3557. (doi: 10.1039/B506050H)
2004
Eagle, A. A., Gable, R. W., Thomas, S., Sproules, S. and Young, C. G. (2004) Sulfur atom transfer of tungsten(VI) and tungsten(IV) chalcogenide complexes. Polyhedron, 23(2-3), pp. 385-394. (doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2003.11.026)
2003
Thomas, S., Eagle, A. A., Sproules, S. A. , Hill, J. P., White, J. M., Tiekink, E. R. T., George, G. N. and Young, C. G. (2003) Redox interplay of oxo-thio-tungsten centers with sulfur-donor co-ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, 42(19), pp. 5909-5916. (doi: 10.1021/ic030095g)
Articles
Fohn, N. A., Gao, Y., Sproules, S. , Nichol, G. S., Brennan, C. M., Robinson, A. J. and Lloyd-Jones, G. C. (2024) Kinetics and mechanism of PPh3/Ni-catalyzed, Zn-mediated, aryl chloride homocoupling: antagonistic effects of ZnCl2/Cl–. Journal of the American Chemical Society, (doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c12088) (Early Online Publication)
Yiu, W. K., Wilkinson, D., Cariello, M. , Giza, M., Pant, N., Mohammed, N., Vella, B., Sproules, S. , Cooke, G. and Docampo, P. (2024) N-doping of bio-inspired electron transporting materials: the influence of charge-transfer complexation. Energy Advances, (doi: 10.1039/D4YA00369A) (Early Online Publication)
MacLeod, C. I., Keramidas, O. D., Moiras, H. N. and Sproules, S. (2024) Electronic and molecular structures of a series of nickel Bis-1,1-dithiolates. Chemistry: A European Journal, 30(46), e202401710. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202401710)
Grunshaw, T., Wood, S. H., Sproules, S. , Parrott, A., Nordon, A., Shapland, P. D. P., Wheelhouse, K. M. P. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. (2024) A mechanistic investigation of the N-hydroxyphthalimide catalyzed benzylic oxidation mediated by sodium chlorite. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 11, pp. 7933-7945. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.4c00583) (PMID:38748510)
Alhathlaul, N., Ertekin, Z. , Sproules, S. and Symes, M. D. (2023) Room temperature electro-carboxylation of styrene and stilbene derivatives: A comparative study. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 950, 117892. (doi: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2023.117892)
Wang, B., Barnes, J., Ferrara, S. J., Sproules, S. , Zhang, X., Mague, J. T. and Donahue, J. P. (2023) Fully reduced and mixed-valent multi-copper aggregates supported by tetradentate diamino bis(thiolate) ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00784)
van Rees, K., Rajeshkumar, T., Maron, L., Sproules, S. and Love, J. B. (2022) Role of the meso substituent in defining the reduction of uranyl dipyrrin complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 61(50), pp. 20424-20432. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03048) (PMID:36472325) (PMCID:PMC9768749)
Kumar, S., Selvachandran, M., Wu, C., Pascal, R. A., Zhang, X., Grusenmeyer, T., Schmehl, R. H., Sproules, S. , Mague, J. T. and Donahue, J. P. (2022) Heterotrimetallic assemblies with 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(diphenylphosphino)benzene bridges: Constructs for controlling the separation and spatial orientation of redox-active metallodithiolene groups. Inorganic Chemistry, 61(44), pp. 17804-17818. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03112) (PMID:36282620)
Cariello, M. , Dietrich, B. , Thomson, L., Gauci, V., Boyer, A. , Sproules, S. , Cooke, G. , Seddon, A. and Adams, D. J. (2022) A self‐assembling flavin for visible photooxidation. Chemistry: A European Journal, 28(49), e202201725. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202201725) (PMID:35722972) (PMCID:PMC9541220)
Sproules, S. (2022) Electronic versatility of vanadium in tris-chelates with redox-active ligands. Dalton Transactions, 51(15), pp. 5772-5776. (doi: 10.1039/D2DT00672C) (PMID:35348162)
Randle, R. I., Cavalcanti, L., Sproules, S. and Draper, E. R. (2022) Aggregate dependent electrochromic properties of amino acid appended naphthalene diimides in water. Materials Advances, 3(7), pp. 3326-3331. (doi: 10.1039/D2MA00207H)
Johnson Humphrey, E. L.B., Kennedy, A. R., Sproules, S. and Nelson, D. J. (2022) Evaluating a dispersion of sodium in sodium chloride for the synthesis of low-valent nickel complexes. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2022(7), e202101006. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.202101006)
van Rees, K., Hield, E. K., Carpentier, A., Maron, L., Sproules, S. and Love, J. B. (2022) Exploring the redox properties of bench-stable uranyl(VI) diamido–dipyrrin complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 61(7), pp. 3249-3255. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03744) (PMID:35129967)
Black, C., Currie, G., Whiston, K., Sproules, S. and Jackson, S. D. (2021) Oxidative dehydrogenation of 1-butene to 1,3-butadiene over metal ferrite catalysts. Topics in Catalysis, 64(17), pp. 907-915. (doi: 10.1007/s11244-021-01426-z)
Kumar, S., Selvachandran, M., Arumugam, K., Shaw, M. C., Wu, C., Maurer, M., Zhang, X., Sproules, S. , Mague, J. T. and Donahue, J. P. (2021) Open-ended metallodithiolene complexes with the 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(diphenylphosphino)benzene ligand: modular building elements for the synthesis of multimetal complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 60(17), pp. 13177-13192. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01573) (PMID:34370468)
Sproules, S. (2021) Oxo versus sulfido coordination at tungsten: a spectroscopic and correlated ab initio electronic structure study. Inorganic Chemistry, 60(12), pp. 9057-9063. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01055) (PMID:34096284)
Paul, A., Shipman, M. A., Onabule, D. Y., Sproules, S. and Symes, M. D. (2021) Selective aldehyde reductions in neutral water catalysed by encapsulation in a supramolecular cage. Chemical Science, 12(14), pp. 5082-5090. (doi: 10.1039/D1SC00896J)
Sproules, S. (2021) Electronic structure study of divanadium complexes with rigid covalent coordination: potential molecular qubits with slow spin relaxation. Dalton Transactions, 50(14), pp. 4778-4782. (doi: 10.1039/d1dt00709b) (PMID:33877176)
Papanikolaou, M. G., Elliott, A., McAllister, J. , Gallos, J. K., Keramidas, A. D., Kabanos, T. A., Sproules, S. and Miras, H. N. (2020) Electrocatalytic hydrogen production by dinuclear cobalt(ii) compounds containing redox-active diamidate ligands: a combined experimental and theoretical study. Dalton Transactions, 49(44), pp. 15718-15730. (doi: 10.1039/D0DT02617D) (PMID:33146215)
Greaves, M., Ronson, T. O., Lloyd-Jones, G. C., Maseras, F., Sproules, S. and Nelson, D. J. (2020) Unexpected nickel complex speciation unlocks alternative pathways for the reactions of alkyl halides with dppf-nickel(0). ACS Catalysis, 10(18), pp. 10717-10725. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.0c02514)
Damgaard-Møller, E., Krause, L., Lassen, H., Malaspina, L. A., Grabowsky, S., Bamberger, H., McGuire, J., Miras, H. N. , Sproules, S. and Overgaard, J. (2020) Investigating complex magnetic anisotropy in a Co(II) molecular compound: a charge density and correlated ab initio electronic structure study. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(18), pp. 13190-13200. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01489) (PMID:32869986)
Obanda, A., Valerius, K., Mague, J. T., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2020) Group 10 metal dithiolene bis(isonitrile) complexes: synthesis, structures, properties and reactivity. Organometallics, 39(15), pp. 2854-2870. (doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00375)
Greatorex, S., Fokin, S. V., Kulmaczewski, R., Yamada, M., Cespedes, O., Yoshinari, N., Konno, T., Sproules, S. , Ovcharenko, V. I. and Halcrow, M. A. (2020) Modulating the magnetic properties of copper(II)/nitroxyl heterospin complexes by suppression of the Jahn–Teller distortion. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(13), pp. 8657-8662. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01345) (PMID:32525669)
Goodwin, C. A.P., Réant, B. L.L., Vettese, G. F., Kragskow, J. G.C., Giansiracusa, M. J., DiMucci, I. M., Lancaster, K. M., Mills, D. P. and Sproules, S. (2020) Heteroleptic samarium(III) chalcogenide complexes: opportunities for giant exchange coupling in bridging σ- and π-radical lanthanide dichalcogenides. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(11), pp. 7571-7583. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00470) (PMID:32421315) (PMCID:PMC7268190)
Gibson, D. et al. (2020) Durable infrared optical coatings based on pulsed DC-sputtering of hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H). Applied Optics, 59(9), pp. 2731-2738. (doi: 10.1364/AO.378266)
Credendino, L. and Sproules, S. (2020) Modulating iron spin states with radical ligands: a density functional theoretical study. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 9(3), pp. 421-430. (doi: 10.1002/ajoc.201900626)
Sproules, S. (2019) Comment on “Stabilization of low-valent iron(I) in a high-valent vanadium(V) oxide cluster”. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 58(30), pp. 10043-10047. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201811125) (PMID:31267608)
Shipman, M. A., Sproules, S. , Wilson, C. and Symes, M. D. (2019) Towards a better understanding of the electrosynthesis of 2,5-dicarboxy-2,5-dihydrofurans: structure, mechanism and influence over stereochemistry. Royal Society Open Science, 6(7), 190336. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.190336) (PMID:31417736) (PMCID:PMC6689595)
Bara, D. J. , Wilson, C. , Mörtel, M., Khusniyarov, M. M., Ling, S., Slater, B., Sproules, S. and Forgan, R. S. (2019) Kinetic control of interpenetration in Fe-biphenyl-4,4′-dicarboxylate metal-organic frameworks by coordination and oxidation modulation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(20), pp. 8346-8357. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b03269) (PMID:31017428)
Moore, J. T. et al. (2019) Enhanced Fe-centered redox flexibility in Fe–Ti heterobimetallic complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 58(9), pp. 6199-6214. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00442) (PMID:30957996)
Greatorex, S., Vincent, K. B., Baldansuren, A., McInnes, E. J.L., Patmore, N. J., Sproules, S. and Halcrow, M. A. (2019) Rigidification of a macrocyclic tris-catecholate scaffold leads to electronic localisation of its mixed valent redox product. Chemical Communications, 55, pp. 2281-2284. (doi: 10.1039/C8CC10122A) (PMID:30720027)
McGuire, J., Miras, H. N. , Richards, E. and Sproules, S. (2019) Enabling single qubit addressability in a molecular semiconductor comprising gold-supported organic radicals. Chemical Science, 10(5), pp. 1483-1491. (doi: 10.1039/C8SC04500C) (PMID:30809365) (PMCID:PMC6354843)
McGuire, J., Wilson, B., McAllister, J., Miras, H. N. , Wilson, C. , Sproules, S. and Farnaby, J. H. (2019) Molecular and electronic structure of the dithiooxalato radical ligand stabilised by rare earth coordination. Dalton Transactions, 48, pp. 5491-5495. (doi: 10.1039/C9DT00688E) (PMID:30892339)
Passadis, S. S., Hadjithoma, S., Kalampounias, A. G., Tsipis, A. C., Sproules, S. , Miras, H. N. , Keramidas, A. D. and Kabanos, T. A. (2019) Synthesis, structural and physicochemical characterization of a new type Ti6-oxo cluster protected by a cyclic imide dioxime ligand. Dalton Transactions, 48, pp. 5551-5559. (doi: 10.1039/C9DT00658C) (PMID:30785155)
Wilson, R. K., Dhers, S., Sproules, S. , McInnes, E. J.L. and Brooker, S. (2019) Three manganese complexes of anionic N4-donor Schiff-base macrocycles: 1 monomeric Mn(II) and Mn(III), and dimeric Mn(IV). Australian Journal of Chemistry, 72, pp. 805-810. (doi: 10.1071/CH19209)
McGuire, J., Miras, H. N. , Donahue, J. P., Richards, E. and Sproules, S. (2018) Ligand radicals as modular organic electron spin qubits. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(66), pp. 17598-17605. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201804165) (PMID:30291646)
Birney, R. et al. (2018) Amorphous silicon with extremely low absorption: beating thermal noise in gravitational astronomy. Physical Review Letters, 121, 191101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.191101)
Gonzalez, L., Liu, C., Dietrich, B. , Su, H., Sproules, S. , Cui, H., Honecker, D., Adams, D. J. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Transparent-to-dark photo- and electrochromic gels. Communications Chemistry, 1, 77. (doi: 10.1038/s42004-018-0075-2)
Hickson, J. R., Horsewill, S. J., McGuire, J., Wilson, C. , Sproules, S. and Farnaby, J. H. (2018) The semiquinone radical anion of 1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione: synthesis and rare earth coordination chemistry. Chemical Communications, 54(80), pp. 11284-11287. (doi: 10.1039/C8CC05591B) (PMID:30239538)
Draper, E. R. , Dietrich, B. , Brasnett, C., Sproules, S. , McDonald, T. O., Seddon, A. M. and Adams, D. J. (2018) P-type low-molecular-weight hydrogelators. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 39(17), 1700746. (doi: 10.1002/marc.201700746) (PMID:29333741)
Broere, D. L.J., Mercado, B. Q., Bill, E., Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. and Holland, P. L. (2018) Alkali cation effects on redox-active formazanate ligands in iron chemistry. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(16), pp. 9580-9591. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00226) (PMID:29629752)
Goodwin, C. A.P., Réant, B. L.L., Kragskow, J. G.C., DiMucci, I. M., Lancaster, K. M., Mills, D. P. and Sproules, S. (2018) Heteroleptic samarium(III) halide complexes probed by fluorescence-detected L3-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Dalton Transactions, 47(31), pp. 10613-10625. (doi: 10.1039/C8DT01452C) (PMID:29790545)
Hickson, J. R., Horsewill, S., Bamforth, C., McGuire, J., Wilson, C. , Sproules, S. and Farnaby, J. H. (2018) The modular synthesis of rare earth-transition metal heterobimetallic complexes utilizing a redox-active ligand. Dalton Transactions, 47(31), pp. 10692-10701. (doi: 10.1039/C8DT01262H) (PMID:29897068)
Lāce, I., Sproules, S. and Draper, E. R. (2018) Using sugar-based additives to prolong the lifetime of air-stable radicals in self-assembled perylene bisimides. ChemNanoMat, 4(8), pp. 776-780. (doi: 10.1002/cnma.201800153)
Curcio, M., Henschel, D., Huettenschmidt, M., Sproules, S. and Love, J. (2018) Radical relatives: facile oxidation of hetero-diarylmethene anions to neutral radicals. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(16), pp. 9592-9600. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00554) (PMID:29969020)
Broere, D. L.J., Mercado, B. Q., Lukens, J. T., Vilbert, A. C., Banerjee, G., Lant, H. M.C., Lee, S. H., Bill, E., Sproules, S. and Holland, P. L. (2018) Reversible ligand-centered reduction in low- coordinate iron formazanate complexes. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(37), pp. 9417-9425. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201801298) (PMID:29663542)
Cross, E. R., Sproules, S. , Schweins, R., Draper, E. R. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Controlled tuning of the properties in optoelectronic self-sorted gels. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(28), pp. 8667-8670. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b05359) (PMID:29944359)
BLACK, C., Spence, R. R., Whiston, K., Sproules, S. and Jackson, S. D. (2018) Effect of excess iron on oxidative dehydrogenation of 1-butene over a series of zinc ferrite catalysts. Progress in Petrochemical Science, 2(2), 000534.
Stark, H. S., Altmann, P. J., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. R. (2018) Structural characterization and photochemical properties of mono-and bimetallic Cu-Mabiq complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(11), pp. 6401-6409. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00471) (PMID:29767971)
Cioncoloni, G., Roger Barba, I., Wheatley, P. S., Wilson, C. , Morris, R. E., Sproules, S. and Symes, M. D. (2018) Proton-coupled electron transfer enhances the electrocatalytic reduction of nitrite to no in a bioinspired copper complex. ACS Catalysis, 8(6), pp. 5070-5084. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00361)
Pankhurst, J. R., Curcio, M., Sproules, S. , Lloyd-Jones, G. C. and Love, J. B. (2018) Earth-abundant mixed-metal catalysts for hydrocarbon oxygenation. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(10), pp. 5915-5928. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00420) (PMID:29708740)
Arumugam, K., Selvachandran, M., Obanda, A., Shaw, M. C., Chandrasekaran, P., Caston Good, S. L., Mague, J. T., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2018) Redox-active metallodithiolene groups separated by insulating tetraphosphinobenzene spacers. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(7), pp. 4023-4038. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00201) (PMID:29533607)
Miras, H. N. , Sartzi, H., Long, D.-L. , Sproules, S. and Cronin, L. (2018) Directed self-assembly, symmetry breaking, and electronic modulation of metal oxide clusters by pyramidal heteroanions. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(17), pp. 4399-4411. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201705711) (PMID:29315925)
Nicolaou, M., Papanikolaou, M., Tsipis, A., Kabanos, T., Keramidas, A., Sproules, S. and Miras, H. N. (2018) Design and assembly of covalently functionalised polyoxofluorovanadate molecular hybrids. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(15), pp. 3836-3845. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201705730) (PMID:29319211)
Draper, E. R. , Archibald, L. J., Nolan, M. C., Schweins, R., Zwijnenburg, M. A., Sproules, S. and Adams, D. J. (2018) Controlling photoconductivity in PBI films by supramolecular assembly. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24(16), pp. 4006-4010. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201800201) (PMID:29405458) (PMCID:PMC5887895)
Khan, S., Sproules, S. , Natrajan, L., Harms, K. and Chattopadhyay, S. (2018) End-on cyanate or end-to-end thiocyanate bridged dinuclear copper(II) complexes with a tridentate Schiff base blocking ligand: Synthesis, structure and magnetic studies. New Journal of Chemistry, 42(3), pp. 1634-1641. (doi: 10.1039/C7NJ03990E)
Haas, R. M., Hern, Z., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. (2017) An unsymmetric ligand framework for noncoupled homo- and heterobimetallic complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(24), pp. 14738-14742. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02294)
Bhattacharyya, A., Bauzá, A., Sproules, S. , Natrajan, L. S., Frontera, A. and Chattopadhyay, S. (2017) A polynuclear and two dinuclear copper(II) Schiff base complexes: Synthesis, characterization, self-assembly, magnetic property and DFT study. Polyhedron, 137, pp. 332-346. (doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2017.08.010)
Obanda, A., Martinez, K., Schmehl, R. H., Mague, J. T., Rubtsov, I. V., MacMillan, S. N., Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2017) Expanding the scope of ligand substitution from [M(S2C2Ph2] (M = Ni2+, Pd2+, Pt2+) to afford new heteroleptic dithiolene complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(17), pp. 10257-10267. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00971) (PMID:28820242)
Cioncoloni, G., Sproules, S. , Wilson, C. and Symes, M. D. (2017) Unprecedented inequivalent metal coordination environments in a mixed-ligand dicobalt complex. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2017(31), pp. 3707-3713. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.201700803)
Roger, I., Wilson, C. , Senn, H. M. , Sproules, S. and Symes, M. D. (2017) An investigation into the unusual linkage isomerization and nitrite reduction activity of a novel tris(2-pyridyl) copper complex. Royal Society Open Science, 4(8), 170593. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.170593)
Kaspar, M., Altmann, P. J., Pöthig, A., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. R. (2017) A macrocyclic ‛Co0’ complex: the relevance of ligand non-innocence to reactivity. Chemical Communications, 53, pp. 7282-7285. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC02239E) (PMID:28425509)
Curcio, M., Pankhurst, J. R., Sproules, S. , Mignard, D. and Love, J. B. (2017) Triggering redox activity in a thiophene compound: radical stabilization and coordination chemistry. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(27), pp. 7939-7943. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201703576) (PMID:28471076)
Campbell, R., Kennedy, A. R., McLellan, R., Robertson, S. D., Sproules, S. and Mulvey, R. E. (2017) Contrasting the group 6 metal-metal bonding in sodium dichromate(II) and sodium dimolybdate(II) polymethyl complexes: synthetic, X-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies. Dalton Transactions, 46(17), pp. 5650-5659. (doi: 10.1039/C6DT04644D) (PMID:28145549)
Bajo, S., Laidlaw, G., Kennedy, A. R. and Sproules, S. (2017) Oxidative addition of aryl electrophiles to a prototypical nickel(0) complex: mechanism and structure/reactivity relationships. Organometallics, 36(8), pp. 1662-1672. (doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00208)
Leblanc, N., Sproules, S. and Powell, A. K. (2017) An alternative method to access diverse N,N′-diquaternised-3,3′-biquinoxalinium “biquinoxen” dications. New Journal of Chemistry, 41(8), pp. 2949-2954. (doi: 10.1039/C7NJ00531H)
Vantourout, J. C., Miras, H. N. , Isidro-Llobet, A., Sproules, S. and Watson, A. J.B. (2017) Spectroscopic studies of the Chan–Lam amination: a mechanism-inspired solution to boronic ester reactivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(13), pp. 4769-4779. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b12800) (PMID:28266843)
Sproules, S. , Eagle, A. A., George, G. N., White, J. M. and Young, C. G. (2017) Mononuclear sulfido-tungsten(V) complexes: completing the Tp*MEXY (M = Mo, W; E = O, S) series. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(9), pp. 5189-5202. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00331) (PMID:28414431)
Pankhurst, J. R., Bell, N. L. , Zegke, M., Platts, L. N., Lamfsus, C. A., Maron, L., Natrajan, L. S., Sproules, S. , Arnold, P. L. and Love, J. B. (2017) Inner-sphere vs. outer-sphere reduction of uranyl supported by a redox-active, donor-expanded dipyrrin. Chemical Science, 8(1), pp. 108-116. (doi: 10.1039/C6SC02912D) (PMID:28451154) (PMCID:PMC5304617)
Ferrando-Soria, J. et al. (2016) Switchable Interaction in Molecular Double Qubits. Chem, 1(5), pp. 727-752. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2016.10.001)
Cioncoloni, G., Senn, H. M. , Sproules, S. , Wilson, C. and Symes, M. (2016) The electronic and solvatochromic properties of [Co(L)(bipyridine)2]+ (L = o-catecholato, o-benzenedithiolato) species: a combined experimental and computational study. Dalton Transactions, 45(39), pp. 15575-15585. (doi: 10.1039/C6DT02807A)
Kundu, S., Mondal, A., Weyhermüller, T., Sproules, S. and Ghosh, P. (2016) Molecular and electronic structures of copper-cuprizone and analogues. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 451, pp. 23-30. (doi: 10.1016/j.ica.2016.06.040)
Leblanc, N., Sproules, S. , Fink, K., Sanguinet, L., Alévêque, O., Levillain, E., Rosa, P. and Powell, A. K. (2016) A fascinating multifaceted redox-active chelating ligand: introducing the N,N′-dimethyl-3,3′-biquinoxalinium “methylbiquinoxen” platform. Chemical Science, 7(6), pp. 3820-3828. (doi: 10.1039/C5SC04904K)
Spencer, N. A., Ditzel, E. J., Hargreaves, J. S. J. and Sproules, S. (2016) Radicals in carbonaceous residue deposited on mordenite from methanol. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(18), pp. 7036-7044. (doi: 10.1039/C6TA01053A)
Anamimoghadam, O., Symes, M. D. , Long, D. L. , Sproules, S. , Cronin, L. and Bucher, G. (2015) Electronically stabilized nonplanar phenalenyl radical and its planar isomer. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(47), pp. 14944-14951. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b07959) (PMID:26526672)
Barnett, B. R., Moore, C. E., Chandrasekaran, P., Sproules, S. , Rheingold, A. L., DeBeer, S. and Figeroa, J. S. (2015) Metal-only Lewis pairs between group 10 metals and Tl(I) or Ag(I): insights into the electronic consequences of Z-type ligand binding†. Chemical Science, 6(12), pp. 7169-7178. (doi: 10.1039/C5SC03104D)
Loughrey, J. J., Patmore, N. J., Baldansuren, A., Fielding, A. J., McInnes, E. J. L., Hardie, M., Sproules, S. and Halcrow, M. (2015) Platinum(II) complexes of mixed-valent radicals derived from cyclotricatechylene, a macrocyclic tris-dioxolene. Chemical Science, 6(12), pp. 6935-6948. (doi: 10.1039/C5SC02776D)
Fernandez, A., Moreno Pineda, E., Muryn, C. A., Sproules, S. , Moro, F., Timco, G. A., McInnes, E. J. L. and Winpenny, R. E. P. (2015) g-engineering in hybrid rotaxanes to create AB and AB2 electron spin systems: EPR spectroscopic studies of weak interactions between dissimilar electron spin qubits. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 54(37), pp. 10858-10861. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201504487) (PMID:26224489)
Leblanc, N., Sproules, S. , Pasquier, C., Auban-Senzier, P., Raffy, H. and Powell, A. K. (2015) Approaching the limit of CuII/CuImixed valency in a CuIBr2–N-methylquinoxalinium hybrid compound. Chemical Communications, 51(64), pp. 12740-12743. (doi: 10.1039/C5CC04142B)
Puttock, E. V., Banerjee, P., Kaspar, M., Drennan, L., Yufit, D. S., Bill, E., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. R. (2015) A series of [Co(Mabiq)Cl2-n] (n = 0, 1, 2) compounds and evidence for the elusive bimetallic form. Inorganic Chemistry, 54(12), pp. 5864-5873. 26035475. (doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00636)
Dragan, A., Kubczyk, T. M., Rowley, J. H., Sproules, S. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. (2015) Arene oxidation with malonoyl peroxides. Organic Letters, 17(11), pp. 2618-2621. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00953) (PMID:25966313)
Yan, Y., Mague, J. T., Donahue, J. and Sproules, S. (2015) Unprecedented spin localisation in a metal-metal bonded dirhenium complex. Chemical Communications, 51(25), pp. 5482-5485. (doi: 10.1039/C4CC09397F) (PMID:25525649)
Bhowmik, P., Bhattacharyya, A., Harms, K., Sproules, S. and Chattopadhyay, S. (2015) Anion directed cation templated synthesis of three ternary copper(II) complexes with a monocondensed N2O donor Schiff base and different pseudohalides. Polyhedron, 85, pp. 221-231. (doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2014.08.021)
Jeanmaire, D., Timco, G. A., Gennari, A., Sproules, S. , Williams, K. J., Winpenny, R. E.P. and Tirelli, N. (2015) Binary behaviour of an oxidation-responsive MRI nano contrast agent. Chemical Communications, 51(6), pp. 1074-1076. (doi: 10.1039/C4CC08024F)
Tomson, N. C., Williams, K. D., Dai, X., Sproules, S. , DeBeer, S., Warren, T. H. and Wieghardt, K. (2015) Re-evaluating the Cu K pre-edge XAS transition in complexes with covalent metal–ligand interactions. Chemical Science, 6, pp. 2474-2487. (doi: 10.1039/C4SC03294B)
Witt, A., Heinemann, F. W., Sproules, S. and Khusniyarov, M. M. (2014) Modulation of magnetic properties at room temperature: Coordination-Induced Valence Tautomerism (CIVT)in a cobalt dioxolene complex. Chemistry: A European Journal, 20(35), pp. 11149-11162. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201402129)
Loughrey, J. J., Sproules, S. , McInnes, E. J.L., Hardie, M. J. and Halcrow, M. A. (2014) Stable mixed-valent radicals from platinum(II) complexes of a bis(dioxolene) ligand. Chemistry: A European Journal, 20(21), pp. 6272-6276. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201304848)
Magee, S. A., Sproules, S. , Barra, A.-L., Timco, G. A., Chilton, N. F., Collison, D., Winpenny, R. E. P. and McInnes, E. J. L. (2014) Large zero-field splittings of the ground spin state arising from antisymmetric exchange effects in heterometallic triangles. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 53(21), pp. 5310-5313. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201400655)
Shinde, Y., Sproules, S. , Kathawate, L., Pav, S., Konkimalla, B. and Salunke-Gawali, S. (2014) Separation and isolation of tautomers of 2-hydroxy-4-naphthoquinone-1-oxime derivatives by liquid chromatography: antiproliferative activity and DFT studies. Journal of Chemical Sciences, 126(1), pp. 213-225. (doi: 10.1007/s12039-013-0549-9)
Jayarathne, U., Chandrasekaran, P., Greene, A. F., Mague, J. T., DeBeer, S., Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2014) X-ray absorption spectroscopy systematics at the tungsten L-edge. Inorganic Chemistry, 53(16), pp. 8230-8241. (doi: 10.1021/ic500256a)
Walsh, J. P. S., Sproules, S. , Chilton, N., Barra, A.-L., Timco, G. A., Collision, D., McInnes, E. J. L. and Winpenny, R. E. P. (2014) On the possibility of magneto-structural correlations: detailed studies of di-nickel carboxylate complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 53(16), pp. 8464-8472. (doi: 10.1021/ic501036h)
Kathawate, L., Sproules, S. , Pawar, O., Markad, G., Haram, S., Puranik, V. and Salunke-Gawali, S. (2013) Synthesis and molecular structure of a zinc complex of the vitamin K3 analogue phthiocol. Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, 1048, pp. 223-229. (doi: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2013.05.057)
Arumugam, K., Varnado, C.D., Sproules, S. , Lynch, V. M. and Bielawski, C. W. (2013) Redox-switchable ring-closing metathesis: catalyst deisgn, synthesis, and study. Chemistry: A European Journal, 19(33), pp. 10866-10875. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201301247)
Yan, Y., Keating, C., Chandrasekaran, P., Jayarathne, U., Mague, J. T., DeBeer, S., Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. , Rubtsov, I. V. and Donahue, J. P. (2013) Ancillary ligand effects upon dithiolene ligand noninnocence in tungsten bis(dithiolene) compounds. Inorganic Chemistry, 52(11), pp. 6743-6751. (doi: 10.1021/ic4009174)
Shuvaev, K. V., Sproules, S. , Rautiainen, J. M., McInnes, E. J. L., Collison, D., Anson, C. E. and Powell, A. K. (2013) A self-assembled Cu(II)4 [2×2] grid with organic radicals. Dalton Transactions, 42(7), pp. 2371-2381. (doi: 10.1039/C2DT31946B)
Lindsay, S., Lo, S. K., Maguire, O. R., Bill, E., Probert, M. R., Sproules, S. and Hess, C. R. (2013) Syntheses and electronic structure of bimetallic complexes containing a flexible redox-active bridging ligand. Inorganic Chemistry, 52(2), pp. 898-909. (doi: 10.1021/ic302087f)
Helten, H., Dutta, B., Vance, J.R., Sloan, M.E., Haddow, M.F., Sproules, S. , Collison, D., Whittell, G.R., Lloyd-Jones, G.C. and Manners, I. (2013) Paramagnetic titanium(III) and zirconium(III) metallocene complexes as precatalysts for the dehydrocoupling/dehydrogenation of amine-boranes. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 52(1), pp. 437-440. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201207903)
Bowman, A. C., England, J., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2013) Electronic structures of homoleptic [Tris(2,2′-bipyridine)M]ncomplexes of the early transition metals (M = Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta;n= 1+, 0, 1–, 2–, 3−): an experimental and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 52(4), pp. 2242-2256. (doi: 10.1021/ic302799s)
England, J., Scarborough, C. C., Weyhermüller, T., Sproules, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2012) Electronic Structures of the Electron Transfer Series [M(bpy)3]n, [M(tpy)2]n, and [Fe(tbpy)3]n(M = Fe, Ru;n= 3+, 2+, 1+, 0, 1-): A Mössbauer Spectroscopic and DFT Study. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2012(29), pp. 4605-4621. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.201200232)
Silakov, A., Olsen, M. T., Sproules, S. , Reijerse, E. J., Rauchfuss, T. B. and Lubitz, W. (2012) An EPR/ENDOR, Mössbauer, and quantum chemical investigation of diiron complexes mimicking the active oxidized state of [FeFe]hydrogenase. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(15), pp. 8617-8628. (doi: 10.1021/ic3013766)
Scarborough, C. C., Sproules, S. , Doonan, C. J., Hagen, K. S., Weyhermüller, T. and Weighardt, K. (2012) Scrutinizing low-spin Cr(II) complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(12), pp. 6969-6982. (doi: 10.1021/ic300882r)
Bowman, A. C., Sproules, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2012) Electronic structures of the [V(tbpy)3]z (z = 3+, 2+, 0, 1–) electron transfer series. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(6), pp. 3707-3717. (doi: 10.1021/ic202711s)
Scarborough, C. C., Lancaster, K. M., DeBeer, S., Weyhermüller, T., Sproules, S. and Weighardt, K. (2012) Experimental fingerprints for redox-active terpyridine in [Cr(tpy)2](PF6)n (n = 3–0), and the remarkable electronic structure of [Cr(tpy)2]1–. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(6), pp. 3718-3782. (doi: 10.1021/ic2027219)
Yan, Y., Chandrasekaran, P., Mague, J. T., DeBeer, S., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2012) Redox-controlled interconversion between trigonal prismatic and octahedral geometries in a monodithiolene tetracarbonyl complex of tungsten. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(1), pp. 346-361. (doi: 10.1021/ic201748v)
Lancaster, K.M., Zaballa, M.-E., Sproules, S. , Sundararajan, M., DeBeer, S., Richards, J.H., Vila, A.J., Neese, F. and Gray, H.B. (2012) Outer-sphere contributions to the electronic structure of type zero copper proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(19), pp. 8241-8253. (doi: 10.1021/ja302190r)
Scarborough, C. C., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) Electronic and molecular structures of the members of the electron transfer series [Cr(tbpy)3]n (n = 3+, 2+, 1+, 0): an X-ray absorption spectroscopic and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(24), pp. 12446-12462. (doi: 10.1021/ic201123x)
Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T., Goddard, R. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) The rhenium tris(dithiolene) electron transfer series: calibrating covalency. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(24), pp. 12623-12631. (doi: 10.1021/ic2016534)
Surawatanawong, P., Sproules, S. , Neese, F. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) Electronic structures and spectroscopy of the electron transfer series [Fe(NO)L2]z (z = 1+, 0, 1–, 2–, 3–; L = dithiolene). Inorganic Chemistry, 50(23), pp. 12064-12074. (doi: 10.1021/ic201565d)
Tomson, N. C., Crimmin, M. R., Petrenko, T., Rosebrugh, L. E., Sproules, S. , Boyd, W. C., Bergman, R. G., DeBeer, S., Toste, F. D. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) A step beyond the Feltham-Enemark notation: spectroscopic and correlated ab initio computational support for an antiferromagnetically coupled M(II)-(NO)- description of Tp*M(NO) (M = Co, Ni). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(46), pp. 18785-18801. (doi: 10.1021/ja206042k)
Sproules, S. , Banerjee, P., Weyhermüller, T., Yan, Y., Donahue, J. P. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) Monoanionic molybdenum and tungsten tris(dithiolene) complexes: a multifrequency EPR study. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(15), pp. 7106-7122. (doi: 10.1021/ic2006265)
Sproules, S. , Eagle, A. A., Taylor, M. K., Gable, R. W., White, J. M. and Young, C. G. (2011) Paramagnetic oxotungsten(V) complexes containing the hydrotris(3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl)borate ligand. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(10), pp. 4503-4514. (doi: 10.1021/ic200161m)
Arumugam, K., Shaw, M. C., Mague, J. T., Bill, E., Sproules, S. and Donahue, J. P. (2011) Long-range spin coupling: a tetraphosphine-bridged palladium dimer. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(7), pp. 2995-3002. (doi: 10.1021/ic102493g)
Sproules, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2011) Dithiolene radicals: sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy and Harry’s intuition. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 255(7-8), pp. 837-860. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.12.006)
Lancaster, K. M., Sproules, S. , Palmer, J. H., Richards, J. H. and Gray, H. B. (2010) Outer-sphere effects on reduction potentials of copper sites in proteins: the curious case of high potential type 2 C112D/M121E Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(41), pp. 14590-14595. (doi: 10.1021/ja105731x)
Sproules, S. , Kapre, R. R., Roy, N., Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2010) The molecular and electronic structures of monomeric cobalt complexes containing redox noninnocent o-aminobenzenethiolate ligands. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 363(12), pp. 2702-2714. (doi: 10.1016/j.ica.2010.03.042)
Sproules, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2010) o-dithiolene and o-aminothiolate chemistry of iron: synthesis, structure and reactivity. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 254(13-14), pp. 1358-1382. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2009.12.012)
Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2010) Six-membered electron transfer series [V(dithiolene)3]z (z = 1+, 0, 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-). An X-ray absorption spectroscopic and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 49(11), pp. 5241-5261. (doi: 10.1021/ic100344f)
Milsmann, C., Sproules, S. , Bill, E., Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer George, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2010) Stabilization of high-valent FeIVS6-cores by dithiocarbamate(1−) and 1,2-dithiolate(2−) ligands in octahedral [FeIV(Et2dtc)3−n(mnt)n](n−1)− complexes (n=0, 1, 2, 3): a spectroscopic and density functional theory computational study. Chemistry: A European Journal, 16(12), pp. 3628-3645.
Sproules, S. , Benedito, F. L., Bill, E., Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer George, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2009) Characterization and electronic structures of five members of the electron transfer series [Re(benzene-1,2-dithiolato)3]z (z = 1+, 0, 1-, 2-, 3-): a spectroscopic and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 48(23), pp. 10926-10941. (doi: 10.1021/ic9010532)
Banerjee, P., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T., DeBeer George, S. and Wieghardt, K. (2009) Electronic structure of the [Tris(dithiolene)chromium]z (z = 0, 1-, 2-, 3-) electron transfer series and their manganese(IV) analogues. An X-ray absorption spectroscopic and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 48(13), pp. 5829-5847. (doi: 10.1021/ic900154v)
Roy, N., Sproules, S. , Bothe, E., Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2009) Polynuclear complexes containing the redox noninnocent Schiff base ligand 2-[(E)-2-mercaptophenylimino]methyl-4,6-di-tert-butylphenolate(2-). European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2009(18), pp. 2655-2663. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.200900168)
Roy, N., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2009) Trivalent iron and ruthenium complexes with a redox noninnocent (2-mercaptophenylimino)-methyl-4,6-di-tert-butylphenolate(2-) ligand. Inorganic Chemistry, 48(8), pp. 3783-3791. (doi: 10.1021/ic8023716)
Roy, N., Sproules, S. , Bill, E., Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2008) Molecular and electronic structure of the square planar bis(o-amidobenzenethiolato)iron(III) anion and its bis(o-quinoxalinedithiolato)iron(III) analogue. Inorganic Chemistry, 47(23), pp. 10911-10920. (doi: 10.1021/ic801109n)
Spikes, G. H., Sproules, S. , Bill, E., Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2008) One- and two-electron reduced 1,2-diketone ligands in [CrIII(L•)3] (S = 0) and Na2(Et2O)2[VIV(LRed)3] (S = 1/2). Inorganic Chemistry, 47(23), pp. 10935-10944. (doi: 10.1021/ic801122m)
Ghosh, M., Sproules, S. , Weyhermüller, T. and Wieghardt, K. (2008) (α-Diimine)chromium complexes: molecular and electronic structures; a combined experimental and density functional theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry, 47(13), pp. 5963-5970. (doi: 10.1021/ic800290s)
Sproules, S. A. , Morgan, H. T., Doonan, C. J., White, J. M. and Young, C. G. (2005) Synthesis and characterisation of second-generation metallodithiolene complexes of the type [Tp*ME(dithiolene)] (M = Mo, W; E = O, S) and a novel ‘organoscorpionate’ complex of tungsten. Dalton Transactions, 2005(21), pp. 3552-3557. (doi: 10.1039/B506050H)
Eagle, A. A., Gable, R. W., Thomas, S., Sproules, S. and Young, C. G. (2004) Sulfur atom transfer of tungsten(VI) and tungsten(IV) chalcogenide complexes. Polyhedron, 23(2-3), pp. 385-394. (doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2003.11.026)
Thomas, S., Eagle, A. A., Sproules, S. A. , Hill, J. P., White, J. M., Tiekink, E. R. T., George, G. N. and Young, C. G. (2003) Redox interplay of oxo-thio-tungsten centers with sulfur-donor co-ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, 42(19), pp. 5909-5916. (doi: 10.1021/ic030095g)
Book Sections
Sproules, S. (2017) Molecules as electron spin qubits. In: Chechik, V. and Murphy, D. M. (eds.) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance. Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 61-97. ISBN 9781782628576 (doi: 10.1039/9781782629436-00061)
Sproules, S. (2014) Tris(dithiolene) Chemistry: A Golden Jubilee. In: Karlin, K.D. (ed.) Progress in Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 58. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 1-144. ISBN 9781118792797 (doi: 10.1002/9781118792797.ch01)
Research datasets
2021
Paul, A., Shipman, M., Onabule, D., Sproules, S. and Symes, M. (2021) Selective Aldehyde Reductions in Neutral Water Catalysed by Encapsulation in a Supramolecular Cage. [Data Collection]
2019
Bara, D., Wilson, C. , Mörtel, M., Khusniyarov, M. M., Ling, S., Slater, B., Sproules, S. and Forgan, R. (2019) Kinetic Control of Interpenetration in Fe-Biphenyl-4,4′-Dicarboxylate Metal-Organic Frameworks by Coordination and Oxidation Modulation. [Data Collection]
Shipman, M., Sproules, S. , Wilson, C. and Symes, M. (2019) Towards a Better Understanding of the Electrochemical Synthesis of 2,5-dicarboxy-2,5-dihydrofurans: Structure, Mechanism and Influence over Stereochemistry. [Data Collection]
2018
Cioncoloni, G., Roger, I., Wilson, C. , Sproules, S. , Symes, M. , Wheatley, P. S. and Morris, R. (2018) Proton-Coupled-Electron Transfer Enhances the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrite to NO in a Bioinspired Copper Complex. [Data Collection]
2016
Cioncoloni, G., Senn, H. , Sproules, S. , Wilson, C. and Symes, M. (2016) The Electronic and Solvatochromic Properties of [Co(L)(bipyridine)2]+ (L = o-catecholato, o-benzenedithiolato) Species: a Combined Experimental and Computational Study. [Data Collection]
Additional information
Awards
PhD (Melbourne)
Selected Recent Talks
- “High Performance Mn(II)” 46th Annual Meeting of the ESR Spectroscopy Group of the RSC, Warwick, UK, April 2013
- “Unprecedented Spin Localisation in Rhenium Dimers with Multiple Metal-Metal Bonds” Dalton Division Joint Interest Groups Meeting, Warwick, UK, April 2012
- “Rhenium: Der Zauberer” (invited) Columbia University, New York, USA, January 2012
- “Life an the Edge – and the Pre-Edge: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and what it tells us about Metal, Ligands and Innocence” (invited) Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 2011
- “The Electronic Structure of Tris(dithiolene) Metal Complexes: Where are the (Valence) Electrons?” (invited) Caltech, Pasadena, USA, March 2011
