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Research project

X-Ray Crystallography National Facility

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Simon Coles

Professor of Structural Chemistry
Research interests
  • The work we do is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary and can broadly be split into th…
  • 1) National Crystallography Service (NCS, www.ncs.ac.uk) & Physical Sciences Data-science…
  • 2) Structural Chemistry We have an interest in determining the mechanisms of solid-state rea…
Connect with Simon

Email: sjc5@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Zwitterionic heavier pnictinidenes in redox catalysis
Selwin Fernando, Yi Chen Chan, Sergio Fernandez, Enric Sabater, Graham Tizzard, Simon J. Coles, Diego M. Andrada & Oriol Planas, 2025, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 64(34)
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202505697
Type: article
Use of aldehyde-alkyne-amine couplings to generate medicinal chemistry-relevant linkers
Andrew McGown, Vesna Vetma, Damien Crepin, Yan Lin, Claire Adcock, Conner Craigon, Jordan Nafie, Daniel von Emloh, Léa Sutton, Kiera Bailey, Lewis Edmunds, Manvendra Sharma, Jonathan D. Wilden, Simon J. Coles, Graham J. Tizzard, William Farnaby, Alessio Ciulli, George E. Kostakis & John Spencer, 2025, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 16(2), 278-284
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00531
Type: article
The synthesis, structure and solution and gas phase properties of complexes of scandium and lanthanide triflates with the phosphine oxide ligands PhP(O)(C2H4P(O)Ph2)2 and P(O)(C2H4P(O)Ph2)3
Simon J. Coles, Ann P. Hunter, Sarah J. Fieldhouse, Anthony M.J. Lees, Laura J. McCormick McPherson & Andrew W.G. Platt, 2025, Polyhedron, 269
DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2025.117395
Type: article
Radical-cation salts of BEDT-TTF with tris-coordinated racemic dysprosium(iii) and terbium(iii) anions
Emily Howarth, Jordan Lopez, Joseph O. Ogar, Toby J. Blundell, Hiroki Akutsu, Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Shusaku Imajo, Yoshihiko Ihara, Simon J. Coles, Peter N. Horton, Jeppe Christensen & Lee Martin, 2025, Dalton Transactions, 54(8), 3207-3215
DOI: 10.1039/d4dt03484h
Type: article
Hexacoordinate germanate metal–organic frameworks for the detection of Pb2+ ions in aqueous solution
Shouyi Tian, Peter N. Horton, Simon J. Coles, Andrew J.P. White, Paul D. Lickiss & Robert P. Davies, 2024, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 12(33), 12847-12853
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01700E
Type: article
Few-mode metal-free perovskite optical fiber with second-order optical nonlinearity
Hei Chit Leo Tsui, Dumitru Sirbu, Nathan Hill, Graham J. Tizzard, Pablo Docampo & Noel Healy, 2024, APL Photonics, 9(3)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0186789
Type: article
Mechanochemical Cu(II) complexes and propargylamine synthetic adventures
Ghadah Abdullah S. Al Jomeh, Andrew McGown, Emma Richards, Graham J. Tizzard, Simon J. Coles, Ramón González-Méndez, Chris Dadswell, John Spencer & George E. Kostakis, 2024, RSC Sustainability, 2(2), 528-535
DOI: 10.1039/d3su00315a
Type: article