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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

Halogen bonding with carbon: directional assembly of non-derivatised aromatic carbon systems into robust supramolecular ladder architectures
Jogirdas Vainauskas, Tristan H. Borchers, Mihails Arhangelskis, Laura J. McCormick McPherson, Toni S. Spilfogel, Ehsan Hamzehpoor, Filip Topić, Simon J. Coles, Dmytro F. Perepichka, Christopher J. Barrett & Tomislav Friščić, 2023, Chemical Science, 14(45), 13031-13041
DOI: 10.1039/d3sc04191c
Type: article
Synthesis and crystal structures of two related Co and Mn complexes: a celebration of collaboration between the universities of Dakar and Southampton
James B. Orton, Ngone Diouf, Rokhaya S. Gueye, Mohamed Gaye, Ibrahima Elhadji Thiam & Simon J. Coles, 2023, Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, 79(Pt 12), 1109-1114
DOI: 10.1107/S2056989023009805
Type: article
Synthesis and characterization of lead metallated non-peripherally substituted octa-octyl tetrabenzo(aza)porphyrins showing face-to-face columnar stacking in the crystal phase
Lydia Sosa Vargas, Simon J. Coles, Graham J. Tizzard, Isabelle Chambrier, Michael J. Cook & Andrew N. Cammidge, 2023, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 27(7-10), 1285-1291
DOI: 10.1142/S1088424623500876
Type: article
Crystal structure and NMR of an α,δ-peptide foldamer helix shows side-chains are well placed for bifunctional catalysis
2023, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 62(36)
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202305326
Type: article
Influence of fluorinated substituents on the near-infrared phosphorescence of 5d metallocorroles
Krister Engedal Johannessen, Martin Amund Langaas Johansen, Rune F. Einrem, Laura J. McCormick McPherson, Abraham B. Alemayehu, Sergey M. Borisov & Abhik Ghosh, 2023, ACS Organic and Inorganic Au, 3(5), 241-245
DOI: 10.1021/acsorginorgau.3c00016
Type: letterEditorial
2-(5,6-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazin-3-yl)pyridinium dichloroiodate (I)
M. Carla Aragoni, Vito Lippolis, Annalisa Mancini, Anna Pintus, Enrico Podda, James B. Orton, Simon J. Coles & Massimiliano Arca, 2023, Molbank, 2023(2)
DOI: 10.3390/M1662
Type: article
2-(2,7-Bis(pyridin-3-ylethynyl)fluoren-9-ylidene)malononitrile
Enrico Podda, Massimiliano Arca, Anna Pintus, Francesca Meloni, Vito Lippolis, Giulio Ferino, James B. Orton, Simon J. Coles & Maria Carla Aragoni, 2023, Molbank, 2023(2)
DOI: 10.3390/M1619
Type: article