Spotlights
A recent publication led by Dr Jesum Alves Fernandes, with Professor Pete Licence, Professor Andrei Khlobystov, and Dr Graham Rance, in the high impact journal Nature Communications.
A recent publication between the MBS and Materials theme featuring Professor Andrei Khlobystov, Dr Graham Rance, Dr Lee Johnson, Dr. Darren Walsh, and Dr Graham Newton, in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
A collaborative publication between Professor Mike George and Professor David Salt, School of Biosciences, in the high impact journal of Nature Communications.

We succeeded in ‘filming’ inter-molecular chemical reactions using the electron beam of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) as a stop-frame imaging tool.
The electron beam simultaneously stimulates specific chemical reactions of molecules entrapped in carbon nano test tubes (the World’s tiniest test tubes according to the Guinness Book of World Records), and films their chemical reactions at the single-molecule level in real time.
As a result, we have discovered a new class of chemical reactions, observing the fate of individual molecules as reactions take place - from the reactants and all the way through to the resulting products.
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Recent Publications
Wavelength dependent photoextrusion and tandem photo-extrusion reactions of ninhydrin bis-acetals for the synthesis of 8-rings lactones, benzocyclobutenes and orthoanhydrides. Sun, W., Kayal, S., Raimbach, W., Sun, X. Z., Light, M. E., Hanson-Heine, M. W. D., Harrowven, D., & George, M. W. Chem. Commun. 2022.
A high-throughput, solvent free method for dispersing metal atoms directly onto supports. Kohlrausch, E. C., Centurion, H. A., Lodge, R. W., Luo, X., Slater, T., Santos, M. J. L., …Alves Fernandes, J. J. Mater. Chem. A. 2021, 9(47), 26676-26679.
Experimental measurement and prediction of ionic liquid ionisation energies. Seymour, J. M., Gousseva, E., Large, A. I., Clarke, C. J., Licence, P., Fogarty, R. M., …Lovelock, K. R. J. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 20957-20973.
Synthesis of ultrathin rhenium disulfide nanoribbons using nano test tubes. Norman, L. T., Biskupek, J., Rance, G. A., Stoppiello, C. T., Kaiser, U., & Khlobystov, A. N. Nano Res. 2021, 1-6.
Multigram Synthesis of Trioxanes Enabled by a Supercritical CO2 Integrated Flow Process. Wu, L., Abreu, B. L., Blake, A. J., Taylor, L. J., Lewis, W., Argent, S. P., Poliakoff, M. P., Boufroura, H., & George, M. W. Org. Process Res. Dev. 2021, 25(8), 1873–1881.
Group 11 m-Terphenyl Complexes Featuring Metallophilic Interactions. Liu, Y., Taylor, L. J., Argent, S. P., McMaster, J., & Kays, D. L. Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60(14), 10114–10123.
Photoelectron angular distributions from resonant two-photon ionization of adiabatically aligned naphthalene and aniline molecules. Arlt, J., Singh, D. P., Thompson, J. O., Chatterley, A. S., Hockett, P., Stapelfeldt, H., & Reid, K. L. Molecular Physics. 2021, 119(1-2).
Solar Driven Photocatalytic Activity of Porphyrin Sensitized TiO2: Experimental and Computational Studies. Otieno, S., Lanterna, A. E., Mack, J., Derese, S., Amuhaya, E. K., Nyokong, T., & Scaiano, J. C. Molecules. 2021, 26(11), 3131.
Modeling Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Strong Magnetic Fields Using Real-Time Time-Dependent Electronic Structure Methods. Wibowo, M., Irons, T. J. P., & Teale, A. M. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2021, 17(4), 2137–2165.
Unpicking vibration-vibration and vibration-torsion interactions in m-fluorotoluene. Davies, A. R., Kemp, D. J., & Wright, T. G. J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2021, 381,111522.
Controlling multiple orderings in metal thiocyanate molecular perovskites Ax{Ni[Bi(SCN)6]}. Lee, J. Y., Ling, S., Argent, S., Senn, M., Cañadillas-Delgado, L., & Cliffe, M. Chem. Sci. 2021,12, 3516-3525.