Dr James Platts
(he/him)
Professor of Computational and Physical Chemistry
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
- Theoretical studies of non-covalent interactions, including hydrogen bonding and π-stacking, and their role in biological and drug molecules
- Simulation of interaction of metal ions and complexes with biomolecules, including peptides and nucleic acids
- Molecular properties to describe and predict and inter- and intramolecular interactions
- Prediction of solvation and transport of pharmaceutical and industrial compounds
- Theoretical investigation of chemical bonding and reactivity in and inorganic compounds
Publication
2024
- Newman, P. D., Platts, J. A., Alrashidi, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Kariuki, B. M. 2024. A noble nexus: a phosphino-phen ligand for tethering precious metals †. Dalton Transactions 53(37) (10.1039/d4dt02130d)
- Payce, E. N., Knighton, R. C., Platts, J. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2024. Luminescent Pt(II) complexes using unsymmetrical Bis(2-pyridylimino)isoindolate analogues. Inorganic Chemistry 63(18), pp. 8273–8285. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c00558)
- Platts, J. A., Kariuki, B. M. and Newman, P. D. 2024. Welcoming neighbour or inhospitable host? Selective second metal binding in 5- and 6-phospha-substituted Bpy ligands. Molecules 29(5), article number: 1150. (10.3390/molecules29051150)
- Savva, L. and Platts, J. A. 2024. Computational investigation of copper-mediated conformational changes in α-synuclein dimer †. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 26(4), pp. 2926-2935. (10.1039/d3cp04697d)
- Fioco, D., Folli, A., Platts, J., Chiesa, M. and Murphy, D. M. 2024. A continuous-wave EPR investigation into the photochemical transformations of the chromium(I) carbonyl complex [Cr(CO)4bis(diphenylphosphino)]+ and reactivity with 1-hexene. Molecules 29(2), article number: 392. (10.3390/molecules29020392)
2023
- Savva, L. and Platts, J. A. 2023. Exploring the impact of mutation and post-translational modification on α-Synuclein: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations with and without copper. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 249, article number: 112395. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112395)
- La Manna, S. et al. 2023. The inhibitory effects of platinum( ii ) complexes on amyloid aggregation: a theoretical and experimental approach. Dalton Transactions 52, pp. 12677-12685. (10.1039/d3dt02187d)
- Savva, L. and Platts, J. A. 2023. Evaluation of implicit solvent models in molecular dynamics simulation of α-Synuclein. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 41(11), pp. 5230-5245. (10.1080/07391102.2022.2082534)
- Platts, J. A. and Tolbatov, I. 2023. Simulation of uranyl-biomolecule interaction using a cationic dummy atom model. Chemical Physics Letters 822, article number: 140479. (10.1016/j.cplett.2023.140479)
- Savva, L. and Platts, J. A. 2023. How Cu(II) binding affects structure and dynamics of α-synuclein revealed by molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 239, article number: 112068. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2022.112068)
- Leiszner, S. S., Chakarawet, K., Long, J. R., Nishibori, E., Sugimoto, K., Platts, J. A. and Overgaard, J. 2023. Electron density analysis of metal-metal bonding in a Ni4 cluster featuring ferromagnetic exchange. Inorganic Chemistry 62(1), pp. 192-200. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03170)
2022
- Bryce, R. A. and Platts, J. A. 2022. From the archives: the origins of a society and a journal for the field of molecular graphics and modelling. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 117, article number: 108308. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2022.108308)
- Hawkins, B. A., Najib, E., Du, J. J., Lai, F., Platts, J. A., Groundwater, P. W. and Hibbs, D. E. 2022. Exploring the excited-state charge transfer fluorescence profile of 7-hydroxycoumarin and 2-methylimidazole – a combined X-ray diffraction and theoretical approach. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 24(21), pp. 13015-13025. (10.1039/D2CP01235A)
- Hawkins, B. A. et al. 2022. An experimental and theoretical charge density study of theophylline and malonic acid cocrystallization. RSC Advances 12(25), article number: 15670. (10.1039/D1RA08389A)
2021
- Alshammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Can ionic effects induce α-sheet conformation of Peptides?. Chemical Physics Letters 784, article number: 139095. (10.1016/j.cplett.2021.139095)
- Milner, A., Alshammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Computational study of copper binding to DAHK peptide. Inorganica Chimica Acta 528, article number: 120589. (10.1016/j.ica.2021.120589)
- Stanton, S. A. et al. 2021. Understanding hygroscopicity of theophylline via a novel cocrystal polymorph: a charge density study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 125(45), pp. 9736–9756. (10.1021/acs.jpca.0c09536)
- Kennedy-Britten, O. D., Alshammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Accelerated molecular dynamics to explore the binding of transition metals to amyloid-β. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 12(21), pp. 4065-4075. (10.1021/acschemneuro.1c00466)
- Alshammari, N., Savva, L., Kennedy-Britten, O. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Forcefield evaluation and accelerated molecular dynamics simulation of Zn(II) binding to N-terminus of amyloid-β. Computational Biology and Chemistry 93, article number: 107540. (10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2021.107540)
- Hawkins, B. A. et al. 2021. Analyzing hydration differences in cocrystal polymorphs: high-resolution X-ray investigation of caffeine-glutaric acid cocrystals. Crystal Growth and Design 21(8), pp. 4456-4467. (10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00358)
- Sharma, G., Newman, P. D. and Platts, J. A. 2021. A review of quantum chemical studies of frustrated Lewis pairs. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 105, article number: 107846. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2021.107846)
- Mala, B. et al. 2021. Photochemical oxidation of Pt(IV)Me3(1,2-diimine) thiolates to luminescent Pt(IV) sulfinates. Inorganic Chemistry 60(10), pp. 7031-7143. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03553)
- Kennedy-Britten, O., Al Shammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Molecular dynamics simulations of copper binding to N-terminus mutants of amyloid-β. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 39(6), pp. 2003-2013. (10.1080/07391102.2020.1745692)
- Folli, A., Ritterskamp, N., Richards, E., Platts, J. A. and Murphy, D. M. 2021. Probing the structure of copper(II)-casiopeina type coordination complexes [Cu(O-O)(N-N)]+ by EPR and ENDOR spectroscopy. Journal of Catalysis 394, pp. 220-227. (10.1016/j.jcat.2020.07.016)
- Kariuki, B. M., Platts, J. A. and Newman, P. D. 2021. A hybrid bipy–NHC ligand for the construction of group 11 mixed-metal bimetallic complexes. RSC Advances 11(54), pp. 34170-34173. (10.1039/D1RA06581E)
2020
- Alshammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2020. Theoretical study of copper binding to GHK peptide. Computational Biology and Chemistry 86, article number: 107265. (10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2020.107265)
- Sharma, G., Newman, P. D., Melen, R. and Platts, J. A. 2020. Computational design of an intramolecular frustrated Lewis pair catalyst for enantioselective hydrogenation. Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry 19, article number: 2. (10.1142/S0219633620500091)
- Oberkofler, J., Aikman, B., Bonsignore, R., Pöthig, A., Platts, J., Casini, A. and Kühn, F. E. 2020. Exploring the reactivity and biological effects of heteroleptic N-Heterocyclic carbene gold(I)-Alkynyl complexes. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2020(11-12), pp. 1040-1051. (10.1002/ejic.201901043)
- Platts, J. A. 2020. Quantum chemical molecular dynamics and metadynamics simulation of aluminium binding to amyloid-β and related peptides. Royal Society Open Science 7(2), pp. -., article number: 191562. (10.1098/rsos.191562)
- Mutter, S. T., Turner, M., Deeth, R. J. and Platts, J. A. 2020. Molecular dynamics simulations of copper binding to amyloid-β Glu22 mutants. Heliyon 6(1), article number: e03071. (10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e03071)
- Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2020. A computational investigation of orbital overlap versus energy degeneracy covalency in [UE2]2+ (E = O, S, Se, Te) complexes. Dalton Transactions 49(4) (10.1039/C9DT04484A)
2019
- Luckham, S. L. J., Folli, A., Platts, J. A., Richards, E. and Murphy, D. M. 2019. Unravelling the photochemical transformations of chromium(I) 1,3 Bis(diphenylphosphino), [Cr(CO)4(dppp)]+, by EPR spectroscopy. Organometallics 38(12), pp. -. (10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00226)
- Permyakov, E. A., Turner, M., Mutter, S. T., Kennedy-Britten, O. D. and Platts, J. A. 2019. Molecular dynamics simulation of aluminum binding to amyloid-β and its effect on peptide structure. PLoS ONE 14(6), article number: e0217992. (10.1371/journal.pone.0217992)
- Tzoupis, H., Nteli, A., Platts, J., Mantzourani, E. and Tselios, T. 2019. Refinement of the gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor I homology model by applying molecular dynamics. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 89, pp. 147-155. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2019.03.009)
- Müller, K. et al. 2019. Interdisciplinary round-robin test on molecular spectroscopy of the U(VI) acetate system. ACS Omega 4(5), pp. 8167-8177. (10.1021/acsomega.9b00164)
- Turner, M., Mutter, S. and Platts, J. 2019. Molecular dynamics simulation on the effect of transition metal binding to the n-terminal fragment of amyloid-β. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 37(17), pp. 4590-4600. (10.1080/07391102.2018.1555490)
- Wenzel, M. N. et al. 2019. Insights into the mechanisms of aquaporin-3 inhibition by gold(III) complexes: the importance of non-coordinative adduct formation. Inorganic Chemistry 58(3), pp. -. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03233)
- Nuzzo, S., van Leusen, J., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A., Kögerler, P. and Baker, R. J. 2019. Oxidation of uranium(IV) thiocyanate complexes: cation–cation interactions in mixed-valent uranium coordination chains. Dalton Transactions 48(20), pp. 6704-6708. (10.1039/C9DT01005J)
- Turner, M., Mutter, S. T., Kennedy-Britten, O. D. and Platts, J. A. 2019. Replica exchange molecular dynamics simulation of the coordination of Pt(ii)-Phenanthroline to amyloid-β†. RSC Advances 9(60), pp. 35089-35097. (10.1039/C9RA04637B)
2018
- Mutter, S. T., Turner, M., Deeth, R. J. and Platts, J. A. 2018. Metal binding to amyloid β1-42: a ligand field molecular dynamics study. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 9(11), pp. 2795-2806. (10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00210)
- Hallett, A. J. et al. 2018. Exploring the cellular uptake and localisation of phosphorescent rhenium fac-tricarbonyl metallosurfactants as a function of lipophilicity. Dalton Transactions 47(40), pp. 14241-14253. (10.1039/C8DT00669E)
- Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2018. Non-covalent interactions of uranyl complexes: a theoretical study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20(22), pp. 15380-15388. (10.1039/C8CP02444H)
- Nuzzo, S., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2018. Pseudohalide tectons within the coordination sphere of the uranyl ion: experimental and theoretical study of C-H···O, C-H···S, and chalcogenide noncovalent interactions. Inorganic Chemistry 57(7), pp. 3699-3712. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02967)
- Du, J. J. et al. 2018. Exploring the binding of barbital to a synthetic macrocyclic receptor. A charge density study. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 122(11), pp. 3031-3044. (10.1021/acs.jpca.7b11674)
- Turner, M., Mutter, S., Deeth, R. J. and Platts, J. 2018. Ligand field molecular dynamics simulation of Pt(II)-phenanthroline binding to N-terminal fragment of amyloid-β peptide. PLoS ONE 13(3), pp. -., article number: e0193668. (10.1371/journal.pone.0193668)
- Farrow, C. M. A., Akien, G. R., Halcovitch, N. R., Platts, J. A. and Coogan, M. P. 2018. Self-assembly of singlet-emitting double-helical silver dimers: the curious coordination chemistry and fluorescence of bisquinolylpyridone. Dalton Transactions 47(11), pp. 3906-3912. (10.1039/C7DT04744D)
- Du, J. et al. 2018. Monoclinic paracetamol vs. paracetamol-4,4'-bipyridine co-crystal; what is the difference? a charge density study. Crystals 8(1), pp. -., article number: 46. (10.3390/cryst8010046)
- Du, J. J. et al. 2018. Using electron density to predict synthon formation in a 4-hydroxybenzoic acid : 4,4'-bipyridine co-crystal. Crystal Growth and Design 18(3), pp. 1786-1798. (10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01676)
2017
- Biswas, S. et al. 2017. Structural variability of 4f and 5f thiocyanate complexes and dissociation of uranium(III)‒ thiocyanate bonds with increased ionicity. Inorganic Chemistry 56(23), pp. 14426-14437. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01560)
- Omorodion, H., Palenzuela, M., Ruether, M., Twamley, B., Platts, J. and Baker, R. J. 2017. A rationally designed perfluorinated host for the extraction of PFOA from water utilising non-covalent interactions. New Journal of Chemistry 42, pp. 7956-7968. (10.1039/C7NJ03026F)
- Wilkins, L. C., Melen, R. L., Platts, J. A. and Newman, P. D. 2017. Amidine functionalized phosphines: tuneable ligands for transition metals. Dalton Transactions 46(41), pp. 14234-14243. (10.1039/C7DT03343E)
- Farrell, D., Kingston, S., Tungulin, D., Nuzzo, S., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2017. N-Aryl-9,10-phenanthreneimines as scaffolds for exploring non-covalent interactions: a structural and computational study. European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2017(37), pp. 5597-5609. (10.1002/ejoc.201700884)
- Graziani, V., Marrone, A., Re, N., Coletti, C., Platts, J. A. and Casini, A. 2017. A multilevel theoretical study to disclose the binding mechanisms of gold(III) bipyridyl compounds as selective aquaglyceroporin inhibitors. Chemistry - a European Journal 23(55), pp. 13802-13813. (10.1002/chem.201703092)
- Ritterskamp, N., Sharples, K., Richards, E., Folli, A., Chiesa, M., Platts, J. A. and Murphy, D. M. 2017. Understanding the coordination modes of [Cu(acac)2(imidazole)n=1,2] adducts by EPR, ENDOR, HYSCORE, and DFT analysis. Inorganic Chemistry 56(19), pp. 11862-11875. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01874)
- Ould, D. M. C. et al. 2017. Investigations into the photophysical and electronic properties of pnictoles and Their pnictenium counterparts. Organometallics 37(5), pp. 712-719. (10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00564)
- Gabano, E., Perin, E., Fielden, C., Platts, J. A., Gallina, A., Rangone, B. and Ravera, M. 2017. How to obtain Pt(IV) complexes suitable for the conjugation to nanovectors from the oxidation of [PtCl(terpyridine)]+. Dalton Transactions 46(31), pp. 10246-10254. (10.1039/C7DT01706E)
- Turner, M., Deeth, R. J. and Platts, J. A. 2017. Prediction of ligand effects in platinum-amyloid-β coordination. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 173, pp. 44-51. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2017.05.003)
- Ayres, J., Ashford, M., Stockl, Y., Prudhomme, V., Ling, K. B., Platts, J. and Morrill, L. 2017. Deoxycyanamidation of alcohols with N-Cyano-N-phenyl-p-methylbenzenesulfonamide (NCTS). Organic Letters 19(14), pp. 3835-3838. (10.1021/acs.orglett.7b01710)
- Groves, L. M. et al. 2017. From ligand to phosphor: rapid, machine-assisted synthesis of substituted iridium(III) pyrazolate complexes with tuneable luminescence. Chemistry - A European Journal 23(39), pp. 9407-9418. (10.1002/chem.201701551)
- Ullah, H., Twamley, B., Waseem, A., Khawar Rauf, M., Tahir, M. N., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2017. Tin…oxygen tetrel bonding: a combined structural, spectroscopic and computational study. Crystal Growth and Design 17(7), pp. 4021-4027. (10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00678)
- Yannakakis, M. et al. 2017. Design and synthesis of non-peptide mimetics mapping the immunodominant myelin basic protein (MBP83-96) epitope to function as T-Cell receptor antagonists. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 18(6), article number: 1215. (10.3390/ijms18061215)
- Mutter, S., Deeth, R. J., Turner, M. and Platts, J. A. 2017. Benchmarking of copper(II) LFMM parameters for studying amyloid-β peptides. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 36(5), pp. 1145-1153. (10.1080/07391102.2017.1313780)
- Lozano, H. J., Busto, N., Espino, G., Carbayo, A., Leal, J. M., Platts, J. and García, B. 2017. Interstrand DNA covalent binding of two dinuclear Ru(ii) complexes. Influence of the extra ring of the bridging ligand on the DNA interaction and cytotoxic activity. Dalton Transactions 11, pp. 3611-3622. (10.1039/C6DT04888A)
2016
- Coogan, M. P. and Platts, J. A. 2016. Blue rhenium tricarbonyl DPPZ complexes - low energy charge-transfer absorption at tissue-penetrating wavelengths. Chemical Communications 52(84), pp. 12498-12501. (10.1039/C6CC07125B)
- Nuzzo, S., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2016. Characterisation of isothiocyanic acid, HNCS, in the solid state: trapped by hydrogen bonding. Chemical Communications 52(90), pp. 13296-13298. (10.1039/C6CC05971F)
- Lai, F. et al. 2016. A comparison of the experimental and theoretical charge density distributions in two polymorphic modifications of piroxicam. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18(41), pp. 28802-28818. (10.1039/C6CP02690G)
- Du, J. J., Váradi, L., Williams, P. A., Groundwater, P. W., Overgaard, J., Platts, J. A. and Hibbs, D. E. 2016. An analysis of the experimental and theoretical charge density distributions of the piroxicam-saccharin co-crystal and its constituents. RSC Advances 6(85), pp. 81578-81590. (10.1039/C6RA10411H)
- Turner, M., Platts, J. A. and Deeth, R. J. 2016. Modeling of platinum-aryl interaction with amyloid-β peptide. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 12(3), pp. 1385-1392. (10.1021/acs.jctc.5b01045)
- Tetko, I. V., Varbanov, H. P., Galanski, M., Talmaciu, M., Platts, J. A., Ravera, M. and Gabano, E. 2016. Prediction of logP for Pt(II) and Pt(IV) complexes: Comparison of statistical and quantum-chemistry based approaches. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 156, pp. 1-13. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2015.12.006)
- Ravera, M., Gabano, E., Zanellato, I., Fregonese, F., Pelosi, G., Platts, J. A. and Osella, D. 2016. Antiproliferative activity of a series of cisplatin-based Pt(IV)-acetylamido/carboxylato prodrugs. Dalton Transactions 45, pp. 5300-5309. (10.1039/C5DT04905A)
2015
- Lari, M. et al. 2015. Stabilization of Al(iii) solutions by complexation with cacodylic acid: speciation and binding features. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(44), pp. 29803-29813. (10.1039/C5CP04717J)
- Stacey, O. J. et al. 2015. Water soluble, cyclometalated Pt(II)–Ln(III) conjugates towards novel bimodal imaging agents. Chemical Communications 51(61), pp. 12305-12308. (10.1039/C5CC02623G)
- Steel, H. L., Allinson, S. L., Andre, J., Coogan, M. P. and Platts, J. A. 2015. Platinum trimethyl bipyridyl thiolates - new, tunable, red- to near IR emitting luminophores for bioimaging applications. Chemical Communications 51(57), pp. 11441-11444. (10.1039/C5CC04003E)
- Stacey, O. J., Platts, J. A., Coles, S. J., Horton, P. N. and Pope, S. J. A. 2015. Phosphorescent, cyclometalated cinchophen-derived platinum complexes: syntheses, structures, and electronic properties. Inorganic Chemistry, article number: 150619121705005. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00817)
- Platel, R. H., Coogan, M. P. and Platts, J. A. 2015. Stereoelectronic control of photophysics: red and yellow axial and equatorial anomers of a rhenium-quinoline complex. Dalton Transactions 44(26), pp. 11700-11704. (10.1039/C5DT02136G)
- Omorodion, H., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2015. Further evidence on the importance of fluorous-fluorous interactions in supramolecular chemistry: a combined structural and computational study. Crystal Growth and Design 15(6), pp. 2835-2841., article number: 150501113611006. (10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00254)
- Carter, E., Sharples, K. M., Platts, J. A. and Murphy, D. M. 2015. Structure determination of bound nitrogen-based adducts with copper(ii) acetylacetonato; an EPR, ENDOR and DFT study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(17), pp. 11445-11454. (10.1039/C5CP00559K)
- Margiotta, N. et al. 2015. DNA fragment conformations in adducts with Kiteplatin. Dalton Transactions 44(8), pp. 3544-3556. (10.1039/C4DT01796J)
- Hibbs, D., Du, J. J., Váradi, L., Tan, J., Zhao, Y., Groundwater, P. W. and Platts, J. A. 2015. Experimental and theoretical charge density distribution in pigment yellow 101. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(6), pp. 4677-4686. (10.1039/C4CP04302B)
- Carvalho, A. T. P., Gouveia, M. L., Raju Kanna, C., Wärmländer, S. K. T. S., Platts, J. A. and Kamerlin, S. C. L. 2015. Theoretical modelling of epigenetically modified DNA sequences. F1000Research 4, article number: 52. (10.12688/f1000research.6148.1)
- Carvalho, A. T. P., Gouveia, L., Kanna, C. R., Wärmländer, S. K. T. S., Platts, J. A. and Kamerlin, S. C. L. 2015. Understanding the structural and dynamic consequences of DNA epigenetic modifications: Computational insights into cytosine methylation and hydroxymethylation. Epigenetics 9(12), pp. 1604-1612. (10.4161/15592294.2014.988043)
- Mutter, S. T., Margiotta, N., Papadia, P. and Platts, J. A. 2015. Computational evidence for structural consequences of kiteplatin damage on DNA. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 20(1), pp. 35. (10.1007/s00775-014-1207-5)
- Stokes, E. C. et al. 2015. Cationic, luminescent cyclometalated iridium(iii) complexes based on substituted 2-phenylthiazole ligands. Dalton Transactions 44(18), pp. 8488-8496. (10.1039/C4DT03054K)
- Du, J. J., Váradi, L., Tan, J., Zhao, Y., Groundwater, P. W., Platts, J. A. and Hibbs, D. E. 2015. Correction: Experimental and theoretical charge density distribution in Pigment Yellow 101. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(9), pp. 6667. (10.1039/C5CP90018B)
2014
- Wu, L., Jones, C., Stasch, A., Platts, J. A. and Overgaard, J. 2014. Non-nuclear attractor in a molecular compound under external pressure. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2014(32), pp. 5536-5540. (10.1002/ejic.201402606)
- Overgaard, J. et al. 2014. Relationships between electron density and magnetic properties in water-bridged dimetal complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 53(21), pp. 11531-11539. (10.1021/ic501411w)
- Brazier, J. B. et al. 2014. Improving catalyst activity in secondary amine catalysed transformations. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 13(1), pp. 133-141. (10.1039/C4OB01916D)
- Johns, J. J. and Platts, J. A. 2014. Theoretical insight into the antioxidant properties of melatonin and derivatives. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 12, pp. 7820-7827. (10.1039/C4OB01396D)
- Senthil Kumar, G., Satheeshkumar, R., Kaminsky, W., Platts, J. A. and Rajendra Prasad, K. J. 2014. A facile regioselective 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition protocol for the synthesis of new class of quinolinyl dispiro heterocycles. Tetrahedron Letters 55(40), pp. 5475-5480. (10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.08.036)
- Hashem, E., Platts, J. A., Hartl, F., Lorusso, G., Evangelisti, M., Schulzke, C. and Baker, R. J. 2014. Thiocyanate complexes of uranium in multiple oxidation states: a combined structural, magnetic, spectroscopic, spectroelectrochemical and theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry 53(16), pp. 8624-8637. (10.1021/ic501236j)
- Sankaran, M., Uvarani, C., Chandraprakash, K., Lekshmi, S. U., Suparna, S., Platts, J. A. and Mohan, P. S. 2014. A regioselective multicomponent protocol for the synthesis of novel bioactive 4-hydroxyquinolin-2(1H)-one grafted monospiropyrrolidine and thiapyrrolizidine hybrids. Molecular Diversity 18(2), pp. 269-283. (10.1007/s11030-013-9498-y)
- Zhang, W. et al. 2014. An investigation of the scope of the 1,7-electrocyclization of α,β:γ,δ-conjugated azomethine ylides. Tetrahedron 70(22), pp. 3621-3629. (10.1016/j.tet.2014.03.078)
- Gkionis, K., Kruse, H., Platts, J. A., Mladek, A., Koca, J. and Sponer, J. 2014. Ion binding to quadruplex DNA stems. Comparison of MM and QM descriptions reveals sizable polarization effects not included in contemporary simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 10(3), pp. 1326-1340. (10.1021/ct4009969)
- Kariuki, B., Platts, J. A. and Newman, P. D. 2014. It's all about Me: methyl-induced control of coordination stereochemistry by a flexible tridentate N,C,N′ ligand. Dalton Transactions 43(7), pp. 2971-2978. (10.1039/c3dt52841c)
- Robertazzi, A., Platts, J. A. and Gamez, P. 2014. Anion⋅⋅⋅Si interactions in an inverse sandwich complex: a computational study. ChemPhysChem 15(5), pp. 912-917. (10.1002/cphc.201400018)
- Thorp-Greenwood, F. L., Platts, J. A. and Coogan, M. P. 2014. Experimental and theoretical characterisation of phosphorescence from rhenium polypyridyl tricarbonyl complexes. Polyhedron 67, pp. 505-512. (10.1016/j.poly.2013.09.033)
- Meleshko, G., Kulhavy, J., Paul, A., Willock, D. J. and Platts, J. A. 2014. All-atom molecular dynamics simulation of HPMA polymers. RSC Advances 4(14), pp. 7003-7012. (10.1039/c3ra46386a)
2013
- Husby, J., Todd, A. K., Platts, J. A. and Neidle, S. 2013. Small-molecule G-quadruplex interactions: Systematic exploration of conformational space using multiple molecular dynamics. Biopolymers 99(12), pp. 989-1005. (10.1002/bip.22340)
- Platts, J. A., Thomsen, M. K. and Overgaard, J. 2013. Electron localisation in Ga-Heterocyclic compounds. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 639(11), pp. 1979-1984. (10.1002/zaac.201200498)
- Sharples, K. M., Carter, E., Hughes, C. E., Harris, K. D. M., Platts, J. A. and Murphy, D. M. 2013. An ENDOR and DFT analysis of hindered methyl group rotations in frozen solutions of bis(acetylacetonato)-copper(ii). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15(36), pp. 15214-15222. (10.1039/c3cp52464g)
- Henry, K. E. et al. 2013. Emission wavelength variation with changes in excitation in a Re(i)-bisthiazole ligand complex that breaks the Kasha-Vavilov rule. Chemical Science 4(6), pp. 2490-2495. (10.1039/c3sc22070b)
- Smith, R. A., Stokes, E. C., Langdon-Jones, E. E., Platts, J. A., Kariuki, B., Hallett, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2013. Cyclometalated cinchophen ligands on iridium(iii): towards water-soluble complexes with visible luminescence. Dalton Transactions 42(28), pp. 10347-10357. (10.1039/c3dt51098k)
- Pritchard, V. E. et al. 2013. Simple Polyphenyl Zirconium and Hafnium Metallocene Room-Temperature Lumophores for Cell Imaging. Organometallics 32(12), pp. 3566-3569. (10.1021/om400212y)
- Gkionis, K., Mutter, S. and Platts, J. A. 2013. QM/MM description of platinum-DNA interactions: comparison of binding and DNA distortion of five drugs. RSC Advances 3(12), pp. 4066-4073. (10.1039/c3ra23041d)
- Langdon-Jones, E. E., Hallett, A. J., Routledge, J. D., Crole, D. A., Ward, B. D., Platts, J. A. and Pope, S. J. A. 2013. Using substituted cyclometalated quinoxaline ligands to finely tune the luminescence properties of iridium(III) complexes. Inorganic Chemistr 52(1), pp. 448-456. (10.1021/ic301853t)
- Morris, J. L., Reddington, S. C., Murphy, D. M., Jones, D. D., Platts, J. A. and Tippmann, E. M. 2013. Aryl azide photochemistry in defined protein environments. Organic Letters 15(4), pp. 728-731. (10.1021/ol3028779)
- Jones, G., Robertazzi, A. and Platts, J. A. 2013. Efficient and accurate theoretical methods to investigate anion-π interactions in protein model structures. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 117(12), pp. 3315-3322. (10.1021/jp400345s)
- Hashem, E. et al. 2013. Emission spectroscopy of uranium(iv) compounds: a combined synthetic, spectroscopic and computational study. RSC Advances 3(13), pp. 4350-4361. (10.1039/c3ra22712j)
- Ermondi, G., Caron, G., Ravera, M., Gabano, E., Bianco, S., Platts, J. A. and Osella, D. 2013. Molecular interaction fields vs. quantum-mechanical-based descriptors in the modelling of lipophilicity of platinum(iv) complexes. Dalton Transactions 42(10), pp. 3482-3489. (10.1039/c2dt32360e)
- Platts, J. A., Hill, J. G., Riley, K. E., Rezác, J. and Hobza, P. 2013. Basis set dependence of interaction energies computed using composite post-MP2 Methods. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 9(1), pp. 330-337. (10.1021/ct300842d)
- Carter, E. et al. 2013. Formation of [Cr(CO)x(Ph2PN(iPr)PPh2)]+Structural Isomers by Reaction of Triethylaluminum with a ChromiumN,N-Bis(diarylphosphino)amine Complex [Cr(CO)4(Ph2PN(iPr)PPh2)]+: An EPR and DFT Investigation. Organometallics 32(6), pp. 1924-1931. (10.1021/om400029y)
- Hashem, E., Lorusso, G., Evangelisti, M., McCabe, T., Schulzke, C., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2013. Fingerprinting the oxidation state of U(IV) by emission spectroscopy. Dalton Transactions 41, pp. 14677-14680. (10.1039/c3dt52151f)
- McCormick, L. J., McDonnell-Worth, C., Platts, J. A., Edwards, A. J. and Turner, D. R. 2013. Investigation of steric influences on hydrogen-bonding motifs in cyclic ureas by using x-ray, neutron, and computational methods. Chemistry - An Asian Journal 8(11), pp. 2642-2651. (10.1002/asia.201300530)
2012
- Platts, J. A., Ravera, M., Gabano, E., Sardi, M., Bianco, S. and Osella, D. 2012. Solvolysis of a series of cisplatin-like complexes - comparison between DNA-biosensor and conductivity data. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2012(34), pp. 5625-5631. (10.1002/ejic.201200677)
- Futera, Z., Platts, J. A. and Burda, J. V. 2012. Binding of piano-stool Ru(II) complexes to DNA; QM/MM study. Journal of Computational Chemistry 33(26), pp. 2092-2101. (10.1002/jcc.23045)
- Routledge, J. D., Hallett, A. J., Platts, J. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2012. Tuning the electronics of phosphorescent, amide-functionalized, cyclometalated IrIII complexes: Syntheses, structures, spectroscopy and theoretical Studies. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2012(25), pp. 4065-4075. (10.1002/ejic.201200647)
- Gkionis, K. and Platts, J. A. 2012. QM/MM studies of cisplatin complexes with DNA dimer and octamer. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 993, pp. 60-65. (10.1016/j.comptc.2012.05.034)
- Platts, J. A., Maarof, H., Harris, K. D. M., Lim, G. K. and Willock, D. J. 2012. The effect of intermolecular hydrogen bonding on the planarity of amides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14(34), pp. 11944-11952. (10.1039/c2cp41716b)
- Nguyen, T. H., Howard, S. T., Hanrahan, J. R., Groundwater, P. W., Platts, J. A. and Hibbs, D. E. 2012. Experimental and Theoretical Charge Density Distribution in a Host-Guest System: Synthetic Terephthaloyl Receptor Complexed to Adipic Acid. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(23), pp. 5618-5628. (10.1021/jp210803m)
- Baker, R. J., Colavita, P. E., Murphy, D. M., Platts, J. A. and Wallis, J. D. 2012. Fluorine-fluorine interactions in the solid state: an experimental and theoretical Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(5), pp. 1435-1444. (10.1021/jp2099976)
- Griffith, D. M., Bíró, L., Platts, J. A., Müller-Bunz, H., Farkas, E. and Buglyó, P. 2012. Synthesis and solution behaviour of stable mono-, di- and trinuclear Pd(II) complexes of 2,5-pyridinedihydroxamic acid: X-ray crystal structure of a novel Pd(II) hydroxamato complex. Inorganica Chimica Acta 380, pp. 291-300. (10.1016/j.ica.2011.09.050)
- Riley, K. E., Platts, J. A., Řezáč, J., Hobza, P. and Hill, J. G. 2012. Assessment of the Performance of MP2 and MP2 Variants for the Treatment of Noncovalent Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(16), pp. 4159-4169. (10.1021/jp211997b)
- Nguyen, T. H., Groundwater, P. W., Platts, J. A. and Hibbs, D. E. 2012. Experimental and Theoretical Charge Density Studies of 8-Hydroxyquinoline Cocrystallized with Salicylic Acid. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(13), pp. 3420-3427. (10.1021/jp2108076)
- Margiotta, N. et al. 2012. Revisiting [PtCl2(cis-1,4-DACH)]: an underestimated antitumor drug with potential application to the treatment of oxaliplatin-refractory colorectal cancer. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 55(16), pp. 7182-7192. (10.1021/jm3006838)
2011
- Mutter, S. T. and Platts, J. A. 2011. Density functional theory studies of interactions of ruthenium arene complexes with base pair steps. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115(41), pp. 11293-11302. (10.1021/jp2049487)
- Moreno, E. et al. 2011. Studies on log pow of quinoxaline di-N-Oxides: a comparison of RP-HPLC experimental and predictive approaches. Molecules 16(9), pp. 7893-7908. (10.3390/molecules16097893)
- Platts, J. A. et al. 2011. Molecular and statistical modeling of reduction peak potential and lipophilicity of platinum(IV) complexes. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 16(3), pp. 361-372. (10.1007/s00775-010-0731-1)
- Edwards, P. G., Kariuki, B., Limon, M. D., Ooi, L., Platts, J. A. and Newman, P. D. 2011. Metal complexes of a structurally embellished phosphinane ligand: an assessment of stereoelectronic effects. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2011(8), pp. 1230-1239. (10.1002/ejic.201001170)
- McDyre, L. et al. 2011. Intramolecular formation of a CrI(bis-arene) species via TEA activation of [Cr(CO)4(Ph2P(C3H6)PPh2)]+: sn EPR and DFT investigation. Organometallics 30(17), pp. 4505-4508. (10.1021/om2006062)
- Platts, J. A., Overgaard, J., Jones, C., Iversen, B. B. and Stasch, A. 2011. First experimental characterization of a non-nuclear attractor in a dimeric magnesium(I) compound. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115(2), pp. 194-200. (10.1021/jp109547w)
- Brazier, J. B., Jones, K. M., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2011. On the roles of protic solvents in imidazolidinone-catalyzed transformations. Angewandte Chemie. International Edition 50(7), pp. 1613-1616. (10.1002/anie.201005892)
- Carr, J. M., Duggan, P. J., Humphrey, D. G., Platts, J. A. and Tyndall, E. M. 2011. Wood protection properties of quaternary ammonium spiroborate esters derived from alkyl tartrates. Australian Journal of Chemistry 64(4), pp. 495-502. (10.1071/CH11022)
- Brazier, J. B. et al. 2011. Iminium ion catalysis: direct comparison of imidazolidinone and diarylprolinol ether reactivity. Tetrahedron Letters 52(21), pp. 2783-2785. (10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.03.129)
- Overgaard, J., Jones, C., Dange, D. and Platts, J. A. 2011. Experimental Charge Density Analysis of a Gallium(I) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogue. Inorganic Chemistry 50(17), pp. 8418-8426. (10.1021/ic2009946)
- Chakravorty, S., Platts, J. A. and Das, B. K. 2011. Novel C-H-C contacts involving 3,5-dimethylpyrazole ligands in a tetracoordinate Co(ii) complex. Dalton Transactions 40(43), pp. 11605-11612. (10.1039/c1dt10948k)
2010
- Aldulaijan, S. and Platts, J. A. 2010. Theoretical prediction of a peptide binding to major histocompatibility complex II. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 29(2), pp. 240-245. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2010.05.010)
- Mutter, S. T. and Platts, J. A. 2010. Modulation of stacking interactions by transition-metal coordination: ab initio benchmark studies. Chemistry - A European Journal 16(18), pp. 5391-5399. (10.1002/chem.200902813)
- Platts, J. A. and Hill, J. G. 2010. Non-covalent interactions using local correlation methods: energy partitioning, geometry optimisation and harmonic frequency calculations. Molecular Physics 108(11), pp. 1497-1504. (10.1080/00268971003757977)
- Carr, J. M., Duggan, P. J., Humphrey, D. G., Platts, J. A. and Tyndall, E. M. 2010. Wood protection properties of quaternary ammonium arylspiroborate esters derived from naphthalene 2,3-Diol, 2,2 '-Biphenol and 3-Hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid. Australian Journal of Chemistry 63(10), pp. 1423-1429. (10.1071/CH10132)
2009
- Brazier, J. B., Evans, G. J. S., Gibbs, T. J. K., Coles, S. J., Hursthouse, M. B., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2009. Solution phase, solid state, and theoretical investigations on the MacMillan imidazolidinone. Organic Letters 11(1), pp. 133-136. (10.1021/ol802512y)
- Fallis, I. A. et al. 2009. Locus-specific microemulsion catalysts for sulfur mustard (HD) chemical warfare agent decontamination. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(28), pp. 9746-9755. (10.1021/ja901872y)
- Gkionis, K., Hill, J. G., Oldfield, S. P. and Platts, J. A. 2009. Performance of Becke's half-and-half functional for non-covalent interactions: energetics, geometries and electron densities. Journal of Molecular Modeling 15(9), pp. 1051-1060. (10.1007/s00894-009-0459-4)
- Gkionis, K. and Platts, J. A. 2009. QM/MM investigation into binding of square-planar platinum complexes to DNA fragments. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 14(8), pp. 1165-1174. (10.1007/s00775-009-0560-2)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2009. Local electron correlation descriptions of the intermolecular stacking interactions between aromatic intercalators and nucleic acids. Chemical Physics Letters 479(4-6), pp. 279-283. (10.1016/j.cplett.2009.08.021)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2009. Auxiliary basis sets for density-fitted MP2 calculations: correlation-consistent basis sets for the 4d elements. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 5(3), pp. 500-505. (10.1021/ct8005584)
- Platts, J. A. and Gkionis, K. 2009. NMR shielding as a probe of intermolecular interactions: ab initio and density functional theory studies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 11(44), pp. 10331-10339. (10.1039/B822560E)
- Brazier, J. B. et al. 2009. The α-effect in cyclic secondary amines: new scaffolds for iminium ion accelerated transformations. Tetrahedron 65(48), pp. 9961-9966. (10.1016/j.tet.2009.10.009)
- Overgaard, J., Platts, J. A. and Iversen, B. B. 2009. Experimental and theoretical charge-density study of a tetranuclear cobalt carbonyl complex. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science 65(6), pp. 715-723. (10.1107/S0108768109045091)
2008
- Laimou, D., Mantzourani, E. D., Platts, J. A., Matsoukas, M. T., Troganis, A. and Tselios, T. 2008. Molecular modeling of GnRH analogues in DMSO solution using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and molecular dynamics (MD) [Abstract]. Journal of Peptide Science 14(S1), pp. 128-129. (10.1002/psc.1090)
- Evans, G. J., Gibbs, T. J., Jenkins, R. L., Coles, S. J., Hursthouse, M. B., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2008. Kinetics of iminium ion catalysis. Angewandte Chemie. International Edition 47(15), pp. 2820-2823. (10.1002/anie.200705539)
- Gkionis, K., Platts, J. A. and Hill, J. G. 2008. Insights into DNA binding of ruthenium arene complexes: Role of hydrogen bonding and π stacking. Inorganic Chemistry 47(9), pp. 3893-3902. (10.1021/ic702459h)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2008. Calculating interaction energies in transition metal complexes with local electron correlation methods. Journal of Chemical Physics 129(13) (10.1063/1.2982790)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2008. Calculating stacking interactions in nucleic acid base-pair steps using spin-component scaling and local second order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 10(19), pp. 2785-2791. (10.1039/b718691f)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2008. Auxiliary basis sets for density fitting-MP2 calculations: Nonrelativistic triple-zeta all-electron correlation consistent basis sets for the 3d elements Sc-Zn. The Journal of Chemical Physics 128(4), article number: 44104. (10.1063/1.2826348)
- Overgaard, J., Clausen, H. F., Platts, J. A. and Iversen, B. B. 2008. Experimental and theoretical charge density study of chemical bonding in a Co dimer complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(12), pp. 3834-3843. (10.1021/ja076152c)
- Tetko, I. V., Jaroszewicz, I., Platts, J. A. and Kuduk-Jaworska, J. 2008. Calculation of lipophilicity for Pt(II) complexes: Experimental comparison of several methods. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 102(7), pp. 1424-1437. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2007.12.029)
2007
- Overgaard, J. et al. 2007. Experimental and theoretical charge density distribution in two ternary cobalt(III) complexes of aromatic amino acids. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 111(40), pp. 10123-10133. (10.1021/jp068621n)
- Platts, J. A., Evans, G. J. S., Coogan, M. P. and Overgaard, J. 2007. Electronic Structure of the Alkyne-Bridged Dicobalt Hexacarbonyl Complex Co2 μ-C2H2 (CO)6: Evidence for Singlet Diradical Character and Implications for Metal−Metal Bonding. Inorganic Chemistry 46(16), pp. 6291-6298. (10.1021/ic070278t)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2007. Spin-component scaling methods for weak and stacking interactions. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 3(1), pp. 80-85. (10.1021/ct6002737)
- Mantzourani, E. D., Platts, J. A., Brancale, A., Mavromoustakos, T. M. and Tselios, T. V. 2007. Molecular dynamics at the receptor level of immunodominant myelin basic protein epitope 87-99 implicated in multiple sclerosis and its antagonists altered peptide ligands: Triggering of immune response. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 26(2), pp. 471-481. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2007.02.004)
- Thomas, C. P., Platts, J. A., Tatchell, T. and Heard, C. M. 2007. Probing the skin permeation of fish oil/EPA and ketoprofen 1. NMR spectroscopy and molecular modelling. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 338(1-2), pp. 207-212. (10.1016/j.ijpharm.2007.02.006)
- Oldfield, S. P., Hall, M. D. and Platts, J. A. 2007. Calculation of lipophilicity of a large, diverse dataset of anticancer platinum complexes and the relation to cellular uptake. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 50(21), pp. 5227-5237. (10.1021/jm0708275)
2006
- Mantzourani, E. D., Tselios, T. V., Grdadolnik, S. G., Brancale, A., Platts, J. A., Matsoukas, J. M. and Mavromoustakos, T. M. 2006. A putative bioactive conformation for the altered peptide ligand of myelin basic protein and inhibitor of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis [Arg91, Ala96] MBP87–99. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 25(1), pp. 17-29. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2005.09.010)
- Hill, J. G., Platts, J. A. and Werner, H. 2006. Calculation of intermolecular interactions in the benzene dimer using coupled-cluster and local electron correlation methods. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 8(35), pp. 4072-4078. (10.1039/b608623c)
- Robertazzi, A. and Platts, J. A. 2006. A QM/MM Study of Cisplatin-DNA Oligonucleotides: From Simple Models to Realistic Systems. Chemistry - A European Journal 12(22), pp. 5747-5756. (10.1002/chem.200501566)
- Jones, C., Junk, P. C., Platts, J. A. and Stasch, A. 2006. Four-Membered Group 13 Metal(I) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogues: Synthesis, Characterization, and Theoretical Studies. Journal of the American Chemical Society 128(7), pp. 2206-2207. (10.1021/ja057967t)
- Cavill, J. L., Elliott, R. L., Evans, G. J. S., Jones, I. L., Platts, J. A., Ruda, A. M. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2006. The α-effect in iminium ion catalysis. Tetrahedron 62(2-3), pp. 410-421. (10.1016/j.tet.2005.08.110)
- Evans, G. J. S., White, K., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2006. Computational study of iminium ion formation: effects of amine structure. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 4(13), pp. 2616-2627. (10.1039/B602645A)
- Mantzourani, E. D. et al. 2006. Comparison of Proposed Putative Active Conformations of Myelin Basic Protein Epitope 87−99 Linear Altered Peptide Ligands by Spectroscopic and Modelling Studies: The Role of Positions 91 and 96 in T-Cell Receptor Activation. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 49(23), pp. 6683-6691. (10.1021/jm060040z)
- Pan, Z., Xu, M., Cheung, E. Y., Platts, J. A., Harris, K. D. M., Constable, E. C. and Housecroft, C. E. 2006. Solid-state structural properties of 2,4,6-trimethoxybenzene derivatives, determined directly from powder X-ray diffraction data in conjunction with other techniques. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 179(10), pp. 3214-3223. (10.1016/j.jssc.2006.06.009)
2005
- Robertazzi, A. and Platts, J. A. 2005. Binding of transition metal complexes to guanine and guanine-cytosine: hydrogen bonding and covalent effects. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 10(8), pp. 854-866. (10.1007/s00775-005-0034-0)
- Jones, C. J., Junk, P. C., Platts, J. A., Rathmann, D. and Stasch, A. 2005. Synthesis, characterisation and theoretical studies of amidinato-indium(I) and thallium(I) complexes: isomers of neutral group 13 metal(I) carbene analogues. Dalton Transactions(15), pp. 2497-2499. (10.1039/B507242E)
- Carr, J. M., Duggan, P. J., Humphrey, D. G., Platts, J. A. and Tyndall, E. M. 2005. Quaternary ammonium arylspiroborate esters as organo-soluble, environmentally benign wood protectants. Australian Journal of Chemistry 58(12), pp. 901-911. (10.1071/CH05226)
- Mantzourani, E. D., Mavromoustakos, T. M., Platts, J. A., Matsoukas, J. M. and Tselios, T. V. 2005. Structural requirements for binding of Myelin Basic Protein (MBP) Peptides to MHC II: effects on immune regulation. Current Medicinal Chemistry 12(13), pp. 1521-1535. (10.2174/0929867054039053)
2004
- Lamarche, O. J., Platts, J. A. and Hersey, A. 2004. Theoretical prediction of partition coefficients via molecular electrostatic and electronic properties. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 44(3), pp. 848-855. (10.1021/ci034276c)
- Saunders, R. A. and Platts, J. A. 2004. Scaled polar surface area descriptors: development and application to three sets of partition coefficients. New Journal of Chemistry 28(1), pp. 166-172. (10.1039/B307023A)
2003
- Baker, R. J., Jones, C. and Platts, J. A. 2003. Analogies between the Reactivities of an Anionic Gallium(I) Heterocycle and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Toward Metallocenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 125(35), pp. 10534-10535. (10.1021/ja036933n)
- Harris, L. D., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2003. Enhanced ππ interactions in α,β-unsaturated carbonyls.. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 1(3), pp. 457-459. (10.1039/B210497K)
- Lamarche, O. J. and Platts, J. A. 2003. Atoms in molecules investigation of the pK(HB) basicity scale: electrostatic and covalent effects in hydrogen bonding. Chemical Physics Letters 367(1-2), pp. 123-128. (10.1016/S0009-2614(02)01581-6)
- Baker, R. J., Edwards, P., Farley, R. D., Murphy, D. M., Platts, J. A. and Voss, K. E. 2003. Low valent carbonylvanadium complexes of the triphosphorus macrocycle 12[ane]P3Et3. Dalton Transactions(5), pp. 944-948. (10.1039/B211105P)
- Lamarche, O. J. and Platts, J. A. 2003. Complementary nature of hydrogen bond basicity and acidity scales from electrostatic and atoms in molecules properties. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 5(4), pp. 677-684. (10.1039/B210210B)
- Huque, F. T. T. and Platts, J. A. 2003. The effect of intramolecular interactions on hydrogen bond acidity. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 1(8), pp. 1419-1424. (10.1039/B300598D)
- Baker, R. J., Jones, C. J. and Platts, J. A. 2003. Synthesis, structural and theoretical studies of an iron-gallium(I) heterocycle complex: analogies with N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry. Dalton Transactions(19), pp. 3673-3674. (10.1039/B308616J)
2002
- Lamarche, O. J. and Platts, J. A. 2002. Theoretical prediction of the hydrogen-bond basicity pKHB. Chemistry-a European Journal 8(2), pp. 457-466. (10.1002/1521-3765(20020118)8:2<457::AID-CHEM457>3.0.CO;2-5)
- Howard, S. T., Platts, J. A. and Coogan, M. P. 2002. Relationships between basicity, structure, chemical shift and the charge distribution in resonance-stabilized iminoamines. Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkins Transactions 2(5), pp. 899-905. (10.1039/B200899H)
- Battle, A. R., Platts, J. A., Hambley, T. W. and Deacon, G. B. 2002. Synthesis, spectroscopy, and theoretical studies of platinum(II) phosphate complexes. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions(9), pp. 1898-1902. (10.1039/B111460N)
2001
- Saunders, R. A. and Platts, J. A. 2001. Linear free energy relationship analysis of the solubility of solids in supercritical CO2. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 14(9), pp. 612-617. (10.1002/poc.408)
- Platts, J. A., Abraham, M. H., Zhao, Y. H., Hersey, A., Ijaz, L. and Butina, D. 2001. Correlation and prediction of a large blood-brain distribution data set - an LFER study. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 36(9), pp. 719-730. (10.1016/S0223-5234(01)01269-7)
- Platts, J. A. 2001. Theoretical electron densities in transition metal dihydrides. Journal of Molecular Structure - THEOCHEM 545(1), pp. 111-118. (10.1016/S0166-1280(01)00392-X)
- Zhao, Y. H. et al. 2001. Evaluation of human intestinal absorption data and subsequent derivation of a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) with the Abraham descriptors. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 90(6), pp. 749-784. (10.1002/jps.1031)
- Abraham, M. H. and Platts, J. A. 2001. Hydrogen bond structural group constants. Journal of Organic Chemistry 66(10), pp. 3484-3491. (10.1021/jo001765s)
- Lamarche, O. J., Platts, J. A. and Hersey, A. 2001. Theoretical prediction of the polarity/polarizability parameter pi(H)(2). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 3(14), pp. 2747-2753. (10.1039/B102708P)
2000
- Abraham, M. H., Du, C. M. and Platts, J. A. 2000. Lipophilicity of the nitrophenols. Journal of Organic Chemistry 65(21), pp. 7114-7118. (10.1021/jo000840w)
- Platts, J. A. and Coogan, M. P. 2000. Rotational barriers in tetraformylhydrazine. Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkins Transactions 2 5, pp. 1075-1079. (10.1039/A910230M)
- Platts, J. A. 2000. Theoretical prediction of hydrogen bond donor capacity. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 2(5), pp. 973-980. (10.1039/A908853I)
- Platts, J. A. 2000. Theoretical prediction of hydrogen bond basicity. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 2(14), pp. 3115-3120. (10.1039/B003026K)
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- Newman, P. D., Platts, J. A., Alrashidi, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Kariuki, B. M. 2024. A noble nexus: a phosphino-phen ligand for tethering precious metals †. Dalton Transactions 53(37) (10.1039/d4dt02130d)
- Payce, E. N., Knighton, R. C., Platts, J. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2024. Luminescent Pt(II) complexes using unsymmetrical Bis(2-pyridylimino)isoindolate analogues. Inorganic Chemistry 63(18), pp. 8273–8285. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c00558)
- Platts, J. A., Kariuki, B. M. and Newman, P. D. 2024. Welcoming neighbour or inhospitable host? Selective second metal binding in 5- and 6-phospha-substituted Bpy ligands. Molecules 29(5), article number: 1150. (10.3390/molecules29051150)
- Savva, L. and Platts, J. A. 2024. Computational investigation of copper-mediated conformational changes in α-synuclein dimer †. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 26(4), pp. 2926-2935. (10.1039/d3cp04697d)
- Fioco, D., Folli, A., Platts, J., Chiesa, M. and Murphy, D. M. 2024. A continuous-wave EPR investigation into the photochemical transformations of the chromium(I) carbonyl complex [Cr(CO)4bis(diphenylphosphino)]+ and reactivity with 1-hexene. Molecules 29(2), article number: 392. (10.3390/molecules29020392)
- Savva, L. and Platts, J. A. 2023. Exploring the impact of mutation and post-translational modification on α-Synuclein: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations with and without copper. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 249, article number: 112395. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112395)
- La Manna, S. et al. 2023. The inhibitory effects of platinum( ii ) complexes on amyloid aggregation: a theoretical and experimental approach. Dalton Transactions 52, pp. 12677-12685. (10.1039/d3dt02187d)
- Savva, L. and Platts, J. A. 2023. Evaluation of implicit solvent models in molecular dynamics simulation of α-Synuclein. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 41(11), pp. 5230-5245. (10.1080/07391102.2022.2082534)
- Platts, J. A. and Tolbatov, I. 2023. Simulation of uranyl-biomolecule interaction using a cationic dummy atom model. Chemical Physics Letters 822, article number: 140479. (10.1016/j.cplett.2023.140479)
- Savva, L. and Platts, J. A. 2023. How Cu(II) binding affects structure and dynamics of α-synuclein revealed by molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 239, article number: 112068. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2022.112068)
- Leiszner, S. S., Chakarawet, K., Long, J. R., Nishibori, E., Sugimoto, K., Platts, J. A. and Overgaard, J. 2023. Electron density analysis of metal-metal bonding in a Ni4 cluster featuring ferromagnetic exchange. Inorganic Chemistry 62(1), pp. 192-200. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03170)
- Bryce, R. A. and Platts, J. A. 2022. From the archives: the origins of a society and a journal for the field of molecular graphics and modelling. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 117, article number: 108308. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2022.108308)
- Hawkins, B. A., Najib, E., Du, J. J., Lai, F., Platts, J. A., Groundwater, P. W. and Hibbs, D. E. 2022. Exploring the excited-state charge transfer fluorescence profile of 7-hydroxycoumarin and 2-methylimidazole – a combined X-ray diffraction and theoretical approach. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 24(21), pp. 13015-13025. (10.1039/D2CP01235A)
- Hawkins, B. A. et al. 2022. An experimental and theoretical charge density study of theophylline and malonic acid cocrystallization. RSC Advances 12(25), article number: 15670. (10.1039/D1RA08389A)
- Alshammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Can ionic effects induce α-sheet conformation of Peptides?. Chemical Physics Letters 784, article number: 139095. (10.1016/j.cplett.2021.139095)
- Milner, A., Alshammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Computational study of copper binding to DAHK peptide. Inorganica Chimica Acta 528, article number: 120589. (10.1016/j.ica.2021.120589)
- Stanton, S. A. et al. 2021. Understanding hygroscopicity of theophylline via a novel cocrystal polymorph: a charge density study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 125(45), pp. 9736–9756. (10.1021/acs.jpca.0c09536)
- Kennedy-Britten, O. D., Alshammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Accelerated molecular dynamics to explore the binding of transition metals to amyloid-β. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 12(21), pp. 4065-4075. (10.1021/acschemneuro.1c00466)
- Alshammari, N., Savva, L., Kennedy-Britten, O. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Forcefield evaluation and accelerated molecular dynamics simulation of Zn(II) binding to N-terminus of amyloid-β. Computational Biology and Chemistry 93, article number: 107540. (10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2021.107540)
- Hawkins, B. A. et al. 2021. Analyzing hydration differences in cocrystal polymorphs: high-resolution X-ray investigation of caffeine-glutaric acid cocrystals. Crystal Growth and Design 21(8), pp. 4456-4467. (10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00358)
- Sharma, G., Newman, P. D. and Platts, J. A. 2021. A review of quantum chemical studies of frustrated Lewis pairs. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 105, article number: 107846. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2021.107846)
- Mala, B. et al. 2021. Photochemical oxidation of Pt(IV)Me3(1,2-diimine) thiolates to luminescent Pt(IV) sulfinates. Inorganic Chemistry 60(10), pp. 7031-7143. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03553)
- Kennedy-Britten, O., Al Shammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2021. Molecular dynamics simulations of copper binding to N-terminus mutants of amyloid-β. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 39(6), pp. 2003-2013. (10.1080/07391102.2020.1745692)
- Folli, A., Ritterskamp, N., Richards, E., Platts, J. A. and Murphy, D. M. 2021. Probing the structure of copper(II)-casiopeina type coordination complexes [Cu(O-O)(N-N)]+ by EPR and ENDOR spectroscopy. Journal of Catalysis 394, pp. 220-227. (10.1016/j.jcat.2020.07.016)
- Kariuki, B. M., Platts, J. A. and Newman, P. D. 2021. A hybrid bipy–NHC ligand for the construction of group 11 mixed-metal bimetallic complexes. RSC Advances 11(54), pp. 34170-34173. (10.1039/D1RA06581E)
- Alshammari, N. and Platts, J. A. 2020. Theoretical study of copper binding to GHK peptide. Computational Biology and Chemistry 86, article number: 107265. (10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2020.107265)
- Sharma, G., Newman, P. D., Melen, R. and Platts, J. A. 2020. Computational design of an intramolecular frustrated Lewis pair catalyst for enantioselective hydrogenation. Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry 19, article number: 2. (10.1142/S0219633620500091)
- Oberkofler, J., Aikman, B., Bonsignore, R., Pöthig, A., Platts, J., Casini, A. and Kühn, F. E. 2020. Exploring the reactivity and biological effects of heteroleptic N-Heterocyclic carbene gold(I)-Alkynyl complexes. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2020(11-12), pp. 1040-1051. (10.1002/ejic.201901043)
- Platts, J. A. 2020. Quantum chemical molecular dynamics and metadynamics simulation of aluminium binding to amyloid-β and related peptides. Royal Society Open Science 7(2), pp. -., article number: 191562. (10.1098/rsos.191562)
- Mutter, S. T., Turner, M., Deeth, R. J. and Platts, J. A. 2020. Molecular dynamics simulations of copper binding to amyloid-β Glu22 mutants. Heliyon 6(1), article number: e03071. (10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e03071)
- Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2020. A computational investigation of orbital overlap versus energy degeneracy covalency in [UE2]2+ (E = O, S, Se, Te) complexes. Dalton Transactions 49(4) (10.1039/C9DT04484A)
- Luckham, S. L. J., Folli, A., Platts, J. A., Richards, E. and Murphy, D. M. 2019. Unravelling the photochemical transformations of chromium(I) 1,3 Bis(diphenylphosphino), [Cr(CO)4(dppp)]+, by EPR spectroscopy. Organometallics 38(12), pp. -. (10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00226)
- Permyakov, E. A., Turner, M., Mutter, S. T., Kennedy-Britten, O. D. and Platts, J. A. 2019. Molecular dynamics simulation of aluminum binding to amyloid-β and its effect on peptide structure. PLoS ONE 14(6), article number: e0217992. (10.1371/journal.pone.0217992)
- Tzoupis, H., Nteli, A., Platts, J., Mantzourani, E. and Tselios, T. 2019. Refinement of the gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor I homology model by applying molecular dynamics. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 89, pp. 147-155. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2019.03.009)
- Müller, K. et al. 2019. Interdisciplinary round-robin test on molecular spectroscopy of the U(VI) acetate system. ACS Omega 4(5), pp. 8167-8177. (10.1021/acsomega.9b00164)
- Turner, M., Mutter, S. and Platts, J. 2019. Molecular dynamics simulation on the effect of transition metal binding to the n-terminal fragment of amyloid-β. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 37(17), pp. 4590-4600. (10.1080/07391102.2018.1555490)
- Wenzel, M. N. et al. 2019. Insights into the mechanisms of aquaporin-3 inhibition by gold(III) complexes: the importance of non-coordinative adduct formation. Inorganic Chemistry 58(3), pp. -. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03233)
- Nuzzo, S., van Leusen, J., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A., Kögerler, P. and Baker, R. J. 2019. Oxidation of uranium(IV) thiocyanate complexes: cation–cation interactions in mixed-valent uranium coordination chains. Dalton Transactions 48(20), pp. 6704-6708. (10.1039/C9DT01005J)
- Turner, M., Mutter, S. T., Kennedy-Britten, O. D. and Platts, J. A. 2019. Replica exchange molecular dynamics simulation of the coordination of Pt(ii)-Phenanthroline to amyloid-β†. RSC Advances 9(60), pp. 35089-35097. (10.1039/C9RA04637B)
- Mutter, S. T., Turner, M., Deeth, R. J. and Platts, J. A. 2018. Metal binding to amyloid β1-42: a ligand field molecular dynamics study. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 9(11), pp. 2795-2806. (10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00210)
- Hallett, A. J. et al. 2018. Exploring the cellular uptake and localisation of phosphorescent rhenium fac-tricarbonyl metallosurfactants as a function of lipophilicity. Dalton Transactions 47(40), pp. 14241-14253. (10.1039/C8DT00669E)
- Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2018. Non-covalent interactions of uranyl complexes: a theoretical study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20(22), pp. 15380-15388. (10.1039/C8CP02444H)
- Nuzzo, S., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2018. Pseudohalide tectons within the coordination sphere of the uranyl ion: experimental and theoretical study of C-H···O, C-H···S, and chalcogenide noncovalent interactions. Inorganic Chemistry 57(7), pp. 3699-3712. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02967)
- Du, J. J. et al. 2018. Exploring the binding of barbital to a synthetic macrocyclic receptor. A charge density study. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 122(11), pp. 3031-3044. (10.1021/acs.jpca.7b11674)
- Turner, M., Mutter, S., Deeth, R. J. and Platts, J. 2018. Ligand field molecular dynamics simulation of Pt(II)-phenanthroline binding to N-terminal fragment of amyloid-β peptide. PLoS ONE 13(3), pp. -., article number: e0193668. (10.1371/journal.pone.0193668)
- Farrow, C. M. A., Akien, G. R., Halcovitch, N. R., Platts, J. A. and Coogan, M. P. 2018. Self-assembly of singlet-emitting double-helical silver dimers: the curious coordination chemistry and fluorescence of bisquinolylpyridone. Dalton Transactions 47(11), pp. 3906-3912. (10.1039/C7DT04744D)
- Du, J. et al. 2018. Monoclinic paracetamol vs. paracetamol-4,4'-bipyridine co-crystal; what is the difference? a charge density study. Crystals 8(1), pp. -., article number: 46. (10.3390/cryst8010046)
- Du, J. J. et al. 2018. Using electron density to predict synthon formation in a 4-hydroxybenzoic acid : 4,4'-bipyridine co-crystal. Crystal Growth and Design 18(3), pp. 1786-1798. (10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01676)
- Biswas, S. et al. 2017. Structural variability of 4f and 5f thiocyanate complexes and dissociation of uranium(III)‒ thiocyanate bonds with increased ionicity. Inorganic Chemistry 56(23), pp. 14426-14437. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01560)
- Omorodion, H., Palenzuela, M., Ruether, M., Twamley, B., Platts, J. and Baker, R. J. 2017. A rationally designed perfluorinated host for the extraction of PFOA from water utilising non-covalent interactions. New Journal of Chemistry 42, pp. 7956-7968. (10.1039/C7NJ03026F)
- Wilkins, L. C., Melen, R. L., Platts, J. A. and Newman, P. D. 2017. Amidine functionalized phosphines: tuneable ligands for transition metals. Dalton Transactions 46(41), pp. 14234-14243. (10.1039/C7DT03343E)
- Farrell, D., Kingston, S., Tungulin, D., Nuzzo, S., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2017. N-Aryl-9,10-phenanthreneimines as scaffolds for exploring non-covalent interactions: a structural and computational study. European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2017(37), pp. 5597-5609. (10.1002/ejoc.201700884)
- Graziani, V., Marrone, A., Re, N., Coletti, C., Platts, J. A. and Casini, A. 2017. A multilevel theoretical study to disclose the binding mechanisms of gold(III) bipyridyl compounds as selective aquaglyceroporin inhibitors. Chemistry - a European Journal 23(55), pp. 13802-13813. (10.1002/chem.201703092)
- Ritterskamp, N., Sharples, K., Richards, E., Folli, A., Chiesa, M., Platts, J. A. and Murphy, D. M. 2017. Understanding the coordination modes of [Cu(acac)2(imidazole)n=1,2] adducts by EPR, ENDOR, HYSCORE, and DFT analysis. Inorganic Chemistry 56(19), pp. 11862-11875. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01874)
- Ould, D. M. C. et al. 2017. Investigations into the photophysical and electronic properties of pnictoles and Their pnictenium counterparts. Organometallics 37(5), pp. 712-719. (10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00564)
- Gabano, E., Perin, E., Fielden, C., Platts, J. A., Gallina, A., Rangone, B. and Ravera, M. 2017. How to obtain Pt(IV) complexes suitable for the conjugation to nanovectors from the oxidation of [PtCl(terpyridine)]+. Dalton Transactions 46(31), pp. 10246-10254. (10.1039/C7DT01706E)
- Turner, M., Deeth, R. J. and Platts, J. A. 2017. Prediction of ligand effects in platinum-amyloid-β coordination. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 173, pp. 44-51. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2017.05.003)
- Ayres, J., Ashford, M., Stockl, Y., Prudhomme, V., Ling, K. B., Platts, J. and Morrill, L. 2017. Deoxycyanamidation of alcohols with N-Cyano-N-phenyl-p-methylbenzenesulfonamide (NCTS). Organic Letters 19(14), pp. 3835-3838. (10.1021/acs.orglett.7b01710)
- Groves, L. M. et al. 2017. From ligand to phosphor: rapid, machine-assisted synthesis of substituted iridium(III) pyrazolate complexes with tuneable luminescence. Chemistry - A European Journal 23(39), pp. 9407-9418. (10.1002/chem.201701551)
- Ullah, H., Twamley, B., Waseem, A., Khawar Rauf, M., Tahir, M. N., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2017. Tin…oxygen tetrel bonding: a combined structural, spectroscopic and computational study. Crystal Growth and Design 17(7), pp. 4021-4027. (10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00678)
- Yannakakis, M. et al. 2017. Design and synthesis of non-peptide mimetics mapping the immunodominant myelin basic protein (MBP83-96) epitope to function as T-Cell receptor antagonists. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 18(6), article number: 1215. (10.3390/ijms18061215)
- Mutter, S., Deeth, R. J., Turner, M. and Platts, J. A. 2017. Benchmarking of copper(II) LFMM parameters for studying amyloid-β peptides. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 36(5), pp. 1145-1153. (10.1080/07391102.2017.1313780)
- Lozano, H. J., Busto, N., Espino, G., Carbayo, A., Leal, J. M., Platts, J. and García, B. 2017. Interstrand DNA covalent binding of two dinuclear Ru(ii) complexes. Influence of the extra ring of the bridging ligand on the DNA interaction and cytotoxic activity. Dalton Transactions 11, pp. 3611-3622. (10.1039/C6DT04888A)
- Coogan, M. P. and Platts, J. A. 2016. Blue rhenium tricarbonyl DPPZ complexes - low energy charge-transfer absorption at tissue-penetrating wavelengths. Chemical Communications 52(84), pp. 12498-12501. (10.1039/C6CC07125B)
- Nuzzo, S., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2016. Characterisation of isothiocyanic acid, HNCS, in the solid state: trapped by hydrogen bonding. Chemical Communications 52(90), pp. 13296-13298. (10.1039/C6CC05971F)
- Lai, F. et al. 2016. A comparison of the experimental and theoretical charge density distributions in two polymorphic modifications of piroxicam. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18(41), pp. 28802-28818. (10.1039/C6CP02690G)
- Du, J. J., Váradi, L., Williams, P. A., Groundwater, P. W., Overgaard, J., Platts, J. A. and Hibbs, D. E. 2016. An analysis of the experimental and theoretical charge density distributions of the piroxicam-saccharin co-crystal and its constituents. RSC Advances 6(85), pp. 81578-81590. (10.1039/C6RA10411H)
- Turner, M., Platts, J. A. and Deeth, R. J. 2016. Modeling of platinum-aryl interaction with amyloid-β peptide. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 12(3), pp. 1385-1392. (10.1021/acs.jctc.5b01045)
- Tetko, I. V., Varbanov, H. P., Galanski, M., Talmaciu, M., Platts, J. A., Ravera, M. and Gabano, E. 2016. Prediction of logP for Pt(II) and Pt(IV) complexes: Comparison of statistical and quantum-chemistry based approaches. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 156, pp. 1-13. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2015.12.006)
- Ravera, M., Gabano, E., Zanellato, I., Fregonese, F., Pelosi, G., Platts, J. A. and Osella, D. 2016. Antiproliferative activity of a series of cisplatin-based Pt(IV)-acetylamido/carboxylato prodrugs. Dalton Transactions 45, pp. 5300-5309. (10.1039/C5DT04905A)
- Lari, M. et al. 2015. Stabilization of Al(iii) solutions by complexation with cacodylic acid: speciation and binding features. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(44), pp. 29803-29813. (10.1039/C5CP04717J)
- Stacey, O. J. et al. 2015. Water soluble, cyclometalated Pt(II)–Ln(III) conjugates towards novel bimodal imaging agents. Chemical Communications 51(61), pp. 12305-12308. (10.1039/C5CC02623G)
- Steel, H. L., Allinson, S. L., Andre, J., Coogan, M. P. and Platts, J. A. 2015. Platinum trimethyl bipyridyl thiolates - new, tunable, red- to near IR emitting luminophores for bioimaging applications. Chemical Communications 51(57), pp. 11441-11444. (10.1039/C5CC04003E)
- Stacey, O. J., Platts, J. A., Coles, S. J., Horton, P. N. and Pope, S. J. A. 2015. Phosphorescent, cyclometalated cinchophen-derived platinum complexes: syntheses, structures, and electronic properties. Inorganic Chemistry, article number: 150619121705005. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00817)
- Platel, R. H., Coogan, M. P. and Platts, J. A. 2015. Stereoelectronic control of photophysics: red and yellow axial and equatorial anomers of a rhenium-quinoline complex. Dalton Transactions 44(26), pp. 11700-11704. (10.1039/C5DT02136G)
- Omorodion, H., Twamley, B., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2015. Further evidence on the importance of fluorous-fluorous interactions in supramolecular chemistry: a combined structural and computational study. Crystal Growth and Design 15(6), pp. 2835-2841., article number: 150501113611006. (10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00254)
- Carter, E., Sharples, K. M., Platts, J. A. and Murphy, D. M. 2015. Structure determination of bound nitrogen-based adducts with copper(ii) acetylacetonato; an EPR, ENDOR and DFT study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(17), pp. 11445-11454. (10.1039/C5CP00559K)
- Margiotta, N. et al. 2015. DNA fragment conformations in adducts with Kiteplatin. Dalton Transactions 44(8), pp. 3544-3556. (10.1039/C4DT01796J)
- Hibbs, D., Du, J. J., Váradi, L., Tan, J., Zhao, Y., Groundwater, P. W. and Platts, J. A. 2015. Experimental and theoretical charge density distribution in pigment yellow 101. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(6), pp. 4677-4686. (10.1039/C4CP04302B)
- Carvalho, A. T. P., Gouveia, M. L., Raju Kanna, C., Wärmländer, S. K. T. S., Platts, J. A. and Kamerlin, S. C. L. 2015. Theoretical modelling of epigenetically modified DNA sequences. F1000Research 4, article number: 52. (10.12688/f1000research.6148.1)
- Carvalho, A. T. P., Gouveia, L., Kanna, C. R., Wärmländer, S. K. T. S., Platts, J. A. and Kamerlin, S. C. L. 2015. Understanding the structural and dynamic consequences of DNA epigenetic modifications: Computational insights into cytosine methylation and hydroxymethylation. Epigenetics 9(12), pp. 1604-1612. (10.4161/15592294.2014.988043)
- Mutter, S. T., Margiotta, N., Papadia, P. and Platts, J. A. 2015. Computational evidence for structural consequences of kiteplatin damage on DNA. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 20(1), pp. 35. (10.1007/s00775-014-1207-5)
- Stokes, E. C. et al. 2015. Cationic, luminescent cyclometalated iridium(iii) complexes based on substituted 2-phenylthiazole ligands. Dalton Transactions 44(18), pp. 8488-8496. (10.1039/C4DT03054K)
- Du, J. J., Váradi, L., Tan, J., Zhao, Y., Groundwater, P. W., Platts, J. A. and Hibbs, D. E. 2015. Correction: Experimental and theoretical charge density distribution in Pigment Yellow 101. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(9), pp. 6667. (10.1039/C5CP90018B)
- Wu, L., Jones, C., Stasch, A., Platts, J. A. and Overgaard, J. 2014. Non-nuclear attractor in a molecular compound under external pressure. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2014(32), pp. 5536-5540. (10.1002/ejic.201402606)
- Overgaard, J. et al. 2014. Relationships between electron density and magnetic properties in water-bridged dimetal complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 53(21), pp. 11531-11539. (10.1021/ic501411w)
- Brazier, J. B. et al. 2014. Improving catalyst activity in secondary amine catalysed transformations. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 13(1), pp. 133-141. (10.1039/C4OB01916D)
- Johns, J. J. and Platts, J. A. 2014. Theoretical insight into the antioxidant properties of melatonin and derivatives. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 12, pp. 7820-7827. (10.1039/C4OB01396D)
- Senthil Kumar, G., Satheeshkumar, R., Kaminsky, W., Platts, J. A. and Rajendra Prasad, K. J. 2014. A facile regioselective 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition protocol for the synthesis of new class of quinolinyl dispiro heterocycles. Tetrahedron Letters 55(40), pp. 5475-5480. (10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.08.036)
- Hashem, E., Platts, J. A., Hartl, F., Lorusso, G., Evangelisti, M., Schulzke, C. and Baker, R. J. 2014. Thiocyanate complexes of uranium in multiple oxidation states: a combined structural, magnetic, spectroscopic, spectroelectrochemical and theoretical study. Inorganic Chemistry 53(16), pp. 8624-8637. (10.1021/ic501236j)
- Sankaran, M., Uvarani, C., Chandraprakash, K., Lekshmi, S. U., Suparna, S., Platts, J. A. and Mohan, P. S. 2014. A regioselective multicomponent protocol for the synthesis of novel bioactive 4-hydroxyquinolin-2(1H)-one grafted monospiropyrrolidine and thiapyrrolizidine hybrids. Molecular Diversity 18(2), pp. 269-283. (10.1007/s11030-013-9498-y)
- Zhang, W. et al. 2014. An investigation of the scope of the 1,7-electrocyclization of α,β:γ,δ-conjugated azomethine ylides. Tetrahedron 70(22), pp. 3621-3629. (10.1016/j.tet.2014.03.078)
- Gkionis, K., Kruse, H., Platts, J. A., Mladek, A., Koca, J. and Sponer, J. 2014. Ion binding to quadruplex DNA stems. Comparison of MM and QM descriptions reveals sizable polarization effects not included in contemporary simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 10(3), pp. 1326-1340. (10.1021/ct4009969)
- Kariuki, B., Platts, J. A. and Newman, P. D. 2014. It's all about Me: methyl-induced control of coordination stereochemistry by a flexible tridentate N,C,N′ ligand. Dalton Transactions 43(7), pp. 2971-2978. (10.1039/c3dt52841c)
- Robertazzi, A., Platts, J. A. and Gamez, P. 2014. Anion⋅⋅⋅Si interactions in an inverse sandwich complex: a computational study. ChemPhysChem 15(5), pp. 912-917. (10.1002/cphc.201400018)
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- Morris, J. L., Reddington, S. C., Murphy, D. M., Jones, D. D., Platts, J. A. and Tippmann, E. M. 2013. Aryl azide photochemistry in defined protein environments. Organic Letters 15(4), pp. 728-731. (10.1021/ol3028779)
- Jones, G., Robertazzi, A. and Platts, J. A. 2013. Efficient and accurate theoretical methods to investigate anion-π interactions in protein model structures. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 117(12), pp. 3315-3322. (10.1021/jp400345s)
- Hashem, E. et al. 2013. Emission spectroscopy of uranium(iv) compounds: a combined synthetic, spectroscopic and computational study. RSC Advances 3(13), pp. 4350-4361. (10.1039/c3ra22712j)
- Ermondi, G., Caron, G., Ravera, M., Gabano, E., Bianco, S., Platts, J. A. and Osella, D. 2013. Molecular interaction fields vs. quantum-mechanical-based descriptors in the modelling of lipophilicity of platinum(iv) complexes. Dalton Transactions 42(10), pp. 3482-3489. (10.1039/c2dt32360e)
- Platts, J. A., Hill, J. G., Riley, K. E., Rezác, J. and Hobza, P. 2013. Basis set dependence of interaction energies computed using composite post-MP2 Methods. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 9(1), pp. 330-337. (10.1021/ct300842d)
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- Hashem, E., Lorusso, G., Evangelisti, M., McCabe, T., Schulzke, C., Platts, J. A. and Baker, R. J. 2013. Fingerprinting the oxidation state of U(IV) by emission spectroscopy. Dalton Transactions 41, pp. 14677-14680. (10.1039/c3dt52151f)
- McCormick, L. J., McDonnell-Worth, C., Platts, J. A., Edwards, A. J. and Turner, D. R. 2013. Investigation of steric influences on hydrogen-bonding motifs in cyclic ureas by using x-ray, neutron, and computational methods. Chemistry - An Asian Journal 8(11), pp. 2642-2651. (10.1002/asia.201300530)
- Platts, J. A., Ravera, M., Gabano, E., Sardi, M., Bianco, S. and Osella, D. 2012. Solvolysis of a series of cisplatin-like complexes - comparison between DNA-biosensor and conductivity data. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2012(34), pp. 5625-5631. (10.1002/ejic.201200677)
- Futera, Z., Platts, J. A. and Burda, J. V. 2012. Binding of piano-stool Ru(II) complexes to DNA; QM/MM study. Journal of Computational Chemistry 33(26), pp. 2092-2101. (10.1002/jcc.23045)
- Routledge, J. D., Hallett, A. J., Platts, J. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2012. Tuning the electronics of phosphorescent, amide-functionalized, cyclometalated IrIII complexes: Syntheses, structures, spectroscopy and theoretical Studies. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2012(25), pp. 4065-4075. (10.1002/ejic.201200647)
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- Platts, J. A., Maarof, H., Harris, K. D. M., Lim, G. K. and Willock, D. J. 2012. The effect of intermolecular hydrogen bonding on the planarity of amides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14(34), pp. 11944-11952. (10.1039/c2cp41716b)
- Nguyen, T. H., Howard, S. T., Hanrahan, J. R., Groundwater, P. W., Platts, J. A. and Hibbs, D. E. 2012. Experimental and Theoretical Charge Density Distribution in a Host-Guest System: Synthetic Terephthaloyl Receptor Complexed to Adipic Acid. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(23), pp. 5618-5628. (10.1021/jp210803m)
- Baker, R. J., Colavita, P. E., Murphy, D. M., Platts, J. A. and Wallis, J. D. 2012. Fluorine-fluorine interactions in the solid state: an experimental and theoretical Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(5), pp. 1435-1444. (10.1021/jp2099976)
- Griffith, D. M., Bíró, L., Platts, J. A., Müller-Bunz, H., Farkas, E. and Buglyó, P. 2012. Synthesis and solution behaviour of stable mono-, di- and trinuclear Pd(II) complexes of 2,5-pyridinedihydroxamic acid: X-ray crystal structure of a novel Pd(II) hydroxamato complex. Inorganica Chimica Acta 380, pp. 291-300. (10.1016/j.ica.2011.09.050)
- Riley, K. E., Platts, J. A., Řezáč, J., Hobza, P. and Hill, J. G. 2012. Assessment of the Performance of MP2 and MP2 Variants for the Treatment of Noncovalent Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(16), pp. 4159-4169. (10.1021/jp211997b)
- Nguyen, T. H., Groundwater, P. W., Platts, J. A. and Hibbs, D. E. 2012. Experimental and Theoretical Charge Density Studies of 8-Hydroxyquinoline Cocrystallized with Salicylic Acid. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(13), pp. 3420-3427. (10.1021/jp2108076)
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- Mutter, S. T. and Platts, J. A. 2011. Density functional theory studies of interactions of ruthenium arene complexes with base pair steps. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115(41), pp. 11293-11302. (10.1021/jp2049487)
- Moreno, E. et al. 2011. Studies on log pow of quinoxaline di-N-Oxides: a comparison of RP-HPLC experimental and predictive approaches. Molecules 16(9), pp. 7893-7908. (10.3390/molecules16097893)
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- Edwards, P. G., Kariuki, B., Limon, M. D., Ooi, L., Platts, J. A. and Newman, P. D. 2011. Metal complexes of a structurally embellished phosphinane ligand: an assessment of stereoelectronic effects. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2011(8), pp. 1230-1239. (10.1002/ejic.201001170)
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- Platts, J. A., Overgaard, J., Jones, C., Iversen, B. B. and Stasch, A. 2011. First experimental characterization of a non-nuclear attractor in a dimeric magnesium(I) compound. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115(2), pp. 194-200. (10.1021/jp109547w)
- Brazier, J. B., Jones, K. M., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2011. On the roles of protic solvents in imidazolidinone-catalyzed transformations. Angewandte Chemie. International Edition 50(7), pp. 1613-1616. (10.1002/anie.201005892)
- Carr, J. M., Duggan, P. J., Humphrey, D. G., Platts, J. A. and Tyndall, E. M. 2011. Wood protection properties of quaternary ammonium spiroborate esters derived from alkyl tartrates. Australian Journal of Chemistry 64(4), pp. 495-502. (10.1071/CH11022)
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- Overgaard, J., Jones, C., Dange, D. and Platts, J. A. 2011. Experimental Charge Density Analysis of a Gallium(I) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogue. Inorganic Chemistry 50(17), pp. 8418-8426. (10.1021/ic2009946)
- Chakravorty, S., Platts, J. A. and Das, B. K. 2011. Novel C-H-C contacts involving 3,5-dimethylpyrazole ligands in a tetracoordinate Co(ii) complex. Dalton Transactions 40(43), pp. 11605-11612. (10.1039/c1dt10948k)
- Aldulaijan, S. and Platts, J. A. 2010. Theoretical prediction of a peptide binding to major histocompatibility complex II. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 29(2), pp. 240-245. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2010.05.010)
- Mutter, S. T. and Platts, J. A. 2010. Modulation of stacking interactions by transition-metal coordination: ab initio benchmark studies. Chemistry - A European Journal 16(18), pp. 5391-5399. (10.1002/chem.200902813)
- Platts, J. A. and Hill, J. G. 2010. Non-covalent interactions using local correlation methods: energy partitioning, geometry optimisation and harmonic frequency calculations. Molecular Physics 108(11), pp. 1497-1504. (10.1080/00268971003757977)
- Carr, J. M., Duggan, P. J., Humphrey, D. G., Platts, J. A. and Tyndall, E. M. 2010. Wood protection properties of quaternary ammonium arylspiroborate esters derived from naphthalene 2,3-Diol, 2,2 '-Biphenol and 3-Hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid. Australian Journal of Chemistry 63(10), pp. 1423-1429. (10.1071/CH10132)
- Brazier, J. B., Evans, G. J. S., Gibbs, T. J. K., Coles, S. J., Hursthouse, M. B., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2009. Solution phase, solid state, and theoretical investigations on the MacMillan imidazolidinone. Organic Letters 11(1), pp. 133-136. (10.1021/ol802512y)
- Fallis, I. A. et al. 2009. Locus-specific microemulsion catalysts for sulfur mustard (HD) chemical warfare agent decontamination. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(28), pp. 9746-9755. (10.1021/ja901872y)
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- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2009. Local electron correlation descriptions of the intermolecular stacking interactions between aromatic intercalators and nucleic acids. Chemical Physics Letters 479(4-6), pp. 279-283. (10.1016/j.cplett.2009.08.021)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2009. Auxiliary basis sets for density-fitted MP2 calculations: correlation-consistent basis sets for the 4d elements. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 5(3), pp. 500-505. (10.1021/ct8005584)
- Platts, J. A. and Gkionis, K. 2009. NMR shielding as a probe of intermolecular interactions: ab initio and density functional theory studies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 11(44), pp. 10331-10339. (10.1039/B822560E)
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- Overgaard, J., Platts, J. A. and Iversen, B. B. 2009. Experimental and theoretical charge-density study of a tetranuclear cobalt carbonyl complex. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science 65(6), pp. 715-723. (10.1107/S0108768109045091)
- Laimou, D., Mantzourani, E. D., Platts, J. A., Matsoukas, M. T., Troganis, A. and Tselios, T. 2008. Molecular modeling of GnRH analogues in DMSO solution using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and molecular dynamics (MD) [Abstract]. Journal of Peptide Science 14(S1), pp. 128-129. (10.1002/psc.1090)
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- Gkionis, K., Platts, J. A. and Hill, J. G. 2008. Insights into DNA binding of ruthenium arene complexes: Role of hydrogen bonding and π stacking. Inorganic Chemistry 47(9), pp. 3893-3902. (10.1021/ic702459h)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2008. Calculating interaction energies in transition metal complexes with local electron correlation methods. Journal of Chemical Physics 129(13) (10.1063/1.2982790)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2008. Calculating stacking interactions in nucleic acid base-pair steps using spin-component scaling and local second order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 10(19), pp. 2785-2791. (10.1039/b718691f)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2008. Auxiliary basis sets for density fitting-MP2 calculations: Nonrelativistic triple-zeta all-electron correlation consistent basis sets for the 3d elements Sc-Zn. The Journal of Chemical Physics 128(4), article number: 44104. (10.1063/1.2826348)
- Overgaard, J., Clausen, H. F., Platts, J. A. and Iversen, B. B. 2008. Experimental and theoretical charge density study of chemical bonding in a Co dimer complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(12), pp. 3834-3843. (10.1021/ja076152c)
- Tetko, I. V., Jaroszewicz, I., Platts, J. A. and Kuduk-Jaworska, J. 2008. Calculation of lipophilicity for Pt(II) complexes: Experimental comparison of several methods. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 102(7), pp. 1424-1437. (10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2007.12.029)
- Overgaard, J. et al. 2007. Experimental and theoretical charge density distribution in two ternary cobalt(III) complexes of aromatic amino acids. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 111(40), pp. 10123-10133. (10.1021/jp068621n)
- Platts, J. A., Evans, G. J. S., Coogan, M. P. and Overgaard, J. 2007. Electronic Structure of the Alkyne-Bridged Dicobalt Hexacarbonyl Complex Co2 μ-C2H2 (CO)6: Evidence for Singlet Diradical Character and Implications for Metal−Metal Bonding. Inorganic Chemistry 46(16), pp. 6291-6298. (10.1021/ic070278t)
- Hill, J. G. and Platts, J. A. 2007. Spin-component scaling methods for weak and stacking interactions. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 3(1), pp. 80-85. (10.1021/ct6002737)
- Mantzourani, E. D., Platts, J. A., Brancale, A., Mavromoustakos, T. M. and Tselios, T. V. 2007. Molecular dynamics at the receptor level of immunodominant myelin basic protein epitope 87-99 implicated in multiple sclerosis and its antagonists altered peptide ligands: Triggering of immune response. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 26(2), pp. 471-481. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2007.02.004)
- Thomas, C. P., Platts, J. A., Tatchell, T. and Heard, C. M. 2007. Probing the skin permeation of fish oil/EPA and ketoprofen 1. NMR spectroscopy and molecular modelling. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 338(1-2), pp. 207-212. (10.1016/j.ijpharm.2007.02.006)
- Oldfield, S. P., Hall, M. D. and Platts, J. A. 2007. Calculation of lipophilicity of a large, diverse dataset of anticancer platinum complexes and the relation to cellular uptake. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 50(21), pp. 5227-5237. (10.1021/jm0708275)
- Mantzourani, E. D., Tselios, T. V., Grdadolnik, S. G., Brancale, A., Platts, J. A., Matsoukas, J. M. and Mavromoustakos, T. M. 2006. A putative bioactive conformation for the altered peptide ligand of myelin basic protein and inhibitor of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis [Arg91, Ala96] MBP87–99. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 25(1), pp. 17-29. (10.1016/j.jmgm.2005.09.010)
- Hill, J. G., Platts, J. A. and Werner, H. 2006. Calculation of intermolecular interactions in the benzene dimer using coupled-cluster and local electron correlation methods. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 8(35), pp. 4072-4078. (10.1039/b608623c)
- Robertazzi, A. and Platts, J. A. 2006. A QM/MM Study of Cisplatin-DNA Oligonucleotides: From Simple Models to Realistic Systems. Chemistry - A European Journal 12(22), pp. 5747-5756. (10.1002/chem.200501566)
- Jones, C., Junk, P. C., Platts, J. A. and Stasch, A. 2006. Four-Membered Group 13 Metal(I) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogues: Synthesis, Characterization, and Theoretical Studies. Journal of the American Chemical Society 128(7), pp. 2206-2207. (10.1021/ja057967t)
- Cavill, J. L., Elliott, R. L., Evans, G. J. S., Jones, I. L., Platts, J. A., Ruda, A. M. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2006. The α-effect in iminium ion catalysis. Tetrahedron 62(2-3), pp. 410-421. (10.1016/j.tet.2005.08.110)
- Evans, G. J. S., White, K., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2006. Computational study of iminium ion formation: effects of amine structure. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 4(13), pp. 2616-2627. (10.1039/B602645A)
- Mantzourani, E. D. et al. 2006. Comparison of Proposed Putative Active Conformations of Myelin Basic Protein Epitope 87−99 Linear Altered Peptide Ligands by Spectroscopic and Modelling Studies: The Role of Positions 91 and 96 in T-Cell Receptor Activation. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 49(23), pp. 6683-6691. (10.1021/jm060040z)
- Pan, Z., Xu, M., Cheung, E. Y., Platts, J. A., Harris, K. D. M., Constable, E. C. and Housecroft, C. E. 2006. Solid-state structural properties of 2,4,6-trimethoxybenzene derivatives, determined directly from powder X-ray diffraction data in conjunction with other techniques. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 179(10), pp. 3214-3223. (10.1016/j.jssc.2006.06.009)
- Robertazzi, A. and Platts, J. A. 2005. Binding of transition metal complexes to guanine and guanine-cytosine: hydrogen bonding and covalent effects. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 10(8), pp. 854-866. (10.1007/s00775-005-0034-0)
- Jones, C. J., Junk, P. C., Platts, J. A., Rathmann, D. and Stasch, A. 2005. Synthesis, characterisation and theoretical studies of amidinato-indium(I) and thallium(I) complexes: isomers of neutral group 13 metal(I) carbene analogues. Dalton Transactions(15), pp. 2497-2499. (10.1039/B507242E)
- Carr, J. M., Duggan, P. J., Humphrey, D. G., Platts, J. A. and Tyndall, E. M. 2005. Quaternary ammonium arylspiroborate esters as organo-soluble, environmentally benign wood protectants. Australian Journal of Chemistry 58(12), pp. 901-911. (10.1071/CH05226)
- Mantzourani, E. D., Mavromoustakos, T. M., Platts, J. A., Matsoukas, J. M. and Tselios, T. V. 2005. Structural requirements for binding of Myelin Basic Protein (MBP) Peptides to MHC II: effects on immune regulation. Current Medicinal Chemistry 12(13), pp. 1521-1535. (10.2174/0929867054039053)
- Lamarche, O. J., Platts, J. A. and Hersey, A. 2004. Theoretical prediction of partition coefficients via molecular electrostatic and electronic properties. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 44(3), pp. 848-855. (10.1021/ci034276c)
- Saunders, R. A. and Platts, J. A. 2004. Scaled polar surface area descriptors: development and application to three sets of partition coefficients. New Journal of Chemistry 28(1), pp. 166-172. (10.1039/B307023A)
- Baker, R. J., Jones, C. and Platts, J. A. 2003. Analogies between the Reactivities of an Anionic Gallium(I) Heterocycle and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Toward Metallocenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 125(35), pp. 10534-10535. (10.1021/ja036933n)
- Harris, L. D., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2003. Enhanced ππ interactions in α,β-unsaturated carbonyls.. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 1(3), pp. 457-459. (10.1039/B210497K)
- Lamarche, O. J. and Platts, J. A. 2003. Atoms in molecules investigation of the pK(HB) basicity scale: electrostatic and covalent effects in hydrogen bonding. Chemical Physics Letters 367(1-2), pp. 123-128. (10.1016/S0009-2614(02)01581-6)
- Baker, R. J., Edwards, P., Farley, R. D., Murphy, D. M., Platts, J. A. and Voss, K. E. 2003. Low valent carbonylvanadium complexes of the triphosphorus macrocycle 12[ane]P3Et3. Dalton Transactions(5), pp. 944-948. (10.1039/B211105P)
- Lamarche, O. J. and Platts, J. A. 2003. Complementary nature of hydrogen bond basicity and acidity scales from electrostatic and atoms in molecules properties. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 5(4), pp. 677-684. (10.1039/B210210B)
- Huque, F. T. T. and Platts, J. A. 2003. The effect of intramolecular interactions on hydrogen bond acidity. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 1(8), pp. 1419-1424. (10.1039/B300598D)
- Baker, R. J., Jones, C. J. and Platts, J. A. 2003. Synthesis, structural and theoretical studies of an iron-gallium(I) heterocycle complex: analogies with N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry. Dalton Transactions(19), pp. 3673-3674. (10.1039/B308616J)
- Lamarche, O. J. and Platts, J. A. 2002. Theoretical prediction of the hydrogen-bond basicity pKHB. Chemistry-a European Journal 8(2), pp. 457-466. (10.1002/1521-3765(20020118)8:2<457::AID-CHEM457>3.0.CO;2-5)
- Howard, S. T., Platts, J. A. and Coogan, M. P. 2002. Relationships between basicity, structure, chemical shift and the charge distribution in resonance-stabilized iminoamines. Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkins Transactions 2(5), pp. 899-905. (10.1039/B200899H)
- Battle, A. R., Platts, J. A., Hambley, T. W. and Deacon, G. B. 2002. Synthesis, spectroscopy, and theoretical studies of platinum(II) phosphate complexes. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions(9), pp. 1898-1902. (10.1039/B111460N)
- Saunders, R. A. and Platts, J. A. 2001. Linear free energy relationship analysis of the solubility of solids in supercritical CO2. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 14(9), pp. 612-617. (10.1002/poc.408)
- Platts, J. A., Abraham, M. H., Zhao, Y. H., Hersey, A., Ijaz, L. and Butina, D. 2001. Correlation and prediction of a large blood-brain distribution data set - an LFER study. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 36(9), pp. 719-730. (10.1016/S0223-5234(01)01269-7)
- Platts, J. A. 2001. Theoretical electron densities in transition metal dihydrides. Journal of Molecular Structure - THEOCHEM 545(1), pp. 111-118. (10.1016/S0166-1280(01)00392-X)
- Zhao, Y. H. et al. 2001. Evaluation of human intestinal absorption data and subsequent derivation of a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) with the Abraham descriptors. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 90(6), pp. 749-784. (10.1002/jps.1031)
- Abraham, M. H. and Platts, J. A. 2001. Hydrogen bond structural group constants. Journal of Organic Chemistry 66(10), pp. 3484-3491. (10.1021/jo001765s)
- Lamarche, O. J., Platts, J. A. and Hersey, A. 2001. Theoretical prediction of the polarity/polarizability parameter pi(H)(2). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 3(14), pp. 2747-2753. (10.1039/B102708P)
- Abraham, M. H., Du, C. M. and Platts, J. A. 2000. Lipophilicity of the nitrophenols. Journal of Organic Chemistry 65(21), pp. 7114-7118. (10.1021/jo000840w)
- Platts, J. A. and Coogan, M. P. 2000. Rotational barriers in tetraformylhydrazine. Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkins Transactions 2 5, pp. 1075-1079. (10.1039/A910230M)
- Platts, J. A. 2000. Theoretical prediction of hydrogen bond donor capacity. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 2(5), pp. 973-980. (10.1039/A908853I)
- Platts, J. A. 2000. Theoretical prediction of hydrogen bond basicity. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics -Cambridge- Royal Society of Chemistry 2(14), pp. 3115-3120. (10.1039/B003026K)
- Henry, K. E. et al. 2013. Emission wavelength variation with changes in excitation in a Re(i)-bisthiazole ligand complex that breaks the Kasha-Vavilov rule. Chemical Science 4(6), pp. 2490-2495. (10.1039/c3sc22070b)
- Platts, J. A., Maarof, H., Harris, K. D. M., Lim, G. K. and Willock, D. J. 2012. The effect of intermolecular hydrogen bonding on the planarity of amides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14(34), pp. 11944-11952. (10.1039/c2cp41716b)
- Margiotta, N. et al. 2012. Revisiting [PtCl2(cis-1,4-DACH)]: an underestimated antitumor drug with potential application to the treatment of oxaliplatin-refractory colorectal cancer. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 55(16), pp. 7182-7192. (10.1021/jm3006838)
- Mutter, S. T. and Platts, J. A. 2011. Density functional theory studies of interactions of ruthenium arene complexes with base pair steps. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115(41), pp. 11293-11302. (10.1021/jp2049487)
- Platts, J. A., Overgaard, J., Jones, C., Iversen, B. B. and Stasch, A. 2011. First experimental characterization of a non-nuclear attractor in a dimeric magnesium(I) compound. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115(2), pp. 194-200. (10.1021/jp109547w)
- Mutter, S. T. and Platts, J. A. 2010. Modulation of stacking interactions by transition-metal coordination: ab initio benchmark studies. Chemistry - A European Journal 16(18), pp. 5391-5399. (10.1002/chem.200902813)
- Brazier, J. B., Evans, G. J. S., Gibbs, T. J. K., Coles, S. J., Hursthouse, M. B., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2009. Solution phase, solid state, and theoretical investigations on the MacMillan imidazolidinone. Organic Letters 11(1), pp. 133-136. (10.1021/ol802512y)
- Gkionis, K. and Platts, J. A. 2009. QM/MM investigation into binding of square-planar platinum complexes to DNA fragments. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 14(8), pp. 1165-1174. (10.1007/s00775-009-0560-2)
- Evans, G. J., Gibbs, T. J., Jenkins, R. L., Coles, S. J., Hursthouse, M. B., Platts, J. A. and Tomkinson, N. C. O. 2008. Kinetics of iminium ion catalysis. Angewandte Chemie. International Edition 47(15), pp. 2820-2823. (10.1002/anie.200705539)
- Overgaard, J., Clausen, H. F., Platts, J. A. and Iversen, B. B. 2008. Experimental and theoretical charge density study of chemical bonding in a Co dimer complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(12), pp. 3834-3843. (10.1021/ja076152c)
Research
- Theoretical studies of non-covalent interactions, including hydrogen bonding and π-stacking, and their role in biological and drug molecules
- Simulation of interaction of metal ions and complexes with biomolecules, including peptides and nucleic acids
- Molecular properties to describe and predict and inter- and intramolecular interactions
- Prediction of solvation and transport of pharmaceutical and industrial compounds
- Theoretical investigation of chemical bonding and reactivity in organic and inorganic compounds
We employ theoretical and computational methods to study and predict a range of chemically and biologically important phenomena, with a general focus on intermolecular interactions such as hydrogen bonding, solvation, and molecular recognition.
In one area, we use ab initio and DFT methods to monitor non-bonded interactions, including hydrogen bonding and π-stacking, in DNA and proteins and their complexes with drugs. An important class of molecules are metal-based drugs such as cisplatin, which bind to and disrupt DNA, and hence prevent replication. The figure below illustrates binding of cisplatin to a fragment of DNA, highlighting the distortion of the regular double helix caused by the drug. Quantifying and predicting this binding and the effects of metal and ligand structure, in order to discover more effective drugs with fewer side-effects, is an ongoing avenue of research.
Surface properties of molecules determine interactions with their environment, and hence such important properties as solvation and molecular recognition. We are exploring their use as predictors of solvation, biological transport, and activity, again with an interest in metallodrugs.
Collaborations with several synthetic groups in Cardiff involves theoretical study of a variety of organic and inorganic species, using a range of methods. Below are shown the highest occupied and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals of a dicobalt molecule that has an unusual "singlet diradical" character, rather than the expected Co-Co bond.
For more information on specific projects available with Professor James Platts please review the Spectroscopy and dynamics section of our research themes pages.
Teaching
CH5201
CH2301
CH4304
CH3406
CHT317
CHT232
Biography
PhD Cardiff University (1996, S. T. Howard, theoretical chemistry). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, McMaster University (1996-7, R. F. W. Bader, electron localisation in molecules and solids). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College London (1997-9, M. H. Abraham, fast prediction of drug absorption and distribution properties). Appointed as Cardiff Research Fellow in 1999, Lecturer in 2004, Senior Lecturer in 2007, Reader in 2011 and Professor 2021.
Supervisions
I would welcome applications from research students interested in applying modern simulation methods (quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, QM/MM) to problems in inorganic and bio-inorganic chemistry.