Professor Simon Pope

2025

• Alkhaibari, I. et al. 2025. DNA‐binding properties of non‐intercalating water‐soluble organometallic Ir(III) luminophores. Chemistry - A European Journal 31 (30) e202500290. (10.1002/chem.202500290)
• Ibbott, A. R. et al. 2025. Combined colourimetric and turn-on luminescence from a redox-switchable 2-aza-anthraquinone bridged dimetallic assembly. Dalton Transactions 54 , pp.15986-15990. (10.1039/D5DT02287H)
• Ibbott, A. R. et al. 2025. Luminescent Ru(II) complexes based on functionalised 1,10-phenanthroline derivatised ligands towards bioconjugated probes. Inorganica Chimica Acta 579 122561. (10.1016/j.ica.2025.122561)
• Newman, P. D. et al. 2025. Stereogenic-at-metal Ir(III) complexes as platforms for the construction of asymmetric bimetallic complexes. Inorganic Chemistry (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04469)
• Payce, E. N. et al. 2025. Energy upconversion using platinum(II)-BPI photosensitizers. Inorganic Chemistry (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04677)
• Rainbow, J. et al., 2025. Electrochemical signal amplification for pathogen nucleic acid detection utilizing a cobalt-based DNA-binding metallo-intercalator. Sensors & Diagnostics 4 (6), pp.519-528. (10.1039/D4SD00322E)

2024

• Alkhaibari, I. S. et al. 2024. Tuning excited state character in iridium(III) photosensitizers and its influence on TTA-UC. Inorganic Chemistry 63 (21), pp.9931-9940. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01003)
• Amoroso, A. J. and Pope, S. J. 2024. Lanthanides for luminescent and magnetic resonance imaging. In: Feng, L. and James, T. D. eds. Imaging Tools for Chemical Biology. Chemical Biology Royal Society of Chemistry. , pp.48-70. (10.1039/9781837673117-00048)
• Knighton, R. C. and Pope, S. J. A. 2024. Synthesis and luminescent properties of hetero-bimetallic and hetero-trimetallic Ru( ii )/Au( i ) or Ir( iii )/Au( i ) complexes. Dalton Transactions 53 , pp.4165-4174. (10.1039/d3dt03690a)
• Newman, P. D. et al. 2024. A noble nexus: a phosphino-phen ligand for tethering precious metals †. Dalton Transactions 53 (37)(10.1039/d4dt02130d)
• Payce, E. N. et al. 2024. Luminescent Pt(II) complexes using unsymmetrical Bis(2-pyridylimino)isoindolate analogues. Inorganic Chemistry 63 (18), pp.8273–8285. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c00558)
• Stokes, E. C. et al. 2024. Alkyl chain functionalised Ir(iii) complexes: synthesis, properties and behaviour as emissive dopants in microemulsions. RSC Advances 14 (10), pp.6987-6997. (10.1039/D3RA06764E)

2023

• Elgar, C. et al. 2023. Deep red emitting heteroleptic Ir(III) complexes that incorporate unsymmetrical 4-quinoline carboxylic acid derived ligands. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 26 (18) e202300102. (10.1002/ejic.202300102)
• Fenn, G. D. et al. 2023. Development of a novel anthraquinone-derived fluorescent lysosomal probe. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 138 (2) 107097. (10.1016/j.ymgme.2022.107097)
• Fitzgerald, S. A. et al. 2023. 2-(Thienyl)quinoxaline derivatives and their application in Ir( iii ) complexes yielding tuneable deep red emitters †. Dalton Transactions 52 (44), pp.16480-16480. (10.1039/d3dt02193a)
• Knighton, R. C. , Beames, J. M. and Pope, S. J. A. 2023. Polycationic Ru(II) luminophores: syntheses, photophysics, and application in electrostatically driven sensitization of lanthanide luminescence. Inorganic Chemistry 62 (48), pp.19446-19456. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02352)
• Young, T. B. et al. 2023. Chemically recyclable fluorescent polyesters via the ring-opening copolymerization of epoxides and anhydrides. Polymer Chemistry (10.1039/D3PY00209H)

2022

• Al-Riyahee, A. A. A. et al. 2022. N,N′-Substituted thioureas and their metal complexes: syntheses, structures and electronic properties. Dalton Transactions 51 (9), pp.3531-3545. (10.1039/D1DT04091J)
• Al-Riyahee, A. A. et al., 2022. Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes of functionalised thiosemicarbazone ligands: Syntheses and reactivity, characterization and structural studies. Polyhedron 225 116079. (10.1016/j.poly.2022.116079)
• Bonello, R. O. et al. 2022. Aryl, bi-functionalised imidazo[4,5-f]-1,10-phenanthroline ligands and their luminescent rhenium(I) complexes. Polyhedron 228 116179. (10.1016/j.poly.2022.116179)
• Fitzgerald, S. A. et al. 2022. Organometallic platinum(ii) photosensitisers that demonstrate ligand‐modulated triplet‐triplet annihilation energy upconversion efficiencies. Chemistry - A European Journal e202203241. (10.1002/chem.202203241)
• Sawicka, N. et al. 2022. Long-lived, near-IR emission from Cr(iii) under ambient conditions. Chemical Communications 58 (38), pp.5733-5736. (10.1039/D2CC01434C)

2021

• Díaz-Ortega, I. F. et al., 2021. Monitoring spin-crossover phenomena via Re(i) luminescence in hybrid Fe(ii) silica coated nanoparticles. Dalton Transactions 50 , pp.16176-16184. (10.1039/D1DT03334D)
• Fitzgerald, S. A. et al. 2021. Polysubstituted ligand framework for color tuning phosphorescent iridium(III) complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 60 (20), pp.15467-15484. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02121)
• Otaif, H. Y. et al. 2021. Bis-cyclometalated iridium(iii) complexes with terpyridine analogues: syntheses, structures, spectroscopy and computational studies. RSC Advances 11 (63), pp.39718–39727. (10.1039/D1RA07213G)
• Pope, S. J. et al. 2021. Iridium(III) sensitizers and energy upconversion: the influence of ligand structure upon TTA-UC performance. Chemistry - A European Journal 27 (10), pp.3427-3439. (10.1002/chem.202004146)

2020

• Cantos, P. M. , Pope, S. J. A. and Cahill, C. L. 2020. Correction: An exploration of homo- and heterometallic UO22+ hybrid materials containing chelidamic acid: synthesis, structure, and luminescence studies. CrystEngComm 22 (29) 4952. (10.1039/D0CE90092C)
• Day, A. H. et al. 2020. Towards dual SPECT/optical bioimaging with a mitochondrial targeting, 99mTc(i) radiolabelled 1,8-naphthalimide conjugate. Dalton Transactions 49 (2), pp.511-523. (10.1039/C9DT04024B)
• Day, A. H. et al. 2020. Targeted cell imaging properties of a deep red luminescent iridium(III) complex conjugated with a c-Myc signal peptide. Chemical Science 11 (6), pp.1599-1606. (10.1039/C9SC05568A)
• Edgar, R. J. et al., 2020. Inhibition of the photochromic behaviour of a 3,3-diphenyl-3H-pyrano[3,2-f]quinoline ligand by coordination to Ag(I) ions. Dyes and Pigments 175 108167. (10.1016/j.dyepig.2019.108167)
• Harding, L. P. et al., 2020. A rhenium(I) complex which reacts with aldehydes and ketones in aqueous media: a structural, spectroscopic and theoretical analysis. Journal of Chemical Research 44 (11-12), pp.733-737. (10.1177/1747519820917888)
• Lloyd, D. et al. 2020. Functional imaging of a model unicell: Spironucleus vortens as an anaerobic but aerotolerant flagellated protist. Advances in Microbial Physiology 76 , pp.41-79. (10.1016/bs.ampbs.2020.01.002)
• Spencer, J. et al. 2020. CW EPR investigation of red-emitting CaS:Eu phosphors: rationalization of local electronic structure. Advanced Optical Materials 8 (22) 2001241. (10.1002/adom.202001241)
• Stonelake, T. M. et al. 2020. Spectroscopic and theoretical investigation of color tuning in deep-red luminescent iridium(III) complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 59 (4)(10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02991)

2019

• Al-Riyahee, A. A. et al. 2019. Syntheses, X-ray structures and characterisation of luminescent chromium(III) complexes incorporating 8-quinolinato ligands. Polyhedron 157 , pp.396. (10.1016/j.poly.2018.10.019)
• Day, A. H. et al. 2019. Synthetic routes, characterization and photophysical properties of luminescent, surface functionalized nanodiamonds. Carbon 152 , pp.335-343. (10.1016/j.carbon.2019.05.081)
• Groves, L. M. et al. 2019. Fluorescent functionalised naphthalimides and their Au(i)–NHC complexes for potential use in cellular bioimaging. Dalton Transactions 48 (5), pp.1599-1612. (10.1039/C8DT04069A)
• Phillips, K. A. et al. 2019. Dual visible/NIR emission from organometallic iridium(III) complexes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 893 , pp.11-20. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2019.04.019)

2018

• Groves, L. M. et al. 2018. Synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent aminophosphines and their coordination to gold(i). Dalton Transactions 47 (28), pp.9324-9333. (10.1039/C8DT02256A)
• Langdon-Jones, E. E. , Ward, B. and Pope, S. 2018. Synthesis and luminescence properties of cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes incorporating conjugated benzotriazole units. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 861 , pp.234-243. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2018.02.019)
• Phillips, K. A. et al. 2018. Ligand tuneable, red-emitting iridium(III) complexes for efficient triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion performance. Chemistry - A European Journal 24 (34), pp.8577-8588. (10.1002/chem.201801007)
• Soltani, Y. et al. 2018. Synthesis and photophysical properties of imine borane adducts towards vapochromic materials. Dalton Transactions 47 (36), pp.12656-12660. (10.1039/C8DT03019G)

2017

• Amoroso, A. J. , Fallis, I. A. and Pope, S. J. A. 2017. Chelating agents for radiolanthanides: applications to imaging and therapy. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 340 , pp.198-219. (10.1016/j.ccr.2017.01.010)
• Bonello, R. O. et al., 2017. Synthesis and characterisation of phosphorescent rhenium(I) complexes of hydroxy- and methoxy-substituted imidazo[4,5- f ]-1,10-phenanthroline ligands. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 841 , pp.39-47. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.04.021)
• Carter, K. P. et al., 2017. Exploring the promotion of synthons of choice: halogen bonding in molecular lanthanide complexes characterized via X-ray diffraction, luminescence spectroscopy, and magnetic measurements. Zeitschrift für ganische und allgemeine Chemie 643 (23), pp.1948-1955. (10.1002/zaac.201700341)
• Cudré, Y. et al., 2017. Tris-heteroleptic iridium complexes based on cyclometalated ligands with different cores. Inorganic Chemistry -American Chemical Society- 56 (19), pp.11565-11576. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01307)
• 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)
• Jana, A. , Pope, S. and Ward, M. D. 2017. D → f energy transfer in heteronuclear Ir(III)/Ln(III) near-infrared luminescent complexes. Polyhedron 127 , pp.390-395. (10.1016/j.poly.2017.02.016)
• Langdon-Jones, E. E. et al., 2017. Luminescent 1,8-Naphthalimide-Derived ReI Complexes: syntheses, spectroscopy, X-ray structure and preliminary bioimaging in fission yeast cells. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2017 (44), pp.5279-5287. (10.1002/ejic.201700549)
• Miletiić, T. et al. 2017. A twisted bay-substituted quaterrylene phosphorescing in the NIR spectral region. Helvetica Chimica Acta 100 (11) e1700192. (10.1002/hlca.201700192)
• 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)
• Pope, S. J. A. et al. 2017. Anticancer, azonafide-inspired fluorescent ligands and their rhenium(I) complexes for cellular imaging. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2017 (3), pp.759-766. (10.1002/ejic.201601271)

2016

• Bennett, S. D. et al., 2016. Scandium complexes bearing bis(oxazolinylphenyl)amide ligands: an analysis of their reactivity, solution-state structures and photophysical properties. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2016 (18), pp.2932-2941. (10.1002/ejic.201600223)
• Carter, K. P. et al., 2016. Supramolecular assembly of molecular rare-earth–3,5-dichlorobenzoic acid–2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine materials: structural systematics, luminescence properties, and magnetic behavior. Inorganic Chemistry 55 (14), pp.6902-6915. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00408)
• Jiménez, J. et al., 2016. Frontispiece: Lanthanide tetrazolate complexes combining single-molecule magnet and luminescence properties: The effect of the replacement of tetrazolate N3 by β-Diketonate Ligands on the anisotropy energy barrier. Chemistry - a European Journal 22 (41)(10.1002/chem.201684162)
• Jiménez, J. et al., 2016. Lanthanide tetrazolate complexes combining single-molecule magnet and luminescence properties: the effect of the replacement of tetrazolate n3 by β-diketonate ligands on the anisotropy energy barrier. Chemistry - A European Journal 22 (41), pp.14548-14559. (10.1002/chem.201601457)
• Lowe, J. A. et al., 2016. Alkyl chain functionalised, cyclometalated platinum(II) complexes: syntheses, luminescence properties and X-ray crystal structure. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 805 , pp.87-93. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2016.01.015)
• Stacey, O. J. et al., 2016. Chromophore-labelled, luminescent platinum complexes: syntheses, structures, and spectroscopic properties. Dalton Transactions 45 , pp.10297-10307. (10.1039/C6DT01335J)
• Stacey, O. J. et al., 2016. Near-IR luminescent lanthanide complexes with 1,8-diaminoanthraquinone-based chromophoric ligands. Dalton Transactions 45 (15), pp.6674-6681. (10.1039/C5DT04351D)

2015

• Amoroso, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2015. Using lanthanide ions in molecular bioimaging. Chemical Society Reviews 44 (14), pp.4723-4742. (10.1039/C4CS00293H)
• Carter, K. P. et al., 2015. Controlling dimensionality via a dual ligand strategy in Ln-thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylic acid-terpyridine coordination polymers. Dalton Transactions 44 (36), pp.15843-15854. (10.1039/C5DT02596F)
• Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 2015. Application of d- and f-block fluorescent cell imaging agents. In: Long, N. and Wong, W. eds. The Chemistry of Molecular Imaging. USA: Wiley-Blackwell. , pp.275-298. (10.1002/9781118854754.ch12)
• Herrera, J. M. et al., 2015. Studies on bifunctional Fe(ii)-triazole spin crossover nanoparticles: time-dependent luminescence, surface grafting and the effect of a silica shell and hydrostatic pressure on the magnetic properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 3 (30), pp.7819-7829. (10.1039/C5TC00685F)
• Langdon-Jones, E. E. et al. 2015. Alkynyl-naphthalimide fluorophores: gold coordination chemistry and cellular imaging applications. Inorganic Chemistry 54 (13), pp.6606-6615. 150618152106000. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00954)
• 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)
• Stacey, O. J. et al. 2015. Phosphorescent, cyclometalated cinchophen-derived platinum complexes: syntheses, structures, and electronic properties. Inorganic Chemistry 150619121705005. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00817)
• 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)
• Thangavelu, S. G. , Pope, S. J. A. and Cahill, C. L. 2015. Synthetic, structural, and luminescence study of uranyl coordination polymers containing chelating terpyridine and trispyridyltriazine ligands. Crystengcomm 17 (32), pp.6236-6247. (10.1039/C5CE00984G)

2014

• Bennett, S. D. et al. 2014. Chiral lanthanide complexes: coordination chemistry, spectroscopy, and catalysis. Dalton Transactions 43 (15), pp.5871-5885. (10.1039/c4dt00114a)
• Bonello, R. O. et al. 2014. Luminescent rhenium(I) complexes of substituted imidazole[4,5-f]-1,10-phenanthroline derivatives. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 749 , pp.150-156. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2013.08.031)
• Carter, K. P. , Pope, S. J. A. and Cahill, C. L. 2014. A series of Ln-p-chlorobenzoic acid-terpyridine complexes: lanthanide contraction effects, supramolecular interactions and luminescent behavior. CrystEngComm 16 (10), pp.1873-1884. (10.1039/c3ce42267d)
• Fisher, C. M. et al., 2014. A benzimidazole functionalised DO3A chelator showing pH switchable coordination modes with lanthanide ions. Dalton Transactions 43 , pp.9567-9578. (10.1039/c4dt00519h)
• Gunnlaugsson, T. and Pope, S. J. 2014. Chapter 6: lanthanide ion complexes as chemosensors. In: Bettencourt-Dias, A. ed. Luminescence of Lanthanide Ions in Coordination Compounds and Nanomaterials. Wiley-Blackwell. , pp.231. (10.1002/9781118682760.ch06)
• Hallett, A. J. et al. 2014. Silver nanoparticles functionalised with a luminescent iridium complex: phosphorescent hybrid materials. Transition Metal Chemistry 39 (2), pp.195-198. (10.1007/s11243-013-9789-2)
• Langdon-Jones, E. E. and Pope, S. J. A. 2014. The coordination chemistry of substituted anthraquinones: Developments and applications. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 269 , pp.32-53. (10.1016/j.ccr.2014.02.003)
• Langdon-Jones, E. E. et al. 2014. Fluorescent rhenium-naphthalimide conjugates as cellular imaging agents. Inorganic Chemistry 53 (7), pp.3788-3797. (10.1021/ic500142z)
• Langdon-Jones, E. E. and Pope, S. J. A. 2014. Recent developments in gold(i) coordination chemistry: luminescence properties and bioimaging opportunities. Chemical Communications- Royal Society of Chemistry 50 , pp.10343-10354. (10.1039/c4cc03259d)
• Palacios, M. A. et al., 2014. Bifunctional ZnIILnIII dinuclear complexes combining field induced SMM behavior and luminescence: enhanced NIR lanthanide emission by 9-anthracene carboxylate bridging ligands. Inorganic Chemistry 53 (3), pp.1465-1474. (10.1021/ic402597s)
• Regan, E. M. et al., 2014. A novel cobalt complex for enhancing amperometric and impedimetric DNA detection. Electrochimica Acta 128 , pp.10-15. (10.1016/j.electacta.2013.10.028)
• Ruiz, J. et al., 2014. Closely-related ZnII2LnIII2 complexes (LnIII = Gd, Yb) with either magnetic refrigerant or luminescent single-molecule magnet properties. Inorganic Chemistry 53 (7), pp.3586-3594. (10.1021/ic403097s)
• Taylor, R. G. D. et al., 2014. An organometallic complex revealing an unexpected, reversible, temperature induced SC-SC transformation. Crystengcomm 16 (21), pp.4641-4652. (10.1039/c4ce00070f)

2013

• Bennett, S. D. , Pope, S. J. A. and Ward, B. D. 2013. Near-IR luminescent neodymium complexes: spectroscopic probes for hydroamination catalysis. Chemical Communications 49 (54), pp.6072-6074. (10.1039/c3cc42923g)
• Cantos, P. M. , Pope, S. J. A. and Cahill, C. L. 2013. An exploration of homo- and heterometallic UO22+ hybrid materials containing chelidamic acid: synthesis, structure, and luminescence studies. CrystEngComm 15 (44), pp.9039-9051. (10.1039/c3ce41655k)
• El-Betany, A. M. et al. 2013. The synthesis and study of fluorescent PAMAM-based dendritic molecules. Tetrahedron 69 (39), pp.8439-8445. (10.1016/j.tet.2013.07.054)
• Langdon-Jones, E. E. et al. 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)
• Mughal, S. et al. 2013. The tetratriptycenoporphyrazines revisited. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 17 (08n09), pp.778-784. (10.1142/S1088424613500351)
• Smith, R. A. et al. 2013. Cyclometalated cinchophen ligands on iridium(iii): towards water-soluble complexes with visible luminescence. Dalton Transactions 42 (28), pp.10347-10357. (10.1039/c3dt51098k)
• Stacey, O. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2013. New avenues in the design and potential application of metal complexes for photodynamic therapy. RSC Advances 3 (48), pp.25550-25564. (10.1039/c3ra45219k)
• Thangavelu, S. G. et al., 2013. Synthesis, Structures, and Luminescent Properties of Uranyl Terpyridine Aromatic Carboxylate Coordination Polymers. Inorganic Chemistry 52 (4), pp.2060-2069. (10.1021/ic3024698)
• Titos-Padilla, S. et al., 2013. Photophysical properties of [Ir(tpy)2]3+-doped silica nanoparticles and synthesis of a colour-tunable material based on an Ir(core)–Eu(shell) derivative. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 1 (24), pp.3808-3815. (10.1039/c3tc30466c)

2012

• Balasingham, R. et al. 2012. Gold(I) complexes derived from alkynyloxy-substituted anthraquinones: Syntheses, luminescence, preliminary cytotoxicity, and cell imaging studies. Organometallics 31 (16), pp.5835-5843. (10.1021/om300475y)
• Balasingham, R. G. et al. 2012. Biologically compatible, phosphorescent dimetallic rhenium complexes linked through functionalized alkyl chains: syntheses, spectroscopic properties, and applications in imaging microscopy. Inorganic Chemistry 51 (3), pp.1419-1426. (10.1021/ic201654d)
• Cox, N. M. et al., 2012. Probing solution behaviour of metallosupramolecular complexes using pyrene fluorescence. Dalton Transactions 41 (5), pp.1568-1573. (10.1039/c1dt11831e)
• Hallett, A. J. and Pope, S. J. 2012. First examples of luminescent zinc(II)-bisquinoxalinato complexes: synthesis, spectroscopic and theoretical studies. Inorganica Chimica Acta 387 , pp.145-150. (10.1016/j.ica.2012.01.008)
• Hallett, A. J. et al. 2012. Enhanced photooxidation sensitizers: the first examples of cyclometalated pyrene complexes of iridium(iii). Chemical Communications 48 (88), pp.10838-10840. (10.1039/c2cc35907c)
• Jones, J. E. et al. 2012. Water-soluble, luminescent iridium(III)–ytterbium(III) complexes using dipyrido[3,2-a:2′,3′-c]phenazine derivatives as bridging units. Dalton Transactions 41 (34), pp.10372-10381. (10.1039/c2dt31115a)
• Lloyd, D. , Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. 2012. Novel metal-based luminophores for biological imaging. In: Geddes, C. D. ed. Reviews in Fluorescence 2010. Reviews in Fluorescence Vol. 7.New York: Springer. , pp.15-44. (10.1007/978-1-4419-9828-6_2)
• Mullice, L. A. et al. 2012. Gold(I) complexes incorporating emissive mercapto-pteridine ligands: Syntheses, X-ray structure, luminescence and preliminary cytotoxic evaluation. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2012 (18), pp.3054-3060. (10.1002/ejic.201200147)
• Routledge, J. D. et al. 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)

2011

• Andrews, M. et al. 2011. Luminescent probes based on water-soluble, dual-emissive lanthanide complexes: metal ion-induced modulation of near-IR emission. Chemical Communications 47 (1), pp.206-208. (10.1039/c0cc00210k)
• Andrews, M. , Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 2011. Functional luminescent lanthanide complexes: modulation of visible luminescence from europium complexes. Polyhedron 30 (12), pp.2055-2061. (10.1016/j.poly.2011.05.008)
• Carcedo, C. et al. 2011. Chiral silver and gold rings: synthesis and structural, spectroscopic, and photophysical properties of Ag and Au metallamacrocycles of bridging NHC ligands. Organometallics 30 (9), pp.2553-2562. (10.1021/om200125w)
• Hallett, A. J. , Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 2011. New 2,3-disubstituted-5-hydroxyquinoxaline ligands and their coordination chemistry with cyclometallated iridium(iii): syntheses, structures and tunable electronic properties. Dalton Transactions 40 (37), pp.9474-9481. (10.1039/c1dt10707k)
• Hallett, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2011. Towards near-IR emissive rhenium tricarbonyl complexes: Synthesis and characterisation of unusual 2,2'-biquinoline complexes. Inorganic Chemistry Communications 14 (10), pp.1606-1608. (10.1016/j.inoche.2011.06.021)
• Hardwick, H. C. et al., 2011. Structural, spectroscopic and redox properties of uranyl complexes with a maleonitrile containing ligand. Dalton Transactions 40 (22), pp.5939-5952. (10.1039/c0dt01580f)
• Jones, J. E. et al. 2011. Bimodal, dimetallic lanthanide complexes that bind to DNA: the nature of binding and its influence on water relaxivity. Chemical Communications 47 (12), pp.3374-3376. (10.1039/C1CC00111F)
• Jones, J. E. et al. 2011. Amino-anthraquinone chromophores functionalised with 3-picolyl units: structures, luminescence, DFT and their coordination chemistry with cationic Re(I) di-imine complexes. Dalton Transactions 40 (14), pp.3498-3509. (10.1039/C0DT01383H)

2010

• Andrews, M. et al., 2010. Responsive, di-metallic lanthanide complexes of a piperazine-bridged bis-macrocyclic ligand: modulation of visible luminescence and proton relaxivity. Dalton Transactions 39 (14), pp.3407-3411. (10.1039/b923988j)
• Bagley, M. C. , Lin, Z. and Pope, S. J. A. 2010. Microwave-assisted synthesis and complexation of luminescent cyanobipyridyl-zinc(ii) bis(thiolate) complexes with intrinsic and ancillary photophysical tunability. Dalton Transactions 39 (13), pp.3163-3166. (10.1039/c001898h)
• Coogan, M. P. et al. 2010. Probing intracellular oxygen by quenched phosphorescence lifetimes of nanoparticles containing polyacrylamide-embedded [Ru(dpp(SO3Na)2)3]Cl2. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 9 (1), pp.103-109. (10.1039/b9pp00071b)
• Hallett, A. J. et al. 2010. Neutral and cationic cyclometallated Ir(III) complexes of anthra[1,2-d]-imidazole-6,11-dione-derived ligands: Syntheses, structures and spectroscopic characterisation. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 695 (22), pp.2401-2409. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2010.07.017)
• Knighton, R. C. et al. 2010. A one-step synthesis towards new ligands based on aryl-functionalised thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole chromophores. Tetrahedron Letters 51 (41), pp.5419-5422. (10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.07.172)
• Mullice, L. and Pope, S. J. A. 2010. The development of responsive, luminescent lifetime probes based upon axially functionalised fac-[Re(CO)3(di-imine)(L)]+ complexes. Dalton Transactions 39 (25), pp.5908-5917. (10.1039/c0dt00109k)
• Perry, W. S. et al., 2010. Synthesis and photophysical properties of kinetically stable complexes containing a lanthanide ion and a transition metal antenna group. Dalton Transactions 39 (45), pp.10974-10983. (10.1039/c0dt00877j)
• Yeo, B. R. et al. 2010. The Re(I) coordination chemistry of a series of pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazine-derived ligands: Syntheses, characterisation and crystal structures. Polyhedron 29 (3), pp.1088-1094. (10.1016/j.poly.2009.11.013)

2009

• Andrews, M. B. , Laye, R. H. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. A luminescent rhenium(I) complex of 2,7-dimethyl-1,8-naphthyridine: synthesis, spectroscopy and X-ray crystal structure. Transition Metal Chemistry 34 (5), pp.493-497. (10.1007/s11243-009-9221-0)
• Andrews, M. B. et al. 2009. Sensitized Lanthanide-Ion Luminescence with Aryl-Substituted N-(2-Nitrophenyl)acetamide-Derived Chromophores. Helvetica Chimica Acta 92 (11), pp.2159-2172. (10.1002/hlca.200900108)
• Bagley, M. C. , Lin, Z. F. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. Rapid synthesis of 3-cyanopyridine-derived chromophores with two-dimensional tunability and solvatochromic photophysical properties. Chemical Communications (34), pp.5165-5167. (10.1039/b910664b)
• Bagley, M. C. , Lin, Z. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. Barium manganate in microwave-assisted oxidation reactions: synthesis of solvatochromic 2,4,6-triarylpyrimidines. Tetrahedron Letters 50 (49), pp.6818-6822. (10.1016/j.tetlet.2009.09.116)
• Bullock, S. J. et al., 2009. Coumarin-based luminescent ligand that forms helicates with dicationic metal ions. Dalton Transactions (47), pp.10570-10573. (10.1039/b913103e)
• Coogan, M. P. et al. 2009. Rhenium fac-tricarbonyl bisimine complexes: luminescence modulation by hydrophobically driven intramolecular interactions. New Journal of Chemistry 33 (5), pp.1094-1099. (10.1039/b819453j)
• Coogan, M. P. et al. 2009. A rhenium tricarbonyl 4'-oxo-terpy trimer as a luminescent molecular vessel with a removable silver stopper. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 48 (27), pp.4965-4968. (10.1002/anie.200900981)
• Hallett, A. J. et al. 2009. Luminescent, water-soluble gold nanoparticles functionalised with 3MLCT emitting rhenium complexes. Chemical Communications (28), pp.4278-4280. (10.1039/b905692k)
• Jones, J. E. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. Sensitised near-IR lanthanide luminescence exploiting anthraquinone-derived chromophores: syntheses and spectroscopic properties. Dalton Transactions (39), pp.8421-8425. (10.1039/b913902h)
• Mullice, L. A. et al. 2009. The coordination chemistry of fluorescent pyridinyl- and quinolinyl-phthalimide ligands with the {Au-I-PPh3} cationic unit. Dalton Transactions (34), pp.6836-6842. (10.1039/b905123f)
• Thorp-Greenwood, F. L. et al. 2009. Syntheses, structural studies and spectroscopic characterisation of pyridyl-phthalimide complexes of fac-(CO)(3)Re-I-diimines. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 694 (9-10), pp.1400-1406. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2008.12.048)

2008

• Amoroso, A. J. et al. 2008. 3-Chloromethylpyridyl bipyridine fac-tricarbonyl rhenium: a thiol-reactive luminophore for fluorescence microscopy accumulates in mitochondria. New Journal of Chemistry 32 (7), pp.1097-1102. (10.1039/b802215a)
• Andrews, M. B. et al. 2008. Quinoxaline sensitised lanthanide ion luminescence: Syntheses, spectroscopy and X-ray crystal structure of Na{1,4,7-tris[(N-diethyl)carbamoylmethyl]-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane -10-(2-methylquinoxaline)}I-3 C7H8. Polyhedron 27 (11), pp.2365-2371. (10.1016/j.poly.2008.04.010)
• Baca, S. G. et al., 2008. Cyanide-bridged Os(II)/Ln(III) coordination networks containing [Os(phen)(CN)(4)](2-) as an energy donor: Structural and photophysical properties. Inorganic Chemistry 47 (9), pp.3736-3747. (10.1021/ic702353c)
• Felton, C. E. et al., 2008. A wavelength and lifetime responsive cryptate-containing fluorescent probe for zinc ions in water. Chemical Communications 2008 (46), pp.6185-6187. (10.1039/b813775g)
• Koullourou, T. et al., 2008. Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of a prototype single molecule dual imaging agent comprising a heterobimetallic rhenium-gadolinium complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society 130 (7), pp.2178-2179. (10.1021/ja710859p)
• Mullice, L. A. et al. 2008. Rhenium complexes of chromophore-appended dipicolylamine ligands: syntheses, spectroscopic properties, DNA binding and X-ray crystal structure. New Journal of Chemistry 32 (12), pp.2140-2149. (10.1039/b800999f)

2007

• Adams, C. J. et al., 2007. Synthesis, structures and properties of a new series of platinum-diimine-dithiolate complexes. Dalton Transactions 2007 (39), pp.4446-4456. (10.1039/b709252k)
• Amoroso, A. J. et al. 2007. Rhenium fac tricarbonyl bisimine complexes: biologically useful fluorochromes for cell imaging applications. Chemical Communications (29), pp.3066-3068. (10.1039/b706657k)
• Herrera, J. et al., 2007. Photophysical and Structural Properties of Cyanoruthenate Complexes of Hexaazatriphenylene. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (37), pp.11491-11504. (10.1021/ja072672w)
• Lazarides, T. et al., 2007. Anthracene as a sensitiser for near-infrared luminescence in complexes of Nd(iii), Er(iii) and Yb(iii): an unexpected sensitisation mechanism based on electron transfer. Dalton Transactions 2007 (15), pp.1484-1491. (10.1039/b700714k)
• Lazarides, T. et al., 2007. Ligand-field excited states of hexacyanochromate and hexacyanocobaltate as sensitisers for near-infrared luminescence from Nd(III) and Yb(III) in cyanide-bridged d–f assemblies. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 6 (11), pp.1152-1157. (10.1039/b708683k)
• Pope, S. J. A. 2007. Dual-emissive complexes: Visible and near-infrared luminescence from bis-pyrenyl lanthanide(III) complexes. Polyhedron 26 (17), pp.4818-4824. (10.1016/j.poly.2007.06.036)
• Ronson, T. K. et al., 2007. Polynuclear lanthanide complexes of a series of bridging ligands containing two tridentate N,N′,O-donor units: structures and luminescence properties. Dalton Transactions 2007 (10), pp.1006-1022. (10.1039/b618258e)
• Talbot-Eeckelaers, C. et al., 2007. Luminescence from Neptunyl(VI) Species in Solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (9), pp.2442-2443. (10.1021/ja068522n)

2006

• Herrera, J. et al., 2006. Structural and Photophysical Properties of Coordination Networks Combining [Ru(Bpym)(CN)4]2- or [{Ru(CN)4}2(μ-bpym)]4- Anions (bpym = 2,2‘-Bipyrimidine) with Lanthanide(III) Cations:  Sensitized Near-Infrared Luminescence from Yb(III), Nd(III), and Er(III) Following Ru-to-Lanthanide Energy Transfer. Inorganic Chemistry 45 (10), pp.3895-3904. (10.1021/ic0521574)
• Herrera, J. et al., 2006. Polynuclear cyanoruthenate chromophores based on hexaaza-triphenylene containing up to twelve cyanides: photophysical and structural properties. Chemical Communications 2006 (17), pp.1851-1853. (10.1039/b601876a)
• Pope, S. J. A. et al. 2006. Self-assembly of luminescent ternary complexes between seven-coordinate lanthanide(iii) complexes and chromophore bearing carboxylates and phosphonates. Dalton Transactions 2006 (23), pp.2907-2912. (10.1039/b600598e)
• Pope, S. J. A. and Laye, R. H. 2006. Design, synthesis and photophysical studies of an emissive, europium based, sensor for zinc. Dalton Transactions (25), pp.3108-3113. (10.1039/b605837j)
• Ronson, T. K. et al., 2006. Luminescent PtII(bipyridyl)(diacetylide) Chromophores with Pendant Binding Sites as Energy Donors for Sensitised Near-Infrared Emission from Lanthanides: Structures and Photophysics of PtII/LnIII Assemblies. Chemistry - a European Journal 12 (36), pp.9299-9313. (10.1002/chem.200600698)
• Sambrook, M. R. et al., 2006. Sensitised near infrared emission from lanthanides via anion-templated assembly of d–f heteronuclear [2]pseudorotaxanes [Letter]. New Journal of Chemistry 30 (8), pp.1133-1136. (10.1039/b601017b)
• Sénéchal-David, K. et al., 2006. Sensitized Near-Infrared Lanthanide Luminescence from Nd(III)- and Yb(III)-Based Cyclen−Ruthenium Coordination Conjugates. Inorganic Chemistry 45 (25), pp.10040-10042. (10.1021/ic061706i)

2005

• Bichenkova, E. V. et al., 2005. DNA Mismatch Detection by Resonance Energy Transfer between Ruthenium(II) and Osmium(II) Tris(2,2‘-bipyridyl) Chromophores. Inorganic Chemistry 44 (12), pp.4112-4114. (10.1021/ic050586w)
• Davies, G. M. et al., 2005. Photophysical properties of Pr(iii) and Er(iii) complexes of poly(pyrazolyl)borates. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 4 (10), pp.829-834. (10.1039/b508382f)
• Davies, G. M. et al., 2005. Structural and Photophysical Properties of Coordination Networks Combining [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2-Anions and Lanthanide(III) Cations: Rates of Photoinduced Ru-to-Lanthanide Energy Transfer and Sensitized Near-Infrared Luminescence. Inorganic Chemistry 44 (13), pp.4656-4665. (10.1021/ic050512k)
• Faulkner, S. , Pope, S. J. A. and Burton-Pye, B. P. 2005. Lanthanide Complexes for Luminescence Imaging Applications. Applied Spectroscopy Reviews 40 (1), pp.1-31. (10.1081/ASR-200038308)
• González-Lorenzo, M. et al., 2005. Structural and Photophysical Properties of Lathanide(III) Complexes with a Novel Octadentate Iminophenolate Bibracchial Lariat Ether. Inorganic Chemistry 44 (12), pp.4254-4262. (10.1021/ic048172a)
• Pope, S. J. A. et al. 2005. Metal-to-ligand charge-transfer sensitisation of near-infrared emitting lanthanides in trimetallic arrays M2Ln (M = Ru, Re or Os; Ln = Nd, Er or Yb). Dalton Transactions 2005 (8), pp.1482-1490. (10.1039/b500849b)

2004

• Adams, C. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2004. Diimine-Acetylide Compounds of Ruthenium: The Structural and Spectroscopic Effects of Oxidation. Inorganic Chemistry 43 (11), pp.3492-3499. (10.1021/ic035181v)
• Faulkner, S. et al., 2004. Pyrene-sensitised near-IR luminescence from ytterbium and neodymium complexes. Dalton Transactions 2004 (9), pp.1405-1409. (10.1039/b401302f)
• Miller, T. A. et al., 2004. Photoinduced Ru–Yb energy transfer and sensitised near-IR luminescence in a coordination polymer containing co-crystallised [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2− and Yb(III) units. Dalton Transactions 2004 (10), pp.1524-1526. (10.1039/b404820b)
• Pope, S. J. A. , Coe, B. J. and Faulkner, S. 2004. Re(i) sensitised near-infrared lanthanide luminescence from a hetero-trinuclear Re2Ln array. Chemical Communications 2004 (13), pp.1550-1551. (10.1039/b402270j)
• Pope, S. J. A. et al. 2004. Self-Assembly of Heterobimetallic d-f Hybrid Complexes: Sensitization of Lanthanide Luminescence by d-Block Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Excited States. Journal of the American Chemical Society 126 (31), pp.9490-9491. (10.1021/ja047523h)

2003

• Faulkner, S. and Pope, S. J. A. 2003. Lanthanide-Sensitized Lanthanide Luminescence: Terbium-Sensitized Ytterbium Luminescence in a Trinuclear Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society 125 (35), pp.10526-10527. (10.1021/ja035634v)
• Pope, S. J. A. et al. 2003. Synthesis and luminescence properties of a kinetically stable dinuclear ytterbium complex with differentiated binding sites. Chemical Communications 2003 (13), pp.1550-1551. (10.1039/b303012a)
• Pope, S. J. A. et al. 2003. Synthesis and luminescence properties of dinuclear lanthanide complexes derived from covalently linked macrocyclic ligands. Dalton Transactions 2003 (19), pp.3780-3784. (10.1039/b309115e)
• Shavaleev, N. M. et al., 2003. Sensitised near-infrared emission from lanthanides using a covalently-attached Pt(ii) fragment as an antenna group. Chemical Communications 2003 (10), pp.1134-1135. (10.1039/b301878d)
• Shavaleev, N. M. et al., 2003. Sensitized Near-Infrared Emission from Complexes of YbIII, NdIII and ErIII by Energy-Transfer from Covalently Attached PtII-Based Antenna Units. Chemistry - a European Journal 9 (21), pp.5283-5291. (10.1002/chem.200305132)
• Shavaleev, N. M. et al., 2003. Visible-light sensitisation of near-infrared luminescence from Yb(iii), Nd(iii) and Er(iii) complexes of 3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)tetrazine. Dalton Transactions 2003 (5), pp.808-814. (10.1039/b300294b)

2002

• Morales, A. F. et al., 2002. Interplay of Light Antenna and Excitation “Energy Reservoir” Effects in a Bichromophoric System Based on Ruthenium−Polypyridine and Pyrene Units Linked by a Long and Flexible Poly(ethylene glycol) Chain. Inorganic Chemistry 41 (25), pp.6711-6719. (10.1021/ic025811d)

2001

• Pope, S. J. A. et al. 2001. Folding of a poly(oxyethylene) chain as probed by photoinduced energy transfer between Ru– and Os–polypyridine termini. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions 2001 (15), pp.2228-2231. (10.1039/b104637n)

2000

• Heuer, B. , Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 2000. Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural characterisation of copper, silver and gold complexes of the mixed P/O-donor ligand Ph2P(CH2)2O(CH2)2O(CH2)2PPh2. Polyhedron 19 (7), pp.743-749. (10.1016/S0277-5387(00)00291-6)

1999

• Campbell, T. et al., 1999. Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural characterisation of chromium(0), molybdenum(0) and tungsten(0) complexes involving primary and secondary phosphines. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 592 (2), pp.296-305. (10.1016/S0022-328X(99)00570-7)
• Connolly, J. et al., 1999. Co(III) and Cr(III) complexes of diphosphadithia ligands and the crystal structure of [CoCl2(L3)]PF6·CH2Cl2 (L3=Ph2P(CH2)2S(o-C6H4)S(CH2)2PPh2). Polyhedron 18 (26), pp.3553-3558. (10.1016/S0277-5387(99)00285-5)
• Connolly, J. et al., 1999. Cationic manganese(I) tricarbonyl complexes with group 15 and 16 donor ligands: synthesis, multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and crystal structures. Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton Transactions 1999 (14), pp.2343-2352. (10.1039/a902820j)
• Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 1999. Phosphine, arsine and stibine complexes of manganese(I) carbonyl halides: synthesis, multinuclear NMR spectroscopic studies, redox properties and crystal structures. Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton Transactions 1999 (10), pp.1615-1622. (10.1039/a900875f)

1998

• Connolly, J. et al., 1998. Pd(II) and Pt(II) complexes with chalcogenide derivatized phosphathia ligands. Polyhedron 17 (13-14), pp.2331-2336. (10.1016/S0277-5387(97)00508-1)
• Davies, S. C. et al., 1998. Synthesis, spectroscopic and EXAFS studies of vanadium complexes of trithioether ligands and crystal structures of [VCl3([9]aneS3)] and [VI2(thf )([9]aneS3)] ([9]aneS3 = 1,4,7-trithiacyclononane). Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton Transactions 1998 (13), pp.2191-2198. (10.1039/a802404i)
• Patel, B. , Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 1998. Rhodium complexes with secondary phosphine and phosphinite ligands and the crystal structures of [(PPh2OH)2(PPh2O)Rh(μ-Cl)3Rh(PPh2OH)(PPh2O)2] and [(PPh2OH)(PPh2O)Cl(NCMe)Rh(μ-Cl)2Rh(PPh2OH)(PPh2O)Cl(NCMe)] · 2thf. Polyhedron 17 (13-14), pp.2345-2351. (10.1016/S0277-5387(97)00460-9)

1995

• Pope, S. J. A. and West, Y. D. 1995. Comparison of the FT Raman spectra of inorganic tetrahedral ions over the temperature range 77 to 473 K. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 51 (12), pp.2027-2037. (10.1016/0584-8539(95)01509-1)
• Pope, S. J. A. and West, Y. D. 1995. Use of the FT Raman spectrum of Na2MoO4 to study sample heating by the laser. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 51 (12), pp.2011-2017. (10.1016/0584-8539(95)01470-X)