Professor Simon Pope
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Director of PGR
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
- luminescent complexes for targeted biological imaging
- photoactive materials for lighting harvesting and energy applications
- earth abundant metal complexes for energy applications
- development of carbon nanomaterials
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Publication
2025
- Ibbott, A. R., Miquel Fosco, P., Alenazy, D. M. and Pope, S. J. 2025. Luminescent Ru(II) complexes based on functionalised 1,10-phenanthroline derivatised ligands towards bioconjugated probes. Inorganica Chimica Acta 579, article number: 122561. (10.1016/j.ica.2025.122561)
2024
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- Fitzgerald, S. A., Payce, E. N., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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), article number: e202300102. (10.1002/ejic.202300102)
- Young, T. B. et al. 2023. Chemically recyclable fluorescent polyesters via the ring-opening copolymerization of epoxides and anhydrides. Polymer Chemistry (10.1039/D3PY00209H)
- Fenn, G. D., Alenazy, D. M., Pope, S., Lloyd-Evans, E. and Waller-Evans, H. 2023. Development of a novel anthraquinone-derived fluorescent lysosomal probe. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 138(2), article number: 107097. (10.1016/j.ymgme.2022.107097)
2022
- Fitzgerald, S. A. et al. 2022. Organometallic platinum(ii) photosensitisers that demonstrate ligand‐modulated triplet‐triplet annihilation energy upconversion efficiencies. Chemistry - A European Journal, article number: e202203241. (10.1002/chem.202203241)
- Bonello, R. O., Pitak, M. B., Tizzard, G. J., Coles, S. J., Fallis, I. A. and Pope, S. J. 2022. Aryl, bi-functionalised imidazo[4,5-f]-1,10-phenanthroline ligands and their luminescent rhenium(I) complexes. Polyhedron 228, article number: 116179. (10.1016/j.poly.2022.116179)
- Al-Riyahee, A. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J., Amoroso, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2022. Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes of functionalised thiosemicarbazone ligands: Syntheses and reactivity, characterization and structural studies. Polyhedron 225, article number: 116079. (10.1016/j.poly.2022.116079)
- Sawicka, N., Craze, C. J., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J., Richards, E. and Pope, S. J. A. 2022. Long-lived, near-IR emission from Cr(iii) under ambient conditions. Chemical Communications 58(38), pp. 5733-5736. (10.1039/D2CC01434C)
- Al-Riyahee, A. A. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J., Berry, C., Horrocks, P. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Amoroso, A. J. 2022. N,N′-Substituted thioureas and their metal complexes: syntheses, structures and electronic properties. Dalton Transactions 51(9), pp. 3531-3545. (10.1039/D1DT04091J)
2021
- Otaif, H. Y., Adams, S. J., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J., Beames, J. M. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Díaz-Ortega, I. F., Fernández-Barbosa, E. L., Titos-Padilla, S., Pope, S. J. A., Jiménez, J., Colacio, E. and Herrera, J. M. 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)
- 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
- Spencer, J., Merrikin, D., Pope, S., Morgan, D., Carthey, N. and Murphy, D. 2020. CW EPR investigation of red-emitting CaS:Eu phosphors: rationalization of local electronic structure. Advanced Optical Materials 8(22), article number: 2001241. (10.1002/adom.202001241)
- Harding, L. P., McRobbie, A. A. T., Riis-Johannessen, T., Pope, S. J. A., Rice, C. R., Rollinson, D. and Whitehead, M. 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)
- 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), article number: 4952. (10.1039/D0CE90092C)
- 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, article number: 108167. (10.1016/j.dyepig.2019.108167)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
2019
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Al-Riyahee, A. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J., Amoroso, A. J. and Pope, S. J. 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)
2018
- Soltani, Y., Adams, S. J., Boerger, J., Wilkins, L. C., Newman, P. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Melen, R. L. 2018. Synthesis and photophysical properties of imine borane adducts towards vapochromic materials. Dalton Transactions 47(36), pp. 12656-12660. (10.1039/C8DT03019G)
- Groves, L. M., Ward, B. D., Newman, P. D., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2018. Synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent aminophosphines and their coordination to gold(i). Dalton Transactions 47(28), pp. 9324-9333. (10.1039/C8DT02256A)
- 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)
- 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)
2017
- Carter, K. P., Pope, S. J. A., Kalaj, M., Holmberg, R. J., Murugesu, M. and Cahill, C. L. 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)
- 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), article number: e1700192. (10.1002/hlca.201700192)
- Cudré, Y., Franco de Carvalho, F., Burgess, G. R., Male, L., Pope, S. J. A., Tavernelli, I. and Baranoff, E. 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)
- 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)
- Bonello, R. O., Pitak, M. B., Coles, S. J., Hallett, A. J., Fallis, I. A. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Pope, S. J. A., Langdon-Jones, E., Jones, A., Williams, C. F., Hayes, A. J., Lloyd, D. and Mottram, H. J. 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
- Jiménez, J., Díaz-Ortega, I. F., Ruiz, E., Aravena, D., Pope, S. J. A., Colacio, E. and Herrera, J. M. 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)
- Jiménez, J., Díaz-Ortega, I. F., Ruiz, E., Aravena, D., Pope, S. J. A., Colacio, E. and Herrera, J. M. 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)
- Carter, K. P., Thomas, K. E., Pope, S. J. A., Holmberg, R. J., Butcher, R. J., Murugesu, M. and Cahill, C. L. 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)
- Stacey, O. J., Ward, B. D., Coles, S. J., Horton, P. N. and Pope, S. J. A. 2016. Chromophore-labelled, luminescent platinum complexes: syntheses, structures, and spectroscopic properties. Dalton Transactions 45, pp. 10297-10307. (10.1039/C6DT01335J)
- Bennett, S. D., Pope, S. J. A., Jenkins, R. L. and Ward, B. D. 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)
- Stacey, O. J., Ward, B. D., Amoroso, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2016. Near-IR luminescent lanthanide complexes with 1,8-diaminoanthraquinone-based chromophoric ligands. Dalton Transactions 45(15), pp. 6674-6681. (10.1039/C5DT04351D)
- Lowe, J. A., Stacey, O. J., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
2015
- Carter, K. P., Zulato, C. H. F., Rodrigues, E. M., Pope, S. J. A., Sigoli, F. A. and Cahill, C. L. 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Langdon-Jones, E. E. et al. 2015. Alkynyl-naphthalimide fluorophores: gold coordination chemistry and cellular imaging applications. Inorganic Chemistry 54(13), pp. 6606-6615., article number: 150618152106000. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00954)
- 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)
- 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)
2014
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Taylor, R. G. D., Yeo, B. R., Hallett, A. J., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 2014. An organometallic complex revealing an unexpected, reversible, temperature induced SC-SC transformation. Crystengcomm 16(21), pp. 4641-4652. (10.1039/c4ce00070f)
- 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)
- 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)
- Ruiz, J., Lorusso, G., Evangelisti, M., Brechin, E. K., Pope, S. J. A. and Colacio, E. 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)
- 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)
- Hallett, A. J., Broomfield, M., Christian, P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Bennett, S. D., Core, B. A., Blake, M. P., Pope, S. J. A., Mountford, P. and Ward, B. D. 2014. Chiral lanthanide complexes: coordination chemistry, spectroscopy, and catalysis. Dalton Transactions 43(15), pp. 5871-5885. (10.1039/c4dt00114a)
- Palacios, M. A., Titos-Padilla, S., Ruiz, J., Herrera, J. M., Pope, S. J. A., Brechin, E. K. and Colacio, E. 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)
- 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)
- Bonello, R. O., Morgan, I. R., Yeo, B. R., Jones, L. E. J., Kariuki, B., Fallis, I. A. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
2013
- 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)
- El-Betany, A. M., Vachova, L., Bezzu, C. G., Pope, S. J. A. and McKeown, N. B. 2013. The synthesis and study of fluorescent PAMAM-based dendritic molecules. Tetrahedron 69(39), pp. 8439-8445. (10.1016/j.tet.2013.07.054)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Titos-Padilla, S., Colacio, E., Pope, S. J. A., Delgado, J. J., Melgosa, M. and Herrera, J. M. 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)
- 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)
- Thangavelu, S. G., Andrews, M. B., Pope, S. J. A. and Cahill, C. L. 2013. Synthesis, Structures, and Luminescent Properties of Uranyl Terpyridine Aromatic Carboxylate Coordination Polymers. Inorganic Chemistry 52(4), pp. 2060-2069. (10.1021/ic3024698)
- Mughal, S., Bezzu, C. G., Carter, E., Pope, S. J. A. and McKeown, N. B. 2013. The tetratriptycenoporphyrazines revisited. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 17(08n09), pp. 778-784. (10.1142/S1088424613500351)
2012
- 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)
- 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)
- Balasingham, R., Williams, C. F., Mottram, H. J., Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Mullice, L. A., Mottram, H. J., Hallett, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Jones, J. E., Jenkins, R. L., Hicks, R. S., Hallett, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Balasingham, R. G., Thorp-Greenwood, F. L., Williams, C. F., Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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., Harding, L. P., Jones, J. E., Pope, S. J. A., Rice, C. R. and Adams, H. 2012. Probing solution behaviour of metallosupramolecular complexes using pyrene fluorescence. Dalton Transactions 41(5), pp. 1568-1573. (10.1039/c1dt11831e)
- 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)
2011
- 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)
- Jones, J. E., Kariuki, B., Ward, B. D. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Jones, J. E., Amoroso, A. J., Dorin, I. M., Parigi, G., Ward, B. D., Buurma, N. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Andrews, M., Jones, J. E., Harding, L. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Hardwick, H. C., Royal, D. S., Helliwell, M., Pope, S. J. A., Ashton, L., Goodacre, R. and Sharrad, C. A. 2011. Structural, spectroscopic and redox properties of uranyl complexes with a maleonitrile containing ligand. Dalton Transactions 40(22), pp. 5939-5952. (10.1039/c0dt01580f)
- 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)
- Carcedo, C., Knight, J. C., Pope, S. J. A., Fallis, I. A. and Dervisi, A. 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)
2010
- Hallett, A. J., Ward, B. D., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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., Hallett, A. J., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Yeo, B. R., Hallett, A. J., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Andrews, M., Amoroso, A. J., Harding, L. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Perry, W. S., Pope, S. J. A., Allain, C., Coe, B. J., Kenwright, A. M. and Faulkner, S. 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)
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)
- 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)
- Coogan, M. P., Fernandez-Moreira, V., Hess, J. B., Pope, S. J. A. and Williams, C. 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., Fernandez-Moreira, V., Kariuki, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Thorp-Greenwood, F. L. 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)
- Mullice, L. A., Thorp-Greenwood, F. L., Laye, R. H., Coogan, M. P., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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., Coogan, M. P., Hallett, A. J., Laye, R. H. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Andrews, M. B., Ward, B. D., Laye, R. A., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Hallett, A. J., Christian, P., Jones, J. E. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. Luminescent, water-soluble gold nanoparticles functionalised with 3MLCT emitting rhenium complexes. Chemical Communications(28), pp. 4278-4280. (10.1039/b905692k)
- 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)
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., Laye, R. H., Harding, L. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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., Pope, S. J. A., Adams, H. and Ward, M. D. 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., Harding, L. P., Jones, J. E., Kariuki, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Rice, C. R. 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)
- Mullice, L. A., Laye, R. H., Harding, L. P., Buurma, N. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
2007
- 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)
- 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)
- Adams, C. J., Fey, N., Parfitt, M., Pope, S. J. A. and Weinstein, J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Ronson, T. K., Adams, H., Harding, L. P., Pope, S. J. A., Sykes, D., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- Lazarides, T., Alamiry, M. A. H., Adams, H., Pope, S. J. A., Faulkner, S., Weinstein, J. A. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- 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)
2006
- 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)
- Sénéchal-David, K., Pope, S. J. A., Quinn, S., Faulkner, S. and Gunnlaugsson, T. 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)
- 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)
- Sambrook, M. R., Curiel, D., Hayes, E. J., Beer, P. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Pope, S. J. A., Burton-Pye, B. P., Berridge, R., Khan, T., Skabara, P. J. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Herrera, J., Pope, S. J. A., Adams, H., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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., Ward, M. D., Adams, H., Pope, S. J. A. and Faulkner, S. 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)
2005
- Davies, G. M., Adams, H., Pope, S. J. A., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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., Pope, S. J. A., Adams, H., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- 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)
- González-Lorenzo, M., Platas-Iglesias, C., Avecilla, F., Faulkner, S., Pope, S. J. A., de Blas, A. and Rodríguez-Blas, T. 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., Coe, B. J., Faulkner, S. and Laye, R. H. 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)
- 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)
2004
- Pope, S. J. A., Coe, B. J., Faulkner, S., Bichenkova, E. V., Yu, X. and Douglas, K. T. 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Miller, T. A., Jeffery, J. C., Ward, M. D., Adams, H., Pope, S. J. A. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Faulkner, S., Carrié, M., Pope, S. J. A., Squire, J., Beeby, A. and Sammes, P. G. 2004. Pyrene-sensitised near-IR luminescence from ytterbium and neodymium complexes. Dalton Transactions 2004(9), pp. 1405-1409. (10.1039/b401302f)
2003
- Shavaleev, N. M., Moorcraft, L. P., Pope, S. J. A., Bell, Z. R., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- 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., Kenwright, A. M., Boote, V. A. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Pope, S. . J. A., Kenwright, A. M., Heath, S. L. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Shavaleev, N. M., Moorcraft, L. P., Pope, S. . J. A., Bell, Z. R., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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., Pope, S. J. A., Bell, Z. R., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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., Accorsi, G., Armaroli, N., Barigelletti, F., Pope, S. J. A. and Ward, M. D. 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., Rice, C. R., Ward, M. D., Morales, A. F., Accorsi, G., Armaroli, N. and Barigelletti, F. 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., Gibson, A. M., Hart, R., Orchard, S. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 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., Forder, R. J., Goodban, G. W., Pope, S. J. A., Predel, M. and Reid, G. 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)
- 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)
- Connolly, J., Genge, A. R. J., Levason, W., Orchard, S. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 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)
1998
- 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)
- Connolly, J., Genge, A. R. J., Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 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)
- 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. 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)
- 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)
Articles
- Ibbott, A. R., Miquel Fosco, P., Alenazy, D. M. and Pope, S. J. 2025. Luminescent Ru(II) complexes based on functionalised 1,10-phenanthroline derivatised ligands towards bioconjugated probes. Inorganica Chimica Acta 579, article number: 122561. (10.1016/j.ica.2025.122561)
- 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)
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- 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)
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- Al-Riyahee, A. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J., Amoroso, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2022. Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes of functionalised thiosemicarbazone ligands: Syntheses and reactivity, characterization and structural studies. Polyhedron 225, article number: 116079. (10.1016/j.poly.2022.116079)
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- Al-Riyahee, A. A. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J., Berry, C., Horrocks, P. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Amoroso, A. J. 2022. N,N′-Substituted thioureas and their metal complexes: syntheses, structures and electronic properties. Dalton Transactions 51(9), pp. 3531-3545. (10.1039/D1DT04091J)
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- Díaz-Ortega, I. F., Fernández-Barbosa, E. L., Titos-Padilla, S., Pope, S. J. A., Jiménez, J., Colacio, E. and Herrera, J. M. 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)
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- Spencer, J., Merrikin, D., Pope, S., Morgan, D., Carthey, N. and Murphy, D. 2020. CW EPR investigation of red-emitting CaS:Eu phosphors: rationalization of local electronic structure. Advanced Optical Materials 8(22), article number: 2001241. (10.1002/adom.202001241)
- Harding, L. P., McRobbie, A. A. T., Riis-Johannessen, T., Pope, S. J. A., Rice, C. R., Rollinson, D. and Whitehead, M. 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)
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- Al-Riyahee, A. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J., Amoroso, A. J. and Pope, S. J. 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)
- Soltani, Y., Adams, S. J., Boerger, J., Wilkins, L. C., Newman, P. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Melen, R. L. 2018. Synthesis and photophysical properties of imine borane adducts towards vapochromic materials. Dalton Transactions 47(36), pp. 12656-12660. (10.1039/C8DT03019G)
- Groves, L. M., Ward, B. D., Newman, P. D., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2018. Synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent aminophosphines and their coordination to gold(i). Dalton Transactions 47(28), pp. 9324-9333. (10.1039/C8DT02256A)
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- Carter, K. P., Pope, S. J. A., Kalaj, M., Holmberg, R. J., Murugesu, M. and Cahill, C. L. 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)
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- Cudré, Y., Franco de Carvalho, F., Burgess, G. R., Male, L., Pope, S. J. A., Tavernelli, I. and Baranoff, E. 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)
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- 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)
- Pope, S. J. A., Langdon-Jones, E., Jones, A., Williams, C. F., Hayes, A. J., Lloyd, D. and Mottram, H. J. 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)
- Jiménez, J., Díaz-Ortega, I. F., Ruiz, E., Aravena, D., Pope, S. J. A., Colacio, E. and Herrera, J. M. 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)
- Jiménez, J., Díaz-Ortega, I. F., Ruiz, E., Aravena, D., Pope, S. J. A., Colacio, E. and Herrera, J. M. 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)
- Carter, K. P., Thomas, K. E., Pope, S. J. A., Holmberg, R. J., Butcher, R. J., Murugesu, M. and Cahill, C. L. 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)
- Stacey, O. J., Ward, B. D., Coles, S. J., Horton, P. N. and Pope, S. J. A. 2016. Chromophore-labelled, luminescent platinum complexes: syntheses, structures, and spectroscopic properties. Dalton Transactions 45, pp. 10297-10307. (10.1039/C6DT01335J)
- Bennett, S. D., Pope, S. J. A., Jenkins, R. L. and Ward, B. D. 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)
- Stacey, O. J., Ward, B. D., Amoroso, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 2016. Near-IR luminescent lanthanide complexes with 1,8-diaminoanthraquinone-based chromophoric ligands. Dalton Transactions 45(15), pp. 6674-6681. (10.1039/C5DT04351D)
- Lowe, J. A., Stacey, O. J., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Carter, K. P., Zulato, C. H. F., Rodrigues, E. M., Pope, S. J. A., Sigoli, F. A. and Cahill, C. L. 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)
- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
- 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)
- Taylor, R. G. D., Yeo, B. R., Hallett, A. J., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 2014. An organometallic complex revealing an unexpected, reversible, temperature induced SC-SC transformation. Crystengcomm 16(21), pp. 4641-4652. (10.1039/c4ce00070f)
- 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)
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- Ruiz, J., Lorusso, G., Evangelisti, M., Brechin, E. K., Pope, S. J. A. and Colacio, E. 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)
- 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)
- Hallett, A. J., Broomfield, M., Christian, P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Bennett, S. D., Core, B. A., Blake, M. P., Pope, S. J. A., Mountford, P. and Ward, B. D. 2014. Chiral lanthanide complexes: coordination chemistry, spectroscopy, and catalysis. Dalton Transactions 43(15), pp. 5871-5885. (10.1039/c4dt00114a)
- Palacios, M. A., Titos-Padilla, S., Ruiz, J., Herrera, J. M., Pope, S. J. A., Brechin, E. K. and Colacio, E. 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)
- 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)
- Bonello, R. O., Morgan, I. R., Yeo, B. R., Jones, L. E. J., Kariuki, B., Fallis, I. A. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- El-Betany, A. M., Vachova, L., Bezzu, C. G., Pope, S. J. A. and McKeown, N. B. 2013. The synthesis and study of fluorescent PAMAM-based dendritic molecules. Tetrahedron 69(39), pp. 8439-8445. (10.1016/j.tet.2013.07.054)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Titos-Padilla, S., Colacio, E., Pope, S. J. A., Delgado, J. J., Melgosa, M. and Herrera, J. M. 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)
- 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)
- Thangavelu, S. G., Andrews, M. B., Pope, S. J. A. and Cahill, C. L. 2013. Synthesis, Structures, and Luminescent Properties of Uranyl Terpyridine Aromatic Carboxylate Coordination Polymers. Inorganic Chemistry 52(4), pp. 2060-2069. (10.1021/ic3024698)
- Mughal, S., Bezzu, C. G., Carter, E., Pope, S. J. A. and McKeown, N. B. 2013. The tetratriptycenoporphyrazines revisited. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 17(08n09), pp. 778-784. (10.1142/S1088424613500351)
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- 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)
- Balasingham, R., Williams, C. F., Mottram, H. J., Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Mullice, L. A., Mottram, H. J., Hallett, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Jones, J. E., Jenkins, R. L., Hicks, R. S., Hallett, A. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Balasingham, R. G., Thorp-Greenwood, F. L., Williams, C. F., Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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., Harding, L. P., Jones, J. E., Pope, S. J. A., Rice, C. R. and Adams, H. 2012. Probing solution behaviour of metallosupramolecular complexes using pyrene fluorescence. Dalton Transactions 41(5), pp. 1568-1573. (10.1039/c1dt11831e)
- 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)
- Jones, J. E., Kariuki, B., Ward, B. D. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Jones, J. E., Amoroso, A. J., Dorin, I. M., Parigi, G., Ward, B. D., Buurma, N. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Andrews, M., Jones, J. E., Harding, L. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Hardwick, H. C., Royal, D. S., Helliwell, M., Pope, S. J. A., Ashton, L., Goodacre, R. and Sharrad, C. A. 2011. Structural, spectroscopic and redox properties of uranyl complexes with a maleonitrile containing ligand. Dalton Transactions 40(22), pp. 5939-5952. (10.1039/c0dt01580f)
- 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)
- Carcedo, C., Knight, J. C., Pope, S. J. A., Fallis, I. A. and Dervisi, A. 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., Ward, B. D., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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., Hallett, A. J., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Yeo, B. R., Hallett, A. J., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Andrews, M., Amoroso, A. J., Harding, L. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Perry, W. S., Pope, S. J. A., Allain, C., Coe, B. J., Kenwright, A. M. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Coogan, M. P., Fernandez-Moreira, V., Hess, J. B., Pope, S. J. A. and Williams, C. 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., Fernandez-Moreira, V., Kariuki, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Thorp-Greenwood, F. L. 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)
- Mullice, L. A., Thorp-Greenwood, F. L., Laye, R. H., Coogan, M. P., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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., Coogan, M. P., Hallett, A. J., Laye, R. H. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Andrews, M. B., Ward, B. D., Laye, R. A., Kariuki, B. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Hallett, A. J., Christian, P., Jones, J. E. and Pope, S. J. A. 2009. Luminescent, water-soluble gold nanoparticles functionalised with 3MLCT emitting rhenium complexes. Chemical Communications(28), pp. 4278-4280. (10.1039/b905692k)
- 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)
- 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., Laye, R. H., Harding, L. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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., Pope, S. J. A., Adams, H. and Ward, M. D. 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., Harding, L. P., Jones, J. E., Kariuki, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Rice, C. R. 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)
- Mullice, L. A., Laye, R. H., Harding, L. P., Buurma, N. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Adams, C. J., Fey, N., Parfitt, M., Pope, S. J. A. and Weinstein, J. A. 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)
- 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)
- Ronson, T. K., Adams, H., Harding, L. P., Pope, S. J. A., Sykes, D., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- Lazarides, T., Alamiry, M. A. H., Adams, H., Pope, S. J. A., Faulkner, S., Weinstein, J. A. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- 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. 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)
- Sénéchal-David, K., Pope, S. J. A., Quinn, S., Faulkner, S. and Gunnlaugsson, T. 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)
- 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)
- Sambrook, M. R., Curiel, D., Hayes, E. J., Beer, P. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Pope, S. J. A., Burton-Pye, B. P., Berridge, R., Khan, T., Skabara, P. J. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Herrera, J., Pope, S. J. A., Adams, H., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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., Ward, M. D., Adams, H., Pope, S. J. A. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Davies, G. M., Adams, H., Pope, S. J. A., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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., Pope, S. J. A., Adams, H., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- 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)
- González-Lorenzo, M., Platas-Iglesias, C., Avecilla, F., Faulkner, S., Pope, S. J. A., de Blas, A. and Rodríguez-Blas, T. 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., Coe, B. J., Faulkner, S. and Laye, R. H. 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)
- 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)
- Pope, S. J. A., Coe, B. J., Faulkner, S., Bichenkova, E. V., Yu, X. and Douglas, K. T. 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Miller, T. A., Jeffery, J. C., Ward, M. D., Adams, H., Pope, S. J. A. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Faulkner, S., Carrié, M., Pope, S. J. A., Squire, J., Beeby, A. and Sammes, P. G. 2004. Pyrene-sensitised near-IR luminescence from ytterbium and neodymium complexes. Dalton Transactions 2004(9), pp. 1405-1409. (10.1039/b401302f)
- Shavaleev, N. M., Moorcraft, L. P., Pope, S. J. A., Bell, Z. R., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- 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., Kenwright, A. M., Boote, V. A. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Pope, S. . J. A., Kenwright, A. M., Heath, S. L. and Faulkner, S. 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)
- Shavaleev, N. M., Moorcraft, L. P., Pope, S. . J. A., Bell, Z. R., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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., Pope, S. J. A., Bell, Z. R., Faulkner, S. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- Morales, A. F., Accorsi, G., Armaroli, N., Barigelletti, F., Pope, S. J. A. and Ward, M. D. 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)
- Pope, S. J. A., Rice, C. R., Ward, M. D., Morales, A. F., Accorsi, G., Armaroli, N. and Barigelletti, F. 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)
- 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)
- Campbell, T., Gibson, A. M., Hart, R., Orchard, S. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 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., Forder, R. J., Goodban, G. W., Pope, S. J. A., Predel, M. and Reid, G. 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)
- 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)
- Connolly, J., Genge, A. R. J., Levason, W., Orchard, S. D., Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 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)
- 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)
- Connolly, J., Genge, A. R. J., Pope, S. J. A. and Reid, G. 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
Book sections
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Balasingham, R., Williams, C. F., Mottram, H. J., Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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., Thorp-Greenwood, F. L., Williams, C. F., Coogan, M. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Jones, J. E., Amoroso, A. J., Dorin, I. M., Parigi, G., Ward, B. D., Buurma, N. J. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Andrews, M., Jones, J. E., Harding, L. P. and Pope, S. J. A. 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)
- Coogan, M. P., Fernandez-Moreira, V., Kariuki, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Thorp-Greenwood, F. L. 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)
- Felton, C. E., Harding, L. P., Jones, J. E., Kariuki, B., Pope, S. J. A. and Rice, C. R. 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)
Research
- luminescent complexes for targeted biological imaging
- photoactive materials for lighting harvesting and energy applications
- earth abundant metal complexes for sustainable energy applications
- development of carbon nanomaterials
All of the work undertaken in our group involves a wide variety of organic and inorganic synthetic chemistry with a strong emphasis on spectroscopic characterisation. Our recent work has investigated new ligand frameworks for luminescent chromium(III), rhenium(I), iridium(III), platinum(II) and gold(I) complexes, as well as lanthanide based systems. We have developed metal complexes that have useful applications in bioimaging and are interested in the targeted behaviour and design of such systems, including the use of signal peptides.
We also develop metal complexes for high efficiency energy upconversion performance, which has broad application to photocatalysis and solar cell technologies. We are also actively pursuing the development of doped and surface functionalised nanoparticles for a range of materials applications. Recent work has described the surface chemistry of nanodiamonds to produce luminescent hybrid materials.
See 'Publications' tab for a full list of our recent research activity and outputs.
We collaborate widely and are always looking to develop new partnerships with academics and industry.
For more information on specific projects available with Professor Simon Pope please review the Molecular synthesis section of our research project themes.
Teaching
CH5208 Applications of Molecular Spectroscopy (Module Leader)
CH5202 Structure, Bonding and Reactivity in Compounds of the p- and d-block Elements
CH3307 Advanced Spectroscopy and Diffraction
CH3403/CHT237 Bioimaging Applications of Coordination Compounds (Module Leader)
Biography
BSc and PhD University of Southampton (2000, supervisor Prof Gillian Reid).
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Bristol (2000-2, Prof Michael D. Ward).
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester (2002-6, supervisor Prof Stephen Faulkner).
Appointed as Lecturer, Cardiff, in 2006; promoted to Personal Chair in 2017.
Supervisions
- design, synthesis and characterisation of luminescent molecules
- photoactive materials for energy applications (photoredox, light harvesting, energy upconversion)
- development of molecular probes for biosensors and bioimaging
- functionalised carbon nanomaterials (carbon dots, nanodiamonds)
I welcome applications from self-funded postgraduate students. Please contact me to discuss potential PhD project ideas that are of interest to you and your funders..
Current supervision

Deemah Alenazy

Emily Judd-Cooper
Ibrahim Saleh Alkhaibari Alkhaibari

Allie Ibbott

Ben Christie

Basheer Alrashidi
Past projects
Examples of previous PhD thesis titles from the group:
- "Design and synthesis of luminescent probes aimed at biologically important targets"
- "Tuning the photophysics of Ir(III) and Pt(II) complexes by synthetic modification of quinoxaline ligands"
- "Developoment of new DNA-binding Sensitisers for biosensors"
- "A spectroscopic investigation of Cr(III) complexes"
- "Fluorescent nanodiamond: bioengineered functional materials"
- "Red emitting iridium(III) and rhenium(I) complexes developed for photonic applications"
- "Luminescent and electrochemical probes based on Au(I), Ir(III) and Fe(II) coordination complexes for bioimaging, diagnostics and therapeutics"
- "Element specific smart media for fast, low cost, radionuclide analysis"
- "Amphiphilic ligand architectures for s-, d- and f-block metallosurfactants towards micellar systems and microemulsions"
- "Development of luminescent iridium(III) and rhenium(I) complexes for optoelectronic applications"
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Inorganic chemistry