People in the Department
 

Dr Mark R J Elsegood

Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry & Co-Editor Acta Cryst. C
BSc. PhD. University College London
Telephone: +44 (0) 1509 228751
E-mail: M.R.J.Elsegood@lboro.ac.uk

Current Research Interests

  1. Supramolecular chemistry of hydrogen-bonded and π···π bonded systems.
  2. Benzene-, pyridine-, and pyrazinepolycarboxylic acid systems.
  3. Linking metal-bound carboxylate complexes with boronic acids.
  4. Ruthenium arene and other transition metal-based supramolecular arrays.

 

External Academic Collaborations

  • Dr. Carl Redshaw, UEA, UK. Metallocalixarenes, zinc and aluminium clusters for hydrogen storage, ethylene polymerisation, metal organic frameworks.
  • Dr. Jon P. Hill, NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan. Organic electronic materials, porphyrin chemistry, liquid crystal pre-cursors.
  • Prof. Stephen M. Allin, Keele, UK. Anthracene-based organic electronic materials.
  • Prof. Takehiko Yamato, Saga University, Japan. Calixarenes as sensors, blue-emitting organic electronic materials for displays.
  • Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Applied Chemistry Research Centre, PCSIR Laboratories Complex, Lahore 5400, Pakistan. Structural chemistry of natural products. 

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Current PhD Students:

  • Simon Sharp (2009- joint with Dr. Martin B. Smith).

 

Former PhD Students:

  • Dr. Noelia Sanchez-Ballester (2006-2010), JSPS Fellow with Dr. Jon P. Hill, NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan
  • Dr. Andrew J. Lake (2006-2010), PDRA, Materials Dept. Loughborough University
  • Dr. Kathryn E. Holmes (2001-2003), now working for Pepsico.
  • Dr. Sophie H. Dale (2002-2004), now working at the University of Nottingham.

Teaching

  • CMF002: Chemistry 2, 5 lectures.
  • CMA005: Stoichiometry and Analytical Measurements, 7 lectures.
  • CMA007: Concepts in Main Group Chemistry, 8 lectures.
  • CMB005: Inorganic Structure Determination, 5 lectures, Internal Examiner.
  • CMD111: Inorganic Option A - Practical Aspects of X-ray Crystallography, 9 lectures, Internal Examiner.
  • CMD112: Inorganic Option B - 1 lecture, Internal Examiner.
  • CMC009/CMC015: Dissertation 1 & Project 1.
  • CMD001: Project 2.

Administration

  • Secretary to Staff-student Committee.
  • Radiation Protection Advisor for sealed beam sources in Chemistry.
  • Manager of Small Molecule Structure Determination PC Suite
  • Safety Officer for X-ray laboratory.
  • Member of Department Operations Committee.

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List of Publications since 2000

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At Nov 2011

375 publications
Citations (without self-citation): 5109
h-index: 37

 

Selected Publications:

1. Sophie, H. Dale and Mark R.J. Elsegood. Acta Crystallogr., C59, (2003), m475-m477. Poly[sodium(I)-h6-hydrogen benzene-1,4-dicarboxylato].

2. Sophie H. Dale, Mark R.J. Elsegood and Sarita Kainth. Acta Crystallogr., C59, (2003), m505-m508. Group two metal salts of pyromellitic acid: [Mg(H2O)6](C10H4O8) and [Ba(C10H4O8)(H2O)5].

3. Sophie H. Dale and Mark R.J. Elsegood. Acta Crystallogr., C59, (2003), m540-m542. {[Ca5(C8H4O4)5(H2O)9]·8H2O}n: the first crystallographically characterised non-transition metal salt of isophthalic acid.

4. Sophie H. Dale and Mark R.J. Elsegood & Sarita Kainth. Acta Crystallogr., C60, (2004), m76-m78. Poly[lead(II)-m2-aqua-m4-terephthlato].

5. Sophie H. Dale, Mark R.J. Elsegood, and Simon J. Richards. Chem. Commun., (2004), 1278-1279. Step-wise dis-assembly of trimesic acid: Mono and bis(methanol) solvates.

6. Sophie H. Dale and Mark R.J. Elsegood. Acta Crystallogr. C60, (2004), o444-o448. Hydrogen-bonding adducts of benzenepolycarboxylic acids with N,N-dimethylformamide: benzene-1,4-dicarboxylic acid N,N-dimethylformamide disolvate, benzene-1,2,4,5-tetracarboxylic acid N,N-dimethylformamide tetrasolvate and benzene-1,2,3-tricarboxylic acid N,N-dimethylformamide disolvate monohydrate.

7. Sophie H. Dale, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Matthew Hemmings, and Alexandra L. Wilkinson. CrystEngComm, 6, (2004), 207-214. The co-crystallisation of pyridine with benzenepolycarboxylic acids: the interplay of strong and weak hydrogen bonding motifs.

8. Sophie H. Dale, Mark R. J. Elsegood, and Augusta E. L. Coombs. CrystEngComm, 6, (2004), 328-335. Hydrogen bond directed supramolecular arrays utilising hemimellitic acid: Solvent inclusion clathrates.

9. William Clegg, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Simon J. Teat, Carl Redshaw, and Vernon C. Gibson, J. Chem Soc., Dalton Trans., (1998), 3037-3040. A novel titanium-oxygen ladder structure supported by calix-4-arene ligands, characterised by synchrotron crystallography.

10. Sophie H. Dale, Mark R.J. Elsegood and Carl Redshaw. CrystEngComm, 5, (2003), 368-373. Polymophism and pseudopolymorphism in calixarenes:acetonitrile clathrates of p-But-calix[n]arenes (n = 6 and 8).

11. Carl Redshaw, and Mark R.J. Elsegood. Inorg. Chem., 39, (2000), 5164-5168. Group VI metallocalixarenes bearing hydrazido(2-) groups.

12. Vernon C. Gibson, Carl Redshaw, and Mark R.J. Elsegood, J. Chem Soc., Dalton Comm., (2001), 767-769., Calix[6] and [8]arene complexes of vanadium.

13. Carl Redshaw, Lee Warford, Sophie H. Dale and Mark R.J. Elsegood. Chem Commun., (2004), 1954-1955. Vanadyl complexes bearing bi- and triphenolate chelate ligands: highly active ethylene polymerisation procatalysts.

14. Carl Redshaw, Mark R.J. Elsegood and Kathryn E. Holmes. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. (2004). Organoaluminium ring systems containing the motif {[Ph2C(X)(CO2AlMe2)][Ph2C(X)(CO2)]2(m4-AlMe)(m2-AlMe2)} (X = O, NH).

15. Atanas K. Tomov, Vernon C. Gibson, Damien Zaher, Mark R.J. Elsegood, and Sophie H. Dale. Chem. Commun., (2004), 1956-1957. Bis(benzimidazole)amine vanadium catalysts for olefin polmerisation and co-polymersiation: thermally robust, single-site catalysts activated by simple alkylaluminium reagents.

16. Nonsee Nimitsiriwat, Edward L. Marshall, Vernon C. Gibson, Mark R.J. Elsegood, and Sophie H. Dale. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, (2004), 13598-13599. Unprecedented reversible migration of amide to Schiff base ligands attached to tin: latent single-site initiators for lactide polymerization.

17. Carl Redshaw, Michael Rowan, Lee Warford, Damien M. Homden, Abdessamad Arbaoui, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Sophie H. Dale, Takehiko Yamato, Carol Pérez Casas, Shigekazu Matsui, and Sadahiko Matuura. Chem. A Eur J., 13, (2007), 1090-1107. Oxo- and Imidovanadium Complexes Incorporating Methylene- and Dimethyleneoxa-Bridged Calix[3]- and-[4]arenes: Synthesis, Structures and Ethylene Polymerisation Catalysts.

18. Mark R.J. Elsegood and Carl Redshaw. Angew. Chemie, 46, (2007), 7453-7457. Synthesis of Tetra-, Hexa-, and Octanuclear Organozinc Ring Systems.

19. Mark R.J. Elsegood & Carl Redshaw. Chem., A Eur. J., 14, (2008), 3530-3534. Alkylzinc hydrazides: self-assembly of hexanuclear ring systems in acetonitrile.

20. Damien Homden, Carl Redshaw, Joseph A. Wright, David L. Hughes, and Mark R.J. Elsegood, Inorg. Chem. (2008), 47, 5799-5814. Early transition metal complexes bearing a C-capped tris(phenolate) ligand incorporating a pendant imine arm: synthesis, structure, and ethylene polymerization behaviour.

21. Nonsee Nimitsiriwat, Vernon C. Gibson, Edward L. Marshall, and Mark R.J. Elsegood. Inorg. Chem., (2008), 47, 5417-5424. The reversible amination of tin(II)-ligated imines: latent initiators for the polymerisation of rac-lactide.

22. Carl Redshaw, Shuzong Zhan, Sophie H. Dale, and Mark R.J. Elsegood. Inorg. Chem. Commun., (2008), 11, 754-756. Bis(imido) rhenium complexes bearing C- or N-capped ‘tripodal’ ligands: Bi- versus tri-dentate ligation.

23. Carl Redshaw, Xiaoming Liu, Shuzong Zhan, David L. Hughes, Hugo Baillie-Johnson, Mark R.J. Elsegood, and Sophie H. Dale. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., (2008), 17, 2698-2712. Rhenium calix[4]arenes: Precursors to novel imaging and cancer therapy agents.

24. Mark R.J. Elsegood, Paul F. Kelly, Gillian Reid, and Paul M. Staniland. Dalton Trans., 2008, 3798-3800. The first use of the free selenimide Ph2Se=NH as a synthon; the synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of [Ph2SeNSePh2][BPh4].

25. Mark R.J. Elsegood, Paul F. Kelly, Gillian Reid, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, and Paul M. Staniland. Dalton Trans., (2008), 5076-5082. Sulfimidation of thioether groups – a versatile method for modifying and linking thia/oxa crowns.

26. Mark R.J. Elsegood, Andrew, J. Lake, and Martin B. Smith. Dalton Trans., (2009), 30-32. A novel fluorene-containing κ4-P2N2-tetradentate platinum(II) complex.

27. Carl Redshaw, Damien Homden, David L. Hughes, Joseph A. Wright, and Mark R.J. Elsegood. Dalton Trans., (2009). 1231-1242. New structural motifs in chromium(III) calix[4 and 6]arene chemistry.

28. Allen T. Ekubo, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Andrew J. Lake, and Martin B. Smith. Inorg. Chem., (2009), 48,, 2633-2638. Intramolecular hydrogen-bonded tertiary phosphines as 1,3,5-traza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTA) analogues.

29. Roberto S.P. King, Sandra E. Dann, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Paul F. Kelly, and Roger J. Mortimer. Chem. Eur. J., (2009), 15, 5441-5443. The synthesis, full characterisation and utilisation of template free silica sodalite, a novel polymorph of silica.

30. Darren S. Lee, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Carl Redshaw, and Shuzhong Zhan. Acta Cryst. (2009), C65, m291–m295. Two related lithium calixarene complexes, [p-tert -butylcalix[4]arene(OMe)(OH)2(OLi)]2·4MeCN and {p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene(OH)2(OLi)[OLi(NCMe)2]}2·8MeCN, determined using synchrotron radiation.

31. Gary J. Richards, Jonathan P. Hill, Ken Okamoto, Atsuomi Shundo, Misaho Akada, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Tsuyoshi Mori, and Katsuhiko Ariga. Langmuir, (2009), 25, 8408-8413. DOI: 10.1021/la8041633. Diverse self-assembly in soluble oligoazaacenes: A microscopy study.

32. Gary J. Richards, Jonathan P. Hill, Navaneetha K. Subbaiyan, Francis D’Souza, Paul A. Karr, Mark R. J. Elsegood, Simon J. Teat, Toshiyuki Mori and Katsuhiko Ariga. J. Org. Chem., (2009), 74, 8914-8923. (Feature article) Pyrazinacenes: Aza Analogues of Acenes.

33. Mark R.J. Elsegood, Andrew, J. Lake, and Martin B. Smith. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., (2009), 1068-1078.
Late transition metal complexes of 2-Ph2PC6H4NHC(O)CH2NHCO2Bz: observation of three distinct ligation modes.(κ1-P, κ2-P/N and κ3-P/N/N').

34. Jian-yong Hu, Masanao Era, Mark R.J. Elsegood, and Takehiko Yamato. Eur. J. Org. Chem., (2010), 72-79.
Synthesis and photophysical properties of pyrene-based light emitting monomers: Highly pure-blue-fluorescent, cruciform-shaped architectures.

35. Abdessamad Arbaoui, Carl Redshaw, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Victoria E. Wright, Akina Yoshizawa and Takehiko Yamato Chem. Asian J., (2010), 5, 621-633. Iron(III) and zinc(II) calixarene complexes as procatalysts for ε-caprolactone polymerization.

36. Jonathan P. Hill, Jan Labuta, Mark R.J. Elsegood, and Katsuhiko Ariga. Tet. Lett., (2010), 51, 2935-2938. Stepwise synthesis of stable pseudotetrahedral supermolecules based on an oxoporphyrinogen.

37. Priti Jilka, Claire Millington, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Josef W. A. Frese, Simon J. Teat, and Marc C. Kimber. Tetrahedron, 66, (2010), 9327-9331. The selective mono- and di-functionlisation of carbocyclic cleft molecules with pyridyl containing binding sites and X-ray crystallographic analysis.

38. Carl Redshaw, Surajit Jana, Congxiao Shang, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Xuesong Lu, and Zheng Xiao Guo. Chem. Comm., 46, (2010), 9055–9057. Enhancement of H2 uptake via fluorination but not lithiation for Zn4N8 and Zn4N6O type clusters.

39. Carl Redshaw, Surajit Jana, Congxiao Shang, Mark R.J. Elsegood, Xuesong Lu, and Zheng Xiao Guo. Organometallics, (2010), 29, 6129 - 6132. Multinuclear zinc pentafluorobenzene carboxylates: Synthesis and characterization and hydrogen storage capability.

40. Julia Ponce González, Mark Edgar, Mark R.J. Elsegood, and George Weaver. J. Org. and Biomol. Chem., (2011), 9, 2294-2305. Synthesis of fluorinated fused benzofurans and benzothiophenes: Smiles-type rearrangement and cyclisation of perfluoro(het)aryl ethers and sulfides.

41. Mark R.J. Elsegood. Acta Crystallogr., (2011), E67, o2599. Tetra-n-butylammonium bromide, a redetermination at 150K addressing the merohedral twinning.

42. Shinsuke Ishihara, Jonathan P. Hill, Atsuomi Shundo, Gary J. Richards, Jan Labuta, Kei Ohkubo, Shunichi Fukuzumi, Akira Sato, Mark R. J. Elsegood, Simon J. Teat, and Katsuhiko Ariga. J. Am. Chem. Soc., (2011), 133, 16119-16126. Reversible Photoredox Switching of Porphyrin-Bridged Bis-2,6-di-t-butyl Phenols.
 
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