Research project

X-Ray Crystallography National Facility

Research groups:

Characterisation and Analytics
Lead researcher:

Professor Simon Coles
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Simon Coles

Professor of Structural Chemistry

Research interests

Chemical Crystallography
Structures under change
Quantum Crystallography

Connect with Simon

Email: S.J.Coles@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Characterisation and Analytics

Combing specialists from mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction to create a world-class problem solving team.

Research outputs

Few-mode metal-free perovskite optical fiber with second-order optical nonlinearity

Hei Chit Leo Tsui, Dumitru Sirbu, Nathan Hill, Graham J. Tizzard, Pablo Docampo & Noel Healy, 2024, APL Photonics, 9(3)

DOI: 10.1063/5.0186789

Type: article

Synthesis and crystal structures of two related Co and Mn complexes: a celebration of collaboration between the universities of Dakar and Southampton

James B. Orton, Ngone Diouf, Rokhaya S. Gueye, Mohamed Gaye, Ibrahima Elhadji Thiam & Simon J. Coles, 2023, Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, 79(Pt 12), 1109-1114

DOI: 10.1107/S2056989023009805

Type: article

Mechanochemical Cu(II) complexes and propargylamine synthetic adventures

Ghadah Abdullah S. Al Jomeh, Andrew McGown, Emma Richards, Graham J. Tizzard, Simon J. Coles, Ramón González-Méndez, Chris Dadswell, John Spencer & George E. Kostakis, 2023, RSC Sustainability, 2(2), 528-535

DOI: 10.1039/d3su00315a

Type: article

Halogen bonding with carbon: directional assembly of non-derivatised aromatic carbon systems into robust supramolecular ladder architectures

Jogirdas Vainauskas, Tristan H. Borchers, Mihails Arhangelskis, Laura J. McCormick McPherson, Toni S. Spilfogel, Ehsan Hamzehpoor, Filip Topić, Simon J. Coles, Dmytro F. Perepichka, Christopher J. Barrett & Tomislav Friščić, 2023, Chemical Science, 14(45), 13031-13041

DOI: 10.1039/d3sc04191c

Type: article

Influence of fluorinated substituents on the near-infrared phosphorescence of 5d metallocorroles

Krister Engedal Johannessen, Martin Amund Langaas Johansen, Rune F. Einrem, Laura J. McCormick McPherson, Abraham B. Alemayehu, Sergey M. Borisov & Abhik Ghosh, 2023, ACS Organic and Inorganic Au, 3(5), 241-245

DOI: 10.1021/acsorginorgau.3c00016

Type: letterEditorial