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

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

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

Synthesis and structural characterization of copper complexes containing “R-substituted” Bis-7-azaindolyl borate ligands

Miriam Jackson,

Simon D. Thomas,

Graham J. Tizzard,

Simon J. Coles,

& Gareth R. Owen

, 2023 , Molecules , 28 (12)

DOI: 10.3390/molecules28124825

Type: article

Crystal structure and NMR of an α,δ-peptide foldamer helix shows side-chains are well placed for bifunctional catalysis

Qi Lin,

Hao Lan,

Chunmiao Ma,

Ryan T. Stendall,

Kenneth Shankland,

Rebecca A. Musgrave,

Peter N. Horton,

Carsten Baldauf,

Hans Jörg Hofmann,

Craig P. Butts,

Manuel M. Müller,

& Alexander J.A. Cobb

, 2023 , Angewandte Chemie International Edition , 62 (36)

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202305326

Type: article

2-(2,7-Bis(pyridin-3-ylethynyl)fluoren-9-ylidene)malononitrile

Enrico Podda,

Massimiliano Arca,

Anna Pintus,

Francesca Meloni,

Vito Lippolis,

Giulio Ferino,

James B. Orton,

Simon J. Coles,

& Maria Carla Aragoni

, 2023 , Molbank , 2023 (2)

DOI: 10.3390/M1619

Type: article