School of Chemistry: Recent submissions
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Flexible Porous Coordination Polymers from Divergent Photoluminescent 4-Oxo-1,8-naphthalimide Ligands
(2016)Two new luminescent ditopic naphthalimide-derived ligands, N-(4-cyanophenylmethylene)-4-(4-cyanophenoxy)-1,8-naphthalimide (L3) and N-(4-carboxyphenylmethylene)-4-(4-carboxyphenoxy)-1,8-naphthalimide (H2L4), have been ... -
A Mn13-cluster based coordination polymer as a co-catalyst of CdS for enhanced visible-light driven H2 evolution
(2018)A coordination cluster-based polymer was used for the first time as a noble-metal-free co-catalyst of CdS, giving rise to significantly enhanced photocatalytic H2 production. This work demonstrates the feasibility of cluster ... -
Assembly, disassembly and reassembly: a “top-down” synthetic strategy towards hybrid, mixed-metal {Mo10Co6} POM clusters
(2019)Polyoxometalates (POMs) are commonly prepared using a “bottom-up” synthetic procedure. The alternative “top-down” approach of disassembling a pre-formed POM unit to generate new synthetic intermediates is promising, but ... -
Tuning the Catalytic Water Oxidation Activity through Structural Modifications of High-Nuclearity Mn-oxo Clusters [Mn18M] (M = Sr2+, Mn2+)
(2021)The water oxidation half-reaction is considered the bottleneck in the development of technological advances to replace fossil fuels with sustainable and economically affordable energy sources. In natural photosynthesis, ... -
Pyrrole-based Photosensitisers for Photomedicine. Synthesis, Photophysical and Photobiological Evaluation of Chlorins and Dipyrrin Complexes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a light activated therapy which involves a drug-photosensitiser (PS), light, and molecular oxygen. First, the PS is administered via a systemic or topical route and then it accumulates in the ... -
Computational Modelling and Design of Cathode Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)Unravelling the activity and selectivity of novel heterogeneous catalysts requires a deep understanding of the effects unfolding at the catalytic surface. Particularly, this thesis emphasises the relevance of dopant ... -
Semi-synthetic Approaches to N-Glycosylation: A Story of Thiol-Ene Methodology, and Interferon-γ
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)The following thesis, entitled “Semi-synthetic Approaches to N-Glycosylation: A Story of Thiol-Ene Methodology, and Interferon-γ” is composed of six chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the key concepts ... -
Antimicrobial formulation and functionalization of photosensitizers for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)To provide a long-lasting solution to infections affecting the current world scenario, antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) offers a non-invasive means to destroy pathogenic microbes via formation of reactive oxygen ... -
Examination of the organocatalysed reactions between azides and cyclic anhydrides
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)Azide is encountered in organic synthesis as both a functional group and as and an ion, and provides a valuable means of incorporating nitrogen into target compounds. The intrinsic nucleophilicity of azides can be beneficial, ... -
Methods Development for the Synthesis of Biologically Relevant Porphyrins and Porphyrin Rigid Linker Arrays
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)This research focuses on two main aspects: The synthesis of new derivatives of naturally occurring porphyrins and the preparation of non-natural chromophore-rigid linker conjugates as potential bioisosteres and mimics of ... -
Optimization of Zn-Mn ferrite nanoparticles for low frequency hyperthermia: Exploiting the potential of superquadratic field dependence of magnetothermal response
(2022)Magnetothermal applications of nanoparticles in biomedicine are currently limited by low thermal responses to oscillating magnetic fields on one side and by detrimental physiological effects of electromagnetic radiation ... -
Radical-mediated thiol–ene ‘click’ reactions in deep eutectic solvents for bioconjugation
(2022)Herein, we report the first application of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) in radical-mediated hydrothiolation reactions. Under UV and atmospheric-oxygen mediated conditions, the thiol–ene reac tion was applied to amino ... -
Modulating Structural and Electronic Properties of Rare Archimedean and Johnson-Type Mn Cages
(2021)High-nuclearity Mn complexes have attracted significant scientific attention due to their fascinating magnetic properties and their relevance to bioinorganic systems and catalysis. In this work, we demonstrate how the ... -
Tuning photoactive metal–organic frameworks for luminescence and photocatalytic applications
(2021)Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous materials, constructed from organic and inorganic components. MOFs have been explored for a diverse range of applications due to their tunable structures, porosities, ... -
Altering the nature of coupling by changing the oxidation state in a {Mn6} cage
(2020)Polynuclear transition metal complexes have continuously attracted interest owing to their peculiar electronic and magnetic properties which are influenced by the symmetry and connectivity of the metal centres. Understanding ... -
A cubane-type manganese complex with H2O oxidation capabilities
(2020)We report the synthesis and characterisation of [Mn8K2O4(OH)2((CH3)3CCOO)16(CH3CN)2] whose cluster core shares some features with the oxygen evolving complex (OEC), the natural water oxidation catalyst. Importantly, this ... -
Hyper-crosslinked 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide Tröger’s base containing pyridinium covalent organic polymer (COP) for discriminative fluorescent sensing of chemical explosives
(2020)A new hyper-crosslinked 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide Tröger’s base containing pyridinium covalent organic polymer, TBNap-COP, was synthesised and employed as a ‘turn-off’ fluorescent chemosensor for nitroaromatic explosives. ... -
Bioinspired Water Oxidation Using a Mn-Oxo Cluster Stabilized by Non-Innocent Organic Tyrosine Y161 and Plastoquinone Mimics
(2020)The complexity and energy demand of the H2O oxidation half-reaction represents the bottleneck for the development of sustainable, environmentally friendly H2 economies using H2O as energy feedstock. In Nature, photosynthetic ... -
Mixed donor, phenanthroline photoactive MOFs with favourable CO 2 selectivity
(2020)Mixed donor phenanthroline-carboxylate linkers were combined with MnII or ZnII to form photoactive MOFs with large pore apertures. The MOFs display high CO2 adsorption capacities, which consequently causes structural ... -
Assembly, disassembly and reassembly: a “top-down” synthetic strategy towards hybrid, mixed-metal {Mo10Co6} POM clusters
(2019)Polyoxometalates (POMs) are commonly prepared using a “bottom-up” synthetic procedure. The alternative “top-down” approach of disassembling a pre-formed POM unit to generate new synthetic intermediates is promising, but ...
