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Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

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2025

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Alexandra M. Z. Slawin is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom.

The main fields of study in their research encompass Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials Science. Within these fields, their work focuses on subfields including Organic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The primary topics covered in their research include:

  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties

Recent significant publications authored or co-authored by Alexandra M. Z. Slawin include:

  • "A Deep Blue B,N-Doped Heptacene Emitter That Shows Both Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Delayed Fluorescence by Triplet-Triplet Annihilation," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Simultaneous Presence of Open Metal Sites and Amine Groups on a 3D Dy(III)-Metal-Organic Framework Catalyst for Mild and Solvent-Free Conversion of CO2 to Cyclic Carbonates," 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Behavior of an Amide-Tricarboxylate Zinc(II) Metal-Organic Framework with Two-Fold 3D+3D Interpenetration," 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "The design of an extended multiple resonance TADF emitter based on a polycyclic amine/carbonyl system," 2020, Materials Chemistry Frontiers
  • "A Dual-Purpose Ce(III)-Organic Framework with Amine Groups and Open Metal Sites: Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Activity and Catalytic CO2 Fixation," 2023, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexandra M. Z. Slawin include:

  • David B. Cordes (98 joint publications)
  • Eli Zysman-Colman (45 joint publications)
  • Andrew D. Smith (22 joint publications)
  • J. Derek Woollins (22 joint publications)
  • Ifor D. W. Samuel (21 joint publications)

Publication venues where Alexandra M. Z. Slawin has contributed extensively are:

  • Inorganic Chemistry (17 publications)
  • Molecules (14 publications)
  • Molbank (12 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (11 publications)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C (10 publications)

In 2011, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Best Publications

  • Porous organic cages

    Tomokazu Tozawa;James T. A. Jones;Shashikala I. Swamy;Shan Jiang

  • Molecular meccano. 1. [2]Rotaxanes and a [2]catenane made to order

    Pier Lucio Anelli;Peter R. Ashton;Douglas Philp;Marek Pietraszkiewicz

  • Metal-organic frameworks from edible natural products.

    Ronald A Smaldone;Ross S Forgan;Hiroyasu Furukawa;Jeremiah J Gassensmith

  • Cyclobis(paraquat‐p‐phenylene). A Tetracationic Multipurpose Receptor

    Barbara Odell;Mark V. Reddington;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Neil Spencer

  • Ethylene Tetramerization: A New Route to Produce 1-Octene in Exceptionally High Selectivities

    Annette Bollmann;Kevin Blann;John T Dixon;Fiona M Hess

  • Chiral induction in the ionothermal synthesis of a 3-D coordination polymer.

    Zhuojia Lin;and Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Russell E. Morris

  • A [2] Catenane Made to Order

    Peter R. Ashton;Timothy T. Goodnow;Angel E. Kaifer;Mark V. Reddington

  • Nanoporous Carbohydrate Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Ross S. Forgan;Ronald A. Smaldone;Jeremiah J. Gassensmith;Hiroyasu Furukawa

  • Continuous flow hydroformylation of alkenes in supercritical fluid-ionic liquid biphasic systems.

    Paul B. Webb;Murielle F. Sellin;Thulani E. Kunene;Sylvia Williamson

  • A N-heterocyclic carbene gold hydroxide complex: a golden synthon

    Sylvain Gaillard;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Steven P. Nolan

  • What can NMR spectroscopy of selenoureas and phosphinidenes teach us about the π-accepting abilities of N-heterocyclic carbenes?

    Sai V. C. Vummaleti;David J. Nelson;Albert Poater;Adrián Gómez-Suárez

  • Improving Processability and Efficiency of Resonant TADF Emitters: A Design Strategy

    David Hall;David Hall;Subeesh Madayanad Suresh;Paloma L. dos Santos;Eimantas Duda

  • Organocatalytic functionalization of carboxylic acids: isothiourea-catalyzed asymmetric intra- and intermolecular Michael addition--lactonizations.

    Dorine Belmessieri;Louis C. Morrill;Carmen Simal;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • Electrochemically switchable hydrogen-bonded molecular shuttles.

    Alessio Altieri;Francesco G. Gatti;Euan R. Kay;David A. Leigh

  • Ionothermal Materials Synthesis Using Unstable Deep‐Eutectic Solvents as Template‐Delivery Agents

    Emily R. Parnham;Ewan A. Drylie;Paul S. Wheatley;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • Straightforward synthesis of [Au(NHC)X] (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene, X = Cl, Br, I) complexes.

    Alba Collado;Adrián Gómez-Suárez;Anthony R. Martin;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • A Highly Active Manganese Catalyst for Enantioselective Ketone and Ester Hydrogenation

    Magnus B. Widegren;Gavin J. Harkness;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;David B. Cordes

  • N-Heterocyclic carbene catalysed β-lactam synthesis

    Nicolas Duguet;Craig D. Campbell;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Andrew D. Smith

  • Stiff, and sticky in the right places: the dramatic influence of preorganizing guest binding sites on the hydrogen bond-directed assembly of rotaxanes.

    Francesco G. Gatti;David A. Leigh;Sergey A. Nepogodiev;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • Solid-state transformations of zinc 1,4-benzenedicarboxylates mediated by hydrogen-bond-forming molecules.

    Mark Edgar;Robert Mitchell;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Philip Lightfoot

  • [(NHC)CuX] complexes: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic activities in reduction reactions and Click Chemistry. On the advantage of using well-defined catalytic systems

    Silvia Díez-González;Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán;Jordi Benet-Buchholz;Edwin D. Stevens

  • Catalytic "Active-Metal" template synthesis of [2]rotaxanes, [3]rotaxanes, and molecular shuttles, and some observations on the mechanism of the Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne 1,3-cycloaddition

    Vincent Aucagne;José Berná;James D. Crowley;Stephen M. Goldup

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Derek Woollins
J. Derek Woollins University of St Andrews
David B. Cordes
David B. Cordes University of St Andrews
Steven P. Nolan
Steven P. Nolan Ghent University
Andrew D. Smith
Andrew D. Smith University of St Andrews
David O'Hagan
David O'Hagan University of St Andrews
J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Catherine S. J. Cazin
Catherine S. J. Cazin Ghent University
Christopher J. Moody
Christopher J. Moody University of Nottingham
Michael Bühl
Michael Bühl University of St Andrews
Luigi Cavallo
Luigi Cavallo King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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