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Anthony W. Addison

Anthony W. Addison

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Chemistry

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17654
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Overview

Anthony W. Addison is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in materials science, chemistry, and physics and astronomy. Their work spans multiple subfields, including materials chemistry, statistical and nonlinear physics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry.

The primary focus of Addison's research includes advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, magnetism in coordination complexes, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, and the synthesis and properties of metal complexes.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Addison include Joseph J. Stephanos, Matthias Zeller, Jerry P. Jasinski, Vitaly V. Pavlishchuk, and GorDan T. Reeves.

They have published multiple papers in a variety of scientific journals, with recurring appearances in The Cambridge Structural Database, Dalton Transactions, Journal of Chemical Crystallography, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, and Polyhedron.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Combination of single-molecule magnet behaviour and luminescence properties in a new series of lanthanide complexes with tris(pyrazolyl)borate and oligo(β-diketonate) ligands, 2020, Dalton Transactions
  • 1,3-Bis(N-Methylbenzimidazol-2'-yl)-2-Phenylpropanedichloridocopper(II), 2022, Journal of Chemical Crystallography
  • A copper(II) coordination polymer of formate-bridged dimers: an alternating S = ½ antiferromagnetic chain, 2023, Journal of Coordination Chemistry
  • Structural and Magnetic Properties of a {GdCu5}2 Metallacrown Dimer with a Disulfonate Linker, 2023, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Magnetocaloric effect in 1D-polymers bearing 15-metallacrown-5 {GdCu5}3+ units and anionic oxalate complexes, 2024, Dalton Transactions

Addison's contributions include detailed studies on the magnetism in coordination complexes, structural and magnetic properties of metallacrown dimers, and the synthesis of copper coordination polymers. These works often intersect the fields of inorganic and materials chemistry with applications in magnetic and luminescence properties.

In 2012, Anthony W. Addison was named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, recognizing their involvement in chemical sciences.

Best Publications

  • Synthesis, structure, and spectroscopic properties of copper(II) compounds containing nitrogen–sulphur donor ligands; the crystal and molecular structure of aqua[1,7-bis(N-methylbenzimidazol-2′-yl)-2,6-dithiaheptane]copper(II) perchlorate

    Anthony W. Addison;T. Nageswara Rao;Jan Reedijk;Jacobus van Rijn

  • Conversion constants for redox potentials measured versus different reference electrodes in acetonitrile solutions at 25°C

    Vitaly V Pavlishchuk;Anthony W Addison

  • Spectroscopic and redox studies of some copper(II) complexes with biomimetic donor atoms: implications for protein copper centres

    Ushio Sakaguchi;Anthony W. Addison

  • Synthesis of some imidazole- and pyrazole- derived chelating agents

    Anthony W. Addison;Philip J. Burke

  • Spectroscopic and redox properties of pseudotetrahedral copper(II) complexes. Their relation to copper proteins

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  • COPPER COMPLEXES OF THE “TRIPOD” LIGAND TRIS(2-BENZIMIDAZOLYLMETHYL)AMINE: FIVE- AND SIX-COORDINATE COPPER(II) DERIVATIVES AND SOME COPPER(I) DERIVATIVES

    Anthony W. Addison;Hugo M. J. Hendriks;Jan. Reedijk;Laurence K. Thompson

  • Iridium dihydroxybipyridine complexes show that ligand deprotonation dramatically speeds rates of catalytic water oxidation.

    Joseph DePasquale;Ismael Nieto;Lauren E. Reuther;Corey J. Herbst-Gervasoni

  • Biological Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry

    A. W. Addison;W. R. Cullen

  • Spectroscopy and structure of thiolate and thioether complexes of copper(II) and the relationship of their redox chemistry to that of certain copper proteins

    Anthony W. Addison;T. Nageswara Rao;Ekkehard Sinn

  • Small molecule analogs for the specific iron-binding site of lactoferrin: a single-crystal x-ray structure of bis(methanol)bis[2-(5-methylpyrazol-3-yl)phenolato]iron(III) nitrate-methanol and spectroscopic studies on iron(III) phenolate complexes

    Eric W. Ainscough;Andrew M. Brodie;Jeffrey E. Plowman;Kevin L. Brown

  • Synthesis of some benzimidazole‐ and benzothiazole‐derived ligand systems and their precursory diacids

    Anthony W. Addison;T. Nageswara Rao;Curtis G. Wahlgren

  • Nitrosyliron(III) hemoglobin: autoreduction and spectroscopy

    Anthony W. Addison;Joseph J. Stephanos

  • Coordination sphere flexibility at copper: chemistry of a unipositive copper(II) macrocycle, [Cu(cyclops)]+

    A. W. Addison;M. Carpenter;L. K. M. Lau;M. Wicholas

  • PENTACOORDINATE COPPER COMPLEXES OF NITROGEN‐SULFUR DONORS: STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY OF TWO COMPLEXES OF BIS(2‐(2‐BENZIMIDAZOLYL)ETHYL) SULFIDE WITH THE SULFUR ALTERNATIVELY IN EQUATORIAL AND AXIAL COORDINATION MODES

    Anthony W. Addison;Philip J. Burke;Kim Henrick;T. Nageswara Rao

  • Is ligand topology an influence on the redox potentials of copper complexes

    Anthony W. Addison

  • COPPER(II) AND NICKEL(II) COMPLEXES OF DIANIONIC AND TETRAANIONIC DINUCLEATING MACROCYCLES

    Kausik K. Nanda;Anthony W. Addison;Neil Paterson;Ekkehard Sinn

  • Dipicolylamine Complexes of Copper(II): Two Different Coordination Geometries in the Same Unit Cell of Cu(Dipica)(2)(BF(4))(2).

    Mallayan Palaniandavar;Raymond J. Butcher;Anthony W. Addison

  • New iron(II) spin-crossover complexes with heterocyclic amine-derived ligands and STEPS experiments on photogenerated metastable high-spin states

    Anthony W. Addison;Sudhir Burman;Curtis G. Wahlgren;Odatt A. Rajan

  • One-electron redox processes at binuclear copper centers

    A.W. Addison

  • Synthesis and proton transfer-linked redox tuning of ruthenium(II) complexes with tridentate 2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine ligands

    Xiao Xiaoming;Masa-aki Haga;Takeko Matsumura-Inoue;Yu Ru

  • A stable bis(thiolate) of copper(II) with long axial copper-sulfur linkages: crystal and molecular structure of trans-[Cu(cyclam)(SC6F5)2]

    Anthony W. Addison;Ekkehard Sinn

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Zeller
Matthias Zeller Purdue University West Lafayette
Laurence K. Thompson
Laurence K. Thompson St. John's University
Ray J. Butcher
Ray J. Butcher Howard University
Jan Reedijk
Jan Reedijk Leiden University
Mallayan Palaniandavar
Mallayan Palaniandavar Bharathidasan University
Samuel E. Lofland
Samuel E. Lofland Rowan University
Ekkehard Sinn
Ekkehard Sinn Western Michigan University
Brian R. James
Brian R. James University of British Columbia
Swiatoslaw Trofimenko
Swiatoslaw Trofimenko University of Delaware
David Dolphin
David Dolphin University of British Columbia

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