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Overview

David Parker is a researcher affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study lies in Materials Science, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, Spectroscopy, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Biophysics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Electron Spin Resonance Studies

David Parker has contributed to several research papers with publications spanning top journals. Some notable papers include:

  • The design of responsive luminescent lanthanide probes and sensors (2021), published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • How the Ligand Field in Lanthanide Coordination Complexes Determines Magnetic Susceptibility Anisotropy, Paramagnetic NMR Shift, and Relaxation Behavior (2020), published in Accounts of Chemical Research

While not an author on all, papers coauthored by frequent collaborators are also recorded in venues such as Nature Communications and Chemistry - A European Journal. For example:

  • Circularly polarised luminescence laser scanning confocal microscopy to study live cell chiral molecular interactions (2022), Nature Communications
  • Rapid time-resolved Circular Polarization Luminescence (CPL) emission spectroscopy (2020), Nature Communications
  • Synthesis and Evaluation of Europium Complexes that Switch on Luminescence in Lysosomes of Living Cells (2020), Chemistry - A European Journal

The frequent coauthors collaborating with David Parker include:

  • Matthieu Starck
  • Jack D. Fradgley
  • Marta Kwiatkowska
  • Zuzana Kotková
  • Filip Koucký

David Parker has published across several venues, with the most frequent ones being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Faraday Discussions
  • Chemical Communications

The scope of their work includes combining experimental and computational approaches to investigate the properties and behaviors of coordination complexes, particularly those involving lanthanides. Their research spans molecular sensors, magnetic properties, and advanced spectroscopic techniques relevant to both fundamental chemistry and applied materials science.

Best Publications

  • Non-radiative deactivation of the excited states of europium, terbium and ytterbium complexes by proximate energy-matched OH, NH and CH oscillators: an improved luminescence method for establishing solution hydration states

    Andrew Beeby;Ian M. Clarkson;Rachel S. Dickins;Stephen Faulkner

  • The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

    Mark T Ross;Darren V Grafham;Alison J Coffey;Steven Scherer

  • NMR determination of enantiomeric purity

    David. Parker

  • Being excited by lanthanide coordination complexes: aqua species, chirality, excited-state chemistry, and exchange dynamics.

    David Parker;Rachel S. Dickins;Horst Puschmann;Clare Crossland

  • Luminescent lanthanide sensors for pH, pO2 and selected anions

    David Parker

  • Cell-Penetrating Metal Complex Optical Probes: Targeted and Responsive Systems Based on Lanthanide Luminescence

    Craig P Montgomery;Benjamin S Murray;Elizabeth J New;Robert Pal

  • Lanthanide complexes as chiral probes exploiting circularly polarized luminescence

    Rachel Carr;Nicholas H. Evans;David Parker

  • Tumour targeting with radiolabelled macrocycle–antibody conjugates

    David Parker

  • The Selectivity of Reversible Oxy-Anion Binding in Aqueous Solution at a Chiral Europium and Terbium Center: Signaling of Carbonate Chelation by Changes in the Form and Circular Polarization of Luminescence Emission

    James I. Bruce;Rachel S. Dickins;Linda J. Govenlock;Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson

  • Getting excited about lanthanide complexation chemistry

    David Parker;J. A. Gareth Williams

  • Excitement in f block : structure, dynamics and function of nine-coordinate chiral lanthanide complexes in aqueous media

    David Parker

  • Structural, Luminescence, and NMR Studies of the Reversible Binding of Acetate, Lactate, Citrate, and Selected Amino Acids to Chiral Diaqua Ytterbium, Gadolinium, and Europium Complexes

    Rachel S. Dickins;Silvio Aime;Andrei S. Batsanov;Andrew Beeby

  • Engineering emissive europium and terbium complexes for molecular imaging and sensing

    Shashi Pandya;Junhua Yu;David Parker

  • pH-dependent modulation of relaxivity and luminescence in macrocyclic gadolinium and europium complexes based on reversible intramolecular sulfonamide ligation.

    Mark P. Lowe;David Parker;Ofer Reany;Silvio Aime

  • Anion binding in water at lanthanide centres: from structure and selectivity to signalling and sensing

    Stephen J. Butler;David Parker

  • NMR, Relaxometric, and Structural Studies of the Hydration and Exchange Dynamics of Cationic Lanthanide Complexes of Macrocyclic Tetraamide Ligands

    Silvio Aime;Alessandro Barge;James I. Bruce;Mauro Botta

  • Arene hydrogenation in a room-temperature ionic liquid using a ruthenium cluster catalyst

    Paul J. Dyson;David J. Ellis;Thomas Welton;David G. Parker

  • Development of responsive lanthanide probes for cellular applications.

    Elizabeth J New;David Parker;David G Smith;James W Walton

  • A europium complex that selectively stains nucleoli of cells

    Junhua Yu;David Parker;Robert Pal;Robert A Poole

  • The design of responsive luminescent lanthanide probes and sensors.

    David Parker;David Parker;Jack D. Fradgley;Ka-Leung Wong

  • Lanthanide macrocyclic quinolyl conjugates as luminescent molecular-level devices.

    Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson;and Dónall A. Mac Dónaill;David Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

George Ferguson
George Ferguson University of Guelph
Mauro Botta
Mauro Botta University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro
J. A. Gareth Williams
J. A. Gareth Williams Durham University
Judith A. K. Howard
Judith A. K. Howard Durham University
Silvio Aime
Silvio Aime University of Turin
Stephen Faulkner
Stephen Faulkner University of Oxford
Andrew Beeby
Andrew Beeby Durham University
Alan M. Kenwright
Alan M. Kenwright Durham University
Andrei S. Batsanov
Andrei S. Batsanov Durham University
Louise Royle
Louise Royle University College Dublin

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