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Overview

Harry Adams is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom and contributes primarily to the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their research output notably spans Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry, with additional involvement in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Oncology.

The core areas of focus in their work include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, magnetism in coordination complexes, metal complexes synthesis and properties, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, and catalytic C-H functionalization methods.

Among their recent publications, Harry Adams co-authored the paper titled "Design Approaches That Utilize Ionic Interactions to Control Selectivity in Transition Metal Catalysis", published in 2025 in Chemical Reviews. This paper has received citations reflecting its engagement within the scientific community.

Other recent papers, authored by frequent collaborators, contribute to the broader context of coordination polymers and metal complexes, although without Adams as author, highlighting the active research environment surrounding their professional circle.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Harry Adams include:

  • Sadegh Salehzadeh
  • Reza Golbedaghi
  • Feifan Lang
  • Daljit C. N. G. Singh
  • Abhishek B. Rao

Harry Adams has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publications appear in The Cambridge Structural Database, followed by contributions to the Journal of Molecular Structure, Chemical Reviews, Chemistry - A European Journal, and ACS Catalysis.

Their work is characterized by publications addressing complex material chemistry questions, often involving detailed structural analysis techniques such as X-ray diffraction, supporting investigations into the crystallization and solubility properties of coordination complexes.

Best Publications

  • Promotion of iridium-catalyzed methanol carbonylation: mechanistic studies of the cativa process.

    Anthony Haynes;Peter M Maitlis;George E Morris;Glenn J Sunley

  • Substituent effects on aromatic stacking interactions

    Scott L. Cockroft;Julie Perkins;Cristiano Zonta;Harry Adams

  • Metal carbonyls as pharmaceuticals? [Ru(CO)3Cl(glycinate)], a CO-releasing molecule with an extensive aqueous solution chemistry

    Tony R. Johnson;Brian E. Mann;Ian P. Teasdale;Harry Adams

  • Chemical Double-Mutant Cycles for the Measurement of Weak Intermolecular Interactions: Edge-to-Face Aromatic Interactions†

    Harry Adams;Fiona J. Carver;Christopher A. Hunter;Juan Carlos Morales

  • Octanuclear Cubic Coordination Cages

    Ian S. Tidmarsh;Thomas B. Faust;Harry Adams;Lindsay P. Harding

  • Luminescent PtII(bipyridyl)(diacetylide) Chromophores with Pendant Binding Sites as Energy Donors for Sensitised Near-Infrared Emission from Lanthanides: Structures and Photophysics of PtII/LnIII Assemblies

    Tanya K. Ronson;Theodore Lazarides;Harry Adams;Simon J. A. Pope

  • [Mn(CO)4{S2CNMe(CH2CO2H)}], a new water-soluble CO-releasing molecule

    Sian H. Crook;Brian E. Mann;Anthony J. H. M. Meijer;Harry Adams

  • Deep-red luminescence and efficient singlet oxygen generation by cyclometalated platinum(II) complexes with 8-hydroxyquinolines and quinoline-8-thiol.

    Nail M. Shavaleev;Harry Adams;Jonathan Best;Ruth Edge

  • Structural and photophysical properties of coordination networks combining [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2- anions and lanthanide(III) cations: rates of photoinduced Ru-to-lanthanide energy transfer and sensitized near-infrared luminescence.

    Graham M. Davies;Simon J. A. Pope;Harry Adams;Stephen Faulkner

  • Rational Modification of the Hierarchy of Intermolecular Interactions in Molecular Crystal Structures by Using Tunable Halogen Bonds

    Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas;Fiorenzo Zordan;Luis Arroyo Marín;Harry Adams

  • Configurationally Stable Biaryl Analogues of 4-(Dimethylamino)pyridine: A Novel Class of Chiral Nucleophilic Catalysts

    Alan C. Spivey;Tomasz Fekner;and Sharon E. Spey;Harry Adams

  • Equilibria of the Thiametallacycles with Tris(triethylphosphine)platinum(0) and Dibenzothiophene, Benzothiophene, or Thiophene: The Hydrodesulfurization Reaction

    Juventino J. Garcia;Brian E. Mann;Harry Adams;Neil A. Bailey

  • Structural and Photophysical Properties of Coordination Networks Combining [Ru(Bpym)(CN)4]2- or [{Ru(CN)4}2(μ-bpym)]4- Anions (bpym = 2,2‘-Bipyrimidine) with Lanthanide(III) Cations: Sensitized Near-Infrared Luminescence from Yb(III), Nd(III), and Er(III) Following Ru-to-Lanthanide Energy Transfer

    Juan Manuel Herrera;Simon J A Pope;Harry Adams;Stephen Faulkner

  • Coordination chemistry of tetradentate N-donor ligands containing two pyrazolyl-pyridine units separated by a 1,8-naphthyl spacer: dodecanuclear and tetranuclear coordination cages and cyclic helicates.

    Stephen P. Argent;Harry Adams;Thomas Riis-Johannessen;John C. Jeffery

  • Structural and near-IR photophysical studies on ternary lanthanide complexes containing poly(pyrazolyl)borate and 1,3-diketonate ligands.

    Graham M. Davies;Graham M. Davies;Rebecca J. Aarons;Graham R. Motson;John C. Jeffery

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of Aldehydes. Optimization, Mechanism, and Discovery of Stereoelectronic Control Involving a Combination of Anomeric and Cieplak Effects in Sulfur Ylide Epoxidations with Chiral 1,3-Oxathianes

    Varinder K. Aggarwal;J. Gair Ford;Sílvia Fonquerna;Harry Adams

  • The effect of tautomeric constant on the specificity of nucleotide incorporation during DNA replication: support for the rare tautomer hypothesis of substitution mutagenesis.

    Victoria H. Harris;Clifford L. Smith;W. Jonathan Cummins;Alan L. Hamilton

  • High-nuclearity Homoleptic and Heteroleptic Coordination Cages Based on Tetra-Capped Truncated Tetrahedral and Cuboctahedral Metal Frameworks

    Stephen P. Argent;Harry Adams;Thomas Riis-Johannessen;John C. Jeffery

  • Reversible extrusion and uptake of HCl molecules by crystalline solids involving coordination bond cleavage and formation.

    Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas;Lee Brammer;Jacco van de Streek;Kenneth Shankland

  • Highly efficient synthesis of tricyclic amines by a cyclization/cycloaddition cascade: total syntheses of aspidospermine, aspidospermidine, and quebrachamine.

    Iain Coldham;Adam J. M. Burrell;Laura E. White;Harry Adams

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Fenton
David E. Fenton University of Sheffield
Michael D. Ward
Michael D. Ward New York University
Peter M. Maitlis
Peter M. Maitlis University of Sheffield
Jim A. Thomas
Jim A. Thomas University of Sheffield
Brian E. Mann
Brian E. Mann University of Sheffield
Lee Brammer
Lee Brammer University of Sheffield
Christopher A. Hunter
Christopher A. Hunter University of Pennsylvania
Simon Jones
Simon Jones Microsoft (United States)
Stephen Faulkner
Stephen Faulkner University of Oxford
Simon J. A. Pope
Simon J. A. Pope Cardiff University

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