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Howard M. Colquhoun is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of chemistry, materials science, and engineering, with a particular focus on organic chemistry and polymers.

The scientist's work is concentrated in several subfields including organic chemistry, molecular biology, polymers and plastics, mechanical engineering, and biochemistry. Key research topics cover chemical synthesis and analysis, polymer composites and self-healing materials, synthesis and properties of polymers, synthetic organic chemistry methods, metal complexes synthesis and properties, metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, as well as organometallic compounds synthesis and characterization.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Howard M. Colquhoun include:

  • Whither Second-Sphere Coordination?, 2021, CCS Chemistry
  • Correction to "A Healable Supramolecular Polymer Blend Based on Aromatic π-π Stacking and Hydrogen Bonding Interactions", 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Functionalised PEGs with photo-dimerisable, anthracenyl end-groups: New UV-curable materials for use in inkjet formulations, 2020, Progress in Organic Coatings
  • From Food to Mobility: Investigating a Screening Assay for New Automotive Antioxidants Using the Stable Radical DPPH, 2021, ChemistrySelect
  • Aromatic poly(fluorocarbinol)s: Soluble, hydrophobic binders for inkjet formulations, 2021, Progress in Organic Coatings

Colquhoun's frequent co-authors include Wayne Hayes, Jessica Godleman, Ashfaq Afsar, Josephine L. Harries, and Flavien Leroux.

Their research has appeared in various publication venues such as:

  • Progress in Organic Coatings
  • CCS Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ChemistrySelect
  • Materials Today Chemistry

Best Publications

  • A healable supramolecular polymer blend based on aromatic π-π stacking and hydrogen-bonding interactions

    Stefano Burattini;Barnaby W. Greenland;Daniel Hermida Merino;Wengui Weng

  • A self-repairing, supramolecular polymer system: healability as a consequence of donor–acceptor π–π stacking interactions

    Stefano Burattini;Howard M. Colquhoun;Justin D. Fox;Donia Friedmann

  • High-Strength, Healable, Supramolecular Polymer Nanocomposites

    Justin Fox;Jeong J. Wie;Barnaby W. Greenland;Stefano Burattini

  • Second‐Sphere Coordination–a Novel Rǒle for Molecular Receptors

    Howard M. Colquhoun;J. Fraser Stoddart;David J. Williams

  • A Supramolecular Polymer Based on Tweezer-Type π−π Stacking Interactions: Molecular Design for Healability and Enhanced Toughness

    Stefano Burattini;Barnaby W. Greenland;Wayne Hayes;Michael E. Mackay

  • Carbonylation: Direct Synthesis of Carbonyl Compounds

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  • Carbonylation

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  • A novel self-healing supramolecular polymer system

    Stefano Burattini;Howard M. Colquhoun;Barnaby W. Greenland;Wayne Hayes

  • Information-containing macromolecules

    Howard Colquhoun;Jean-François Lutz

  • Big and little Meccano

    J. Fraser Stoddart;Howard M. Colquhoun

  • Healable supramolecular polymers

    Lewis R. Hart;Josephine L. Harries;Barnaby W. Greenland;Howard M. Colquhoun

  • Solid state interconversions of coordination networks and hydrogen-bonded salts

    Chris J Adams;HM Colquhoun;PC Crawford;M Lusi

  • Deboronation of C-substituted ortho- and meta-closo-carboranes using “wet” fluoride ion solutions

    M.A. Fox;W.R. Gill;P.L. Herbertson;J.A.H. MacBride

  • New Pathways for Organic Synthesis

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  • Polymers and ceramics based on icosahedral carboranes. Model studies of the formation and hydrolytic stability of aryl ether, ketone, amide and borane linkages between carborane units

    David A. Brown;Howard M. Colquhoun;J. Anthony Daniels;J. A. Hugh MacBride

  • Recognition of polyimide sequence information by a molecular tweezer.

    Howard M. Colquhoun;Zhixue Zhu

  • Multivalency in healable supramolecular polymers: the effect of supramolecular cross-link density on the mechanical properties and healing of non-covalent polymer networks

    Lewis R. Hart;James H. Hunter;Ngoc A. Nguyen;Josephine L. Harries

  • Macrocyclic Aromatic Ether-Imide-Sulfones: Versatile Supramolecular Receptors with Extreme Thermochemical and Oxidative Stability

    Howard M. Colquhoun;David J. Williams;Zhixue Zhu

  • Synthesis, structure, and ring-opening polymerisation of strained macrocyclic biaryls: a new route to high-performance materials

    Howard M. Colquhoun;Christopher C. Dudman;Mark Thomas;Caroline A. O'Mahoney

  • Sequence-selective assembly of tweezer molecules on linear templates enables frameshift-reading of sequence information

    Zhixue Zhu;Christine J Cardin;Yu Gan;Howard Matthew Colquhoun

  • Second Sphere Coordination of Cationic Platinum Complexes by Crown Ethers— The X‐Ray Crystal Structure of [Pt(bpy)(NH3)2. Dibenzo[30]crown‐10]2+[PF6] 2−xH2O (x≈0.6)

    Howard M. Colquhoun;J. Fraser Stoddart;David J. Williams;John B. Wolstenholme

  • Design, synthesis and computational modelling of aromatic tweezer-molecules as models for chain-folding polymer blends

    Barnaby W. Greenland;Stefano Burattini;Wayne Hayes;Howard M. Colquhoun

  • The complexation of the diquat dication by dibenzo-3n-crown-n ethers

    Howard M. Colquhoun;Eric P. Goodings;John M. Maud;J. Fraser Stoddart

  • Sterically controlled recognition of macromolecular sequence information by molecular tweezers.

    Howard M Colquhoun;Zhixue Zhu;Christine J Cardin;Yu Gan

  • Extreme complementarity in a macrocycle-tweezer complex

    Howard M. Colquhoun;Zhixue Zhu;David J. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne Hayes
Wayne Hayes University of Reading
J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Michael G. B. Drew
Michael G. B. Drew University of Reading
Michael E. Mackay
Michael E. Mackay University of Delaware
Stuart J. Rowan
Stuart J. Rowan University of Chicago
Ian W. Hamley
Ian W. Hamley University of Reading
František Hartl
František Hartl University of Reading
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin University of St Andrews
Andrew J. P. White
Andrew J. P. White Imperial College London
Tiberio A. Ezquerra
Tiberio A. Ezquerra Spanish National Research Council

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