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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

J. Derek Woollins is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with significant contributions to subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Oncology, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications focused on crystallization, solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Specific research topics addressed by Woollins comprise metal complexes synthesis and properties, synthesis and characterization of heterocyclic compounds, organometallic compounds synthesis and characterization, organoselenium and organotellurium chemistry, and metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications.

Woollins has published extensively in a variety of scientific journals, including a prominent presence in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Molecules
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • ACS Omega

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Alexandra M. Z. Slawin (93 coauthored works)
  • David B. Cordes (45 coauthored works)
  • Michæl Bühl (29 coauthored works)
  • Guoxiong Hua (29 coauthored works)
  • Cameron L. Carpenter-Warren (27 coauthored works)

Recent publications by Woollins and colleagues include:

  • "Candle light-style OLEDs with benzochalcogenadiazoles cores," 2020, published in Dyes and Pigments
  • "Diradical Character of Neutral Heteroleptic Bis(1,2-dithiolene) Metal Complexes: Case Study of [Pd(Me2timdt)(mnt)] (Me2timdt = 1,3-Dimethyl-2,4,5-trithioxoimidazolidine; mnt2- = 1,2-Dicyano-1,2-ethylenedithiolate)," 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Synthesis, characterizations, antitumor and antimicrobial evaluations of novel Mn(II) and Cu(II) complexes with NNN-tridentate s-Triazine-Schiff base ligand," 2023, Inorganica Chimica Acta
  • "Phosphorus-Bismuth Peri-Substituted Acenaphthenes: A Synthetic, Structural, and Computational Study," 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Chalcogen-bonded donor-acceptor complexes of 5,6-dicyano[1,2,5]selenadiazolo[3,4-b]pyrazine with halide ions," 2022, New Journal of Chemistry

Recognition for Woollins' work includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2002 and becoming a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Bis(diphenylphosphino)amine and related chemistry

    Pravat Bhattacharyya;J.Derek Woollins

  • Inorganic backbone phosphines

    Tracey Appleby;J Derek Woollins

  • Preparation and Single-Crystal Characterization of (i)()Pr(2)P(S)NHP(S)(i)()Pr(2) and Homoleptic [(i)()Pr(2)P(S)NP(S)(i)()Pr(2)](-) Complexes of Zinc, Cadmium, and Nickel.

    D. Cupertino;R. Keyte;A. M. Z. Slawin;D. J. Williams

  • Bidentate organophosphorus ligands formed via P–N bond formation: synthesis and coordination chemistry

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  • THE PREPARATION AND COORDINATION CHEMISTRY OF IPR2P(E)NHP(E')IPR2 (E, E' =SE; E = SE, E' = S; E = S, E' = O; E, E' = O

    Dominico Cupertino;David J. Birdsall;Alexandra M.Z. Slawin;J.Derek Woollins

  • A New Synthesis of (PhPSe2)2 (Woollins Reagent) and Its Use in the Synthesis of Novel P–Se Heterocycles

    Ian P. Gray;Pravat Bhattacharyya;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;J. Derek Woollins

  • Bis(bidentate) complexes of iminobis(diphenylphosphine chalcogenides)[M{N(XPPh2)2-X,X′}2](X = S or Se; M = Ni, Pd or Pt)

    Pravat Bhattacharyya;J. Novosad;J. Phillips;A. M. Z. Slawin

  • The co-ordination chemistry of 2-(diphenylphosphinoamino)pyridine

    Stephen M. Aucott;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;J. Derek Woollins

  • Ferrocene-containing metal complexes

    William R. Cullen;J. Derek Woollins

  • Naphthalene and related systems peri-substituted by Group 15 and 16 elements.

    Petr Kilian;Fergus R. Knight;J. Derek Woollins

  • New pyridine carboxamide ligands and their complexation to copper(II). X-Ray crystal structures of mono-, di, tri- and tetranuclear copper complexes

    Sneh L. Jain;Pravat Bhattacharyya;Heather L. Milton;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • The preparation and structure of complexes containing simple sulphur-nitrogen ligands

    Paul F. Kelly;J.Derek Woollins

  • Naphthalene-1,8-diyl bis(halogenophosphanes): novel syntheses and structures of useful synthetic building blocks.

    Petr Kilian;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;J. Derek Woollins

  • Organophosphorus-Tellurium Chemistry: From Fundamentals to Applications

    Andreas Nordheider;J. Derek Woollins;Tristram Chivers

  • P–N–S/Se-containing metallacycles

    J. Derek Woollins

  • Synthesis of ligands based on naphthalene peri-substituted by Group 15 and 16 elements and their coordination chemistry

    Petr Kilian;Fergus R. Knight;J. Derek Woollins

  • Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) Complexes of the Heterodifunctional Ligand Ph2PNHP(O)Ph2

    Pravat Bhattacharyya;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Martin B. Smith;J. Derek Woollins

  • Chemistry of azopyrimidines. Part II. Synthesis, spectra, electrochemistry and X-ray crystal structures of isomeric dichloro bis[2-(arylazo)pyrimidine] complexes of ruthenium(II) ☆

    Prasanta K. Santra;Tarun K. Misra;Debasis Das;Chittaranjan Sinha

  • Selenocarbonyl synthesis using Woollins reagent

    Pravat Bhattacharyya;J.Derek Woollins

  • Formation and Reactivity of Phosphorus–Selenium Rings

    Guoxiong Hua;J. Derek Woollins

  • P–N bond formation as a route to highly electron rich phosphine ligands

    Matthew L. Clarke;David J. Cole-Hamilton;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;J. Derek Woollins

  • Platinum complexes of naphthalene-1,8-dichalcogen and related polyaromatic hydrocarbon ligands.

    Stephen M. Aucott;Heather L. Milton;Stuart D. Robertson;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra M. Z. Slawin
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin University of St Andrews
David B. Cordes
David B. Cordes University of St Andrews
Michael Bühl
Michael Bühl University of St Andrews
Ivan P. Parkin
Ivan P. Parkin University College London
Sharon E. Ashbrook
Sharon E. Ashbrook University of St Andrews
Tristram Chivers
Tristram Chivers University of Calgary
Vito Lippolis
Vito Lippolis University of Cagliari
David J. Cole-Hamilton
David J. Cole-Hamilton University of St Andrews
Neil Robertson
Neil Robertson University of Edinburgh
Ray Jones
Ray Jones Plymouth University

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