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James D. Crowley

James D. Crowley

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Chemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
8543
World Ranking
12807
National Ranking
31

Overview

James D. Crowley is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research spans significant areas within materials science and chemistry, with a particular focus on materials chemistry and organic chemistry. They have contributed extensively to fields such as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, as well as spectroscopy and oncology.

Their work centers on several key topics including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, supramolecular chemistry and complexes, magnetism in coordination complexes, metal complexes synthesis and properties, molecular sensors and ion detection, and metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications.

Notable recent publications by Crowley include:

  • A Reduced-Symmetry Heterobimetallic [PdPtL4]4+ Cage: Assembly, Guest Binding, and Stimulus-Induced Switching, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Metallo-Supramolecular Self-Assembly with Reduced-Symmetry Ligands, 2020, ChemPlusChem
  • Heterotrimetallic Double Cavity Cages: Syntheses and Selective Guest Binding, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Heterometallic cages: synthesis and applications, 2023, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Exploiting reduced-symmetry ligands with pyridyl and imidazole donors to construct a second-generation stimuli-responsive heterobimetallic [PdPtL4]4+ cage, 2023, Chemical Science

Crowley frequently publishes in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Inorganic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, and Frontiers in Chemistry.

Collaborations are an integral part of Crowley's research. They have frequently co-authored papers with L.J. Wright, Christian G. Hartinger, Roan A. S. Vasdev, James A. Findlay, and Lynn S. Lisboa.

Best Publications

  • Active metal template synthesis of rotaxanes, catenanes and molecular shuttles

    James D. Crowley;Stephen M. Goldup;Ai Lan Lee;David A. Leigh

  • Stimuli-responsive Pd2L4metallosupramolecular cages: towards targeted cisplatin drug delivery

    James E. M. Lewis;Emma L. Gavey;Scott A. Cameron;James D. Crowley

  • A multicomponent CuAAC “click” approach to a library of hybrid polydentate 2-pyridyl-1,2,3-triazole ligands: new building blocks for the generation of metallosupramolecular architectures

    James D. Crowley;Pauline H. Bandeen

  • Catalytic "Active-Metal" template synthesis of [2]rotaxanes, [3]rotaxanes, and molecular shuttles, and some observations on the mechanism of the Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne 1,3-cycloaddition

    Vincent Aucagne;José Berná;James D. Crowley;Stephen M. Goldup

  • A one pot multi-component CuAAC “click” approach to bidentate and tridentate pyridyl-1,2,3-triazole ligands: Synthesis, X-ray structures and copper(II) and silver(I) complexes

    James D. Crowley;Pauline H. Bandeen;Lyall R. Hanton

  • Gold(I) “click” 1,2,3-triazolylidenes: synthesis, self-assembly and catalysis

    Kelly J. Kilpin;Ursula S. D. Paul;Ai-Lan Lee;James D. Crowley

  • Controlled Formation of Heteroleptic [Pd2(La)2(Lb)2]4+ Cages

    Dan Preston;Jonathan E. Barnsley;Keith C. Gordon;James D. Crowley

  • “Click-Triazole” Coordination Chemistry: Exploiting 1,4-Disubstituted-1,2,3-Triazoles as Ligands

    James D. Crowley;David A. McMorran

  • 1,3,4-Trisubstituted-1,2,3-Triazol-5-ylidene 'Click' Carbene Ligands: Synthesis, Catalysis and Self-Assembly

    James D. Crowley;D Ai-Lan Lee;Kelly J. Kilpin;Kelly J. Kilpin

  • Multicavity [PdnL4](2n+) cages with controlled segregated binding of different guests

    Dan Preston;James E. M. Lewis;James David Crowley

  • ‘Click’ to functionalise: synthesis, characterisation and enhancement of the physical properties of a series of exo- and endo-functionalised Pd2L4 nanocages

    James E. M. Lewis;Anastasia B. S. Elliott;Anastasia B. S. Elliott;C. John McAdam;Keith C. Gordon;Keith C. Gordon

  • Palladium(II) complexes of readily functionalized bidentate 2-pyridyl-1,2,3-triazole "click" ligands: a synthetic, structural, spectroscopic, and computational study.

    Kelly J. Kilpin;Emma L. Gavey;C. John McAdam;Christopher B. Anderson

  • An unusual nickel-copper-mediated alkyne homocoupling reaction for the active-template synthesis of [2]rotaxanes

    James D. Crowley;Stephen M. Goldup;Nicholas D. Gowans;David A. Leigh

  • Enzymes and proteins containing manganese: an overview.

    James D. Crowley;Deborah A. Traynor;David C. Weatherburn

  • A Reduced‐Symmetry Heterobimetallic [PdPtL 4 ] 4+ Cage: Assembly, Guest Binding, and Stimulus‐Induced Switching

    Lynn S Lisboa;James A Findlay;L James Wright;Christian G Hartinger

  • Comparison of inverse and regular 2-pyridyl-1,2,3-triazole "click" complexes: structures, stability, electrochemical, and photophysical properties.

    Warrick K. C. Lo;Gregory S. Huff;Gregory S. Huff;John R. Cubanski;Aaron D. W. Kennedy

  • [2]Rotaxanes through palladium active-template oxidative heck cross-couplings.

    James D. Crowley;Kevin D. Hänni;and Ai-Lan Lee;David A. Leigh

  • A Nona-nuclear Heterometallic Pd 3 Pt 6 "Donut"-Shaped Cage: Molecular Recognition and Photocatalysis.

    Dan Preston;Joshua J. Sutton;Joshua J. Sutton;Keith C. Gordon;Keith C. Gordon;James D. Crowley;James D. Crowley

  • Metallo-Supramolecular Self-Assembly with Reduced-Symmetry Ligands

    James E. M. Lewis;James. D. Crowley

  • A switchable palladium-complexed molecular shuttle and its metastable positional isomers.

    James D. Crowley;David A. Leigh;Paul J. Lusby;Roy T. McBurney

  • A Catalytic Palladium Active‐Metal Template Pathway to [2]Rotaxanes

    José Berná;James D. Crowley;Stephen M. Goldup;Kevin D. Hänni

  • Ferrocene-containing non-interlocked molecular machines

    Synøve Ø. Scottwell;James D. Crowley

  • Use of di-1,4-substituted-1,2,3-triazole “click” ligands to self-assemble dipalladium(II) coordinatively saturated, quadruply stranded helicate cages

    James D. Crowley;Emma L. Gavey

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith C. Gordon
Keith C. Gordon University of Otago
David A. Leigh
David A. Leigh University of Manchester
B. Bosnich
B. Bosnich University of Chicago
Stephen M. Goldup
Stephen M. Goldup University of Southampton
Stephen C. Moratti
Stephen C. Moratti University of Otago
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin University of St Andrews
Michael W. George
Michael W. George University of Nottingham
Geoffrey B. Jameson
Geoffrey B. Jameson Massey University
Paul E. Kruger
Paul E. Kruger University of Canterbury
Brendan F. Abrahams
Brendan F. Abrahams University of Melbourne

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