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Karine Costuas

Karine Costuas

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Overview

Karine Costuas is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and has a significant body of research primarily in the field of Materials Science. Their work spans various subfields including Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, as well as Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research contributions encompass a range of topics, focusing extensively on crystallization and solubility studies, as well as X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Additional areas of work include magnetism in coordination complexes, the synthesis and applications of metal-organic frameworks, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, nanocluster synthesis and applications, and organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis.

They have published frequently in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, where they have 28 publications, and Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, with 4 papers. Other publication venues include Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Dalton Transactions, and Chemistry - A European Journal.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Intramolecular rearrangements guided by adaptive coordination-driven reactions toward highly luminescent polynuclear Cu(i) assemblies, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
  • Luminescent vapochromic single crystal to single crystal transition in one-dimensional coordination polymer featuring the first Cu(i) dimer bridged by an aqua ligand, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
  • Revisiting properties of edge-bridged bromide tantalum clusters in the solid-state, in solution and vice versa: an intertwined experimental and modelling approach, 2021, Dalton Transactions
  • On the reliability of acquiring molecular junction parameters by Lorentzian fitting of I/V curves, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • How the Ancillary Ligand X Drives the Redox Properties of Biscyclopentadienyl Pentavalent Uranium Cp2U(N-Ar)X Complexes, 2021, Inorganic Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in their research include Guillaume Calvez, Christophe Lescop, Ali Moustafa Khalil, V. Delmas, and Sloane Evariste. The partnership with these coauthors reflects sustained cooperation, with the highest number of coauthored works reaching 34 publications.

Best Publications

  • Oxidation chemistry of metal-bonded C4 chains: A combined chemical, spectroelectrochemical, and computational study

    Michael I. Bruce;Paul J. Low;Karine Costuas;Jean-François Halet

  • Bonding and Substituent Effects in Electron-Rich Mononuclear Ruthenium σ-Arylacetylides of the Formula [(η2-dppe)(η5-C5Me5)Ru(C⋮C)-1,4-(C6H4)X][PF6]n (n = 0, 1; X = NO2, CN, F, H, OMe, NH2)

    Frédéric Paul;Benjamin G. Ellis;Michael I. Bruce;Loic Toupet

  • Polynuclear carbon-rich organometallic complexes: clarification of the role of the bridging ligand in the redox properties.

    Karine Costuas;Stéphane Rigaut

  • Synthesis, photophysical and nonlinear optical properties of macromolecular architectures featuring octupolar tris(bipyridine) ruthenium(II) moieties: evidence for a supramolecular self-ordering in a dentritic structure.

    Thomas Le Bouder;Olivier Maury;Arnaud Bondon;Karine Costuas

  • Electroswitchable photoluminescence activity: synthesis, spectroscopy, electrochemistry, photophysics, and X-ray crystal and electronic structures of [Re(bpy)(CO)3(C[triple bond]C[bond]C6H4[bond]C[triple bond]C)Fe(C5Me5)(dppe)][PF6](n) (n = 0, 1).

    Keith Man-Chung Wong;Sally Chan-Fung Lam;Chi-Chiu Ko;Nianyong Zhu

  • Bonding and Electronic Structure in Consanguineous and Conjugal Iron and Rhenium sp Carbon Chain Complexes [MC4M‘]n+: Computational Analyses of the Effect of the Metal

    Haijun Jiao;Karine Costuas;John A. Gladysz;Jean-Francois Halet

  • Organometallic Mixed-Valence Systems. Two-Center and Three-Center Compounds with meta Connections around a Central Phenylene Ring

    Tania Weyland;Karine Costuas;Loic Toupet;Jean-François Halet, ,‡ and

  • [(Cp*)(dppe)Fe(III)−]+ Units Bridged through 1,3-Diethynylbenzene and 1,3,5-Triethynylbenzene Spacers: Ferromagnetic Metal−Metal Exchange Interaction

    Tania Weyland;Karine Costuas;Alain Mari;Jean-François Halet

  • Theoretical, thermodynamic, spectroscopic, and structural studies of the consequences of one-electron oxidation on the Fe-X bonds in 17- and 18-electron Cp*Fe(dppe)X complexes (X = F, Cl, Br, I, H, CH3).

    Mats Tilset;Irene Fjeldahl;Jean-René Hamon;Paul Hamon

  • Electron-Rich Piano-Stool Iron σ-Acetylides. Electronic Structures of Arylalkynyl Iron(III) Radical Cations†

    Frédéric Paul;Loic Toupet;‡ Jean-Yves Thépot;Karine Costuas

  • Iron versus Ruthenium: Dramatic Changes in Electronic Structure Result from Replacement of One Fe by Ru in [{Cp*(dppe)Fe}-CC-CC-{Fe(dppe)Cp*}]n+ (n = 0, 1, 2)

    Michael I. Bruce;Karine Costuas;Thomas Davin;Benjamin G. Ellis

  • d-f heterobimetallic association between ytterbium and ruthenium carbon-rich complexes: redox commutation of near-IR luminescence.

    Emmanuel Di Piazza;Lucie Norel;Karine Costuas;Adrien Bourdolle

  • A multifunctional organometallic switch with carbon-rich ruthenium and diarylethene units

    Yifei Liu;Corinne Lagrost;Karine Costuas;Noureddine Tchouar

  • Electron Transfer and Electron Exchange between [Cp*(dppe)Fe] n + ( n = 0, 1) Building Blocks Mediated by the 9,10-Bis(ethynyl)anthracene Bridge

    Frédéric de Montigny;Gilles Argouarch;Karine Costuas;Jean-François Halet

  • C7 and C9 carbon-rich bridges in diruthenium systems: synthesis, spectroscopic, and theoretical investigations of different oxidation States.

    Stéphane Rigaut;Céline Olivier;Karine Costuas;Sylvie Choua

  • Photo-modulable molecular transport junctions based on organometallic molecular wires

    Fanben Meng;Yves Marie Hervault;Lucie Norel;Karine Costuas

  • "Chain-like" trimetallic ruthenium complexes with C7 carbon-rich bridges: experimental and theoretical investigations of electronic communication tuning in five distinct oxidation states.

    Céline Olivier;Karine Costuas;Sylvie Choua;Vincent Maurel

  • Electron-Rich Piano-Stool Iron σ-Acetylides.† Theoretical and Phenomenological Investigation of Electronic Substituent Effects in Iron(II) Acetylides

    Karine Costuas;Frédéric Paul;Loic Toupet;Jean-François Halet

  • Redox-Switchable Second-Order Molecular Polarizabilities with Electron-Rich Iron σ-Aryl Acetylides †

    Frédéric Paul;Karine Costuas;Isabelle Ledoux;Sandrine Deveau

  • Bonding and Electron Delocalization in Ruthenium(III) σ-Arylacetylide Radicals [trans-Cl(η2-dppe)2RuC≡C(4-C6H4X)]+ (X = NO2, C(O)H, C(O)Me, F, H, OMe, NMe2): Misleading Aspects of the ESR Anisotropy

    Nicolas Gauthier;Noureddine Tchouar;Frédéric Justaud;Gilles Argouarch

  • Adaptive Coordination-Driven Supramolecular Syntheses toward New Polymetallic Cu(I) Luminescent Assemblies

    Sloane Evariste;Ali Moustafa Khalil;Mehdi Elsayed Moussa;Alan Kwun-Wa Chan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Halet
Jean-François Halet University of Rennes
Loïc Toupet
Loïc Toupet University of Rennes
Claude Lapinte
Claude Lapinte University of Rennes
Michael I. Bruce
Michael I. Bruce Stanford University
Paul J. Low
Paul J. Low University of Western Australia
Brian W. Skelton
Brian W. Skelton University of Western Australia
Boris Le Guennic
Boris Le Guennic University of Rennes
Olivier Cador
Olivier Cador University of Rennes
Thierry Roisnel
Thierry Roisnel University of Rennes
Stéphane Cordier
Stéphane Cordier Grenoble Alpes University

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