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Malcolm A. Halcrow

Malcolm A. Halcrow

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Chemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
12659
World Ranking
11014
National Ranking
625

Overview

Malcolm A. Halcrow is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a specialization in materials chemistry. The subfields in which they have published include materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, inorganic chemistry, and organic chemistry.

Their work covers a range of topics related to the synthesis, properties, and crystallographic analysis of coordination complexes and magnetic materials. Specific research areas include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, magnetism in coordination complexes, metal complex synthesis and properties, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, and advanced NMR techniques and applications.

Malcolm A. Halcrow has published recent papers such as:

  • "Manipulating metal spin states for biomimetic, catalytic and molecular materials chemistry" (2020) in Dalton Transactions
  • "The number and shape of lattice solvent molecules controls spin-crossover in an isomorphous series of crystalline solvate salts" (2021) in Chemical Communications
  • "Structural Transformations and Spin-Crossover in [FeL2]2+ Salts (L= 4-{tert-Butylsulfanyl}-2,6-di{pyrazol-1-yl}pyridine): The Influence of Bulky Ligand Substituents" (2020) in Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "The flexibility of long chain substituents influences spin-crossover in isomorphous lipid bilayer crystals" (2021) in Chemical Communications
  • "Mix and match - controlling the functionality of spin-crossover materials through solid solutions and molecular alloys" (2024) in Dalton Transactions

Frequent co-authors in their research include Rafał Kulmaczewski, Oscar Céspedes, Christopher M. Pask, Izar Capel Berdiell, and Namrah Shahid.

Malcolm A. Halcrow has contributed extensively to several publication venues. These include The Cambridge Structural Database, University of Leeds, Dalton Transactions, Inorganic Chemistry, and the Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Best Publications

  • Structure:function relationships in molecular spin-crossover complexes

    Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • Jahn–Teller distortions in transition metal compounds, and their importance in functional molecular and inorganic materials

    Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • Structural and Magnetic Properties of [Ni4(.mu.3-OMe)4(dbm)4(MeOH)4] and [Ni4(.eta.1,.mu.3-N3)4(dbm)4(EtOH)4]. Magnetostructural Correlations for [Ni4X4]4+ Cubane Complexes

    Malcolm A. Halcrow;Jui-Sui Sun;John C. Huffman;George Christou

  • Biomimetic Chemistry of Nickel

    Malcolm A. Halcrow;George Christou

  • The synthesis and coordination chemistry of 2,6-bis(pyrazolyl)pyridines and related ligands — Versatile terpyridine analogues

    Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • Iron(II) complexes of 2,6-di(pyrazol-1-yl)pyridines—A versatile system for spin-crossover research

    Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • The spin-states and spin-transitions of mononuclear iron(II) complexes of nitrogen-donor ligands

    Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • Pyrazoles and pyrazolides—flexible synthons in self-assembly

    Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • Stereochemical effects on the spin-state transition shown by salts of [FeL2]2+ [L = 2,6-di(pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine]

    Joanne M. Holland;Judith A. McAllister;Colin A. Kilner;Mark Thornton-Pett

  • Spin state behavior of iron(II)/dipyrazolylpyridine complexes. New insights from crystallographic and solution measurements

    Laurence J. Kershaw Cook;Rufeida Mohammed;Grant Sherborne;Thomas D. Roberts

  • A Unified Treatment of the Relationship Between Ligand Substituents and Spin State in a Family of Iron(II) Complexes.

    Laurence J. Kershaw Cook;Laurence J. Kershaw Cook;Rafal Kulmaczewski;Rufeida Mohammed;Stephen Dudley

  • An unusual abrupt thermal spin-state transition in [FeL2][BF4]2 [L = 2,6-di(pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine]

    Joanne M. Holland;Judith A. McAllister;Zhibao Lu;Colin A. Kilner

  • Spin-crossover Compounds with Wide Thermal Hysteresis

    Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • Copper(II) complexes of tridentate pyridylmethylethylenediamines: Role of ligand steric hindrance on DNA binding and cleavage

    Angamuthu Raja;Venugopal Rajendiran;Palanisamy Uma Maheswari;Ramalingam Balamurugan

  • Crystal structure of the precursor of galactose oxidase: An unusual self-processing enzyme

    S. J. Firbank;M. S. Rogers;M. S. Rogers;C. M. Wilmot;D. M. Dooley

  • The Effect of Ligand Design on Metal Ion Spin State—Lessons from Spin Crossover Complexes

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  • Interplay between kinetically slow thermal spin-crossover and metastable high-spin state relaxation in an iron(II) complex with similar T1/2 and T(LIESST).

    Victoria A. Money;Chiara Carbonera;Jérôme Elhaïk;Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • Trapping and manipulating excited spin states of transition metal compounds.

    Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • Iron(II) complexes with a terpyridine embrace packing motif show remarkably consistent cooperative spin-transitions.

    Ruth Pritchard;Colin A. Kilner;Malcolm A. Halcrow

  • Antisymmetric exchange in two tricopper(II) complexes containing a [Cu3(μ3-OMe)]5+ core

    Xiaoming Liu;Marcelo P. de Miranda;Eric J. L. McInnes;Colin A. Kilner

  • Spin-crossover in [Fe(3-bpp)2][BF4]2 in different solvents – A dramatic stabilisation of the low-spin state in water

    Simon A. Barrett;Colin A. Kilner;Malcolm A. Halcrow

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. L. McInnes
Eric J. L. McInnes University of Manchester
Xiaoming Liu
Xiaoming Liu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Martin Schröder
Martin Schröder University of Manchester
Judith A. K. Howard
Judith A. K. Howard Durham University
Alexander J. Blake
Alexander J. Blake University of Nottingham
Guillaume Chastanet
Guillaume Chastanet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michaele J. Hardie
Michaele J. Hardie University of Leeds
George Christou
George Christou University of Florida
Mary McPartlin
Mary McPartlin University of Cambridge
Peter F. Knowles
Peter F. Knowles University of Leeds

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