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Overview

Mark D. Smith is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their primary field of study is Materials Science with a focus on several specialized subfields including Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their research includes an emphasis on topics such as Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Crystal Structures and Properties, Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications, Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing, Advanced Condensed Matter Physics, and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials.

Smith has contributed to multiple papers recently, including:

  • Stimuli-Modulated Metal Oxidation States in Photochromic MOFs (2022), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Heterometallic Actinide-Containing Photoresponsive Metal-Organic Frameworks: Dynamic and Static Tuning of Electronic Properties (2021), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Breaking the photoswitch speed limit (2023), Nature Communications
  • Bis-Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes Containing 4,4'-Bis(phosphonomethyl)-2,2'-bipyridine Ligands: Photophysics, Electrochemistry, and High-Voltage Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (2020), Inorganic Chemistry
  • Confinement-Driven Photophysics in Cages, Covalent−Organic Frameworks, Metal-Organic Frameworks, and DNA (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society

Smith frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their common co-authors include:

  • Hans-Conrad zur Loye (197 joint publications)
  • Gregory Morrison (134 joint publications)
  • Natalia B. Shustova (62 joint publications)
  • Richard D. Adams (58 joint publications)
  • Logan S. Breton (54 joint publications)

Their work is published predominantly in several venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (300 publications)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (20 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (10 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (9 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (9 publications)

Smith has also contributed to academic books, including a publication with the University of North Carolina Press titled Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture (2024).

Best Publications

  • 1-Benzenesulfinyl piperidine/trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride: a potent combination of shelf-stable reagents for the low-temperature conversion of thioglycosides to glycosyl triflates and for the formation of diverse glycosidic linkages.

    David Crich and;Mark Smith

  • Ligand-Directed Molecular Architectures: Self-Assembly of Two-Dimensional Rectangular Metallacycles and Three-Dimensional Trigonal or Tetragonal Prisms

    Cheng-Yong Su;Yue-Ping Cai;Chun-Long Chen;Mark D. Smith

  • Exceptionally stable, hollow tubular metal-organic architectures: synthesis, characterization, and solid-state transformation study.

    Cheng-Yong Su;Andrea M. Goforth;Mark D. Smith;P. J. Pellechia

  • Noninterpenetrating Square-Grid Coordination Polymers With Dimensions of 25×25 Å2 Prepared by UsingN,N′-Type Ligands: The First Chiral Square-Grid Coordination Polymer

    Neil G. Pschirer;Delia M. Ciurtin;Mark D. Smith;Uwe H. F. Bunz

  • [Co2(ppca)2(H2O)(V4O12)0.5]: A Framework Material Exhibiting Reversible Shrinkage and Expansion through a Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformation Involving a Change in the Cobalt Coordination Environment

    Chun-Long Chen;Chun-Long Chen;Andrea M. Goforth;Mark D. Smith;Cheng-Yong Su

  • Two Luminescent Coordination Polymers with a Triple-Helix Structure: HgX2(C31H24N2)·CH2Cl2(X = Cl and Br)

    Delia M. Ciurtin;Neil G. Pschirer;Mark D. Smith;Uwe H. F. Bunz

  • Structural diversity and thermochromic properties of iodobismuthate materials containing d-metal coordination cations: observation of a high symmetry [Bi3I11]2- anion and of isolated I- anions.

    Andrea M. Goforth;Meredith A. Tershansy;Mark D. Smith;LeRoy Peterson

  • Energy transfer on demand: photoswitch-directed behavior of metal-porphyrin frameworks.

    Derek E. Williams;Joseph A. Rietman;Josef M. Maier;Rui Tan

  • A Novel Noninterpenetrating Polycyclohexane Network: A New Inorganic/Organic Coordination Polymer Structural Motif Generated by Self-Assembly of “T-Shaped” Moieties

    Yu-Bin Dong;Mark D. Smith;and Ralph C. Layland;Hans-Conrad zur Loye

  • Control of the stereochemical impact of the lone pair in lead(II) tris(pyrazolyl)methane complexes. Improved preparation of Na[B[3,5-(CF3)2C6H3]4].

    Daniel L. Reger;Terri D. Wright;Christine A. Little;Jaydeep J. S. Lamba

  • Crystal growth of Ba2MOsO6 (M=Li, Na) from reactive hydroxide fluxes

    Katharine E Stitzer;Mark D Smith;Hans-Conrad zur Loye

  • Formation of dinuclear, macrocyclic, and chain structures from HgI(2) and a semirigid benzimidazole-based bridging ligand: an example of ring-opening supramolecular isomerism.

    Cheng-Yong Su;Andrea M. Goforth;Mark D. Smith;Hans-Conrad Zur Loye

  • Antiviral nucleoside derivatives

    Joseph Armstrong Martin;Keshab Sarma;David Bernard Smith;Mark Smith

  • Syntheses and structures of Ag(I)-containing coordination polymers and Co(II)-containing supramolecular complex based on novel fulvene ligands.

    Yu-Bin Dong;Peng Wang;Ru-Qi Huang;Mark D Smith

  • [Cu(2‐pyrazinecarboxylato)2HgI2]⋅HgI2: An Open Noninterpenetrating CuII–HgII Mixed‐Metal Cuboidal Framework Encapsulating Nearly Linear HgI2 Guest Molecules

    Yu-Bin Dong;Mark D. Smith;Hans-Conrad zur Loye

  • Self-repairing polymers: poly(dioxaborolane)s containing trigonal planar boron

    Weijun Niu;Caroline O'Sullivan;Brett M. Rambo;Mark D. Smith

  • Syntheses and Characterizations of One-Dimensional Coordination Polymers Generated from Cadmium Nitrate and Bipyridine Ligands

    Yu-Bin Dong;Ralph C. Layland;Mark D. Smith;Neil G. Pschirer

  • 2,4,6-Tri-tert-butylpyrimidine (TTBP): A Cost Effective, Readily Available Alternative to the Hindered Base 2,6-Di-tert-butylpyridine and its 4-Substituted Derivatives in Glycosylation and Other Reactions

    David Crich;Mark Smith;Qingjia Yao;John Picione

  • The first ‘two-over/two-under’(2O/2U) 2D weave structure assembled from Hg-containing 1D coordination polymer chains

    Yun-Hui Li;Cheng-Yong Su;Andrea M. Goforth;Ken D. Shimizu

  • [Ag2(C33H26N2O2)(H2O)2(SO3CF3)2]·0.5C6H6: A Luminescent Supramolecular Silver(I) Complex Based on Metal−Carbon and Metal−Heteroatom Interactions

    Yu-Bin Dong;Guo-Xia Jin;Mark D. Smith;Ru-Qi Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Conrad zur Loye
Hans-Conrad zur Loye University of South Carolina
Daniel L. Reger
Daniel L. Reger University of South Carolina
Perry J. Pellechia
Perry J. Pellechia University of South Carolina
Richard D. Adams
Richard D. Adams University of South Carolina
Klaus Klumpp
Klaus Klumpp Janssen (Belgium)
Uwe H. F. Bunz
Uwe H. F. Bunz Heidelberg University
Ken D. Shimizu
Ken D. Shimizu University of South Carolina
Yu-Bin Dong
Yu-Bin Dong Shandong Normal University
Stephen Cusack
Stephen Cusack European Bioinformatics Institute
Cheng-Yong Su
Cheng-Yong Su Sun Yat-sen University

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