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Simon J. Coles is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with significant contributions also in several subfields including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their work focus on various aspects of coordination complexes, crystallography, and synthesis, including:

  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Simon J. Coles has published extensively in several academic journals. The primary publication venues include:

  • Dalton Transactions
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Molecules

Some of their recent papers highlight their ongoing research interests:

  • Advanced crystallisation methods for small organic molecules, 2023, Chemical Society Reviews
  • The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure generation methods, 2024, Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials
  • Spectroscopic and Theoretical Investigation of Color Tuning in Deep-Red Luminescent Iridium(III) Complexes, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Complex structures arising from the self-assembly of a simple organic salt, 2021, Nature
  • The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure ranking methods, 2024, Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials

The researcher has collaborated frequently with other scientists, including:

  • Peter N. Horton
  • Graham J. Tizzard
  • James B. Orton
  • M. Carla Aragoni
  • Vito Lippolis

Best Publications

  • Superconducting and Semiconducting Magnetic Charge Transfer Salts: (BEDT-TTF)4AFe(C2O4)3.cntdot.C6H5CN (A = H2O, K, NH4)

    Mohamedally Kurmoo;Anthony W. Graham;Peter Day;Simon J. Coles

  • Changing and challenging times for service crystallography

    Simon J. Coles;Philip A. Gale

  • Applying hot-stage microscopy to co-crystal screening: a study of nicotinamide with seven active pharmaceutical ingredients

    David J. Berry;Colin C. Seaton;William Clegg;Ross W. Harrington

  • The catalytic intermolecular orthoarylation of phenols.

    Robin B. Bedford;Simon J. Coles;Michael B. Hursthouse;Michael E. Limmert

  • FAIR principles : interpretations and implementation considerations

    Annika Jacobsen;Ricardo de Miranda Azevedo;Nick S. Juty;Dominique Batista

  • Squaramides as potent transmembrane anion transporters

    Nathalie Busschaert;Isabelle L. Kirby;Sarah Young;Simon J. Coles

  • Novel Expanded Ring N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Free Carbenes, Silver Complexes, And Structures

    Manuel Alonso Iglesias;Dirk Johannes Beetstra;James Christopher Knight;Liling Ooi

  • Quadratic Nonlinear Optical Properties of N-Aryl Stilbazolium Dyes**

    Benjamin J. Coe;James A. Harris;Inge Asselberghs;Koen Clays

  • Lewis acidity of tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane: crystal and molecular structure of B(C6F5)3·OPEt3

    Michael A Beckett;David S Brassington;Simon J Coles;Michael B Hursthouse

  • Chiral 2,6-lutidinyl-biscarbene complexes of palladium

    Arran A. D. Tulloch;Andreas A. Danopoulos;Graham J. Tizzard;Simon J. Coles

  • Synthesis and characterisation of infinite co-ordination networks from flexible dipyridyl ligands and cadmium salts

    M. John Plater;Mark R. St. J. Foreman;Thomas Gelbrich;Simon J. Coles

  • High-Activity Catalysts for Suzuki Coupling and Amination Reactions with Deactivated Aryl Chloride Substrates: Importance of the Palladium Source.

    Robin B. Bedford;Catherine S. J. Cazin;Simon J. Coles;Thomas Gelbrich

  • Luminescent, Enantiopure, Phenylatopyridine Iridium-Based Coordination Capsules

    Oleg Chepelin;Jakub Ujma;Xiaohua Wu;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • Luminescent PtII(bipyridyl)(diacetylide) Chromophores with Pendant Binding Sites as Energy Donors for Sensitised Near-Infrared Emission from Lanthanides: Structures and Photophysics of PtII/LnIII Assemblies

    Tanya K. Ronson;Theodore Lazarides;Harry Adams;Simon J. A. Pope

  • Quadratic Optical Nonlinearities of N‐Methyl and N‐Aryl Pyridinium Salts

    Benjamin J. Coe;James A. Harris;Inge Asselberghs;Kurt Wostyn

  • Thiophene and Selenophene Copolymers Incorporating Fluorinated Phenylene Units in the Main Chain: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application in Organic Field-Effect Transistors

    David J. Crouch;Peter J. Skabara;Jan E. Lohr;Joseph J W McDouall

  • Syntheses and properties of two-dimensional charged nonlinear optical chromophores incorporating redox-switchable cis-tetraammineruthenium(II) centers

    Benjamin J. Coe;James A. Harris;Lathe A. Jones;Bruce S. Brunschwig

  • Synthesis and Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Study on the First Isolable Carbonyl Complex of an Actinide, (C5Me4H)3U(CO)

    Julian Parry;Ernesto Carmona;Simon Coles;Michael Hursthouse

  • Orthopalladated and -platinated Bulky triarylphosphite complexes: Synthesis, reactivity and application as high-activity catalysts for Suzuki and stille coupling reactions

    Robin B. Bedford;Samantha L. Hazelwood;Michael E. Limmert;David A. Albisson

  • First examples of diazepanylidene carbenes and their late-transition-metal complexes

    Manuel Iglesias;Dirk J. Beetstra;Andreas Stasch;Peter N. Horton

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael B. Hursthouse
Michael B. Hursthouse University of Southampton
Peter N. Horton
Peter N. Horton University of Southampton
Mark E. Light
Mark E. Light University of Southampton
Peter J. Skabara
Peter J. Skabara University of Glasgow
Philip A. Gale
Philip A. Gale University of Groningen
William Clegg
William Clegg Newcastle University
Claire Wilson
Claire Wilson University of Glasgow
Simon J. A. Pope
Simon J. A. Pope Cardiff University
Robin B. Bedford
Robin B. Bedford University of Bristol
Euan K. Brechin
Euan K. Brechin University of Edinburgh

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