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Overview

Stephen T. Liddle is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The core topics addressed in their scientific work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics
  • Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing
  • Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Inorganic/Organometallic Compounds
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Liddle's publication record features papers in a variety of scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Science
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored by Liddle cover topics related to actinide chemistry and bonding, with notable works such as:

  • A crystalline tri-thorium cluster with σ-aromatic metal-metal bonding (2021, Nature)
  • Exceptional uranium(VI)-nitride triple bond covalency from 15N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantum chemical analysis (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Terminal uranium(V)-nitride hydrogenations involving direct addition or Frustrated Lewis Pair mechanisms (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Anomalous magnetism of uranium(IV)-oxo and -imido complexes reveals unusual doubly degenerate electronic ground states (2021, Chem)
  • Paper without title (2022, Florence Research, University of Florence)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ashley J. Wooles, John A. Seed, David P. Mills, Benjamin L. L. Réant, and Nicholas F. Chilton.

Liddle has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a title published by WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks:

  • The Lanthanides and Actinides (2021)

Best Publications

  • Improving f-element single molecule magnets

    Stephen T. Liddle;Joris van Slageren

  • The Renaissance of Non-Aqueous Uranium Chemistry

    Stephen T. Liddle

  • Anionic tethered N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry

    Stephen T. Liddle;Ian S. Edworthy;Polly L. Arnold

  • A monometallic lanthanide bis(methanediide) single molecule magnet with a large energy barrier and complex spin relaxation behaviour

    Matthew Gregson;Nicholas F. Chilton;Ana Maria Ariciu;Floriana Tuna

  • Synthesis and Structure of a Terminal Uranium Nitride Complex

    David M. King;Floriana Tuna;Eric J. L. McInnes;Jonathan McMaster

  • A delocalized arene-bridged diuranium single-molecule magnet

    David P. Mills;Fabrizio Moro;Jonathan McMaster;Joris van Slageren;Joris van Slageren

  • Isolation and characterization of a uranium( VI )–nitride triple bond

    David M. King;Floriana Tuna;Eric J. L. McInnes;Jonathan McMaster

  • F-block N-heterocyclic carbene complexes.

    Polly L. Arnold;Stephen T. Liddle

  • Synthesis of a Uranium(VI)-Carbene: Reductive Formation of Uranyl(V)-Methanides, Oxidative Preparation of a [R2C?U?O]2+ Analogue of the [O?U?O]2+ Uranyl Ion (R = Ph2PNSiMe3), and Comparison of the Nature of UIV?C, UV?C, and UVI?C Double Bonds

    David P. Mills;Oliver J. Cooper;Floriana Tuna;Eric J. L. McInnes

  • Bifunctional yttrium(III) and titanium(IV) NHC catalysts for lactide polymerisation

    Dipti Patel;Stephen T. Liddle;Shaheed A. Mungur;Mark Rodden

  • The first structural characterisation of a Group 2 metal alkylperoxide complex: Comments on the cleavage of dioxygen by magnesium alkyl complexes

    Philip J. Bailey;Robert A. Coxall;Caroline M. Dick;Sylvie Fabre

  • Uranium–Carbon Multiple Bonding: Facile Access to the Pentavalent Uranium Carbene [U{C(PPh2NSiMe3)2}(Cl)2(I)] and Comparison of UVC and UIVC Bonds

    Oliver J. Cooper;David P. Mills;Jonathan McMaster;Fabrizio Moro

  • Deprotonation of N-heterocyclic carbenes to afford heterobimetallic organolanthanide complexes

    Polly L. Arnold;Stephen T. Liddle

  • A Formal High Oxidation State Inverse‐Sandwich Diuranium Complex: A New Route to f‐Block‐Metal Bonds

    Dipti Patel;Fabrizio Moro;Jonathan McMaster;William Lewis

  • Small‐Molecule Activation at Uranium(III)

    Benedict M. Gardner;Stephen T. Liddle

  • Synthesis and characterization of an f-block terminal parent imido [U═NH] complex: a masked uranium(IV) nitride.

    David M. King;Jonathan McMaster;Floriana Tuna;Eric J. L. McInnes

  • Homologation and functionalization of carbon monoxide by a recyclable uranium complex.

    Benedict M. Gardner;John C. Stewart;Adrienne L. Davis;Jonathan McMaster

  • A Convenient Route to Lanthanide Triiodide THF Solvates. Crystal Structures of Lnl3(THF)4 [Ln = Pr] and Lnl 3(THF)3.5 [Ln = Nd, Gd, Y]

    Keith Izod;Stephen T. Liddle;William Clegg

  • Molecular metal-metal bonds : compounds, synthesis, properties

    Stephen T. Liddle

  • Bent metal carbene geometries in amido N-heterocyclic carbene complexes.

    Shaheed A. Mungur;Stephen T. Liddle;Claire Wilson;Mark J. Sarsfield

  • Early metal bis(phosphorus-stabilised)carbene chemistry.

    Stephen T Liddle;David P Mills;Ashley J Wooles

  • The inverse- trans -influence in tetravalent lanthanide and actinide bis (carbene) complexes

    Matthew Gregson;Erli Lu;David P. Mills;Floriana Tuna

Frequent Co-Authors

William Lewis
William Lewis University of Sydney
Alexander J. Blake
Alexander J. Blake University of Nottingham
William Clegg
William Clegg Newcastle University
Jonathan McMaster
Jonathan McMaster University of Nottingham
Floriana Tuna
Floriana Tuna University of Manchester
Eric J. L. McInnes
Eric J. L. McInnes University of Manchester
Polly L. Arnold
Polly L. Arnold University of Edinburgh
Robert E. Mulvey
Robert E. Mulvey University of Strathclyde
Manfred Scheer
Manfred Scheer University of Regensburg
Joris van Slageren
Joris van Slageren University of Stuttgart

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