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Overview

William Lewis is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily spans multiple disciplines within materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions to materials chemistry, organic chemistry, spectroscopy, molecular biology, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

The main areas of focus in their work include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and crystallography and molecular interactions. Other topics they have addressed encompass molecular sensors and ion detection, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, and supramolecular chemistry and complexes.

Lewis has a substantial publication record across various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include The Cambridge Structural Database, where they have published 101 papers, as well as Chemical Science with 7 papers, Chemistry - A European Journal with 4, Chemical Communications with 4, and Inorganic Chemistry with 3.

Their research collaborations involve repeated co-authorship with several scientists, notably Stephen P. Argent, Deborah L. Kays, Laurence J. Taylor, Ana M. Geer, and E. Stephen Davies.

Selected recent papers by William Lewis include:

  • Modular bismacycles for the selective C-H arylation of phenols and naphthols (2020, Nature Chemistry)
  • Reversible single crystal-to-single crystal double [2+2] cycloaddition induces multifunctional photo-mechano-electrochemical properties in framework materials (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Stimuli-Responsive Cycloaurated "OFF-ON" Switchable Anion Transporters (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • General Method for the Asymmetric Synthesis of N-H Sulfoximines via C-S Bond Formation (2020, Organic Letters)
  • Conformationally adaptable macrocyclic receptors for ditopic anions: analysis of chelate cooperativity in aqueous containing media (2020, Chemical Science)

Best Publications

  • A partially interpenetrated metal-organic framework for selective hysteretic sorption of carbon dioxide

    Sihai Yang;Xiang Lin;William Lewis;Mikhail Suyetin

  • Exceptional thermal stability in a supramolecular organic framework: Porosity and gas storage

    Wenbin Yang;Alex Greenaway;Xiang Lin;Ryotaro Matsuda

  • 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

  • A Robust Binary Supramolecular Organic Framework (SOF) with High CO2 Adsorption and Selectivity

    Jian Lü;Cristina Perez-Krap;Mikhail Suyetin;Nada H. Alsmail

  • Synthesis and Structure of a Terminal Uranium Nitride Complex

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

  • Metal−Organic Polyhedral Frameworks: High H2 Adsorption Capacities and Neutron Powder Diffraction Studies

    Yong Yan;Irvin Telepeni;Sihai Yang;Xiang Lin

  • 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

  • Selective Adsorption of Sulfur Dioxide in a Robust Metal–Organic Framework Material

    Mathew Savage;Yongqiang Cheng;Timothy L. Easun;Jennifer E. Eyley

  • High capacity gas storage by a 4,8-connected metal–organic polyhedral framework

    Chenrong Tan;Sihai Yang;Neil R. Champness;Xiang Lin

  • Catalytic Phosphorus(V)-Mediated Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: Development of a Catalytic Appel Reaction

    Ross M. Denton;Jie An;Beatrice Adeniran;Alexander J. Blake

  • 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

  • Stereoselective syntheses of ((E)- and (Z)-1-halo-1-alkenyl)silanes from alkynes

    George Zweifel;William Lewis

  • 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

  • Selective CO2 uptake and inverse CO2/C2H2 selectivity in a dynamic bifunctional metal–organic framework

    Wenbin Yang;Andrew J. Davies;Xiang Lin;Mikhail Suyetin

  • 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

  • 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 mesoporous metal-organic framework constructed from a nanosized C3-symmetric linker and [Cu24(isophthalate)24] cuboctahedra.

    Yong Yan;Sihai Yang;Alexander J. Blake;William Lewis

  • Triamidoamine uranium(IV)–arsenic complexes containing one-, two- and threefold U–As bonding interactions

    Benedict M. Gardner;Gábor Balázs;Manfred Scheer;Floriana Tuna

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander J. Blake
Alexander J. Blake University of Nottingham
Stephen T. Liddle
Stephen T. Liddle University of Manchester
Jonathan McMaster
Jonathan McMaster University of Nottingham
Christopher J. Moody
Christopher J. Moody University of Nottingham
Martin Schröder
Martin Schröder University of Manchester
Neil R. Champness
Neil R. Champness University of Birmingham
Floriana Tuna
Floriana Tuna University of Manchester
Eric J. L. McInnes
Eric J. L. McInnes University of Manchester
Sihai Yang
Sihai Yang University of Manchester
Hon Wai Lam
Hon Wai Lam University of Nottingham

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