List of works by Michael D. Ward

A Family of Externally-Functionalised Coordination Cages

scientific article published in 2021

A closed molecular cube and an open book: two different products from assembly of the same metal salt and bridging ligand.

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A convenient, high yield synthesis of 2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine and its iron(II) complex

A mononuclear cobalt(II)-dithienylethene complex showing slow magnetic relaxation and photochromic behavior.

scientific article published in October 2013

A near-infrared electrochromic window based on an Sb-doped SnO2 electrode modified with a Ru-dioxolene complex

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

A near-planar pentadentate silver(I) complex; the crystal and molecular structure of (2,2′ : 6′,2″ : 6″,2‴ : 6‴,2â�—-quinquepyridine)silver(I) hexafluorophosphate

A new ligand skeleton for imaging applications with d-f complexes: combined lifetime imaging and high relaxivity in an Ir/Gd dyad

scientific article published on 01 May 2015

A single stranded diruthenium(II) helical complex

article by Chistopher J. Cathey et al published 1990 in Journal of the Chemical Society. Chemical communications

A study of crystal packing in a series of closely related square-planar palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes

An interconverting family of coordination cages and a meso-helicate; effects of temperature, concentration, and solvent on the product distribution of a self-assembly process

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Anion-Templated Assembly of a Supramolecular Cage Complex

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

Anion-templated self-assembly of tetrahedral cage complexes of cobalt(II) with bridging ligands containing two bidentate pyrazolyl-pyridine binding sites.

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Anthracene as a sensitiser for near-infrared luminescence in complexes of Nd(iii), Er(iii) and Yb(iii): an unexpected sensitisation mechanism based on electron transfer

scientific article published on 20 February 2007

Assembly of a truncated-tetrahedral chiral [M12(mu-L)18]24+ cage

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Binding of Hydrophobic Guests in a Coordination Cage Cavity is Driven by Liberation of "High-Energy" Water.

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Bis(1,3-diphenylpropane-1,3-dionato-kappa2O,O'){hydrotris[3-(2-pyridyl)pyrazol-1-yl]borato}praseodymium(III): another member of an unpredictable series

scientific article published on 2 April 2005

Catalysis in a Cationic Coordination Cage Using a Cavity-Bound Guest and Surface-Bound Anions: Inhibition, Activation, and Autocatalysis

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Chemistry—A European Journal

scientific journal for chemistry in Europe

Combined two-photon excitation and d → f energy-transfer in Ir/lanthanide dyads with time-gated selection from a two-component emission spectrum

scientific article published in October 2012

Combined two-photon excitation and d→f energy transfer in a water-soluble Ir(III)/Eu(III) dyad: two luminescence components from one molecule for cellular imaging

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Comparative proteomic analysis of de-N-glycosylated serum from hepatitis B carriers reveals polypeptides that correlate with disease status

scientific article published in March 2004

Comparison of metal-metal electronic interactions in an isomeric pair of dinuclear ruthenium complexes with different bridging pathways: effective hole transfer through a bis-phenolate bridge

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Complexes of Ag(i), Hg(i) and Hg(ii) with multidentate pyrazolyl-pyridine ligands: from mononuclear complexes to coordination polymers via helicates, a mesocate, a cage and a catenate

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Coordination Cages Based on Bis(pyrazolylpyridine) Ligands: Structures, Dynamic Behavior, Guest Binding, and Catalysis

scientific article published on 07 August 2018

Coordination chemistry of tetradentate N-donor ligands containing two pyrazolyl-pyridine units separated by a 1,8-naphthyl spacer: dodecanuclear and tetranuclear coordination cages and cyclic helicates

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Coordination mode-induced isomeric cyclometalated [Ir(tpy)(nbi)Cl](PF6) complexes: distinct luminescence, self-assembly and cellular imaging behaviors

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Coordination-Cage-Catalysed Hydrolysis of Organophosphates: Cavity- or Surface-Based?

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Correction to Multimodal Probes: Superresolution and Transmission Electron Microscopy Imaging of Mitochondria, and Oxygen Mapping of Cells, Using Small-Molecule Ir(III) Luminescent Complexes.

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Crystal structures of silver(I) and thallium(I) complexes of tris[3-(2-pyridyl)-pyrazol-1-yl]borate; encapsulation of either a single thallium(I) ion or a trinuclear silver(I) cluster by a hexadentate podand

article published in 1995

Cu12 and Cd16 coordination cages and their Cu3 and Cd3 subcomponents, and the role of inter-ligand π-stacking in stabilising cage complexes

scientific article published on 01 May 2013

Cyanide-bridged Os(II)/Ln(III) coordination networks containing [Os(phen)(CN)4]2- as an energy donor: structural and photophysical properties

scientific article published on 29 March 2008

Cyanide-bridged tetradecanuclear RuII3MII11 clusters (MII = ZnII and CuII) based on the high connectivity building block [Ru3(HAT)(CN)12]6−: structural and photophysical properties

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Diastereoselective formation and optical activity of an M4L6 cage complex

scientific article published on 17 August 2005

Dichlorotetrakis[3-(4-pyridyl)-1H-pyrazole]cobalt(II) acetonitrile tetrasolvate: an infinite hydrogen-bonded network, in an instant

scientific article published on 22 October 2005

Dinuclear Bis(1,2-diaryl-1,2-ethylenedithiolato)iron Complexes: [FeIII2(L)4]n(n= 2−, 1−, 0, 1+)

Electronic Structure of Nitric Oxide Adducts of Bis(diaryl-1,2-dithiolene)iron Compounds: Four-Membered Electron-Transfer Series [Fe(NO)(L)2]z(z= 1+, 0, 1−, 2−)

Electronic structure of mononuclear bis(1,2-diaryl-1,2-ethylenedithiolato)iron complexes containing a fifth cyanide or phosphite ligand: a combined experimental and computational study

scientific article published in September 2006

Enantiodifferentiation of chiral cationic cages using trapped achiral BF4- anions as chirotopic probes

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

Enhancement of luminescence lifetimes of mononuclear ruthenium(II)-terpyridine complexes by manipulation of the sigma-donor strength of ligands.

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Fac and mer isomers of Ru(II) tris(pyrazolyl-pyridine) complexes as models for the vertices of coordination cages: structural characterisation and hydrogen-bonding characteristics.

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First reported correlation between the calculated gas-phase proton macroaffinities of some metal complexes with their measured formation constants in solution: Zn(II) complexes of a series of tripodal aliphatic tetraamines.

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Functional behaviour from controlled self-assembly: challenges and prospects

scientific article published on 13 July 2012

Halogen bonded supramolecular assemblies of [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2- anions and N-methyl-halopyridinium cations in the solid state and in solution

scientific article published in February 2009

Heteronuclear bipyrimidine-bridged Ru-Ln and Os-Ln dyads: low-energy 3MLCT states as energy-donors to Yb(III) and Nd(III).

scientific article published on 23 November 2007

High-nuclearity homoleptic and heteroleptic coordination cages based on tetra-capped truncated tetrahedral and cuboctahedral metal frameworks

scientific article published in January 2006

Highly efficient catalysis of the Kemp elimination in the cavity of a cubic coordination cage

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Highly selective CO2vs. N2 adsorption in the cavity of a molecular coordination cage.

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Homonuclear and heteronuclear complexes of a four-armed octadentate ligand: synthetic control based on matching ligand denticity with metal ion coordination preferences.

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Hydrogen-bonded assemblies of ruthenium(II)-biimidazole complex cations and cyanometallate anions: structures and photophysics

scientific article published on 17 November 2006

Interaction of anions with the surface of a coordination cage in aqueous solution probed by their effect on a cage-catalysed Kemp elimination

scientific article published in 2021

Interplay of light antenna and excitation "energy reservoir" effects in a bichromophoric system based on ruthenium-polypyridine and pyrene units linked by a long and flexible poly(ethylene glycol) chain

scientific article published in December 2002

Investigation of the excited-state absorption of a Ru dioxolene complex by the Z-scan technique

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Kinetically locked, trinuclear Ru(II) metallo-macrocycles--synthesis, electrochemical, and optical properties

scientific article published on 04 May 2006

Ligand-field excited states of hexacyanochromate and hexacyanocobaltate as sensitisers for near-infrared luminescence from Nd(iii) and Yb(iii) in cyanide-bridged d-f assemblies

scientific article published on 26 September 2007

Localization and delocalization in a mixed-valence dicopper helicate

scientific article published on 28 February 2007

Luminescence and time-resolved infrared study of dyads containing (diimine)Ru(4,4'-diethylamido-2,2'-bipyridine)2 and (diimine)Ru(CN)4 moieties: solvent-induced reversal of the direction of photoinduced energy-transfer

scientific article published in September 2009

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

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Mapping the internal recognition surface of an octanuclear coordination cage using guest libraries.

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Mechanism of quenching by oxygen of the excited states of ruthenium(II) complexes in aqueous media. Solvent isotope effect and photosensitized generation of singlet oxygen, O2(1Deltag), by [Ru(diimine)(CN)4]2- complex ions

scientific article published on 23 May 2007

Metal−Metal Interactions as a Function of Bridging Ligand Topology: An Electrochemical, Spectroelectrochemical, and Magnetic Study on Dinuclear Oxo-Mo(V) Complexes with Various Isomers of Dihydroxynaphthalene as Bridging Ligand

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Mixed valence Creutz-Taube ion analogues incorporating thiacrowns: synthesis, structure, physical properties, and computational studies

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Mixed-ligand molecular paneling: dodecanuclear cuboctahedral coordination cages based on a combination of edge-bridging and face-capping ligands

scientific article published on 08 August 2008

Molecular helicity in inorganic complexes: double helical binuclear complexes of 2,2′ : 6′,2″ : 6″,2‴ : 6‴,2â�—-quinquepyridine (L): crystal structures of [Cu2L2(O2CMe)][PF6]3·H2O and [Cu2L2][PF6]3·2MeCN

article by Mark Barley et al published 1988 in Dalton transactions RSC

Molecular helicity in inorganic complexes; bi- and tri-nuclear complexes of 2,2′:6′,2″:6″,2″′:6″′,2″″:6″″,2″″′-sexipyridine and the crystal and molecular structure of bis(µ-2,2′:6′,2″:6″,2″′:6″′,2″″:

Molecular helicity in inorganic complexes; double helical binuclear nickel(II) complexes of 2,2′:6′,2″:6″,2‴:6‴,24′-quinquepyridine(L): X-ray crystal structure of [Ni2L2(OAc)][PF6]3 · 3MeCN

scholarly article by Edwin C. Constable et al published January 1989 in Polyhedron

Molecular helicity in inorganic complexes; the preparation, crystal and molecular structure of bis(2,2′:6′,2″:6″,2‴:6‴,2″″-quinquepyridine)acetatodicopper(II) hexafluorophosphate monohydrate

Mononuclear lanthanide complexes incorporating an anthracene group: structural modification, slow magnetic relaxation and multicomponent fluorescence emissions in Dy compounds

scientific article published on 03 July 2013

Multimodal Probes: Superresolution and Transmission Electron Microscopy Imaging of Mitochondria, and Oxygen Mapping of Cells, Using Small-Molecule Ir(III) Luminescent Complexes

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

New bis-, tris- and tetrakis(pyrazolyl)borate ligands with 3-pyridyl and 4-pyridyl substituents: synthesis and coordination chemistry

scientific article published on 28 April 2005

New members of the [Ru(diimine)(CN)(4)](2-) family: structural, electrochemical and photophysical properties

scientific article published on 14 September 2005

Octanuclear cubic coordination cages

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On the Mechanism of d-f Energy Transfer in RuII/LnIIIand OsII/LnIIIDyads: Dexter-Type Energy Transfer Over a Distance of 20 Å

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

One Guest or Two? A Crystallographic and Solution Study of Guest Binding in a Cubic Coordination Cage

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

One Guest or Two? A Crystallographic and Solution Study of Guest Binding in a Cubic Coordination Cage

One-dimensional manganese coordination polymers composed of polynuclear cluster blocks and polypyridyl linkers: structures and properties

scientific article published in December 2008

Orientational control of electronic coupling in mixed-valence, binuclear ruthenium(II)-bis(2,2':6',2' '-terpyridine) complexes.

scientific article published in October 2004

Photoinduced energy transfer between Re(I) and Ru(II) termini connected through a new exo-ditopic bis-phenanthroline ligand fused to a central macrocycle spacer: Synthesis, structure, and electrochemical and photophysical properties of a heterodinucl

Photoinduced energy transfer in a conformationally flexible Re(I)/Ru(II) dyad probed by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy: effects of conformation and spatial localization of excited states

scientific article published on 14 May 2008

Photoinduced energy- and electron-transfer from a photoactive coordination cage to bound guests.

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Photophysical and structural properties of cyanoruthenate complexes of hexaazatriphenylene

scientific article published on 22 August 2007

Photophysical properties of Pr(III) and Er(III) complexes of poly(pyrazolyl)borates

scientific article published on 12 August 2005

Photophysics of 1,8-naphthalimide/Ln(III) dyads (Ln = Eu, Gd): naphthalimide → Eu(III) energy-transfer from both singlet and triplet states

scientific article published in September 2013

Photophysics of Cage/Guest Assemblies: Photoinduced Electron Transfer between a Coordination Cage Containing Osmium(II) Luminophores, and Electron-Deficient Bound Guests in the Central Cavity

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

Polynuclear coordination cages.

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Polynuclear cyanoruthenate chromophores based on hexaaza-triphenylene containing up to twelve cyanides: photophysical and structural properties

scientific article published on 21 March 2006

Polynuclear lanthanide complexes of a series of bridging ligands containing two tridentate N,N′,O-donor units: structures and luminescence properties

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Probing the excited states of d6 metal complexes containing the 2,2'-bipyrimidine ligand using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy. 1. Mononuclear and homodinuclear systems

scientific article published on 29 March 2007

Red-shifted luminescence from naphthalene-containing ligands due to pi-stacking in self-assembled coordination cages

scientific article published on 15 September 2006

Sensitisation of Eu(III)- and Tb(III)-based luminescence by Ir(III) units in Ir/lanthanide dyads: evidence for parallel energy-transfer and electron-transfer based mechanisms

scientific article published in May 2014

Sensitised near-infrared luminescence from lanthanide(iii) centres using Re(i) and Pt(ii) diimine complexes as energy donors in d–f dinuclear complexes based on 2,3-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine

scientific article published on 28 February 2007

Sensitized Near-Infrared Emission from Complexes of YbIII, NdIII and ErIII by Energy-Transfer from Covalently Attached PtII-Based Antenna Units

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Shape-, size-, and functional group-selective binding of small organic guests in a paramagnetic coordination cage.

scientific article published on 9 January 2013

Stepwise assembly of an adamantoid Ru₄Ag₆ cage by control of metal coordination geometry at specific sites

scientific article published on 06 August 2014

Stepwise assembly of mixed-metal coordination cages containing both kinetically inert and kinetically labile metal ions: introduction of metal-centred redox and photophysical activity at specific sites.

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Stepwise synthesis of a Ru₄Cd₄ coordination cage using inert and labile subcomponents: introduction of redox activity at specific sites

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Structural and Photophysical Properties of Coordination Networks Combining [Ru(Bpym)(CN)4]2-or [{Ru(CN)4}2(μ-bpym)]4-Anions (bpym = 2,2‘-Bipyrimidine) with Lanthanide(III) Cations: Sensitized Near-Infrared Luminescence from Yb(III), Nd(III), and E

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Structural and Photophysical Properties of Coordination Networks Combining [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2-Anions and Lanthanide(III) Cations: Rates of Photoinduced Ru-to-Lanthanide Energy Transfer and Sensitized Near-Infrared Luminescence

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Structural and photophysical properties of adducts of [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2- with different metal cations: metallochromism and its use in switching photoinduced energy transfer.

scientific article published on 9 March 2007

Supramolecular photochemistry

scientific article published on 28 April 2009

Switchable electron-transfer processes in a mixed-valence, kinetically locked, trinuclear Ru(II) metallamacrocycle

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Syntheses and crystal structures of dinuclear complexes containing d-block and f-block luminophores. Sensitization of NIR luminescence from Yb(III), Nd(III), and Er(III) centers by energy transfer from Re(I)- and Pt(II)-bipyrimidine metal centers

scientific article published in January 2005

Syntheses of 4-benzyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazolylborato complexes of molybdenum and tungsten nitrosyls: molecular structure of [Mo(CO)2(NO){HB(3,5-Me2-4-PhCH2C3N2)3}], a complex with an ‘inverted’ bowl-like structure

Synthesis and co-ordination behaviour of 6′,6″-bis(2-pyridyl)-2,2′ : 4,4″ : 2″,2″′-quaterpyridine; ‘back-to-back’ 2,2′ : 6′,2″-terpyridine

Synthesis and structures of cadmium(II) complexes of a series of multinucleating N/S donor ligands

The coordination chemistry of mixed pyridine-phenol and phenanthroline-phenol ligands; The crystal structure of 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1,10-phenanthroline (HL) and the crystal structure and properties of [FeL2][PF6]

The preparation and structural characterization of a double-helical binuclear dicobalt(II) complex of 2,2′: 6′,2″: 6″,2‴: 6‴, 2⁗-quinquepyridine; the x-ray crystal structure of acetato(O,O′)bis (2,2′: 6′,2″: 6″,2‴: 6‴, 2?

Three-component coordination networks based on [Ru(phen)(CN)4]2? anions, near-infrared luminescent lanthanide(iii) cations, and ancillary oligopyridine ligands: structures and photophysical properties

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Virtual screening for high affinity guests for synthetic supramolecular receptors

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

[Os(bipy)(CN)4]2- and its relatives as components of polynuclear assemblies: structural and photophysical properties

scientific article published on 2 October 2007

[Ru(bipy)3]2+ and [Os(bipy)3]2+ chromophores as sensitisers for near-infrared luminescence from Yb(iii) and Nd(iii) in d/f dyads: contributions from Förster, Dexter, and redox-based energy-transfer mechanisms

scientific article published on 10 March 2009

d→f energy transfer in Ir(III)/Eu(III) dyads: use of a naphthyl spacer as a spatial and energetic "stepping stone".

scientific article published on 05 September 2013

pH-Controlled selection between one of three guests from a mixture using a coordination cage host.

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

pH-dependent binding of guests in the cavity of a polyhedral coordination cage: reversible uptake and release of drug molecules

scientific article published on 31 July 2014