Some of the research on-going in the group is undertaken in collaboration with academic groups in the UK and Europe as well as in close collaboration with industry.
Academic:
Organophosphorus and Carbene Chemistry
• Dr Didier Bourissou
LHFA-UMR 5069
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
• Prof. Régis Réau
CNRS UMR 6226 (Phosphorus and Molecular Materials)
Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
Novel Ligand Systems, Coordination Chemistry, and Catalysis
• Dr Emanuel Gras
LCC, Toulouse, France
Computation
• Drs Karinne Miqueu and Jean-Marc Sotiropoulos
IPREM-UMR 5254 Equipe Chimie-Physique
Université de Pau et de Pays l'Adour, France
• Drs Jean-François Halet et Karine Kostuas
Laboratoire des Sciences Chimque de Rennes
Université de Rennes 1, France
• Dr Mark Fox
Department of Chemistry
University of Durham
Synthetic Clays/Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Dr H. Christopher Greenwell
Departments of Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Durham University
X-Ray Crystallography
• Prof. Judith Howard and Dr Andrei Batsanov
Department of Chemistry
University of Durham
Photophysics
• Dr Andrew Beeby
Department of Chemistry
University of Durham
NMR Spectroscopy
• Dr Alan Kenwright (Solution-state NMR)
Department of Chemistry
University of Durham
• Dr David Apperley (Solid-state NMR)
EPSRC Solid-state NMR Service
Department of Chemistry
University of Durham
EPR Spectroscopy
• Prof. David Collison and Dr Ruth Bell
School of Chemistry
University of Manchester
Industrial:
Sasol Technology UK Ltd.
• Exploring Metal-initiated Alkene Dimerisation
• Carbon Dioxide Activation
Lubrizol Ltd.
• Alkene Oligomerisation
• Carbon Dioxide Activation
Johnson Matthey Catalysts (Billingham)
• Synthetic clay research
Cambridge Reactor Design
• Flow chemistry and flow reactor design