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Office: CAP 1.43 Email: s.lancaster@uea.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1603-592009 School Position: Senior Lecturer in Chemistry; Schools Outreach Officer; CAP NMR committee, CAP Safety committee, CHE Teaching Executive, Chair of CHE and FY Staff-Student Liaison committee, Member of the Energy Materials Laboratory and Wolfson Materials & Catalysis Centre. |
PhD Studentships available:
A Synthetic Investigation of the Mechanism of Dehydrocoupling
Functionalised Polymers for Small Molecule Activation
Metal assisted frustrated Lewis pairs
Dr Lancaster obtained a BSc 1991, MSc 1992 and PhD 1995, from the University of East Anglia. In 1996 the RSC awarded him the Laurie Vergnano prize for the best contribution to Inorganic Chemistry by a young researcher for his work on Early Transition Metal Alkyl Cations and their role in Polymerisation Catalysis. He then spent four years as a research officer at the University of Leeds. In February 2000 Dr Lancaster returned to UEA as a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2009
Organometallic chemistry remains the richest seam of novelty and chemical adventure and provides us with the most reactive molecules and a plethora of fascinating bonding modes and structures found nowhere else in chemistry. We are interested in developing new organometallic complexes and their pre-cursors for applications as diverse as catalysing the polymerisation of alkenes, predicting, rationalising and ultimately controlling supramolecular architectures, chemical vapour deposition and doubling the frequency of incident light!
This research has been funded by EPSRC, British Council, European Commission (RTN), Akzo Nobeland has led to many collaborations including: Dr David L. Hughes (UEA), Prof. Manfred Bochmann (UEA), Dr Robbert Duchateau (Eindhoven), Dr Stephen H. Ashworth (UEA), Dr G. Richard Stephenson (UEA), Dr Andrew N. Cammidge (UEA), Dr Upali A. Jayasooriya (UEA), Prof. Roderick Cannon (UEA), Prof. E. Talsi and Dr. K. Bryliakov (Novosibirsk), Dr Richard Woudenberg (Akzo Nobel).
Selected Publications
Synthesis, Structure, and Supramolecular Architecture of Benzonitrile and Pyridine Adducts of Bis(pentafluorophenyl)zinc: Pentafluorophenyl–Aryl Interactions versus Homoaromatic Pairing.
Eddy Martin, Claire Spendley, Andrew J. Mountford, Simon J. Coles, Peter N. Horton, David L. Hughes, Michael B. Hursthouse, and Simon J. Lancaster
–Organometallics 2008, 27, 1446; (Article). DOI: 10.1021/om701127p
Abstract Full: HTML / PDF (1764K) Supporting Info
Mononuclear Ti≡N complexes formed by the facile multiple deprotonation of H3N·B(C6F5)3: the importance of chloride ligands
Anna-Marie Fuller, William Clegg, Ross W. Harrington, David L. Hughes and Simon J. Lancaster, Chem. Commun., 2008, 5776
DOI: 10.1039/b812785a
The crystalline ion-pair [TiCl(NMe2)2(NMe2H)2]+[TiCl2{NB(C6F5)3}(NMe2H)2]-, in which the anion has a triply bonded nitridoborate ligand, is formed through the multiple activation of H3N·B(C6F5)3 when treated with [Ti(NMe2)3Cl].
The synthesis, molecular structure and supramolecular architecture of complexes between the ammonia adduct of tris(pentafluorophenyl)boron and a series of mono and polydentate hydrogen-bond acceptors
Anna-Marie Fuller, Andrew J. Mountford, Simon J. Coles, Peter N. Horton, David L. Hughes, Michael B. Hursthouse, Louise Male and Simon J. Lancaster, Dalton Trans., 2008, 6381
DOI: 10.1039/b808208a
Carlos Alonso-Moreno, Simon J. Lancaster, Joseph A. Wright, David L. Hughes, Cristiano Zuccaccia, Andrea Correa, Alceo Macchioni, Luigi Cavallo, and Manfred Bochmann Organometallics, 2008, 27, 5474.; (Article). DOI: 10.1021/om800486p
