Lyall R. Hanton
Professor
Chemistry
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Professor Lyall R. Hanton (Head of Department) Coordination and metallosupramolecular chemistry
Research Interest
We use a building block approach to synthesize metallosupramolecular networks. Using our expertise in transition metal coordination chemistry and ligand synthesis, we are building networks based on a variety of flexible thio-substituted oligopyridines as linkers between various metal ion connectors such as Ag(I), Cu(I) and Cu(II). One recent success has been the preparation of a mixed-valence netowrk of halide-bridged Cu(I) and Cu(II) centres. It is the first such network with strictly alternating Cu(I) and Cu(II) centres. We are currently investigating the magnetic properties of this new material.
Publications
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Blake, A.J., Brooks, N.R., Champness, N.R., Hanton, L.R., Hubberstey, P. and Schröder (1998). Copper(I) halide supramolecular networks linked by N-heterocyclic donor bridging ligands. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 70, 2351–2357.
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Blake, A.J., Brooks, N.R., Champness, N.R., Crew, M., Hanton, L.R., Hubberstey, P., Parsons, S. and Schröder (1999). Two- and three-dimensional CuSCN coordination networks including new CuSCN structural motifs. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, ?, 2813–2817.
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Lee, K. and Hanton, L.R. (1999). C–S bond cleavage by chloride in a thioester N2S2 complex of platinum. Inorganic Chemistry, 38, 1634–1638.
