Stephen Faulkner
Head of Inorganic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Biography
Stephen Faulkner did his first and second degrees at The Queen's College Oxford (1986-93) before moving to take up the Addison Wheeler Fellowship at the University of Durham (1993-98) and thence to a Lectureship in Chemistry at the University of Surrey. In 2001, he moved to the University of Manchester, where he was successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and, from 2005, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. He arrived at Keble and the Chemical Research Laboratory in 2008.
Research Interest
Stephen Faulkner's interest in chemistry stems from a desire to understand how molecules interact with one another and exploit the results of these interactions (whether chemical reactions or physical signals). These interests stretch beyond chemistry and into the use of molecular probes for imaging and diagnosis in biology and medicine. In particular, his interest is in the chemistry of f-element complexes. For the lanthanides, this interest translates into the preparation and study of of kinetically stable complexes that can be used as imaging agents, and assembled into more complicated arrays or attached to other molecules that will deliver them to diseased tissue.
Publications
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Placidi MP, Villaraza AJ, Natrajan LS, Sykes D, Kenwright AM, Faulkner S. Synthesis and spectroscopic studies on azo-dye derivatives of polymetallic lanthanide complexes: using diazotization to link metal complexes together. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009 Jul 6;131(29):9916-7.
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Allain C, Faulkner S. Photophysical approaches to responsive optical probes. Future. 2010 Mar 17;2(3):339-50.
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Natrajan LS, Khoabane NM, Dadds BL, Muryn CA, Pritchard RG, Heath SL, Kenwright AM, Kuprov I, Faulkner S. Probing the structure, conformation, and stereochemical exchange in a family of lanthanide complexes derived from tetrapyridyl-appended cyclen. Inorganic chemistry. 2010 Jul 27;49(17):7700-9.
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Natrajan LS, Villaraza AJ, Kenwright AM, Faulkner S. Controlled preparation of a heterometallic lanthanide complex containing different lanthanides in symmetrical binding pockets. Chemical Communications. 2009(40):6020-2.
