Dr Ian Crossley

Biography

2008 - present   Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Sussex

2007 - 2008       Research Fellow, University of Sussex (with Prof. J. F. Nixon FRS)

2006 - 2007       Research Fellow, Monash University

2004 - 2006       Postdoctoral/Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University (with Prof. A. F. Hill)

MChem. (Hons), Ph.D. , UMIST

Role

Royal Society University Research Fellow

My interests fall under the broad umbrella of organometallic chemistry and are primarily concerned with the development and study of electronically distinctive molecules at the transition metal / main group interface.  In particular, molecules that challenge traditional models of chemical structure and reactivity, both from an academic standpoint, and their hitherto unrealised potential for synthetic and materials science.

Current projects are focused on developing synthetic routes to novel, highly conjugated, organometallics doped with low-coordinate phosphorus centres, as part of the widespread effort toward realising 'molecular-scale wires'.

Publications

Structure and Bonding (F1143), Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (F1145)

Trathen, Nicola, Greenacre, Victoria K, Crossley, Ian R and Roe, S Mark (2013) Ambiphilic reactivity of a ruthenaphosphaalkenyl: synthesis of P‑pyrazolylphosphaalkene complexes of ruthenium(0). Organometallics, 32 (9). pp. 2501-2504. ISSN 0276-7333

Crossley, Ian R (2012) Zinc, cadmium and mercury. Annual Reports Section "A" (Inorganic Chemistry) , 108. pp. 244-250. ISSN 1460-4760

Saunders, Amy J, Crossley, Ian R, Coles, Martyn P and Roe, S Mark (2012) Facile self-assembly of the first diphosphametacyclophane. Chemical Communications, 48. pp. 5766-5768. ISSN 1359-7345

Averre, Charlotte E, Coles, Martyn P, Crossley, Ian R and Day, Iain J (2012) The open-chain triphosphanes RMe2SiCH2P(PR′2)2 (R = Me, Ph; R′ = SiMe3, Cy, Ph). Dalton Transactions, 41 (1). pp. 278-284. ISSN 1477-9226

Barnes, Nicholas A, Brisdon, Alan K, Brown, F R William, Cross, Wendy I, Crossley, Ian R, Fish, Cheryl, Herbert, Chrisopher J, Pritchard, Robin G and Warren, John E (2011) Synthesis of Gold(I) fluoroalkyl and fluoroalkenyl-substituted phosphine complexes and factors affecting their crystal packing. Dalton Transactions, 40. pp. 1743-1750.

Crossley, Ian (2010) The Organometallic Chemistry of Group 10 Poly(pyrazolyl)borate Complexes. In: Advances in Organometallic Chemistry. Elsevier, pp. 109-208. ISBN 9780123747846

Crossley, Ian R, Hill, Anthony F and Willis, Anthony C (2010) Metallaboratranes: Bis- and Tris(methimazolyl)borane Complexes of Group 9 Metal Carbonyls and Thiocarbonyls. Organometallics, 29 (2). pp. 326-336. ISSN 0276-7333

Al-Ktaifani, Mahmoud M, Coles, Martyn P, Crossley, Ian R, Evans, Lloyd T J, Hitchcock, Peter B, Lawless, Gerard A and Nixon, John F (2009) Opening 'Jaws': Functionalisation of the hexaphosphapentaprismane cage, P6C4 tBu4, affording X2P6C4 tBu4 (X = Me, I), crystal and molecular structures of X2P6C4 tBu4 (X = Me, I) and [cis-PtCl2Me2P6C4 tBu4]. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 694 (26). pp. 4223-4229. ISSN 0022-328X

Siriwardana, Amal I, Crossley, Ian R, Torriero, Angel A J, Burgar, Iko M, Dunlop, Noel F, Bond, Alan M, Deacon, Glen B and MacFarlane, Douglas R (2008) Methimazole-Based Ionic Liquids. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 73 (12). pp. 4676-4679.

Crossley, Ian (2008) The Organometallic Chemistry of Group 9 Poly(pyrazolyl)borate Complexes. In: Advances in Organometallic Chemistry. Elsevier , pp. 199-321.

Crossley, Ian R, Foreman, Mark R St-J, Hill, Anthony F, Owen, Gareth R, White, Andrew J P, Williams, David J and Willis, Anthony C (2008) Synthesis of the Ruthenaboratranes [Ru(CS)(PPh3){B(mt)3}] (Ru-B)8 and [Ru(CO)(CNR){B(mt)3}] (Ru-B)8 (mt = methimazolyl, R = tBu, C6H3Me2-2,6, C6H2Me3-2,4,6). Organometallics, 27. pp. 381-386.

Crossley, Ian R, Hill, Anthony F and Willis, Anthony C (2008) Retention of Pt->B Bonding in Oxidative Addition Reactions of the Platinaboratrane [Pt(PPh3){B(mt)3}](Pt¿B)10 (mt = Methimazolyl). Organometallics, 27 (3). pp. 312-315. ISSN 0276-7333

Crossley, Ian R and Hill, Anthony F (2008) Unlocking the metallaboratrane cage: reversible B-H activation in platinaboratranes. Dalton Transactions (2). pp. 201-203. ISSN 1477-9226