Key Publications
f-Block hydride complexes – synthesis, structure and reactivity,
Richard Drummond Turnbull and Nicola L. Bell*
Dalton Trans., (2024) doi: 10.1039/D4DT00776J
Autonomous Execution of Highly Reactive Chemical Transformations in the Schlenkputer,
Nicola Bell ,Florian Boser ,Andrius Bubliauskas ,Dominic Willcox ,Victor Luna, Leroy Cronin,
Nat. Chem. Eng. 1, 180–189 (2024) doi: s44286-023-00024-y
Cu(OTf)2-Mediated Cross-Coupling of Nitriles and N-Heterocycles with Arylboronic Acids to Generate Nitrilium and Pyridinium Products, N L. Bell, C. Xu, J. W. B. Fyfe, J. C. Vantourout, J. Brals, S. Chabbra, B. E. Bode, D. B. Cordes, A. M. Z. Slawin, T. M. McGuire, A. J. B. Watson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 7935.
Uranyl to Uranium(IV) Conversion through Manipulation of Axial and Equatorial Ligands, Nicola L. Bell, Brian Shaw, Polly L. Arnold, and Jason B. Love, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 3378, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b13474
Thorium Mono- and Bis(imido) Complexes Made by reprotonation of cyclo-metalated amides, Bell, N. L., Maron, L., Arnold P.L., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 10492. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b06630
Full Publication List
2024
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f-Block hydride complexes – synthesis, structure and reactivity,
Richard Drummond Turnbull and Nicola L. Bell*
Dalton Trans., (2024) doi: 10.1039/D4DT00776J
30.
Autonomous Execution of Highly Reactive Chemical Transformations in the Schlenkputer,
Nicola Bell ,Florian Boser ,Andrius Bubliauskas ,Dominic Willcox ,Victor Luna, Leroy Cronin,
Nat. Chem. Eng. 1, 180–189 (2024) doi: s44286-023-00024-y
2023
29.
Aqueous solutions of super reduced polyoxotungstates as electron storage systems;
Tingting Zhao, Nicola L. Bell, Greig Chisholm, Balamurugan Kandasamy, De-Liang Long and Leroy Cronin (2023), Energy & Environmental Science, doi: 10.1039/D3EE00569K
28. Automated library generation and serendipity quantification enables diverse discovery in coordination chemistry.
Kowalski, D. J., MacGregor, C. M., Long, D.-L. , Bell, N. L. and Cronin, L. (2023)
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 4, 2332-2341, doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c11066
27. A water-soluble self-assembled {Pd84}ᴬᶜ polyoxopalladate nano-wheel as a supramolecular host. Sinclair, Z. L., Bell, N. L. , Bame, J. R., Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2023) Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 62(1), e202214203. doi: 10.1002/anie.202214203
2022
26. Robotic synthesis of peptides containing metal-oxide-based amino acids. She, S., Bell, N. L. , Zheng, D., Mathieson, J. S., Castro, M. D., Long, D.-L. , Koehnke, J. and Cronin, L. (2022) . Chem, 8(10), pp. 2734-2748. doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2022.07.007
25. Engineering highly reduced molybdenum polyoxometalates via the incorporation of d and f block metal ions. Ribó, E. G., Bell, N. L. , Long, D.-l. and Cronin, L. (2022). Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 61(21), e202201672. doi: 10.1002/anie.202201672
2021
24. Facile and reproducible electrochemical synthesis of the giant polyoxomolybdates. Tze-Kiat Ng, M., Bell, N. L. , Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2021) Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143(48), pp. 20059-20063. doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c10198
23. Chemputation and the standardization of chemical informatics. Hammer, A. J.S., Leonov, A. I., Bell, N. L. and Cronin, L. (2021). JACS Au, 1(10), pp. 1572-1587. doi: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00303
22. Exploring the geometric space of metal-organic polyhedrons (MOPs) of metal-oxo clusters. Inorganic Chemistry Kandasamy, B., Lee, E. , Long, D.-L. , Bell, N. and Cronin, L. (2021) Exploring the geometric space of metal-organic polyhedrons (MOPs) of metal-oxo clusters. Inorganic Chemistry, 60(19), pp. 14772-14778. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01987
21. Design of experiments for optimization of polyoxometalate syntheses. Chemistry of Materials, Bell, N. L. , Kupper, M. and Cronin, L. (2021), 33(18), pp. 7263-7271. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c01401
20. Enantioselective recognition of racemic amino alcohols in aqueous solution by chiral metal-oxide keplerate {Mo132} cluster capsules, Pow, R. W., Sinclair, Z. L., Bell, N. L. , Watfa, N., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2021) . Chemistry: A European Journal, 27(48), pp. 12327-12334. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202100899
19. Cu(OTf)2-Mediated Cross-Coupling of Nitriles and N-Heterocycles with Arylboronic Acids to Generate Nitrilium and Pyridinium Products, N L. Bell, C. Xu, J. W. B. Fyfe, J. C. Vantourout, J. Brals, S. Chabbra, B. E. Bode, D. B. Cordes, A. M. Z. Slawin, T. M. McGuire, A. J. B. Watson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 7935.
18. Lin, C.-G., Hutin, M., Busche, C. , Bell, N. L. , Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2021) Elucidating the paramagnetic interactions of an inorganic–organic hybrid radical-functionalized Mn-Anderson cluster. Dalton Transactions, 50(7), pp. 2350-2353. doi: 10.1039/D0DT04149A
2020
17. She, S., Xuan, W., Bell, N. L. , Pow, R. , Ribo, E. G., Sinclair, Z., Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2020) Peptide sequence mediated self-assembly of molybdenum blue nanowheel superstructures. Chemical Science, doi: 10.1039/D0SC06098D
16. Traustason, H., Bell, N. L. , Caranto, K., Auld, D. C., Lockey, D. T., Kokot, A., Szymanowski, J. E.S., Cronin, L. and Burns, P. C. (2020) Reactivity, formation, and solubility of polyoxometalates pprobed by calorimetry. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(48), pp. 20463-20469. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c10133
15. Garrido Ribó, E., Bell, N. L. , Xuan, W., Luo, J., Long, D.-L. , Liu, T. and Cronin, L. (2020) Synthesis, assembly, and sizing of neutral, lanthanide substituted molybdenum blue wheels {Mo90Ln10}. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(41), pp. 17508-17514. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c07146)
14. Salley, D. S., Keenan, G. A., Long, D.-L. , Bell, N. L. and Cronin, L. (2020) A modular programmable inorganic cluster discovery robot for the discovery and synthesis of polyoxometalates. ACS Central Science, 6(9), pp. 1587-1593. (doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00415
13. Porwol, L., Kowalski, D. J., Henson, A. , Long, D.-L. , Bell, N. L. and Cronin, L. (2020) An autonomous chemical robot discovers the rules of supramolecular chemistry without prior knowledge. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 59(28), pp. 11256-11261. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202000329)
12. Pow, R. W., Xuan, W., Long, D.-L. , Bell, N. L. and Cronin, L. (2020) Embedding alkenes within an icosahedral inorganic fullerene {(NH4)42[Mo132O372(L)30(H2O)72]} for trapping volatile organics. Chemical Science, 11(9), pp. 2388-2393. (doi: 10.1039/C9SC06217C)
2018
11. Uranyl to Uranium(IV) Conversion through Manipulation of Axial and Equatorial Ligands, Nicola L. Bell, Brian Shaw, Polly L. Arnold, and Jason B. Love, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 3378, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b13474
2017
10. Multi-electron reduction of sulfur and carbon disulfide using binuclear uranium(III) borohydride complexes, P. L. Arnold, C. J. Stevens, N. L. Bell, R. M. Lord, J. M. Goldberg, G. S. Nichol and J. B. Love, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 3609. DOI: 10.1039/C7SC00382J.
9. Inner-sphere vs. outer-sphere reduction of uranyl supported by a redox-active, donor-expanded dipyrrin, J.R. Pankhurst, N.L. Bell, M. Zegke, L.N. Platts, C.A. Lamfsus, L. Maron, L.S. Natrajan, S. Sproules, P.L. Arnold, and J.B. Love, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 108. doi: 10.1039/C6SC02912D
2016
8. Controlling uranyl oxo-group interactions to group 14 elements using polypyrrolic Schiff-base macrocyclic ligands, N.L. Bell, P.L. Arnold, J. B. Love, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 15902. doi: 10.1039/C6DT01948J
7. Relativistic DFT and experimental studies of mono- and bis-actinyl complexes of an expanded Schiff-base polypyrrole macrocycle, X. J. Zheng, N. L. Bell, C. J. Stevens, Y. X. Zhong, G. Schreckenbach, P. L. Arnold, J. B. Love and Q.J. Pan, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 15910. doi: 10.1039/c6dt01625a
2015
6. Thorium Mono- and Bis(imido) Complexes Made by reprotonation of cyclo-metalated amides, Bell, N. L., Maron, L., Arnold P.L., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 10492. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b06630
2014
5. Protonolysis and thermolysis reactions of functionalised NHC-carbene boranes and borates. P. L. Arnold, N. L. Bell, I. H. Marr, S. She, J. Hamilton, C. Fraser, K. Wang, Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 15419. doi:10.1039/c4dt01464b.
4. Homo- and heteroleptic alkoxycarbene f-element complexes and their reactivity towards acidic N–H and C–H bonds., P. L. Arnold, T. Cadenbach, N. L. Bell, I. H. Marr, A. A. Fyfe, R. Bellabarba, R. P. Tooze, J. B. Love, Dalton Trans. (Hot Article), 2014, 43, 14346. doi:10.1039/C4DT01442A.
2013
3. Homoleptic ‘sandwich’ complexes of substituted tris(methimazolyl)borate ligands with ruthenium, rhodium and palladium, Bailey, P.J., Bell, N.L.*, Nichol, G., Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 11281. doi: 10.1039/C3DT51150B
2012
2. Insertion and substitution chemistry at the boron fourth position in charge-neutral zwitterionic tripodal tris(methimazolyl)borate ligands, Bailey, P.J., Bell, N.L.*, White, F., Parsons, S., Nichol, G., Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 3677. doi: 10.1021/ic2026
2011
1. "Twisted" scorpionates: synthesis of a tris(2-pyridonyl)borate (Thp) ligand; lessons in the requirements for successful B(L2D)3 type ligands, P. J. Bailey, N. L. Bell*, L. L. Gim, T. Yucheng, N. Funnell, F. White and S. Parsons, Chem. Comm., 2011, 47, 11659. doi: 10.1039/C1CC14473A
