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Functionalised 9-(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)thioxanthene derivatives: a C-60 conjugate as an ambipolar organic field effect transistor (OFET) (2005)
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Amriou, S., Mehta, A., & Bryce, M. (2005). Functionalised 9-(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)thioxanthene derivatives: a C-60 conjugate as an ambipolar organic field effect transistor (OFET). Journal of materials chemistry, 15(12), 1232-1234

Thioxanthene has been converted into 9-(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)thioxanthene derivatives which are new two-electron pi-donors; an ambipolar OFET has been fabricated from the covalent 9-( 1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene) thioxanthene-C-60 diad system 6.

Dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide-fluorene co-oligomers. Stable, highly-efficient blue emitters with improved electron affinity (2005)
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Perepichka, I., Perepichka, I., Bryce, M., & Palsson, L. (2005). Dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide-fluorene co-oligomers. Stable, highly-efficient blue emitters with improved electron affinity. Chemical Communications, 3397-3399

Incorporation of dibenzothiophene- S, S-dioxide units into conjugated fluorene oligomers changes the frontier orbital energy levels and presents an effective way to increase the electron affinity of these materials, which are highly fluorescent with... Read More about Dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide-fluorene co-oligomers. Stable, highly-efficient blue emitters with improved electron affinity.

Electron-transporting materials for organic electroluminescent and electrophosphorescent devices (2005)
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Hughes, G., & Bryce, M. (2005). Electron-transporting materials for organic electroluminescent and electrophosphorescent devices. Journal of materials chemistry, 15(1), 94-107

One of the requirements for efficient organic electroluminescent devices (OLEDs) is balanced charge injection from the two electrodes and efficient transport of both holes and electrons within the luminescent layer in the device structure. Many of th... Read More about Electron-transporting materials for organic electroluminescent and electrophosphorescent devices.

A versatile synthesis of pyrazolo 3,4-c isoquinoline derivatives by reaction of 4-aryl-5-aminopyrazoles with aryl/heteroaryl aldehydes: the effect of the heterocycle on the reaction pathways (2005)
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Bogza, S., Kobrakov, K., Malienko, A., Perepichka, I., Sujkov, S., Bryce, M., …Bogdan, N. (2005). A versatile synthesis of pyrazolo 3,4-c isoquinoline derivatives by reaction of 4-aryl-5-aminopyrazoles with aryl/heteroaryl aldehydes: the effect of the heterocycle on the reaction pathways. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 3(5), 932-940

The reaction of 4-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-5-aminopyrazoles 7A-D with aromatic and heterocyclic aldehydes in strong acidic media (trifluoroacetic or formic acid) has been studied. The initial azomethine derivatives 8 undergo cyclization similar to the P... Read More about A versatile synthesis of pyrazolo 3,4-c isoquinoline derivatives by reaction of 4-aryl-5-aminopyrazoles with aryl/heteroaryl aldehydes: the effect of the heterocycle on the reaction pathways.

Controlling emission energy, self-quenching, and excimer formation in highly luminescent N C N-coordinated platinum(II) complexes (2005)
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Farley, S., Rochester, D., Thompson, A., Howard, J., & Williams, J. (2005). Controlling emission energy, self-quenching, and excimer formation in highly luminescent N C N-coordinated platinum(II) complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 44(26), 9690-9703. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic051049e

A series of cyclometalated platinum(II) complexes have been prepared, [PtLnCl], containing NCN-coordinating, terdentate ligands based on 1,3-dipyridylbenzene (HL1), incorporating aryl substituents at the central 5 position of the ligand. All of the n... Read More about Controlling emission energy, self-quenching, and excimer formation in highly luminescent N C N-coordinated platinum(II) complexes.

Boronic acid-substituted metal complexes: versatile building blocks for the synthesis of multimetallic assemblies (2005)
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Arm, K., & Williams, J. (2005). Boronic acid-substituted metal complexes: versatile building blocks for the synthesis of multimetallic assemblies. Chemical Communications, 230-232. https://doi.org/10.1039/b414929g

Polypyridyl complexes of Ru(II) and Ir(III) incorporating a boronic acid substituent undergo cross-coupling with bromo-substituted complexes, and a sequential coupling-bromination coupling strategy permits the controlled synthesis of a luminescent Y-... Read More about Boronic acid-substituted metal complexes: versatile building blocks for the synthesis of multimetallic assemblies.

Synthesis and pH-sensitive luminescence of bis-terpyridyl iridium(III) complexes incorporating pendent pyridyl groups. (2005)
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Arm, K., Leslie, W., & Williams, J. (2006). Synthesis and pH-sensitive luminescence of bis-terpyridyl iridium(III) complexes incorporating pendent pyridyl groups. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 359(4), 1222-1232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2005.09.021

A series of iridium(III) bis-terpyridine complexes have been prepared which incorporate pendent pyridyl groups at the 4′-positions of one or both of the terpyridine (tpy) ligands. These include: three mutually isomeric homoleptic complexes, in which... Read More about Synthesis and pH-sensitive luminescence of bis-terpyridyl iridium(III) complexes incorporating pendent pyridyl groups..

Thermal annealing of blended-layer organic light-emitting diodes (2005)
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Ahn, J., Wang, C., Widdowson, N., Pearson, C., Bryce, M., & Petty, M. (2005). Thermal annealing of blended-layer organic light-emitting diodes. Journal of Applied Physics, 98(5),

The effects of thermal annealing on the electro-optical and morphological properties of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) containing a blend of poly [2-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-5-methoxy-1, 4-phenylenevinylene] and an electron-transporting material, 2,7... Read More about Thermal annealing of blended-layer organic light-emitting diodes.

Self-assembly and multistage redox chemistry of strong electron acceptors on metal surfaces: Polynitrofluorenes on gold and platinum (2005)
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Perepichka, D., Kondratenko, M., & Bryce, M. (2005). Self-assembly and multistage redox chemistry of strong electron acceptors on metal surfaces: Polynitrofluorenes on gold and platinum. Langmuir, 21(19), 8824-8831

Nitrofluoren-9-one and nitrofluoren-9-dicyanomethylene electron acceptors 7, 8, and 11 functionalized with a terminal thioctic acid unit have been synthesized from 2,4,5,7-tetranitrofluorenone. The self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of these compounds... Read More about Self-assembly and multistage redox chemistry of strong electron acceptors on metal surfaces: Polynitrofluorenes on gold and platinum.

Tissue-specific expression and dimerization of the endoplasmic reticulum oxidoreductase Erolb (2005)
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Dias-Gunasekara, S., Gubbens, J., van Lith, M., Dunne, C., Williams, J., Kataky, R., …Benham, A. (2005). Tissue-specific expression and dimerization of the endoplasmic reticulum oxidoreductase Erolb. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280(38), 33066-33075. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m505023200

Endoplasmic reticulum oxidoreductases (Eros) are essential for the formation of disulfide bonds. Understanding disulfide bond catalysis in mammals is important because of the involvement of protein misfolding in conditions such as diabetes, arthritis... Read More about Tissue-specific expression and dimerization of the endoplasmic reticulum oxidoreductase Erolb.

Practical syntheses of N-hexylcarbazol-2-yl- and -3-yl-boronic acids, their cross-coupled products and a derived tris-cyclometalated (pyridin-2-yl)carbazole iridium(III) complex (2005)
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Tavasli, M., Bettington, S., Bryce, M., Batsanov, A., & Monkman, A. (2005). Practical syntheses of N-hexylcarbazol-2-yl- and -3-yl-boronic acids, their cross-coupled products and a derived tris-cyclometalated (pyridin-2-yl)carbazole iridium(III) complex. Synthesis: Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1619-1624

The syntheses of N-hcxylcarbazol-2-yl- and -3-yl-boronic acids (1 and 2) are described on a ca. 7 g scale, starting from commercially available 2,5-dibromonitrobenzene (4) and carbazole (11), respectively. Compounds I and 2 underwent efficient pallad... Read More about Practical syntheses of N-hexylcarbazol-2-yl- and -3-yl-boronic acids, their cross-coupled products and a derived tris-cyclometalated (pyridin-2-yl)carbazole iridium(III) complex.

A synthetic route to size-controlled fcc and fct FePt nanoparticles (2005)
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Howard, L., Nguyen, H., Giblin, S., Tanner, B., Terry, I., Hughes, A., & Evans, J. (2005). A synthetic route to size-controlled fcc and fct FePt nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127(29), 10140-10141. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja051669e

We report here a new synthetic route to FePt nanoparticles using a stoichiometric mixture of Na2Fe(CO)4 and Pt(acac)2. The structure of FePt nanoparticles, their size, chemical composition, and magnetic property can be controlled by various synthetic... Read More about A synthetic route to size-controlled fcc and fct FePt nanoparticles.

2-Ethoxy-3-pyridylboronic acid: A versatile reagent for the synthesis of highly-functionalised 3-aryl/heteroaryl-pyridines via Suzuki cross-coupling reactions (2005)
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Thompson, A., Batsanov, A., Bryce, M., Saygili, N., Parry, P., & Tarbit, B. (2005). 2-Ethoxy-3-pyridylboronic acid: A versatile reagent for the synthesis of highly-functionalised 3-aryl/heteroaryl-pyridines via Suzuki cross-coupling reactions. Tetrahedron, 61(21), 5131-5135

This paper describes the commercially-viable synthesis and isolation of 2-ethoxy-3-pyridylboronic acid on a ca. 70 g scale via a directed ortho-metalation reaction on readily-available 2-ethoxypyridine. A range of efficient cross-coupling reactions o... Read More about 2-Ethoxy-3-pyridylboronic acid: A versatile reagent for the synthesis of highly-functionalised 3-aryl/heteroaryl-pyridines via Suzuki cross-coupling reactions.

The first studies of a tetrathiafulvalene-sigma-acceptor molecular rectifier (2005)
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Ho, G., Heath, J., Kondratenko, M., Perepichka, D., Arseneault, K., Pezolet, M., & Bryce, M. (2005). The first studies of a tetrathiafulvalene-sigma-acceptor molecular rectifier. Chemistry - A European Journal, 11(10), 2914-2922

Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers of a donor-acceptor diad TTF-σ-(trinitrofluorene) (8) with an extremely low HOMO-LUMO gap (0.3 eV) have been used to create molecular junction devices that show rectification behavior. By virtue of structural simila... Read More about The first studies of a tetrathiafulvalene-sigma-acceptor molecular rectifier.

White polymeric light-emitting diode based on a fluorene polymer/Ir complex blend system (2005)
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Al Attar, H., Monkman, A., Tavasli, M., Bettington, S., & Bryce, M. (2005). White polymeric light-emitting diode based on a fluorene polymer/Ir complex blend system. Applied Physics Letters, 86(12),

Efficient white-polymeric light-emitting diodes (PLED) were fabricated as a single active layer containing blue-emitting poly(9,9-bis(2-ethylhexyl)fluorene-2,7-diyl) endcapped with bis(4-methylphenyl)phenylamine; (PF2/6am4), and yellow-orange-emittin... Read More about White polymeric light-emitting diode based on a fluorene polymer/Ir complex blend system.