Material Characterisation of William Burges’ Great Bookcase within the Disruption of a Global Pandemic (2022)
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Ghigo, T., Bone, D., Howell, D., Domoney, K., Gironda, M., & Beeby, A. (2022). Material Characterisation of William Burges’ Great Bookcase within the Disruption of a Global Pandemic. Studies in Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2022.2153463

This contribution presents the results of a technical investigation on the pigments of William Burges’ Great Bookcase (1859–62), preserved at the Ashmolean Museum. It is the first thorough material investigation of a remarkable piece of Gothic Reviva... Read More about Material Characterisation of William Burges’ Great Bookcase within the Disruption of a Global Pandemic.

Excited‐State Intramolecular Charge‐Transfer Dynamics in 4‐Dimethylamino‐4′‐cyanodiphenylacetylene: An Ultrafast Raman Loss Spectroscopic Perspective (2022)
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Barak, A., Dhiman, N., Sturm, F., Rauch, F., Lakshmanna, Y. A., Findlay, K. S., …Umapathy, S. (2022). Excited‐State Intramolecular Charge‐Transfer Dynamics in 4‐Dimethylamino‐4′‐cyanodiphenylacetylene: An Ultrafast Raman Loss Spectroscopic Perspective. ChemPhotoChem, 6(12), Article e202200146. https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202200146

The D-π-A compound 4-dimethylamino-4′-cyanodiphenylacetylene (DACN-DPA) exhibits intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) upon photoexcitation. Ultrafast Raman Loss Spectroscopy (URLS) measurements show distinct spectral and temporal dynamics of C≡C and... Read More about Excited‐State Intramolecular Charge‐Transfer Dynamics in 4‐Dimethylamino‐4′‐cyanodiphenylacetylene: An Ultrafast Raman Loss Spectroscopic Perspective.

Divergent Approach for Tris-Heteroleptic Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes Using Triisopropylsilylethynyl-Substituted Synthons (2022)
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Edkins, R. M., Hsu, Y., Fox, M. A., Yufit, D., Beeby, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2022). Divergent Approach for Tris-Heteroleptic Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes Using Triisopropylsilylethynyl-Substituted Synthons. Organometallics, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00292

Bis-heteroleptic cyclometalated iridium complexes of the form Ir(La)2(acac), where La is a substituted 2-phenylpyridine derivative and acac is an acetylacetonato ligand, are a useful class of luminescent organometallic complexes for a range of applic... Read More about Divergent Approach for Tris-Heteroleptic Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes Using Triisopropylsilylethynyl-Substituted Synthons.