Staff profile

Research Interests

We are principally interested in the fundamental synthetic, chemical and physical properties of luminescent compounds. They are characterised by spectroscopic (NMR, IR, UV-vis, MS, Raman), computational (DFT) and diffraction (X-ray) methods available from the excellent departmental research facilities here along with (spectro)electrochemical and photophysical measurements to explore their emission properties. Luminescent compounds of interest include ON/OFF photoswitches, phosphorescent metal complexes and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules.

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Prompt fluorescence molecules

Compounds containing carboranes (stable clusters of boron, carbon and hydrogen) have intriguing photophysical properties. Some derivatives of ortho-carborane (1,2-C₂B₁₀H₁₂) have dual emissions where one emission is due to charge transfer (CT) or excimer/aggregation formation. 

Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 9466-9469 https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC03248H

Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 5205-5219 https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SC06867A

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Phosphorescent complexes

Certain metal complexes are used as emitters in phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs). Iridium complexes are shown to emit desirable blue colours and can be incorporated in PHOLEDs with high efficiencies.

Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 2190-2208 https://doi.org/10.1039/C9DT04672K

Organometallics, 2022, 41, 2487-2493 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00292

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Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)

TADF is a recent area of intense research as inexpensive organic compounds are exploited as suitable emitters in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) due to high efficiencies made possible by harvesting energy from both singlet and triplet states like in expensive iridium complexes.

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4, 3602-3615. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0QM00429D

Chem. Mater., 2021, 33, 3066–3080. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03783

J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 429–445. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c02174

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• Computational DFT
• Luminescence

Chapter in book

• Fox, M. (2007). Polyhedral Carboranes. In D. M. P. Mingos, & R. H. Crabtree (Eds.), Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III (49-112). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-045047-4/00043-1
• Condick, P., Fox, M., Greatrex, R., & Ormsby, D. (2000). Synthesis and structural characterisation of the anion nido-[B8H11](-), and new insights into the structures of other octaborane species. In M. G. Davidson, K. Wade, T. Marder, & A. K. Hughes (Eds.), Contemporary Boron Chemistry (179-186). Royal Society of Chemistry
• Davidson, M., Fox, M., Gray, F., Hibbert, T., & Wade, K. (2000). Studies of icosahedral carboranes with iminotris(dimethylamino)phosphorane, HNP(NMe2)(3). In M. Davidson, A. Hughes, T. Marder, & K. Wade (Eds.), Contemporary Boron Chemistry (223-228). Royal Society of Chemistry
• Barbera, G., Dunn, S., Fox, M., Garrioch, R., Hodson, B., Low, K., Rosair, G., Teixidor, F., Vinas, C., Welch, A. J., & Weller, A. (2000). Towards experimental mapping of the mechanism of heteroborane isomerisation. In M. G. Davidson, K. Wade, T. Marder, & A. K. Hughes (Eds.), Contemporary Boron Chemistry (329-336)
• Greatrex, R., & Fox, M. A. (1998). Reactions of unsaturated hydrocarbons with small boranes: New insights and recent advances. In J. Casanova (Ed.), Borane, Carborane, Carbocation Continuum (289-305)
• Greatrex, R., & Fox, M. (1998). The borane-carborane structural pattern: Some correlations and implications. In J. Casanova (Ed.), The Borane, Carborane, Carbocation Continuum (57-84)

Journal Article

• Fox, M. (online). First structural characterisation of a 2,1,12-MC2B9 metallacarborane, [2,2,2-(NMe2)(3)-closo-2,1,12-TaC2B9H11]. Trends in boron NMR shifts on replacing a BH vertex with a metal MLn vertex in icosahedral carboranes. Dalton Transactions, 3519-3525
• Entwistle, C., Batsanov, A., Howard, J., Fox, M., & Marder, T. (online). Two contrasting ethynyl hydroboration pathways in the formation of a novel tris-hydroboration product from reaction of dimesitylborane with 2,5-diethynylpyridine. Chemical Communications, 702-703
• Fox, M. (online). Gas-phase electron diffraction studies of the icosahedral carbaboranes, ortho-, meta- and para-C2B10H12. Dalton Transactions, 1310-1318
• Smith, M. E., Flynn, E. L., Fox, M. A., Trottier, A., Wrede, E., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., Ronayne, K. L., Towrie, M., Parker, A. W., Hartl, F., & Low, P. J. (online). Facile photoinduced charge separation through a cyanoacetylide bridge in a heterobimetallic Fe(ii)–Re(i) complex. Chemical Communications, 5845-5847. https://doi.org/10.1039/b811357b
• Fox, M. (online). A convenient cyanide-free "one-pot" synthesis of nido-Me3N-7-CB10H12 and nido-7-CB10H13-. Dalton Transactions, 2624-2631
• Fox, M. (online). Deboronation of ortho-carborane by an iminophosphorane: crystal structures of the novel carborane adduct nido-C2B10H12 center dot HNP(NMe2)(3) and the borenium salt [(Me2N)(3)PNHBNP(NMe2)(3)](2)O2+(C2B9H12-)(2). Chemical Communications, 1649-1650
• Fox, M. (online). A new nido-5-vertex cluster, phosphacarba-nido-pentaborane, 2-Bu-t-1,2-PCB3H5. Chemical Communications, 1448-1449
• Armitt, D. J., Bruce, M. I., Gaudio, M., Zaitseva, N. N., Skelton, B. W., White, A. H., Le Guennic, B., Halet, J.-F., Fox, M. A., Roberts, R. L., Hartl, F., & Low, P. J. (online). Some transition metal complexes derived from mono- and di-ethynyl perfluorobenzenes. Dalton Transactions, 6763-6775. https://doi.org/10.1039/b808798a
• Fox, M. (online). Molecular structures of 1,12-B12H10(CO)(2) and its dihydrate 1,12-B12H10[C(OH)(2)](2) - a novel bis-carbene complex. Chemical Communications, 2487-2488
• Fox, M. (online). Convenient direct syntheses of novel fused-ring CB4N5 systems by nitrile hydroboration. Dalton Transactions, 3411-3413
• Alekseyeva, E., Batsanov, A., Boyd, L., Fox, M., Hibbert, T., Howard, J., MacBride, J., Mackinnon, A., & Wade, K. (online). Intra- and inter-molecular carboranyl C-H center dot center dot center dot N hydrogen bonds in pyridyl-containing ortho-carboranes. Dalton Transactions, 475-482
• Edkins, R. M., Hsu, Y.-T., Fox, M. A., Yufit, D., Beeby, A., & Davidson, R. J. (online). Divergent Approach for Tris-Heteroleptic Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes Using Triisopropylsilylethynyl-Substituted Synthons. Organometallics, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00292
• Fox, M. (online). REIDENTIFICATION OF THE MAJOR VOLATILE CARBABORANES FROM THE GAS-PHASE REACTIONS OF TETRABORANE(10) AND ALKYNES AT 50-DEGREES-C. Journal of the Chemical Society. Chemical communications, 667-668
• Fox, M. (online). Gas-phase reactions of tetraborane(10) with 1-en-3-ynes: Syntheses of the parent tricarbahexaborane, nido-2,3,4-C3B3H7, and its derivatives. Chemical Communications, 175-176
• Fox, M. (online). Unexpected formation of new fluoroboranes from the reaction of NMe4B3H8 with BF3 and MeC CH: exo-2-FB4H9 and trans-MeCH CHBF2. Chemical Communications, 2052-2053
• Fox, M. (online). EVEN MORE RELIABLE NMR CHEMICAL-SHIFT COMPUTATIONS BY THE GIAO-MP2 METHOD. Journal of the Chemical Society. Chemical communications, 1766-1768
• Cornet, S., Dillon, K., Entwistle, C., Fox, M., Goeta, A., Goodwin, H., Marder, T., & Thompson, A. (online). Synthesis and characterisation of some new boron compounds containing the 2,4,6-(CF₃)₃C₆H₂(fluoromes = Ar), 2,6-(CF₃)₂C₆H₃ (fluoroxyl = Ar '), or 2,4-(CF₃)₂C₆H₃ (Ar '') ligands. Dalton Transactions, 4395-4405. https://doi.org/10.1039/b309820f
• Baiget, L., Batsanov, A. S., Dyer, P. W., Fox, M. A., Hanton, M. J., Howard, J. A., Lane, P. K., & Solomon, S. A. (online). N-Phosphino-amidines and -guanidines: synthesis, structure and P,N-chelate chemistry. Dalton Transactions, 1043-1054. https://doi.org/10.1039/b715736c
• Fox, M. (online). Synthesis of a new boron carbonitride with a B4C-like structure from the thermolysis of N-alkylated borazines. Chemical Communications, 718-719
• Brown, N. J., Eckert, P. K., Fox, M. A., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., & Low, P. J. (online). The preparation and characterisation of ruthenium cyanovinylidene complexes. Dalton Transactions, 433-436. https://doi.org/10.1039/b714274a
• Coapes, R., Souza, F., Fox, M., Batsanov, A., Goeta, A., Yufit, D., Leech, M., Howard, J., Scott, A., Clegg, W., & Marder, T. (online). Phosphine promoted substituent redistribution reactions of B- chlorocatechol borane: Molecular structures of ClBcat, BrBcat and L center dot ClBcat (cat=1,2-O2C6H4; L = PMe3, PEt3, PBu3t, PCy3, NEt3). Dalton Transactions, 1201-1209
• Fox, M. (online). Crystallographic evidence for the diene character of C2B10H10C4H4 ('benzocarborane') and a Diels-Alder reaction of its anionic nido-analogue, [C2B9H10C4H4](-): Crystal structures of C2B10H10C4H4 and C2B10H10C4H6. Chemical Communications, 2033-2034
• Fox, M. (online). THE TRUE IDENTITY OF THE BARE-CARBON CLUSTER, CLOSO-C3B5H7. Dalton Transactions, 3197-3198
• Fox, M., Howard, J., Hughes, A., Malget, J., & Yufit, D. (online). Synthesis of isomeric B-methylated tantalum carboranes, (Me₂N)₃TaC₂B₉H₁₀Me. Dalton Transactions, 2263-2269. https://doi.org/10.1039/b103353k
• Fox, M. (online). Why are B2O2 rings rare?. Chemical Communications, 2217-2218
• Öner, S., Kuila, S., Stavrou, K., Danos, A., Fox, M. A., Monkman, A. P., & Bryce, M. R. (2024). Exciplex, Not Heavy-Atom Effect, Controls the Triplet Dynamics of a Series of Sulfur-Containing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules. Chemistry of Materials, 36(15), 7135-7150. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00850
• Wu, L., Holzapfel, M., Schmiedel, A., Peng, F., Moos, M., Mentzel, P., Shi, J., Neubert, T., Bertermann, R., Finze, M., Fox, M. A., Lambert, C., & Ji, L. (2024). Optically induced charge-transfer in donor-acceptor-substituted p - and m - C₂ B₁₀ H₁₂ carboranes. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 3005. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47384-4
• Davidson, R., Hsu, Y.-T., Fox, M. A., Aguilar, J. A., Yufit, D., & Beeby, A. (2023). Tuning Emission Lifetimes of Ir(C^N)2(acac) Complexes with Oligo(phenyleneethynylene) Groups. Inorganic Chemistry, 62(6), 2793-2805. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03934
• M'hamedi, A., Batsanov, A. S., Fox, M. A., Aguilar, J. A., & Bryce, M. R. (2023). Structural Diversity in Cyclometalated Diiridium(III) Complexes with Bridging syn and anti μ2‐Oxamidato and μ2‐Dithioxamidato Ligands. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202300423
• Andrews, J. L., Yufit, D. S., McCabe, J. F., Fox, M. A., & Steed, J. W. (2023). Vapor Sorption and Halogen-Bond-Induced Solid-Form Rearrangement of a Porous Pharmaceutical. Crystal Growth and Design, 23(4), 2628-2633. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c01464
• Ding, M., Reuven, J. A., Hones, A. C., Fox, M. A., & Steel, P. G. (2022). Iridium‐Catalysed C−H Borylation of Fluoroarenes: Insights into the Balance between Steric and Electronic Control of Regioselectivity. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022(47), https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202201005
• Chambers, L. I., Yufit, D. S., Fox, M. A., Musa, O. M., & Steed, J. W. (2022). Structure and hydration of polyvinylpyrrolidone-hydrogen peroxide. Chemical Communications, 58(1), 80-83. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cc06047c
• Ji, L., Riese, S., Schmiedel, A., Holzapfel, M., Fest, M., Nitsch, J., Curchod, B. F., Friedrich, A., Wu, L., Al Mamari, H. H., Hammer, S., Pflaum, J., Fox, M. A., Tozer, D. J., Finze, M., Lambert, C., & Marder, T. B. (2022). Thermodynamic equilibrium between locally excited and charge-transfer states through thermally activated charge transfer in 1-(pyren-2′-yl)-o-carborane. Chemical Science, 13, 5205-5219. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1sc06867a
• Li, C., Aldred, M. P., Harder, R. A., Chen, Y., Yufit, D. S., Zhu, M.-Q., & Fox, M. A. (2021). Carborane photochromism: A fatigue resistant carborane switch. Chemical Communications, 57(74), 9466-9469. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cc03248h
• Hempe, M., Kukhta, N. A., Danos, A., Fox, M. A., Batsanov, A. S., Monkman, A. P., & Bryce, M. R. (2021). Vibrational Damping Reveals Vibronic Coupling in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials. Chemistry of Materials, 33(9), 3066-3080. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03783
• Zhang, X., Shi, L., Fox, M. A., Barlow, A., Morshedi, M., Cifuentes, M. P., Humphrey, M. G., Mongin, O., Paul, F., & Paul-Roth, C. O. (2021). Nonlinear optical properties of meso-Tetra(fluorenyl)porphyrins peripherally functionalized with one to four ruthenium alkynyl substituents. Dyes and Pigments, 188, Article 109155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2021.109155
• Hempe, M., Harrison, A. K., Ward, J. S., Batsanov, A. S., Fox, M. A., Dias, F. B., & Bryce, M. R. (2021). Cyclophane Molecules Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Linking Donor Units to Influence Molecular Conformation. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86(1), 429-445. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c02174
• Murray, B. J., Marsh, T. G., Yufit, D. S., Fox, M. A., Harsanyi, A., Boulton, L. T., & Sandford, G. (2020). HFO-1234yf as a CF3-building block: Synthesis and Chemistry of CF­3-ynones. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020(39), 6236-6244. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202001071
• Benjamin, H., Zheng, Y., Kozhevnikov, V. N., Siddle, J. S., O'Driscoll, L. J., Fox, M. A., Batsanov, A. S., Griffiths, G. C., Dias, F. B., Monkman, A. P., & Bryce, M. R. (2020). Unusual dual-emissive heteroleptic iridium complexes incorporating TADF cyclometalating ligands. Dalton Transactions, 49(7), 2190-2208. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt04672k
• Romero, I., Martinez-Medina, M., Camprubí-Font, C., Bennour, I., Moreno, D., Martínez-Martínez, L., Teixidor, F., Fox, M. A., & Viñas, C. (2020). Metallacarborane Assemblies as Effective Antimicrobial Agents, Including a Highly Potent Anti-MRSA Agent. Organometallics, 39(23), 4253-4264. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00315
• Ward, J. S., Danos, A., Stachelek, P., Fox, M. A., Batsanov, A. S., Monkman, A. P., & Bryce, M. R. (2020). Exploiting trifluoromethyl substituents for tuning orbital character of singlet and triplet states to increase the rate of thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 4(12), https://doi.org/10.1039/d0qm00429d
• Zhang, X., Abid, S., Shi, L., Williams, J. G., Fox, M. A., Miomandre, F., Tourbillon, C., Audibert, J.-F., Mongin, O., Paul, F., & Paul-Roth, C. O. (2019). Fluorenylporphyrins functionalized by electrochromic ruthenium units as redox-triggered fluorescence switches. Dalton Transactions, 48(31), 11897-11911. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt02087j
• Parker, D., Suturina, E., Harnden, A., Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Mason, K., Vonci, M., McInnes, E., & Chilton, N. (2019). Unravelling the Complexities of Pseudocontact Shift Analysis in Lanthanide Coordination Complexes of Differing Symmetry. Angewandte Chemie, 131(30), 10936-10400. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201906031
• Ward, J. S., Nobuyasu, R. S., Fox, M. A., Aguilar, J. A., Hall, D., Batsanov, A. S., Ren, Z., Dias, F. B., & Bryce, M. R. (2019). Impact of Methoxy Substituents on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room-Temperature Phosphorescence in All-Organic Donor–Acceptor Systems. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84(7), 3801-3816. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.8b02848
• Flanagan, K. R., Parish, J. D., Fox, M. A., & Johnson, A. L. (2019). Synthetic, Structural, and Computational Studies on Heavier Tetragen and Chalcogen Triazenide Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 58(24), 16660-16666. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02757
• Ward, J. S., Nobuyasu, R. S., Fox, M. A., Batsanov, A. S., Santos, J., Dias, F. B., & Bryce, M. R. (2018). Bond Rotations and Heteroatom Effects in Donor-Acceptor-Donor Molecules: Implications for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 83(23), 14431-14442. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.8b02187
• Jennings, L. B., Shuvaev, S., Fox, M. A., Pal, R., & Parker, D. (2018). Selective signalling of glyphosate in water using europium luminescence. Dalton Transactions, 47(45), 16145-16154. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8dt03823f
• Parker, D., Shuvaev, S., & Fox, M. A. (2018). Monitoring the ADP/ATP ratio via induced circularly‐polarised europium luminescence. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57(25), 7488-7492. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201801248
• Walter, E. R., Fox, M. A., Parker, D., & Williams, J. G. (2018). Enhanced selectivity for Mg2+ with a phosphinate-based chelate: APDAP versus APTRA. Dalton Transactions, 47(6), 1755-1763. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7dt04698g
• Liao, J.-L., Devereux, L. R., Fox, M. A., Yang, C.-C., Chiang, Y.-C., Chang, C.-H., Lee, G.-H., & Chi, Y. (2018). Role of the Diphosphine Chelate in Emissive, Charge-Neutral Iridium(III) Complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal, 24(3), 624-635. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703482
• Kuo, H.-H., Chen, Y.-T., Devereux, L. R., Wu, C.-C., Fox, M. A., Kuei, C.-Y., Chi, Y., & Lee, G.-H. (2017). Bis-tridentate Ir(III) Metal Phosphors for Efficient Deep-Blue Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Advanced Materials, 29(33), Article 1702464. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201702464
• Benjamin, H., Fox, M. A., Batsanov, A. S., Al-Attar, H. A., Li, C., Ren, Z., Monkman, A. P., & Bryce, M. R. (2017). Pyridylpyrazole N^N Ligands Combined with Sulfonyl-Functionalised Cyclometalating Ligands for Blue-Emitting Iridium(III) Complexes and Solution-Processable PhOLEDs. Dalton Transactions, 46, 10996-11007. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7dt02289a
• Huang, R., Avó, J., Northey, T., Chaning-Pearce, E., dos Santos, P. L., Ward, J. S., Data, P., Etherington, M. K., Fox, M. A., Penfold, T. J., Berberan-Santos, M. N., Lima, J. C., Bryce, M. R., & Dias, F. B. (2017). The Contributions of Molecular Vibrations and Higher Triplet Levels to the Intersystem Crossing Mechanism in Metal-Free Organic Emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 5(25), 6269-6280. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7tc01958k
• Patel, N., Oliva-Enrich, J., & Fox, M. (2017). Geometries of 11-vertex carborane monoanion radicals with 2n+3 skeletal electron counts. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2017(38-39), 4568-4574. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201700419
• Grant, J. A., Lu, Z., Tucker, D. E., Hockin, B. M., Yufit, D. S., Fox, M. A., Kataky, R., Chechik, V., & O'Donoghue, A. C. (2017). New Blatter-type radicals from a bench-stable carbene. Nature Communications, 8, Article 15088. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15088
• Dillon, K., Fox, M., Gibson, V., Goodwin, H., & Sequiera, L. (2017). Platinum(II) complexes of some unsymmetrical diphosphenes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 830, 113-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2016.10.005
• Tseng, C.-H., Fox, M., Liao, J.-L., Ku, C.-H., Sie, Z.-T., Chang, C.-H., Wang, J.-Y., Chen, Z.-N., Lee, G.-H., & Chi, Y. (2017). Luminescent Pt(II) complexes featuring imidazolylidene–pyridylidene and dianionic bipyrazolate: from fundamentals to OLED fabrications. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 5(6), 1420-1435. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6tc05154e
• M’hamedi, A., Fox, M. A., Batsanov, A. S., Al-Attar, H. A., Monkman, A. P., & Bryce, M. R. (2017). Bright Green PhOLEDs Using Cyclometalated Diiridium(III) Complexes with Bridging Oxamidato Ligands as Phosphorescent Dopants. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 5(27), 6777-6789. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7tc00628d
• Dias, F., Santos, J., Graves, D., Data, P., Nobuyasu, R., Fox, M., Batsanov, A., Palmeira, T., Berberan-Santos, M., Bryce, M., & Monkman, A. (2016). The Role of Local Triplet Excited States and D-A Relative Orientation in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Photophysics and Devices. Advanced Science, 3(12), Article 1600080. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201600080
• Palmer-Brown, W., Dunne, B., Ortin, Y., Fox, M. A., Sandford, G., & Murphy, C. D. (2016). Biotransformation of fluorophenyl pyridine carboxylic acids by the model fungus Cunninghamella elegans. Xenobiotica, 47(9), 763-770. https://doi.org/10.1080/00498254.2016.1227109
• Benjamin, H., Zheng, Y., Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Al-Attar, H., Monkman, A., & Bryce, M. (2016). Sulfonyl-Substituted Heteroleptic Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes as Blue Emitters for Solution-Processable Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(17), 8612-8627. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01179
• Lin, J., Chau, N.-Y., Liao, J.-L., Wong, W.-Y., Lu, C.-Y., Sie, Z.-T., Chang, C.-H., Fox, M., Low, P., Lee, G.-H., & Chi, Y. (2016). Bis-Tridentate Iridium(III) Phosphors Bearing Functional 2-Phenyl-6-(imidazol-2-ylidene)pyridine and 2-(Pyrazol-3-yl)-6-phenylpyridine Chelates for Efficient OLEDs. Organometallics, 35(11), 1813-1824. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00205
• Neil, E., Pal, R., Fox, M., & Parker, D. (2016). Induced europium CPL for the selective signalling of phosphorylated amino-acids and O-phosphorylated hexapeptides. Dalton Transactions, 45(20), 8355-8366. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6dt01212d
• Holmes, J., Pask, C., Fox, M., & Willans, C. (2016). Tethered N-heterocyclic carbene–carboranes: unique ligands that exhibit unprecedented and versatile coordination modes at rhodium. Chemical Communications, 52(38), 6443-6446. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cc01650b
• Yufit, D., & Fox, M. (2016). Low-melting molecular complexes: Part VII. 2,3-, 2,5- and 3,4-hexanediones and their molecular complexes with chloroform. Structural Chemistry, 27(1), 9-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-015-0620-x
• Böhling, L., Brockhinke, A., Kahlert, J., Weber, L., Harder, R., Yufit, D., Howard, J., MacBride, J., & Fox, M. (2016). Substituent Effects on the Fluorescence Properties of ortho-Carbor­anes: Unusual Emission Behaviour in C-(2′-Pyridyl)-ortho-carboranes. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2016(3), 403-412. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201501284
• Liao, J.-L., Chi, Y., Sie, Z.-T., Ku, C.-H., Chang, C.-H., Fox, M., Low, P., Tseng, M.-R., & Lee, G.-H. (2015). Ir(III)-Based Phosphors with Bipyrazolate Ancillaries; Rational Design, Photophysics, and Applications in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Inorganic Chemistry, 54(22), 10811-10821. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01835
• Chaiyaveij, D., Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Marder, T., & Whiting, A. (2015). An experimental and computational approach to understanding the reactions of acyl nitroso compounds in [4+2]-cycloadditions. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 80(19), 9518-9534. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.5b01470
• Neil, E., Fox, M., Pal, R., Pålsson, L., O'Sullivan, B., & Parker, D. (2015). Chiral probe development for circularly polarised luminescence: comparative study of structural factors determining the degree of induced CPL with four heptacoordinate europium(III) complexes. Dalton Transactions, 44(33), 14937-14951. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5dt02358k
• Funk, A., Harvey, P., Finney, K.-L., Fox, M., Kenwright, A., Rogers, N., Senanayake, P., & Parker, D. (2015). Challenging lanthanide relaxation theory: erbium and thulium complexes that show NMR relaxation rates faster than dysprosium and terbium analogues. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(25), 16507-16511. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp02210j
• Oerthel, M.-C., Yufit, D., Fox, M., Bryce, M., & Low, P. (2015). Syntheses and Structures of Buta-1,3-Diynyl Complexes from ‘On Complex’ Cross-Coupling Reactions. Organometallics, 34(11), 2395-2405. https://doi.org/10.1021/om501186c
• Kahlert, J., Böhling, L., Brockhinke, A., Stammler, H.-G., Newmann, B., Rendina, L., Low, P., Weber, L., & Fox, M. (2015). Syntheses and Reductions of C-Dimesitylboryl-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaboranes. Dalton Transactions, 44(21), 9766-9781. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5dt00758e
• Merhi, A., Zhang, X., Yao, D., Drouet, S., Mongin, O., Paul, F., Williams, J., Fox, M., & Paul-Roth, C. (2015). New donor–acceptor conjugates based on a trifluorenylporphyrin linked to a redox–switchable ruthenium unit. Dalton Transactions, 44(20), 9470-9485. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5dt00348b
• Liao, J.-L., Chi, Y., Yeh, C.-C., Kao, H.-C., Chang, C.-H., Fox, M., Low, P., & Lee, G.-H. (2015). Near infrared-emitting tris-bidentate Os(II) phosphors: control of excited state characteristics and fabrication of OLEDs. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 3(19), 4910-4920. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5tc00204d
• Robinson, T., Price, R., Davidson, M., Fox, M., & Johnson, A. (2015). Why are the {Cu4N4} rings in copper(I) phosphinimide clusters [Cu{μ-N=PR3}]4 (R = NMe3 or Ph) planar?. Dalton Transactions, 44(12), 5611-5619. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5dt00255a
• Linton, K., Fox, M., Pålsson, L., & Bryce, M. (2015). Oligo(p-phenyleneethynylene) (OPE) Molecular Wires: Synthesis and Length Dependence of Photoinduced Charge Transfer in OPEs with Triarylamine and Diaryloxadiazole End Groups. Chemistry - A European Journal, 21(10), 3997-4007. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201406080
• Moral, M., García, G., Garzón, A., Granadino-Roldán, J., Fox, M., Yufit, D., Peñas, A., Melguizo, M., & Fernández-Gómez, M. (2014). Electronic Structure and Charge Transport Properties of a Series of 3,6-(Diphenyl)-s-tetrazine Derivatives: Are They Suitable Candidates for Molecular Electronics?. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(46), 26427-26439. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp5049698
• Zheng, Y., Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Al-Attar, H., Abdullah, K., Jankus, V., Bryce, M., & Monkman, A. (2014). Bimetallic Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Diastereomers with Non-Innocent Bridging Ligands for High-Efficiency Phosphorescent OLEDs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53(43), 11616-11619. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201407475
• Harder, R., MacBride, J., Rivers, G., Yufit, D., Goeta, A., Howard, J., Wade, K., & Fox, M. (2014). Studies on bis(1’-ortho-carboranyl)benzenes and bis(1’-ortho-carboranyl)biphenyls. Tetrahedron, 70(34), 5182-5189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2014.05.102
• Szablewski, M., Fox, M., Dias, F., Namih, H., Snedden, E., King, S., Dai, D., & Pålsson, L. (2014). Ultrafast Dynamics and Computational Studies on Diaminodicyanoquinodimethanes (DADQs). Journal of Physical Chemistry B (Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysical Chemistry), 118(24), 6815-6828. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp411358d
• Parthey, M., Gluyas, J., Fox, M., Low , P., & Kaupp, M. (2014). Mixed-Valence Ruthenium Complexes Rotating through a Conformational Robin–Day Continuum. Chemistry - A European Journal, 20(23), 6895-6908. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201304947
• Kahlert, J., Stammler, H.-J., Neumann, B., Harder, R., Weber, L., & Fox, M. (2014). Crystal structures of the carborane dianions, [1,4-(PhCB10H10C)2C6H4]2- and [1,4-(PhCB10H10C)2C6F4]2-, and the stabilizing role of the para-phenylene unit on unusual 2n+3 SE clusters. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53(14), 3702-3705. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201310718
• Weber, L., Halama, J., Hanke, K., Böhling, L., Brockhinke, A., Stammler, H.-G., Neumann, B., & Fox, M. (2014). On the ambiguity of 1,3,2-benzodiazaboroles as donor/acceptor functionalities in luminescent molecules. Dalton Transactions, 43(8), 3347-3363. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3dt52836g
• Fox, M., Pattison, G., Sandford, G., & Batsanov, A. (2013). 19F and 13C GIAO-NMR chemical shifts for the identification of perfluoro-quinoline and -isoquinoline derivatives. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 155, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluchem.2013.05.005
• Weber, L., Kahlert, J., Brockhinke, R., Böhling, L., Halama, J., Brockhinke, A., Stammler, H.-J., Neumann, B., Nervi, C., Harder, R., & Fox, M. (2013). C,C′-Bis(benzodiazaborolyl)dicarba-closo-dodecaboranes: Synthesis, structures, photophysics and electrochemistry. Dalton Transactions, 42(30), 10982-10996. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3dt51125a
• Tripoteau, F., Eberlin, L., Fox, M., Carboni, B., & Whiting, A. (2013). A novel, efficient synthesis of N-aryl pyrroles via reaction of 1-boronodienes with arylnitroso compounds. Chemical Communications, 49(47), 5414-5416. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cc42227e
• Ioppolo, J., Bhadbhade, M., Fox, M., & Rendina, L. (2013). Remarkable cage deboronation and rearrangement of a closo-1,12-dicarbadodecaborane to form a neutral nido-7,9-dicarbaundecaborane. Chemical Communications, 49(32), 3312-3314. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cc41173g
• Weber, L., Kahlert, J., Boehling, L., Brockhinke, A., Stammler, H.-G., Neumann, B., Harder, R., Low, P., & Fox, M. (2013). Electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical studies of C-benzodiazaborolyl-ortho-carboranes. Dalton Transactions, 42(6), 2266-2281. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2dt32378h
• Bruce, M. I., Burgun, A., Fox, M. A., Jevric, M., Low, P. J., Nicholson, B. K., Parker Christian, R., Skelton, B. W., White, A. H., & Zaitseva, N. N. (2013). Some Ruthenium Derivatives of Penta-1,4-diyn-3-one. Organometallics, 32(11), 3286-3299. https://doi.org/10.1021/om400208q
• Farmer, J. D., Man, W. Y., Fox, M. A., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., Hill, A. F., & Low, P. J. (2012). Syntheses, structures and redox properties of tris(pyrazolyl)borate-capped ruthenium vinyl complexes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 721-722, 173-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2012.09.001
• Armstrong, D., Fox, M., & Wade, K. (2012). Carboranes as model hypercarbon systems; structural and bonding patterns in selected isoelectronic closo-borane and carborane systems; [BnHn](2-), [1-CBn-1Hn](-) and 1,n-C2Bn-2Hn (n=5, 6, 7, 10 or 12). Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 721, 130-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2012.07.047
• Fox, M. A., Sandford, G., Slater, R., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., & Vong, A. (2012). Reactions of 4-substituted tetrafluoropyridine derivatives with sulfur nucleophiles: SNAr and annelation processes. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 143(SI), 148-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluchem.2012.05.011
• Tuxworth, L., Baiget, L., Phanopoulos, A., Metters, O. J., Batsanov, A. S., Fox, M. A., Howard, J. A., & Dyer, P. W. (2012). Phosphine-alkene ligand-mediated alkyl-alkyl and alkyl-halide elimination processes from palladium(II). Chemical Communications, 48(84), 10413-10415. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cc35623f
• Weber, L., Eickhoff, D., Kahlert, J., Boehling, L., Brockhinke, A., Stammler, H.-G., Neumann, B., & Fox, M. A. (2012). Diazaborolyl-boryl push–pull systems with ethynylene–arylene bridges as ‘turn-on’ fluoride sensors. Dalton Transactions, 41(34), 10328-10346. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2dt30438d
• Weber, L., Kahlert, J., Brockhinke, R., Boehling, L., Brockhinke, A., Stammler, H.-G., Neumann, B., Harder, R., & Fox, M. (2012). Luminescence Properties of C-Diazaborolyl-ortho-Carboranes as Donor-Acceptor Systems. Chemistry - A European Journal, 18(27), 8347-8357. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201200390
• Weber, L., Eickhoff, D., Marder, T. B., Fox, M. A., Low, P. J., Dwyer, A. D., Tozer, D. J., Schwedler, S., Brockhinke, A., Stammler, H.-G., & Neumann, B. (2012). Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Organic D-π-A Systems Containing Three-Coordinate Boron Moieties as both π-Donor and π-Acceptor. Chemistry - A European Journal, 18(5), 1369-1382. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201102059
• Delley, R., Bandyopadhyay, S., Fox, M., Schliehe, C., Hodgson, D., Hollfelder, F., Kirby, A., & O'Donoghue, A. (2012). peri-Dimethylamino substituent effects on proton transfer at carbon in α-naphthylacetate esters: a model for mandelate racemase. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 10(3), 590-596. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1ob06525d
• Linton, K., Fisher, A., Pearson, C., Fox, M., Pålsson, L.-O., Bryce, M., & Petty, M. (2012). Colour tuning of blue electroluminescence using bipolar carbazole-oxadiazole molecules in single-active-layer organic light emitting devices (OLEDs). Journal of materials chemistry, 22(23), 11816-11825. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2jm31825c
• Long, E. M., Brown, N. J., Man, W. Y., Fox, M. A., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., & Low, P. J. (2012). The synthesis, molecular and electronic structure of cyanovinylidene complexes. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 380, 358-371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2011.10.067
• Coffer (nee Monks), P. K., Deng, R. M., Dillon, K. B., Fox, M. A., & Olivey, R. J. (2012). Platinum(II) Complexes of Cyclic Triphosphenium Ions: a P-31 NMR Spectroscopic and Computational Study. Inorganic Chemistry, 51(18), 9799-9808. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic3011663
• Xia, J.-L., Man, W. Y., Zhu, X., Zhang, C., Jin, G.-J., Schauer, P. A., Fox, M. A., Yin, J., Yu, G.-A., Low, P. J., & Liu, S. H. (2012). Synthesis and Characterization of Dithia[3.3]paracyclophane-Bridged Binuclear Ruthenium Vinyl and Alkynyl Complexes. Organometallics, 31(15), 5321-5333. https://doi.org/10.1021/om300338j
• Bruce, M. I., Fox, M. A., Low, P. J., Nicholson, B. K., Parker, C. R., Patalinghug, W. C., Skelton, B. W., & White, A. H. (2012). Substitution of Tetracyanoethene by Ethynyl-Metal Complexes Gives Tricyanovinylethynyl (Tricyanobutenynyl) Derivatives: Syntheses, Protonation, and Addition of Metal-Ligand Fragments. Organometallics, 31(7), 2639-2657. https://doi.org/10.1021/om2007503
• Tavasli, M., Moore, T. N., Zheng, Y., Bryce, M. R., Fox, M. A., Griffiths, G. C., Jankus, V., Al-Attar, H. A., & Monkman, A. P. (2012). Colour tuning from green to red by substituent effects in phosphorescent tris-cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes of carbazole-based ligands: synthetic, photophysical, computational and high efficiency OLED studies. Journal of materials chemistry, 22(13), 6419-6428. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2jm15049b
• M'hamedi, A., Batsanov, A. S., Fox, M. A., Bryce, M. R., Abdullah, K., Al-Attar, H. A., & Monkman, A. P. (2012). Dinuclear iridium(III) complexes of cyclometalated fluorenylpyridine ligands as phosphorescent dopants for efficient solution-processed OLEDs. Journal of materials chemistry, 22(27), 13529-13540. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2jm31143g
• Khairul, W., Fox, M., Schauer, P., Albesa-Jove, D., Yufit, D., Howard, J., & Low, P. (2011). Ligand redox non-innocent behaviour in ruthenium complexes of ethynyl tolans. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 374(1), 461-471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2011.02.043
• Wagenpfeil, A., Nickl, C., Schubert, H., Eichele, K., Fox, M. A., & Wesemann, L. (2011). 1,2-Carbagerma-closo-dodecaborate as a Germanium Ligand in Coordination Chemistry - Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2011(22), 3349-3356. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201100310
• Al-Attar, H., Griffiths, G., Moore, T., Tavasli, M., Fox, M., Bryce, M., & Monkman, A. (2011). Highly Efficient, Solution-Processed, Single-Layer, Electrophosphorescent Diodes and the Effect of Molecular Dipole Moment. Advanced Functional Materials, 21(12), 2376-2382. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201100324
• Brown, N. J., Lancashire, H. N., Fox, M. A., Collison, D., Edge, R., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., Whiteley, M. W., & Low, P. J. (2011). Molybdenum Complexes of C,C-Bis(ethynyl)carboranes: Design, Synthesis, and Study of a Weakly Coupled Mixed-Valence Compound. Organometallics, 30(4), 884-894. https://doi.org/10.1021/om1010353
• Fox, M., Guennic, B., Roberts, R., Brue, D., Yufit, D., Howard, J., Manca, G., Halet, J., Hartl, F., & Low, P. (2011). Simultaneous Bridge-Localized and Mixed-Valence Character in Diruthenium Radical Cations Featuring Diethynylaromatic Bridging Ligands. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(45), 18433-18446. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja207827m
• Khairul, W. M., Fox, M. A., Schauer, P. A., Yufit, D. S., Albesa-Jové, D., Howard, J. A., & Low, P. J. (2010). The electronic structures of diruthenium complexes containing an oligo(phenylene ethynylene) bridging ligand, and some related molecular structures. Dalton Transactions, 39(48), 11605-11615. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0dt00809e
• Willans, C., Kilner, C., & Fox, M. (2010). Deboronation and Deprotonation of ortho-Carborane with N-Heterocyclic Carbenes. Chemistry - A European Journal, 16(35), 10644-10648. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201001730
• Pandya, S., Moss, K., Bryce, M., Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Jankus, V., Al Attar, H., & Monkman, A. (2010). Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes Containing Cyclometallated Diaryl Ketimine Ligands: Synthesis, Photophysical and Computational Properties. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2010(13), 1963-1972. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.200901159
• Bruce, M. I., Fox, M. A., Low, P. J., Skelton, B. W., & Zaitseva, N. N. (2010). Some reactions of an eta(3)-tetracyanobutadienyl-ruthenium complex. Dalton Transactions, 39(15), 3759-3770. https://doi.org/10.1039/b921324d
• Bruce, M., Zaitseva, N., Skelton, B., White, A., Fox, M., & Low, P. (2010). Syntheses and molecular structures of some tricobalt carbonyl clusters containing 2,4,6-trimethyl-1,3,5-trithiane. Dalton Transactions, 39(5), 1222-1234. https://doi.org/10.1039/b909708b
• Moss, K., Bourdakos, K., Bhalla, V., Kamtekar, K., Bryce, M., Fox, M., Vaughan, H., Dias, F., & Monkman, A. (2010). Tuning the Intramolecular Charge Transfer Emission from Deep Blue to Green in Ambipolar Systems Based On Dibenzothiophene S S-Dioxide by Manipulation of Conjugation and Strength of the Electron Donor Units. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 75(20), 6771-6781. https://doi.org/10.1021/jo100898a
• Brown, N. J., Fox, M. A., Smith, M. E., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., & Low, P. J. (2009). The syntheses and structures of mono- and di-bromovinylidenes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 694(25), 4042-4048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2009.08.027
• Smith, D., Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Beeby, A., Apperley, D., Howard, J., & Dyer, P. (2009). From Cyclic Iminophosphoranes to -Conjugated Materials. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 48(48), 9109-9113. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200904219
• Fox, M., Nervi, C., Crivello, A., Batsanov, A., Howard, J., Wade, K., & Low, P. (2009). Structural, spectroscopic, electrochemical and computational studies of C,C '-diaryl-ortho-carboranes, 1-(4-XC6H4)-2-Ph-1,2-C2B10H10 (X = H, F, OMe, NMe2, NH2, OH and O-). Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 13(10), 1483-1495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-008-0686-0
• Fox, M., Farmer, J., Roberts, R., Humphrey, M., & Low, P. (2009). Noninnocent Ligand Behavior in Diruthenium Complexes Containing a 1,3-Diethynylbenzene Bridge. Organometallics, 28(17), 5266-5269. https://doi.org/10.1021/om900200n
• Fox, M., Peace, R., Clegg, W., Elsegood, M., & Wade, K. (2009). Trends in ortho-carboranes 1-X-2-R-1,2-C2B10H10 (R = Ph, Me) bearing an exo-CN-bonded substituent group (X = NO, N=NR ' or NHR ''). Polyhedron, 28(12), 2359-2370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2009.04.041
• Fox, M. A., Harris, J. E., Heider, S., Pérez-Gregorio, V., Zakrzewska, M. E., Farmer, J. D., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., & Low, P. J. (2009). A simple synthesis of trans-RuCl(C CR)(dppe)(2) complexes and representative molecular structures. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 694(15), 2350-2358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2009.03.033
• Weber, L., Werner, V., Fox, M. A., Marder, T. B., Schwedler, S., Brockhinke, A., Hans-Georg, S., & Neumann, B. (2009). Synthetic, structural, photophysical and computational studies on 2-arylethynyl-1,3,2-diazaboroles. Dalton Transactions, 2009(15), 2823-2831. https://doi.org/10.1039/b821208b
• Fox, M., MacBride, J., Peace, R., Clegg, W., Elsegood, M., & Wade, K. (2009). New synthetic and structural studies on nitroso-ortho-carboranes RCB10H10CNO and bis(ortho-carboranyl)amines (RCB10H10C)(2)NH (R = Ph or Me). Polyhedron, 28(4), 789-795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2008.12.014
• Khairul, W. M., Fox, M. A., Zaitseva, N. N., Gaudio, M., Yufit, D. S., Skelton, B. W., White, A. H., Howard, J. A., Bruce, M. I., & Low, P. J. (2009). Transition metal alkynyl complexes by transmetallation from Au(C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CAr)(PPh3) (Ar = C6H5 or C6H4Me-4). Dalton Transactions, 2009(4), 610-620. https://doi.org/10.1039/b809960j
• Fox, M. A., Marder, T. B., & Wesemann, L. (2009). DFT studies of the σ-donor/π-acceptor properties of [SnCB10H11]– and its relationship to [SnCl3]–, CO, PF3, [SnB11H11]2–, SnC2B9H11, and related SnC2BnHn+2 compounds. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 87(1), 63-71. https://doi.org/10.1139/v08-081
• Fox, M. (2009). EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTED DIPOLE MOMENTS IN DONOR-BRIDGE-ACCEPTOR SYSTEMS WITH p-PHENYLENE AND p-CARBORANEDIYL BRIDGES. Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications (On-line), 74(1), 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc2008154
• Fox, M., Roberts, R., Baines, T., Le Guennic, B., Halet, J.-F., Hartl, F., Yufit, D., Albesa-Jové, D., Howard, J., & Low, P. (2008). Ruthenium complexes of C,C '-bis(ethynyl)carboranes: An investigation of electronic interactions mediated by spherical pseudo-aromatic spacers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130(11), 3566-3578. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0779755
• Fox, M. A., Greatrex, R., & Nikrahi, A. (2008). Quenched gas-phase reactions of tetraborane(10), B4H10, with substituted alkynes: new nido-dicarbapentaboranes and arachno-monocarbapentaboranes. Dalton Transactions, 2008(5), 676-684. https://doi.org/10.1039/b715105e
• Fox, M. A., Roberts, R. L., Khairul, W. M., Hartl, F., & Low, P. J. (2007). Spectroscopic properties and electronic structures of 17-electron half-sandwich ruthenium acetylide complexes, [Ru(CCAr)(L2)Cp′]+ (Ar=phenyl, p-tolyl, 1-naphthyl, 9-anthryl; L2=(PPh3)2, Cp′=Cp; L2=dppe; Cp′=Cp∗). Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 692(15), 3277-3290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2007.03.042
• Fox, M., Nervi, C., Crivello, A., & Low, P. (2007). Carborane radical anions: spectroscopic and electronic properties of a carborane radical anion with a 2n + 3 skeletal electron count. Chemical Communications, 23, 2372-2374. https://doi.org/10.1039/b700110j
• Fox, M. (2007). Elemental fluorine - Part 20. Direct fluorination of deactivated aromatic systems using microreactor techniques. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 128(1), 29-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluchem.2006.09.010
• Fox, M., Baines, T., Albesa-Jove, D., Howard, J., & Low, P. (2006). Improved syntheses of bis(ethynyl)-para-carboranes, 1,12-(RC C)(2)-1,12-C2B10H10 and 1,10-(RC equivalent to C)(2)-1,10-C2B8H8 (R = H or Me3Si). Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 691(18), 3889-3894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2006.05.044
• Fox, M., Cameron, A., Low, P., Paterson, M., Batsanov, A., Goeta, A., Rankin, D., Robertson, H., & Schirlin, J. (2006). Synthetic and structural studies on C-ethynyl- and C-bromo-carboranes. Dalton Transactions, 29, 3544-3560. https://doi.org/10.1039/b517538k
• Batsanov, A. S., Copley, R. C., Davidson, M. G., Fox, M. A., Hibbert, T. G., Howard, J. A., & Wade, K. (2006). Reactions of Icosahedral Carboranes with Iminotris(dimethylamino)Phosphorane HNP(NMe2)3: a Deboronation Intermediate nido-C2B10H12·N(H)P(NMe2)3, Deboronation Reactions and Hydrogen-bonded Closo-carborane Systems. Journal of Cluster Science, 17(1), 119-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-005-0042-9
• Batsanov, A., Clegg, W., Copley, R., Fox, M., Gill, W., Grimditch, R., Hibbert, T., Howard, J., MacBride, J., & Wade, K. (2006). Preparative and structural studies on sulfur-linked carborane icosahedra: 2-phenyl-ortho-carboranyl-sulfur systems (2-Ph-1,2-C2B10H10)(2)X (X = S, S-2 or SO), and ortho-carboran-di-yl systems (1,2-C2B10H10Y)(2) (Y = S or SO). Polyhedron, 25(2), 300-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2005.06.046
• Le Guennic, B., Costuas, K., Halet, J., Nervi, C., Paterson, M., Fox, M., Roberts, R., Albesa-Jove, D., Puschmann, H., Howard, J., & Low, P. (2005). Electronic interactions in bridged bis(cluster) assemblies - a comparison of para-CB10H10C, para-C6H4 and C-4 bridges. Comptes rendus. Chimie, 8(11-12), 1883-1896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crci.2005.03.016
• Chambers, R., Fox, M., & Sandford, G. (2005). Elemental fluorine - Part 18. Selective direct fluorination of 1,3-ketoesters and 1,3-diketones using gas/liquid microreactor technology. Lab on a Chip, 5(10), 1132-1139. https://doi.org/10.1039/b504675k
• Chambers, R., Fox, M., Holling, D., Nakano, T., Okazoe, T., & Sandford, G. (2005). Versatile gas/liquid microreactors for industry. Chemical Engineering & Technology, 28(3), 344-352. https://doi.org/10.1002/ceat.200407123
• Chambers, R., Fox, M., Holling, D., Nakano, T., Okazoe, T., & Sandford, G. (2005). Elemental fluorine - Part 16. Versatile thin-film gas-liquid multi-channel microreactors for effective scale-out. Lab on a Chip, 5(2), 191-198. https://doi.org/10.1039/b416400h
• Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Hibbert, T., Howard, J., Kivekäs, R., Laromaine, A., Sillanpää, R., Viñas, C., & Wade, K. (2004). Sulfur, tin and gold derivatives of 1-(2′-pyridyl)-ortho-carborane, 1-R-2-X-1,2-C2B10H10 (R = 2′-pyridyl, X = SH, SnMe3 or AuPPh3). Dalton Transactions, 2004(22), 3822-3828. https://doi.org/10.1039/b411099d
• Boyd, L., Clegg, W., Copley, R., Davidson, M., Fox, M., Hibbert, T., Howard, J., Mackinnon, A., Peace, R., & Wade, K. (2004). Exo-π-bonding to an ortho-carborane hypercarbon atom: systematic icosahedral cage distortions reflected in the structures of the fluoro-, hydroxy- and amino-carboranes, 1-X-2-Ph-1,2-C2B10H10 (X = F, OH or NH2) and related anions. Dalton Transactions, 2004(17), 2786-2799. https://doi.org/10.1039/b406422d
• Fox, M., & Hughes, A. (2004). Cage C---H...X interactions in solid-state structures of icosahedral carboranes. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 248(5-6), 457-476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2003.10.002
• Venkatasubramanian, U., Donohoe, D., Ellis, D., Giles, B., Macgregor, S., Robertson, S., Rosair, G., Welch, A., Batsanov, A., Boyd, L., Copley, R., Fox, M., Howard, J., & Wade, K. (2004). The synthesis and molecular and crystal structures of 1-methyl-2-carboxy-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane(12), 1-phenyl-2-carboxy-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane(12) and 1-phenyl-2-benzoyl-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane(12). Polyhedron, 23(4), 629-636
• Fox, M. (2004). Gas-phase electron diffraction studies on two 11-vertex dicarbaboranes, closo-2,3-C2B9H11 and nido-2,9-C2B9H13. Inorganic Chemistry, 43(17), 5387-5392
• Fox, M., & Wade, K. (2003). Evolving patterns in boron cluster chemistry. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 75(9), 1315-1323. https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200375091315
• Entwistle, C., Marder, T., Smith, P., Howard, J., Fox, M., & Mason, S. (2003). Dimesitylborane monomer-dimer equilibrium in solution, and the solid-state structure of the dimer by single crystal neutron and X-ray diffraction. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 680(1-2), 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-328x%2803%2900316-4
• Fox, M., Howard, J., MacBride, J., Mackinnon, A., & Wade, K. (2003). Big macrocyclic assemblies of carboranes (big MACs): synthesis and crystal structure of a macrocyclic assembly of four carboranes containing alternate ortho- and meta-carborane icosahedra linked by para-phenylene units. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 680(1-2), 155-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-328x%2803%2900313-9
• Alekseyeva, E., Fox, M., Howard, J., MacBride, J., & Wade, K. (2003). Synthesis and crystal structure of an assembly of three ortho-carborane cages linked via para-phenylene units: effect of aryl orientation on cage C-C bond lengths in C-aryl-ortho-carboranes. Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 17(6-7), 499-508. https://doi.org/10.1002/aoc.467
• Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Howard, J., Hughes, A., Johnson, A., & Martindale, S. (2003). 9,12-Di­iodo-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane(12). Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry, 59(2), O74-O76. https://doi.org/10.1107/s0108270102023582
• Fox, M. (2003). Alkynyl gold(I) rigid-rod molecules from 1,12-bis(ethynyl)-1,12-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane(12). Organometallics, 22(23), 4792-4797
• Fox, M., Goeta, A., Hughes, A., & Johnson, A. (2002). Crystal and molecular structures of the nido-carborane anions, 7,9- and 2,9 C₂B₉H₁₂. Dalton Transactions, 10, 2132-2141. https://doi.org/10.1039/b108937d
• Westwood, A., Brydson, R., Coult, R., Fox, M., Rand, B., & Wade, K. (2002). Carbon-boron-nitrogen alloys from borazarene-derived mesophase pitches. Carbon, 40(12), 2157-2167. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0008-6223%2802%2900064-7
• Fox, M., Hughes, A., Johnson, A., & Paterson, M. (2002). Do the discrete dianions C2B9H112- exist? Characterisation of alkali metal salts of the 11-vertex nido dicarboranes, C2B9H112-, in solution. Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton transactions (2001. Online), 2002(9), 2009-2019. https://doi.org/10.1039/b109804g
• Fox, M., Hughes, A., & Malget, J. (2002). Cage-closing reactions of the nido-carborane anion 7,9-C2B9H12− and derivatives; formation of neutral 11-vertex carboranes by acidification. Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton transactions (2001. Online), 2002(18), 3505-3517. https://doi.org/10.1039/b203920f
• Fox, M., Goeta, A., Hughes, A., Malget, J., & Wade, K. (2002). Halogenation of tris(amido)tantalacarboranes with dihalomethanes CH2X2 (X = Cl, Br)
• Fox, M. (2002). Solution and solid-state structure of the anion [Ag-2closo-CB11H12(4)](2-). Inorganic Chemistry, 41(17), 4567-4573
• Fox, M., & Wade, K. (2002). Model compounds and monomers for phenylene ether carboranylene ketone (PECK) polymer synthesis: preparation and characterization of boron-arylated ortho-carboranes bearing carboxyphenyl, phenoxyphenyl or benzoylphenyl substituents. Journal of materials chemistry, 12(5), 1301-1306
• Fox, M., Paterson, M., Nervi, C., Galeotti, F., Puschmann, H., Howard, J., & Low, P. (2001). Electrochemical evidence for electronic interactions through the para-carborane skeleton in the novel tricluster [{Co2C2(SiMe3)(CO)4(dppm)}2(μ-CB10H10C)]. Chemical Communications, 2001(17), 1610-1611. https://doi.org/10.1039/b104307m
• Fox, M. (2001). Empirical and ab initio energy/architectural patterns for 73 nido-6 < V >-carborane isomers, from B6H9- to C4B2H6. Inorganic Chemistry, 40(8), 1790-1801
• Fox, M., Goeta, A., Howard, J., Hughes, A., Johnson, A., Keen, D., Wade, K., & Wilson, C. (2001). The molecular structure of (PSH+)(nido-7,8-C2B9H12-) determined by neutron diffraction (PS = proton sponge, 1,8- bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene). Inorganic Chemistry, 40(1), 173-+
• Fox, M. (2000). Syntheses and reactions of some new C-pentafluorophenyl and tetrafluorophenylene carborane systems. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 597(1-2), 157-163
• Fox, M. (2000). Gas-phase reactions of nido-1-methylpentaborane with propyne and 2-pentyne. Formation of B-alkyl nido and close carbaboranes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 614, 262-268
• Fox, M. (2000). 1,2-Ph2-9-1-1,2-closo-C2B10H9 - Steric effects in heteroboranes. Part 24. Acta crystallographica. Section C, Crystal structure communications, 56, 487-488. https://doi.org/10.1107/s0108270100000743
• Fox, M. (2000). Synthesis and structure of 1,12-diethynyl-para-carborane. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 610(1-2), 20-24
• Fox, M. (1999). Deboronation of 9-substituted-ortho- and -meta-carboranes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 573(1-2), 279-291
• Fox, M. (1999). Gas-phase flash reactions of diborane, triborane carbonyl and tetraborane with alkynes. Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications (On-line), 64(5), 806-818. https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19990806
• Fox, M. (1998). Gas-phase reaction of tetraborane(10) and ethyne: Molecular structure of nido-1,2-C2B3H7 in the gas phase. Inorganic Chemistry, 37(9), 2166-2176
• Wade, K., Fox, M., McBride, J., & Peace, R. (1998). Transmission of electronic effects by icosahedral carboranes: skeletal carbon-13 chemical shifts and ultraviolet-visible spectra of substituted aryl-p-carboranes (1,12-dicarba-closo-dodecaboranes). Dalton Transactions, 1998(3), 401-411
• Fox, M. (1998). Studies on tetraborane(8) carbonyl, B4H8.CO: its isomeric composition in the gas phase and in solution, and its reactions with alkenes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 550(1-2), 207-212
• Fox, M. (1998). Six-vertex nido-carborane structures with unusual CHB bridges or endo-CH hydrogens. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 550(1-2), 331-340
• Fox, M. (1998). 2,4-Ethanotetraborane derivatives. 3. Determination of the molecular structure of 2,4-(t-butylethano)tetraborane(10), 2,4-((BuCHCH2)-C-t)B4H8, in the gas phase by electron diffraction. Journal of Molecular Structure, 445(1-3), 319-334
• Fox, M. (1997). Molecular structure of trifluorophosphine tetraborane(8), B4H8PF3, as determined in the gas phase by electron diffraction and ab initio computations. Inorganic Chemistry, 36(6), 1048-1054
• Fox, M. (1997). Fluoride-ion deboronation of p-fluorophenyl-ortho- and -meta-carboranes. NMR evidence for the new fluoroborate, HOBHF2-. Polyhedron, 16(14), 2499-2507
• Fox, M. (1997). Cage-fluorination during deboronation of meta-carboranes. Polyhedron, 16(14), 2517-2525
• Fox, M. (1997). Gas-phase reaction of tetrahorane(10) with allene: The fluxional arachno-1-carbapentaborane(10) isomeric system and derivatives 1,2- and 1,3-Me-2-1-CB4H8; analogies in 1-CB4H10, MeB5H10, and B5H10-. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 36(13-14), 1498-1501. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.199714981
• Fox, M. (1997). Some boron-containing ring systems. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements, 125, 73-82
• Fox, M. (1996). Existence of C,3-Me(2)-closo-1,2-C2B3H3 refuted by the ab initio IGLO, GIAO-MP2/NMR method. Attempted repetition of the synthesis. Inorganic Chemistry, 35(21), 6170-6178
• Fox, M. (1996). Deboronation of C-substituted ortho- and meta-closo-carboranes using ''wet'' fluoride ion solutions. Polyhedron, 15(4), 565-571
• Fox, M. (1995). 2,4-ETHANOTETRABORANE DERIVATIVES .2. SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND GAS-PHASE STRUCTURES OF 2,4-(MECHCH(2))B4H8, 2,4-(TRANS-MECHCHME)B4H8, AND 2-PR-2,4-(MECHCH(2))B4H7 AND 4-PR-2,4-(MECHCH(2))B4H7. Inorganic Chemistry, 34(11), 2841-2849
• Fox, M. (1994). THE STRUCTURES OF ALKYL DERIVATIVES OF ARACHNO-1-CB4H10 FROM REACTIONS OF B4H10 WITH ALKYNES. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 33(22), 2298-2300. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.199422981
• Fox, M. (1993). X-RAY STRUCTURE AND BONDING OF 1-PHENYLETHYNYL-2-PHENYL-1,2-DICARBADODECABORANE(12), [1-(PHC=C)-2-PH-1,2-C2B10H10], A MODEL ALKYNE COMPLEX CONTAINING A RICH VARIETY OF CARBON-CARBON BOND TYPES. Polyhedron, 12(22), 2711-2717
• Fox, M. (1993). PROPOSED STRUCTURE OF THE 1ST HYPHO CARBABORANE, C3B4H12. Polyhedron, 12(15), 1849-1853
• Fox, M. (1993). C-ARYLATION AND C-HETEROARYLATION OF ICOSAHEDRAL CARBORANES VIA THEIR COPPER(I) DERIVATIVES. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 462(1-2), 19-29
• Fox, M. (1992). A PENTUPLY-BRIDGING THIOCARBONYL GROUP - X-RAY CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF A SALT OF THE 1-THIO-2-PHENYL-1,2-DICARBADODECABORATE(12) ANION, [LH]+[S(PH)C2B10H10]- (L = 1,8-N,N,N1,N1-TETRAMETHYLNAPHTHALENE DIAMINE). Polyhedron, 11(20), 2717-2721