Research Interests: Sustainable chemistry and energy, f-element compounds, ligand and macrocycle design, supramolecular catalysis, extractive metallurgy

The Love group carries out research into the design and synthesis of molecular metal complexes that can promote new and sustainable chemical reactions and give fundamental insight into how metal compounds assemble and interact with substrates.

We are specifically interested in: the chemistry of the uranyl dication and the f-elements; Pacman complexes for sustainable energy generation and exploitation; the activation and transformation of small molecules, in particular N₂, O₂, H₂, and CO₂ by transition metal complexes; the design of new multidentate ligands and macrocycles; the spontaneous assembly and reactivity of chiral complexes; the assembly of supramolecular catalysts; the design of reagents for precious and radioactive metal extraction and remediation.

Uranyl chemistry	Chiral assembly	Dioxygen reduction

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. Reduction and selective oxo group silylation of the uranyl dication, Arnold, P. L., Patel, D., Wilson, C., Love, J. B. Nature 2008, 451, 315-317
2. Selective oxo-functionalisation of the uranyl ion with 3d metal cations. P. L. Arnold, D. Patel, A. J. Blake, C. Wilson, and J. B. Love, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 9610-9611.
3. Dioxygen reduction at dicobalt complexes of a Schiff-base calixpyrrole ligand. G. Givaja, M. Volpe, M. A. Edwards, A. J. Blake, C. Wilson, M. Schröder, and J. B. Love, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 584-586
4. A macrocyclic approach to transition metal and uranyl Pacman complexes. 4. Love, J. B., Chem. Commun, 2009, 3154-3165 (Feature article)
5. Tailoring dicobalt Pacman complexes of Schiff-base calixpyrroles towards dioxygen reduction catalysis. Askarizadeh, E., Bani Yaghoob, S., Boghaei, D. M., Slawin, A. M. Z., Love, J. B., Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 710-712
6. Palladium and rhodium ureaphosphine complexes: exploring structural and catalytic consequences of anion binding. P. A. Duckmanton, A. J. Blake, and J. B. Love, Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 7708-7710