School of Chemistry School of Chemistry
Dr Jason Love

Dr Jason Love

Reader in Inorganic Chemistry

 

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 reactivity 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 that provide insight into 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 supramolecular systems; the design of reagents for precious and radioactive metal extraction and remediation.

Uranium Chemistry
Wheels and Capsules
Redox Catalysis

Uranium Chemistry

Wheels and Capsules

Redox Catalysis

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  1. Encapsulation of a magnesium hydroxide cubane by a bowl-shaped polypyrrolic Schiff base macrocycle, Leeland, J. W., White, F. J., and Love, J. B., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 7320-7323
  2. Single-electron uranyl reduction by a rare-earth cation, Arnold, P. L., Hollis, E., White, F. J., Magnani, N., Caciuffo, R., and Love, J. B., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 887-890
  3. Uranyl oxo activation and functionalization by metal cation coordination, Arnold, P. L., Pécharman, A-F., Hollis, E., Yahia, A., Maron, L., Parsons, S., and Love, J. B., Nat. Chem ., 2010, 2, 1056-1061
  4. A macrocyclic approach to transition metal and uranyl Pacman complexes. 4. Love, J. B., Chem. Commun, 2009, 3154-3165 (Feature article)
  5. 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
  6. Hexagonal wheel formation through the hydrogen-bonded assembly of cobalt Pacman complexes, Leeland, J. W., White, F. J., and Love, J. B., Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 4312-4314
  7. 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

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