Research Interests: Synthesis of multimetallic compounds, small molecule chemistry (N₂, O₂, H₂, CO₂, CH₄), ligand and macrocycle design, supramolecular catalysis

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

We are specifically interested in: compounds that can act as fuel and/or solar cell catalysts; the activation and transformation of small molecules, in particular N₂, O₂, H₂, and CO₂, by transition metal complexes; the chemistry of early-late heterobimetallic complexes; synthesis and reactivity of Pacman-like complexes with prescribed, and spatially-confined, reaction pockets; the design of new multidentate ligands and macrocycles; the spontaneous assembly and reactivity of dinuclear helicates and mesocates; supramolecular catalysts that use anion-binding or hydrogen-bonding interactions as a tool to direct catalytic reactions; the chemistry of the uranyl dication.

Dioxygen activation	Helicate assembly	Uranyl chemistry

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
2. Using chiral ligand substituents to promote the formation of dinuclear, double-stranded iron, manganese, and zinc mesocates, Reid, S. D., Wilson, C., De Matteis, C. I., Love, J. B. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2007, 5286.
3. Design and synthesis of binucleating macrocyclic clefts derived from Schiff-base calixpyrroles. G. Givaja, M. Volpe, J. W. Leeland, M. A. Edwards, T. K. Young, S. B. Darby, S. D. Reid, A. J. Blake, C. Wilson, J. Wolowska, E. J. L. McInnes, M. Schröder, and J. B. Love, Chem. Eur. J., 2007, 13, 3707
4. 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
5. 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.
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