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Academic staff : Maxwell J Crossley, FAA

Professor of Chemistry (Organic Chemistry)

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School of Chemistry, Building F11
The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Email address: M.Crossley@chem.usyd.edu.au
Telephone: +61 (2) 9351-2751
Fax: +61 (2) 9351-3329
Home Page: http://www.chem.usyd.edu.au/~mjcgroup

Research Interests:

  • Porphyrin Chemistry

  • Metalloporphyrin assemblies and arrays

  • Molecular recognition, molecular clefts and chiral cavities

  • Molecular electronics

  • Artificial photosynthesis

For research opportunities see our home page: http://www.chem.usyd.edu.au/~mjcgroup

Publications (2007 to 2009):

  1. Ohkubo, K; Garcia, R; Sintic, PJ; Khoury, T; Crossley, MJ; Kadish, KM and Fukuzumi, S. Change in the site of electron-transfer reduction of a zinc-quinoxalinoporphyrin/gold-quinoxalinoporphyrin dyad by binding of scandium ions and the resulting remarkable elongation of the charge-shifted-state lifetime. Chem. Eur. J., 15 (40), 10493-10503, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/chem.200901105

  2. Auckett, JE; Cheng, YY; Khoury, T; Clady, RGCR; Ekins-Daukes, NJ; Crossley, MJ and Schmidt, TS. Efficient up-conversion by triplet-triplet annihilation. The 8th Asian International Seminar on Atomic and Molecular Physics, University of Western Australia, 24-28 November, 2008. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 185, 012037 (4pp), 2009. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/185/1/012002

  3. Saraireh, SA; Smith, PV; King, BV; Reimers, JR; Wallace, BJ and Crossley, MJ. Norbornadiene-based molecules for functionalizing the Si(001) surface. J. Phys. Chem. C, 113 (36), 16094-16103, 2009. DOI: 10.1021/jp903481w

  4. Hulsken, B; Elemans, JAAW; Gerritsen, JW; Khoury, T; Crossley, MJ; Rowan, AE; Nolte, RJM and Speller, S. STM studies of the self-assembly of manganese porphyrin catalysts at the Au(111)-n-tetradecane interface, New J. Phys., 11, 083011/1-14, 2009. DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/8/083011

  5. Yap, BCM; Simpkins, GL; Collyer, CA; Hunter, N and Crossley, MJ. Porphyrin-linked nitroimidazole antibiotics targeting porphyromonas gingivalis. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 7 (14), 2855-2863, 2009. DOI: 10.1039/b904340c

  6. Hutchison, JA; Sintic, PJ; Brotherhood, PR; Scholes, C; Blacke, IM; Chiggino, KP and Crossley, MJ. Control of photoinduced charge transfer lifetimes in porphyrin arrays by ligand addition. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 133 (27), 11796-11804, 2009. DOI: 10.1021/jp9018553

  7. Khoury, T and Crossley, MJ. Expansion of the porphyrin pi-system: stepwise annelation of porphyrin beta,beta '-pyrrolic faces leading to trisquinoxalinoporphyrin. New Journal of Chemistry, 33 (5), 1076-1086, 2009. DOI: 10.1039/b901338e

  8. Hutchison, JA; Sintic, PJ; Crossley, MJ and Nagamura, T and Ghiggino, KP. The photophysics of selectively metallated arrays of quinoxaline-fused tetraarylporphyrins. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 11 (18), 3478-3489, 2009. DOI: 10.1039/b820969c

  9. Martelli, C; Canning, J; Reimers, JR; Sintic, M; Stocks, D; Khoury, T and Crossley, MJ. Evanescent-field spectroscopy using structured optical fibers: Detection of charge-transfer at the porphyrin-silica interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (8), 2925-2933, 2009. DOI: 10.1021/ja8081473

  10. Brotherhood, PR; Luck, IJ and Crossley, MJ. Complete H-1 and Sn-119 NMR spectral assignment for an asymmetric di[dihydroxotin(IV)] bis-porphyrin supramolecular host and its corresponding tetraacetato complex Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 47 (3), 257-262, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/mrc.2356

  11. Brotherhood, PR; Luck, IJ; Blake, IM; Jensen, P; Turner, P and Crossley, MJ. Regioselective reactivity of an asymmetric tetravalent di[dihydroxotin(IV)] bis-porphyrin host driven by hydrogen-bond templation. Chemistry-A European Journal, 14 (35), 10967-10977, 2008. DOI: 10.1002/chem.200801775

  12. Webb, JEA; Maharaj, F; Blake, IM and Crossley, MJ. A 'click' chemistry route to 'capped' porphyrins. Synlett, (14), 2147-2149, 2008. DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1077899

  13. Fukuzumi, S; Ohkubo, K; Zhu, WH; Sintic, M; Khoury, T; Sintic, PJ; Wenbo, E; Ou, ZP; Crossley, MJ and Kadish, KM. Androgynous porphyrins. Silver(II) quinoxalinoporphyrins act as both good electron donors and acceptors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130 (29), 9451-9458, 2008. DOI: 10.1021/ja801318b

  14. Crossley, MJ; Sheehan, CS; Khoury, T; Reimers, JR and Sintic, PJ. Construction of building blocks for extended porphyrin arrays by nitration of porphyrin-2,3-diones and quinoxalino[2,3-b]porphyrins. New Journal of Chemistry, 32 (2), 340-352, 2008. DOI: 10.1039/b712643c

  15. Sintic, PJ; Wenbo, E; Ou, Z; Shao, J; McDonald, JA; Cai, ZL; Kadish, KM; Crossley, MJ and Reimers, JR. Control of the site and potential of reduction and oxidation processes in pi-expanded quinoxalinoporphyrins. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 10, 515-527, 2008. DOI: 10.1039/b711320j

  16. Wenbo, E; Kadish, KM; Sintic, PJ; Khoury, T; Govenlock, LJ; Ou, Z; Shao, J; Ohkubo, K; Reimers, JR; Fukuzumi, S and Crossley, MJ. Control of the orbital delocalization and implications for molecular rectification in the radical anions of porphyrins with coplanar 90 degrees and 180 degrees beta,beta '-fused extensions. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 112 (3), 556-570, 2008. DOI: 10.1021/jp076406g

  17. Martelli, C; Canning, J; Reimers, JR; Sintic, M; Stocks, D and Crossley, MJ. Molecular electronics inside optical fibres. Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, Vols 1 and 2, 361-362, 2008.

  18. Larsen, J; Bruggemann, B; Khoury, T; Sly, J; Crossley, MJ; Sundstrom, V and Akesson, E. Structural induced control of energy transfer within Zn(II)-porphyrin dendrimers. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111 (42), 10589-10597, 2007. DOI: 10.1021/jp070545g

  19. Khoury, T and Crossley, MJ. A strategy for the stepwise ring annulation of all four pyrrolic rings of a porphyrin. Chemical Communications, (46), 4851-4853, 2007. DOI: 10.1039/b714612d

  20. Ou, ZP; Wenbo, E; Zhu, WH; Thordarson, P; Sintic, PJ; Crossley, MJ and Kadish, KM. Effect of axial ligands and macrocyclic structure on redox potentials and electron-transfer mechanisms of Sn(IV) porphyrins. Inorganic Chemistry, 46 (25), 10840-10849, 2007. DOI: 10.1021/ic07016165

  21. Cafe, PF; Larsen, AG; Yang, WR; Bilic, A; Blake, IM; Crossley, MJ; Zhang, JD; Wackerbarth, H; Ulstrup, J and Reimers, JF. Chemisorbed and physisorbed structures for 1,10-phenanthroline and dipyrido[3,2-a : 2 ',3 '-c]phenazine on au(111) Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111 (46), 17285-17296, 2007. DOI: 10.1021/jp0736591

  22. Dastoor, PC; McNeill, CR; Frohne, H; Foster, CJ; Dean, B; Fell, CJ; Belcher, WJ; Canipbell, WM; Officer, DL; Blake, IM; Thordarson, P; Crossley, MJ; Hush, NS and Reimers, JR. Understanding and improving solid-state polymer/C-60-fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells using ternary porphyrin blends. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111 (42), 15415-15426, 2007. DOI: 10.1021/jp0748664

  23. Curiel, D; Ohkubo, K; Reimers, JR; Fukuzumi, S and Crossley, MJ. Photoinduced electron transfer in a beta,beta '-pyrrolic fused ferrocene-(zinc porphyrin)-fullerene. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 9 (38), 5260-5266, 2007. DOI: 10.1039/b704136e

  24. Kadish, KM; Wenbo, E; Sintic, PJ; Ou, ZP; Shao, JG; Ohkubo, K; Fukuzumi, S; Govenlock, LJ; McDonald, JA; Try, AC; Cai, ZL; Reimers, JR and Crossley, MJ. Quinoxalino[2,3-b']porphyrins behave as pi-expanded porphyrins upon one-electron reduction: Broad control of the degree of delocalization through substitution at the macrocycle periphery. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111 (30), 8762-8774, 2007. DOI: 10.1021/jp0726743

  25. Webb, JEA; Crossley, MJ; Turner, P and Thordarson, P. Pyromellitamide aggregates and their response to anion stimuli. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129 (22), 7155-7162, 2007. DOI 10.1021/ja0713781

  26. Kadish, KM; Wenbo, E; Zhan, RQ; Khoury, T; Govenlock, LJ; Prashar, JK; Sintic, PJ; Ohkubo, K; Fukuzumi, S and Crossley, MJ. Porphyrin-diones and porphyrin-tetraones: Reversible redox units being localized within the porphyrin macrocycle and their effect on tautomerism. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129 (20), 6576-6588, 2007. DOI: 102.102/ja070759b

  27. Hulsken, B; Van Hameren, R; Gerritsen, JW; Khoury, T; Thordarson, P; Crossley, MJ; Rowan, AE; Nolte, RJM; Elemans, JAAW and Speller, S. Real-time single-molecule imaging of oxidation catalysis at a liquid-solid interface. Nature Nanotechnology, 2 (5), 285-289, 2007. DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.106

  28. Brotherhood, PR; Wu, RAS; Turner, P and Crossley, MJ. Cavity effect amplification in the recognition of dicarboxylic acids by initial ditopic H-bond formation followed by kinetic trapping. ChemComm, (3), 225-227, 2007. DOI: 10.1039/b614575b
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