University of Otago, New Zealand
Chemistry
Te Tari Hua-Ruanuku
Dr Nigel Lucas
Dr Nigel Lucas
Synthesis and Supramolecular Chemistry
Tel: +64  3  479 5377
Location: Science II, 3n11
nlucas@chemistry.otago.ac.nz

Main Research Interests

Selected Publications

  1. N. T. Lucas, H. M. Zareie and A. M. McDonagh. ACS Nano 2007, 1, 348–354. Self-Organization of a Discotic Coordination Complex Bearing Orthogonal Discotic Ligands.
  2. Z. Li, N. T. Lucas, Z. Wang and D. Zhu. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 3917–3020. Facile Synthesis of Janus “Double-Concave” Tribenzo[a,g,m]coronenes.
  3. B. El Hamaoui, L. Zhi, J. Wu, J. Li, N. T. Lucas, Ž. Tomović, U. Kolb and K. Müllen. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2007, 17, 1179–1187. Solid-state Pyrolysis of Polyphenylene-Metal Complexes: A Facile Approach Toward Carbon Nanoparticles.
  4. N. T. Lucas, A. M. McDonagh, I. G. Dance, S. C. Colbran and D. C. Craig, Dalton Trans. 2006, 680–685. cis-[PtBr2{PPh2(4-catechol)}2]: synthesis, crystal structure, and computational modelling of its binding to nanocrystalline TiO2.
  5. N. T. Lucas, E. G. A. Notaras, S. Petrie, R. Stranger and M. G. Humphrey, Organometallics 2003, 22, 708–721. Mixed-Metal Cluster Chemistry. 22. Synthesis and Crystallographic, Electrochemical, and Theoretical Studies of Alkyne-Coordinated Group 6-Iridium Clusters Linked by Phenyleneethylnylene Groups.
  6. N. T. Lucas, J. P. Blitz, S. Petrie, R. Stranger, M. G. Humphrey, G. A. Heath and V. Otieno-Alego, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 5139–5153. Mixed-Metal Cluster Chemistry. 19. Crystallographic, Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, Spectroelectrochemical, and Theoretical Studies of Systematically Varied Tetrahedral Group 6–Iridium Clusters.