Jubeda Hena, Emily Parmenter and Jonathan Robson

Image shows the multi-metallic compounds prepared by the students and their use in detecting carbon monoxide

Students in the Wilton-Ely research group made significant contributions to research paper

Students in the Wilton-Ely research group all made significant contributions to a paper published in the leading European journal for Inorganic Chemistry, Dalton Transactions.

A. Toscani, K. A. Jantan, J. B. Hena, J. A. Robson, E. J. Parmenter, V. Fiorini, A. J. P. White, S. Stagni, and J. D. E. T. Wilton-Ely “The stepwise generation of multimetallic complexes based on a vinylbipyridine linkage and their photophysical properties”, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 5558-5570  DOI  10.1039/C6DT03810G

Jubeda Hena
In her final year MSci project, Jubeda successfully prepared a versatile bifunctional ligand through a multistep synthetic route and applied it to generate a whole range of multimetallic complexes. Her contribution to this paper was substantial and initiated the whole project, which was then carried on by PhD students

Emily Parmenter
Emily played a major role in this publication, contributing a new bimetallic complex, which undergoes a dramatic change in fluorescence on addition of carbon monoxide

Jonathan Robson
Having already been cited as first author on one paper, this is the second publication to come out of Jonathan’s work and it explores the photophysical properties of the multimetallic complexes he synthesised, alongside compounds prepared by other members of the group