Long Group
The Long Group has expertise in applied synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Research interests focus on transition metal and lanthanide chemistry for the synthesis of functional molecules, homogeneous catalysis, and in recent years, probe design and novel methodologies for biomedical imaging.
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Prof. Nick Long gives a presentation at the 2024 International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC) in Colorado (August 2024).
The Long Group having lunch at White City (March 2024). Left to right: Bihan, Xinyu, Titan, Hongxuan, Will, Henry, Saul, Rie, Ed, Ryan, Grace, Brad, William.
Long Group Christmas Dinner (December 2023).
The new synthetic labs at the MSRH, White City Campus.
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Recent News
October 2024
Welcome to Freya, Hongxuan, and Rie to the group! We hope you a very successful PhD!
Welcome Tasnim, Sara, Justin and Tom to the group, they are carrying out their MSci projects within the Long group.
September 2024
Good job to William and Titan on their posters, representing the group at the 2024 WMIC conference in Montreal, Canada!
Congratulations to Ed for his paper titled "Potent BODIPY-based photosensitisers for selective mitochondrial dysfunction and effective photodynamic therapy" published in Journal of Materials Chemistry B!
August 2024
Congratulations to Nick on his presentation at the 2024 ICCC conference in Colorado where he showcased the group's recent works!
We also say goodbye to Giorgia, Saanchi and Ken. We hope you enjoyed your time here and wishing you all the best with your studies!
Previous News
June 2024
Welcome to Giorgia, Saanchi and Ken who will be carrying out their UROP projects in the group!
May 2024
Congratulations to Will and Ryan for their paper titled "Highly Efficient and Scalable p-i-n Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Poly-metallocene Interfaces" published in JACS!
April 2024
A warm welcome to Tom who is returning as a postdoctoral researcher on thermoelectronic molecules. Nice to see you back with us Tom!
March 2024
Many congratulations to Shane on passing his viva for his PhD! We wish you the best in your future career and look forward to seeing your progress!
Congratulations to Ed for his paper titled "Mitochondria-targeting biocompatible fluorescent BODIPY probes" published in Chemical Science!
Great job Saul for his oral presentation at the FB3 conference in Hong Kong! Saul also had a reunion with former group members Sammy, Shirley and Lijun.
December 2023
Many congratulations to Tom on passing his viva for his PhD titled "Site-Specific Conjugation for the Synthesis of Radiopharmaceuticals". Great job Tom!
October 2023
Welcome to Christina, Bihan, and Mrunal to the group! We hope you a very successful PhD!
Welcome Hongxuan, Henry, Rie and Xinyu to the group, they are carrying out their MSci projects within the Long group.
September 2023
Congratulations to Tom for his paper titled "Site-Specific 68Ga Radiolabeling of Trastuzumab Fab via Methionine for ImmunoPET Imaging" published in Bioconjugate Chemistry!
August 2023
Congratulations to Jin on passing his viva for his PhD titled "Developments and applications of the aluminium-[18F]fluoride method for biomolecule radiolabelling". It was a pleasure to have you in the group, and the best of luck for your new position in Hammersmith hospital!
Welcome Grace and Jackson to the group!
June 2023
Congratulations to Nick on being awarded the 2023 Interdisciplinary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry! Nick was awarded the prize for ‘innovative synthetic chemistry applied to the fields of functional materials and biomedical imaging’ and received a medal and prize money.
You can read more about this on the Imperial news article, and see Nick's award page on the RSC.
April 2023
Good job Saul for his presentation, and Ben and Katharine on their posters, representing the group at the RSC Dalton 2023 conference! Special congratulations to Katharine on being one of the winning posters in the "Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Dalton Poster Competition" for her poster titled "Redox-switchable organometallic initiators for ring-opening polymerisation of cyclic esters."
Congratulations to William for his paper titled "Rapid short-pulses of focused ultrasound and microbubbles deliver a range of agent sizes to the brain" published in Scientific Reports!
February 2023
Welcome Will and Ryan, our new postdoctoral researchers! Will is looking into synthesising organometallic interfaces for perovskite solar cells and Ryan is researching new carbonic anhydrase mimics for applications in plant chemical biology.
January 2023
Well Done Dr. Bradley Osborne on passing his viva! His thesis was titled "Lipophilic and Cationic Gallium-68 Complexes for the Detection of Mitochondrial Dysfunction". We are very excited that Brad is staying in the group as a postdoctoral researcher!
Welcome Sean, Anita and Francesco to the group, they are carrying out their MRes projects within the Long group.
October 2022
Welcome Poppy and Titan, new first year PhD students! Poppy is starting research into the development of chelators for heavy and under-utilised radiometals, whilst Titan continues his master's project research on dual-modal therapeutic agents for targeting HO-1.
August 2022
Congratulations to Saul and Christina for their paper titled "Synthesis and anti-microbial activity of a new series of bis(diphosphine) rhenium(v) dioxo complexes" published in Dalton Transactions.