Alistair J. Lees

“Anion Sensing by Rhenium(I) Carbonyls with Polarized N-H Recognition Motifs”, Kai-Chi Chang, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2012, 389, 16-28.

“Thioamide, Urea and Thiourea Bridged Rhenium(I) Complexes as Luminescent Anion Receptors”, Maurice O. Odago, Amanda E. Hoffman, Russell L. Carpenter, Douglas Chi Tak Tse, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2011, 374, 558-565.

“Photoswitching Tetranuclear Rhenium (I) Tricarbonyl Diimine Complexes with a Stilbene-Like Bridging Ligand”, Ju-Ling Lin, Chih-Wei Chen, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6030-6032.

“A Simple Thiourea Based Colorimetric Sensor for Cyanide Ion,” Maurice O. Odago, Diane M. Colabello and Alistair J. Lees, Tetrahedron Letts., 2010, 66, 7465-7461.

“Photophysics and Photochemistry of Organometallic Rhenium Diimine Complexes,” Arvind Kumar, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, In Photophysics of Organometallics (Topics in Organometallic Chemistry), Alistair J. Lees, Ed.,2010, 29, 1-35.

“Photophysics of Organometallics (Topics in Organometallic Chemistry),” Alistair J. Lees, Ed., Springer, 2010, 29, 239 pages.

“Directed Assembly Metallocyclic Supramolecular Systems for Molecular Recognition and Chemical Sensing,” Arvind Kumar, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Coord. Chem. Revs., 2008, 252, 922-939.

“Determining the Quantum Efficiency for Activation of an Organometallic Photoinitiator for Cationic Polymerization: An Experiment for the Physical or Inorganic Research Laboratory,” David M. Hayes, Alistair J. Lees, Vladimir Jakubek, Maura Mahar, R. Chris Schnabel and Paras Shah, J. Chem. Educ., 2007, 84, 1483-1485.

"Quantitative Photochemistry of Cp'Pt(CH3)3 (Cp'= eta-5-C5H4CH3) in Solution: A Highly Efficient Organometallic Photoinitiator for Hydrosilylation," Vladimir Jakubek and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 6869-6871.

"Non-Biological Photochemistry, Multiemission," Alistair J. Lees and Shih-Sheng Sun, In Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II: From Biology to Nanotechnology, J. A. McCleverty and T. J. Meyer, Eds, Pergamon, Oxford, 2003, Chapter 2.62, pp731-742.

"A Dinuclear Rhenium Complex, {[(C18H24N2)Re(CO)3]2(ì-C12H12N2)}(PF6)2⋅2CH2Cl2," Shih-Sheng Sun, Dat T. Tran, Peter Y. Zavalij, Scott R. J. Oliver and Alistair J. Lees, Acta Cryst., 2003, E59, m134-m136.

"Highly Sensitive Luminescent Metal-Complex Receptors for Anions through Charge-Assisted Amide Hydrogen Bonding," Shih-Sheng Sun, Alistair J. Lees and Peter Y. Zavalij, Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 3445-3453.

"Transition-Metal Directed Self-Assembly of Admantanoid-Shaped Supramolecules Incorporating Ferrocenyl Moieties," Shih-Sheng Sun, Jason A. Anspach and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2003, 351, 363-368.

"Synthesis, Photophysical Properties and Photoinduced Luminescence Switching of Trinuclear Diimine Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes Linked by an Isomerizable Stilbene-Like Ligand," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Organometallics, 2002, 21, 39-49.

"Photophysical and Photochemical Properties of W(0) and Re(I) Carbonyl Complexes Incorporating Ferrocenyl-Substituted Pyridine Ligands," Shih-Sheng Sun, Dat T. Tran, Onduru S. Odongo, and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2002, 41, 132-135.

"Synthesis and Electrochemical, Photophysical and Anion Binding Properties of Self-Assembly Heterometallic Cyclophanes," Shih-Sheng Sun, Jason A. Anspach, Alistair J. Lees, and Peter Y. Zavalij, Organometallics, 2002, 21, 685-693.

"Transition Metal Based Supramolecular Systems: Synthesis, Photophysics, Photochemistry and their Potential Applications as Luminescent Anion Chemosensors," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Coord. Chem. Revs., 2002, 230, 171-192.

"Self-Assembly Transition Metal Based Macrocycles Linked by Photoisomerizable Ligands: Examples of Photoinduced Conversion of Tetranuclear-Dinuclear Squares," Shih-Sheng Sun, Jason Anspach, and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2002, 41, 1862-1869.

"Quantitative Photochemistry of Organometallic Complexes: Insight to their Photophysical and Photoreactivity Mechanisms," Alistair J. Lees, Coord. Chem. Revs., 2001, 211, 255-278.

"One-Step Self-Assembly Organometallic Molecular Cages from 11 Components," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Chem. Commun., 2001, 103-104.

"Luminescent Metal Complexes as Spectroscopic Probes of Monomer/Polymer Environments," Alistair J. Lees, in Sensors and Optical Switching Phenomena, V. Ramamurthy and Kirk S. Schanze, Eds., Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry Series, Vol. 7, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001, Chapter 5, 209-255.

"Photophysics and Evidence of Excimer Formation, Linear Bipyridines in Solution and Solid Films," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 2001, 140, 157-161.

"Acetonitriletricarbonyl(2,9-dimethyl-4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline)rheni um(I) hexafluorophosphate," Shih-Sheng Sun, Peter Y. Zavilij, and Alistair J. Lees, Acta Cryst., 2001, E57, m119-m121.

"Self-Assembly Organometallic Squares with Terpyridyl Metal Complexes as Bridging Ligands," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2001, 40, 3154-3160.

"Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Dinuclear Organometallic Rhenium(I) Diimine Complexes Linked by Pyridine-Containing Macrocyclic Phenylacetylene Ligands," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Organometallics, 2001, 20, 2353-2358.

"Photoswitchable Trinuclear Transition-Metal Complexes. Intramolecular Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer from fac-(diimine)ReI(CO)3 Chromophores to a Stilbene-like Bridging Ligand," Shih-Sheng Sun, Elizabeth Robson, Nicholas Dunwoody, Alexsandra S. Silva, Ira M. Brinn and Alistair J. Lees, Chem. Commun., 2000, 201-202.

"Self-Assembly Molecular Squares with Metal Complexes as Bridging Ligands," Shih-Sheng Sun, Alexsandra S. Silva, Ira M. Brinn and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2000, 39, 1344-1345.

"Anion Recognition through Hydrogen Bonding: A Simple, Yet Highly Sensitive, Luminescent Metal-Complex Receptor," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Chem. Commun., 2000, 1687-1688.

"Quantitative Photochemistry and Mechanisms for a Series of Rhodium Dicarbonyl Derivatives," Nicholas Dunwoody, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2000, 39, 4442-4451.

"Self-Assembly Triangular and Square Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes: A Comprehensive Study of their Preparation, Electrochemistry, Photophysics, Photochemistry and Host-Guest Properties," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 8956-8967.

"Quantitative Wavelength Dependent Photochemistry of the [CpFe(h6-ipb)]PF6 (ipb = isopropylbenzene) Photoinitiator," Vladimmr Jakzbek and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem. 2000, 39, 5779-5786.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
B.S.c, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, 1976 Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, 1979 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California, 1979-81 Visiting Professorships Cambridge University, 1988-89 University of Central Lancashire, 1992-94 York University, 1997 York University, 2005
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research interests are in organometallic photochemistry with an emphasis on transition-metal photophysics and photoreactivity. We really seek to learn more about the nature and reactivity of electronically excited states and then apply this knowledge to a variety of new directions and applications. Recently, we have been studying photochemically-induced C-H bond activation reactions, photoinitiator and photocatalytic processes in thin film materials, and organometallic complexes as spectroscopic probe species in polymers, including thin films. Studies (funded by the Department of Energy) have included measuring the first available quantitiative photochemical data for a number of significant intermolecular Si-H and C-H bond activation processes, determinining the photochemistry of metal cluster complexes that present new avenues for activation and catalysis, photochemical investigations of the distinct singlet and triplet reactivities of metal complexes, characterization of luminescent metal carbonyls in room-temperature and low-temperature glassy solutions and in a variety of thin films (thereby revealing new spectroscopic probes), exploring the long-wavelength photochemistry of various organometallic species, investigating the wavelength-dependence photochemistry of photocatalyst and photoinitiator systems. Furthermore, we have recently extensively investigated the photophysical, electrochemical and host guest properties of numerous transition-metal molecular squares and other supramolecules.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Anion Sensing by Rhenium(I) Carbonyls with Polarized N-H Recognition Motifs”, Kai-Chi Chang, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2012, 389, 16-28. “Thioamide, Urea and Thiourea Bridged Rhenium(I) Complexes as Luminescent Anion Receptors”, Maurice O. Odago, Amanda E. Hoffman, Russell L. Carpenter, Douglas Chi Tak Tse, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2011, 374, 558-565. “Photoswitching Tetranuclear Rhenium (I) Tricarbonyl Diimine Complexes with a Stilbene-Like Bridging Ligand”, Ju-Ling Lin, Chih-Wei Chen, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6030-6032. “A Simple Thiourea Based Colorimetric Sensor for Cyanide Ion,” Maurice O. Odago, Diane M. Colabello and Alistair J. Lees, Tetrahedron Letts., 2010, 66, 7465-7461. “Photophysics and Photochemistry of Organometallic Rhenium Diimine Complexes,” Arvind Kumar, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, In Photophysics of Organometallics (Topics in Organometallic Chemistry), Alistair J. Lees, Ed.,2010, 29, 1-35. “Photophysics of Organometallics (Topics in Organometallic Chemistry),” Alistair J. Lees, Ed., Springer, 2010, 29, 239 pages. “Directed Assembly Metallocyclic Supramolecular Systems for Molecular Recognition and Chemical Sensing,” Arvind Kumar, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Coord. Chem. Revs., 2008, 252, 922-939. “Determining the Quantum Efficiency for Activation of an Organometallic Photoinitiator for Cationic Polymerization: An Experiment for the Physical or Inorganic Research Laboratory,” David M. Hayes, Alistair J. Lees, Vladimir Jakubek, Maura Mahar, R. Chris Schnabel and Paras Shah, J. Chem. Educ., 2007, 84, 1483-1485. "Quantitative Photochemistry of Cp'Pt(CH3)3 (Cp'= eta-5-C5H4CH3) in Solution: A Highly Efficient Organometallic Photoinitiator for Hydrosilylation," Vladimir Jakubek and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 6869-6871. "Non-Biological Photochemistry, Multiemission," Alistair J. Lees and Shih-Sheng Sun, In Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II: From Biology to Nanotechnology, J. A. McCleverty and T. J. Meyer, Eds, Pergamon, Oxford, 2003, Chapter 2.62, pp731-742. "A Dinuclear Rhenium Complex, {[(C18H24N2)Re(CO)3]2(ì-C12H12N2)}(PF6)2⋅2CH2Cl2," Shih-Sheng Sun, Dat T. Tran, Peter Y. Zavalij, Scott R. J. Oliver and Alistair J. Lees, Acta Cryst., 2003, E59, m134-m136. "Highly Sensitive Luminescent Metal-Complex Receptors for Anions through Charge-Assisted Amide Hydrogen Bonding," Shih-Sheng Sun, Alistair J. Lees and Peter Y. Zavalij, Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 3445-3453. "Transition-Metal Directed Self-Assembly of Admantanoid-Shaped Supramolecules Incorporating Ferrocenyl Moieties," Shih-Sheng Sun, Jason A. Anspach and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2003, 351, 363-368. "Synthesis, Photophysical Properties and Photoinduced Luminescence Switching of Trinuclear Diimine Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes Linked by an Isomerizable Stilbene-Like Ligand," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Organometallics, 2002, 21, 39-49. "Photophysical and Photochemical Properties of W(0) and Re(I) Carbonyl Complexes Incorporating Ferrocenyl-Substituted Pyridine Ligands," Shih-Sheng Sun, Dat T. Tran, Onduru S. Odongo, and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2002, 41, 132-135. "Synthesis and Electrochemical, Photophysical and Anion Binding Properties of Self-Assembly Heterometallic Cyclophanes," Shih-Sheng Sun, Jason A. Anspach, Alistair J. Lees, and Peter Y. Zavalij, Organometallics, 2002, 21, 685-693. "Transition Metal Based Supramolecular Systems: Synthesis, Photophysics, Photochemistry and their Potential Applications as Luminescent Anion Chemosensors," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Coord. Chem. Revs., 2002, 230, 171-192. "Self-Assembly Transition Metal Based Macrocycles Linked by Photoisomerizable Ligands: Examples of Photoinduced Conversion of Tetranuclear-Dinuclear Squares," Shih-Sheng Sun, Jason Anspach, and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2002, 41, 1862-1869. "Quantitative Photochemistry of Organometallic Complexes: Insight to their Photophysical and Photoreactivity Mechanisms," Alistair J. Lees, Coord. Chem. Revs., 2001, 211, 255-278. "One-Step Self-Assembly Organometallic Molecular Cages from 11 Components," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Chem. Commun., 2001, 103-104. "Luminescent Metal Complexes as Spectroscopic Probes of Monomer/Polymer Environments," Alistair J. Lees, in Sensors and Optical Switching Phenomena, V. Ramamurthy and Kirk S. Schanze, Eds., Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry Series, Vol. 7, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001, Chapter 5, 209-255. "Photophysics and Evidence of Excimer Formation, Linear Bipyridines in Solution and Solid Films," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 2001, 140, 157-161. "Acetonitriletricarbonyl(2,9-dimethyl-4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline)rheni um(I) hexafluorophosphate," Shih-Sheng Sun, Peter Y. Zavilij, and Alistair J. Lees, Acta Cryst., 2001, E57, m119-m121. "Self-Assembly Organometallic Squares with Terpyridyl Metal Complexes as Bridging Ligands," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2001, 40, 3154-3160. "Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Dinuclear Organometallic Rhenium(I) Diimine Complexes Linked by Pyridine-Containing Macrocyclic Phenylacetylene Ligands," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Organometallics, 2001, 20, 2353-2358. "Photoswitchable Trinuclear Transition-Metal Complexes. Intramolecular Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer from fac-(diimine)ReI(CO)3 Chromophores to a Stilbene-like Bridging Ligand," Shih-Sheng Sun, Elizabeth Robson, Nicholas Dunwoody, Alexsandra S. Silva, Ira M. Brinn and Alistair J. Lees, Chem. Commun., 2000, 201-202. "Self-Assembly Molecular Squares with Metal Complexes as Bridging Ligands," Shih-Sheng Sun, Alexsandra S. Silva, Ira M. Brinn and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2000, 39, 1344-1345. "Anion Recognition through Hydrogen Bonding: A Simple, Yet Highly Sensitive, Luminescent Metal-Complex Receptor," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Chem. Commun., 2000, 1687-1688. "Quantitative Photochemistry and Mechanisms for a Series of Rhodium Dicarbonyl Derivatives," Nicholas Dunwoody, Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem., 2000, 39, 4442-4451. "Self-Assembly Triangular and Square Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes: A Comprehensive Study of their Preparation, Electrochemistry, Photophysics, Photochemistry and Host-Guest Properties," Shih-Sheng Sun and Alistair J. Lees, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 8956-8967. "Quantitative Wavelength Dependent Photochemistry of the [CpFe(h6-ipb)]PF6 (ipb = isopropylbenzene) Photoinitiator," Vladimmr Jakzbek and Alistair J. Lees, Inorg. Chem. 2000, 39, 5779-5786.

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