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MOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
Professor MARK HUMPHREY

The group is interested in the synthesis of oligomeric, dendritic (hyperbranched) and polymeric metal-containing systems, and the investigation of their electronic, electrochemical and optical properties. The aim of our research is the preparation of new types of potentially useful materials through developing an understanding of how chemical structure can control molecular properties.

Mark is a graduate of the University of Adelaide, and joined the Department after postdoctoral stints in Germany and the USA, and an academic position at the UNE. He is currently a Professor in the Chemistry Department, and an ARC Australian Professorial Research Fellow.

Check our "Research Interests" page for further details on our work.



Selected Publications

High Nuclearity Ruthenium Carbonyl Cluster Chemistry. 5. Local density functional, electronic spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility and electron paramagnetic resonance studies on (carbido)decaruthenium carbonyl clusters.
Cifuentes, M.P., Humphrey, M.G., McGrady, J.E., Smith, P., Stranger, R., Murray, K.S. and Moubaraki, B.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1997, 119, 2647-55.

Organometallic Complexes for Nonlinear Optics 16. Second and Third Order Optical Nonlinearities of Octopolar Alkynylruthenium Complexes.
McDonagh, A.M., Humphrey, M.G., Samoc, M., Luther-Davies, B., Houbrechts, S., Wada, T., Sasabe, H. and Persoons, A.,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1999, 121, 1405-1406.

Mixed-Metal Cluster Chemistry. 19. Crystallographic, Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, Spectroelectrochemical and Theoretical Studies of Systematically-varied Tetrahedral Group 6-Iridium Clusters.
Lucas, N.T., Blitz, J.P., Petrie, S., Stranger, R., Humphrey, M.G., Heath, G.A., and Otieno-Alego, V.,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 5139-53.

Organometallic Complexes for Nonlinear Optics 30. Electrochromic Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Alkynylbis(diphosphine)ruthenium Complexes.
Powell, C.E., Cifuentes, M.P., Morrall, J.P., Stranger, R., Humphrey, M.G., Samoc, M., Luther-Davies, B., Heath, G.A.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 602-610.

Dispersion of the Third-order Nonlinear Optical Properties of an Organometallic Dendrimer (Organometallic Complexes for Nonlinear Optics. 34)
Powell, C.E., Morrall, J.P., Ward, S.A., Cifuentes, M.P., Notaras, E.G.A., Samoc, M., Humphrey, M.G.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 12234-12235.

Electrochemical, Spectroelectrochemical, Molecular Quadratic and Cubic Nonlinear Optical Properties of Alkynylruthenium Dendrimers (Organometallic Complexes for Nonlinear Optics. Part 35)
Cifuentes, M.P., Powell, C.E., Morrall, J.P., McDonagh, A.M., Lucas, N.T., Humphrey, M.G., Samoc, M., Houbrechts, S., Asselberghs, I., Clays, K., Persoons, A., Isoshima, T.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 10819-10832.

E-mail: Mark.Humphrey@anu.edu.au

Telephone: (02) 6125 2927



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