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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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."
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 targetting 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.
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July 2022
Congratulations to Dr Chloe Baker on passing her viva! It's been fantastic having you in the group and we'll sorely miss you when you take up your new patent attorney role in the autumn.
June 2022
Farewell Angelo! Angelo has moved to the University of Bern to start up his own group investigating metal-containing compounds as the next generation of antibiotics, and we'll be sad to see him leave (but happy that there will be less thallium kicking about the lab!). Check out Angelo's Frei lab research group page.
May 2022
Angelo has recently had a paper published in Dalton Transactions: "To chelate thallium(i) – synthesis and evaluation of Kryptofix-based chelators for 201Tl" – congratulations!
Superb work by Saul, with his paper "N-Centered Tripodal Phosphine Re(V) and Tc(V) Oxo Complexes: Revisiting a [3 + 2] Mixed-Ligand Approach" published in Inorganic Chemistry.
April 2022
We are thrilled to reveal that Dr Stephanie Sheppard has had a paper published in Science - "Organometallic-functionalized interfaces for highly efficient inverted perovskite solar cells"!
The perovskite devices made with Steph's FcTc2 provided a huge advancement in perovskite solar cells, both reaching the efficiency standard of silicon cells (25%) and being able to maintain >98% of their initial efficiency after operating at maximum power for 1,500 hours.
You can read more about this advancement on the Imperial News website - Cheaper solar cells could be on the way thanks to materials created at Imperial.
Additionally, Dr Troy Bennett and Dr Stephanie Sheppard have had a paper published in the special 'Ferrocene edition' of EJIC, on the "Development and Characterisation of Highly Conjugated Functionalised Ferrocenylene Macrocycles". Well done on a very productive couple of months for Troy and Steph!
