Department of Chemistry

kieran_molloy

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

1 South 1.18

Email: K.C.Molloy@bath.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1225 386382 

 

Prof Kieran Molloy

Profile

We are interested in aspects of synthetic and structural inorganic / organometallic chemistry which have applications towards novel inorganic materials. Our work embraces three broad areas:

  • the synthesis and characterisation of precursors for the MOCVD of thin films
  • the supramolecular chemistry of organometallic coordination compounds (e.g. tetrazoles) which form porous networks
  • biological chemistry of Cu, Zn and Sn for applications in dental hygiene

Research Interests

  • MOCVD Precursors
  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Biological Chemistry

Publications

Choujaa, H., Johnson, A.L., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K.C., 2013. Synthesis of heterobimetallic tungsten acetylacetonate/alkoxide complexes and their application as molecular precursors to metal tungstates. Polyhedron, 59, pp. 85-90.

Tan, Y.S., Sudlow, A.L., Molloy, K.C., Morishima, Y., Fujisawa, K., Jackson, W.J., Henderson, W., Halim, S.N.B.A., Ng, S.W. and Tiekink, E.R.T., 2013. Supramolecular isomerism in a cadmium bis(N-hydroxyethyl, N-isopropyldithiocarbamate) compound : Physiochemical characterization of ball (n = 2) and chain (n = ∞) forms of {Cd[S2CN(iPr)CH2CH2OH]2·solvent}n. Crystal Growth and Design, 13 (7), pp. 3046-3056.

Shankar, R., Chaudhary, M., Molloy, K.C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2013. New cyclotetrasiloxanes bearing sila-alkyl substituted side chains and their applications as templates for gold nanowires. Dalton Transactions, 42 (21), pp. 7768-7774.

Johnson, A.L., Kingsley, A.J., Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K.C. and Sudlow, A.L., 2013. Inorganic and organozinc fluorocarboxylates : Synthesis, structure and materials chemistry. Inorganic Chemistry, 52 (9), pp. 5515-5526.

Shah, H.H., Al-Balushi, R.A., Al-Suti, M.K., Khan, M.S., Woodall, C. H., Molloy, K.C., Raithby, P.R., Robinson, T.P., Dale, S.E.C. and Marken, F., 2013. Long-range intramolecular electronic communication in bis(ferrocenylethynyl) complexes incorporating conjugated heterocyclic spacers : Synthesis, crystallography, and electrochemistry. Inorganic Chemistry, 52 (9), pp. 4898-4908.

Bansal, N., Reynolds, L. X., MacLachlan, A., Lutz, T., Ashraf, R. S., Zhang, W., Nielsen, C. B., McCulloch, I., Rebois, D. G., Kirchartz, T., Hill, M. S., Molloy, K. C., Nelson, J. and Haque, S. A., 2013. Influence of crystallinity and energetics on charge separation in polymer–inorganic nanocomposite films for solar cells. Scientific Reports, 3, 1531.

Mcclymont, D., Kolaczkowski, S., Molloy, K. C. and Awdry, S., 2013. Silver catalysts for NOx storage and reduction using hydrogen. In: ChemEngDayUK 2013, 2013-03-25 - 2013-03-26, London.

Colombara, D., Delsante, S., Borzone, G., Mitchels, J.M., Molloy, K.C., Thomas, L.H., Marken, F., Peter, L.M., Mendis, B.G. and Cummings, C.Y., 2013. Crystal growth of CuZnSnS solar cell absorber by chemical vapor transport with I. Journal of Crystal Growth, 364, pp. 101-110.

Diop, T., Diop, L., Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K. C. and Ardisson, J. D., 2013. Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and crystal and molecular structures of phenylphosphonato SnR3 (R=Ph, Me) derivatives. Main Group Metal Chemistry, 36 (1-2), pp. 29-34.

Sow, Y., Diop, L., Molloy, K.C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2013. Tetramethylammonium aquatrichloridooxalatostannate(IV) monohydrate. Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 69 (2), m106-m107.

Mcclymont, D., Kolaczkowski, S., Molloy, K. C. and Awdry, S., 2013. Novel catalyst systems for deNOx. In: DTC Symposium Series - Sustainable Industrial Catalysis, 2013-01-29, Bath.

Lutz, T., MacLachlan, A., Sudlow, A., Nelson, J., Hill, M.S., Molloy, K.C. and Haque, S.A., 2012. Thermal decomposition of solution processable metal xanthates on mesoporous titanium dioxide films : A new route to quantum-dot sensitised heterojunctions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14 (47), pp. 16192-16196.

Mcclymont, D., Kolaczkowski, S., Molloy, K. C. and Awdry, S., 2012. Novel catalyst systems for deNOx. In: IChemE Catalysis for Energy Meeting, 2012-12-11, University of Birmingham.

Sow, Y., Diop, L., Molloy, K.C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2012. Di-μ-hydroxido-bis[dimethyl(thiocyanato-κN)tin(IV)]. Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 68 (12), m1436.

Sow, Y., Diop, L., Molloy, K.C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2012. μ2-Oxalato-bis[triphenyl(thiourea-κS)tin(IV)]. Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 68 (11), m1337.

Wildsmith, T., Molloy, K., Hill, M. and Johnson, A., 2012. Routes to the low temperature deposition of tin oxide. In: Transparent conducting materials 2012, 2012-10-20 - 2012-10-26, Heraklion.

Horley, G. A., Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K. C., Rodriguez Castro, J. and Morreale, S., 2012. Synthesis and Reaction Chemistry of Sb(ECH2CH2NMe2)3(E=O,S). Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 638 (11), pp. 1699-1704.

Cosham, S.D., Johnson, A.L., Jordan, L., Mahon, M.F. and Molloy, K.C., 2012. Lithium and potassium aminoalkoxides. Main Group Metal Chemistry, 35 (5-6), pp. 153-157.

Diop, T., Diop, L., Molloy, K.C., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Fall, D., 2012. Synthesis, characterisation and crystal structure of [(CH3)2CH]2NH2(PhPO3H)2SnPh3. Main Group Metal Chemistry, 35 (3-4), pp. 99-102.

Wildsmith, T., Hill, M., Molloy, K., Johnson, A. and Kingsley, A. J., 2012. Routes to the low temperature deposition of transparent conducting oxides. In: International Symposia for Advancing the Chemical Sciences 8: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, 2012-07-19 - 2012-07-21, Toronto.

Mcclymont, D., Kolaczkowski, S. T., Molloy, K. C. and Awdry, S., 2012. Novel catalyst systems for deNOx. In: DTC Summer Showcase 2012, 2012-07-09 - 2013-04-13, Bath.

Gueye, N., Diop, L., Molloy, K. C. and Kociok-köhn, G., 2012. Dibenzylazanium (oxalato-κ2O,O′)triphenylstannate(IV). Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 68 (6), m854-m855.

Shankar, R., Singh, A. P., Jain, A., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2012. Synthesis and characterization of di-/triorgano stannates bearing tin-sulfonate bonds. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 387, pp. 420-425.

Johnson, A. L., Hollingsworth, N., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2012. O2 insertion into a cadmium-carbon bond: structural characterization of organocadmium peroxides. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 51 (17), pp. 4108-4111.

Wildsmith, T., Hill, M., Molloy, K., Johnson, A. and Kingsley, A. J., 2012. Routes to low temperature precursors for transparent conducting oxides. In: Dalton Discussion Group Meeting 2012, 2012-04-03 - 2012-04-05, Warwick.

Trivedi, M., Nagarajan, R., Rath, N. P., Kumar, A., Molloy, K. C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2012. New pentamethylene-bridged bis-imidazolium dication ligands and its palladium(II) complexes: Synthesis, characterization, and catalysis. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 383, pp. 118-124.

Johnson, A. L., Hollingsworth, N., Kingsley, A., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2012. New organocadmium hydrazine adducts and hydrazide complexes. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2012 (2), pp. 246-250.

Sow, Y., Diop, L., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K.C., 2012. Dimethylammonium dichloridotriphenylstannate(IV). Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 68 (7), m1015-m1016.

Ndoye, D., Diop, L., Molloy, K. C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2012. Supramolecular organotin tris-carboxylates: Crystal and molecular structure of [Cy 2NH 2] 2[1-Me 3(H 2O)SnOCO-3,5-(OOC) 2C 6H 3]·EtOH. Main Group Metal Chemistry, 35 (1-2), pp. 59-61.

Hamid, M., Mazhar, M., Arifin, Z. and Molloy, K. C., 2012. Synthesis, X-ray structural characterization and pyrolysis studies of heterobi- and heterotrimetallic molecular complexes. Transition Metal Chemistry, 33 (3), pp. 241-247.

Cosham, S. D., Johnson, A. L., Molloy, K. C. and Kingsley, A. J., 2011. Synthesis, characterization, and materials chemistry of group 4 silylimides. Inorganic Chemistry, 50 (23), pp. 12053-12063.

Diop, T., Diop, L., Diop, C. A. K., Molloy, K. C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2011. Dicyclohexylammonium trimethylbis(hydrogen phenylphosphonato)stannate(IV). Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 67 (12), M1872-U1147.

Diallo, W., Diop, L., Molloy, K. C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2011. X-ray structure of HSeO 3 SnMe 2 Cl. Main Group Metal Chemistry, 34 (3-4), pp. 55-56.

Diop, T., Diop, L., Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K. C. and Stoeckli-Evans, H., 2011. catena-Poly triphenyltin(IV) -mu-phenylphosphinato-kappa(2)O:O '. Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 67 (12), M1674-U1749.

Gueye, N., Diop, L., Molloy, K. C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2011. Crystal structure of C(2)O(4) (SnPh3·dimethylformamide)2. Main Group Metal Chemistry, 34 (1-2), pp. 3-4.

Wildsmith, T., Hill, M., Johnson, A., Molloy, K. and Kingsley, A. J., 2011. Low temperature precursors for the metal organic chemical vapour deposition of transparent conducting oxides. In: XIX EuCHEMS Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, 2011-07-02 - 2011-07-06, Toulouse.

Wildsmith, T., Hill, M., Johnson, A., Molloy, K. and Kingsley, A. J., 2011. Low temperature precursors for the metal organic chemical vapour deposition of transparent conducting oxides. In: RSC Main Group Discussion Group, 2011-07-14 - 2011-07-14, London.

Dowland, S., Lutz, T., Ward, A., King, S. P., Sudlow, A., Hill, M., Molloy, K. C. and Haque, S. A., 2011. Direct growth of metal sulfide nanoparticle networks in solid-state polymer films for hybrid inorganic-organic solar cells. Advanced Materials, 23 (24), pp. 2739-2744.

Shankar, R., Jain, A., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2011. Synthesis and characterization of diethyltin-based three dimensional self-assemblies derived from sulfonate-phosphonate ligands. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 372 (1), pp. 108-114.

Trivedi, M., Nagarajan, R., Kumar, A., Molloy, K. C., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Sudlow, A. L., 2011. A combined experimental and computational investigation on Tetrakis-mu-acetato-bis (acetamido)dicopper(II) and its application as a single source precursor for copper oxide. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 14 (6), pp. 920-924.

Shankar, R., Jain, A., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2011. Diorganotin-based coordination polymers derived from sulfonate/phosphonate/phosphonocarboxylate ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, 50 (4), pp. 1339-1350.

Diop, T., Diop, L., Molloy, K. C. K. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2011. Bis(trimethylammonium) tetrachloridodiphenylstannate(IV). Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 67 (2), M203-M204.

Sow, Y., Diop, L., Molloy, K. C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2011. Crystal and molecular structure of diorganoammonium oxalatotrimethylstannate, [R 2NH 2][Me 3Sn(C 2O 4)] (Ri-Bu, cyclohexyl). Main Group Metal Chemistry, 34 (5-6), pp. 127-130.

Clark, J. M., Kociok-Kohn, G., Harnett, N. J., Hill, M. S., Hill, R., Molloy, K. C., Saponia, H., Stanton, D. and Sudlow, A., 2011. Formation of PbS materials from lead xanthate precursors. Dalton Transactions, 40 (26), pp. 6893-6900.

Singh, B., Drew, M. G. B., Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K. C. and Singh, N., 2011. Unprecedented coordination of dithiocarbimate in multinuclear and heteroleptic complexes. Dalton Transactions, 40 (3), pp. 623-631.

Bolundut, L., Haiduc, I., Ilyes, E., Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K. C. and Gomez-Ruiz, S., 2010. Hydrogen bond supramolecular self-assembly in nickel(II) dithiophosphates, Ni S2P(OR)(2) (2), R = sec-Bu, iso-Bu, and their bis(pyrazole) adducts. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 363 (15), pp. 4319-4323.

Gueye, N., Diop, L., Molloy, K. C. K. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2010. Bis(dicyclohexylammonium) mu-oxalato-kappa O-4(1),O-2:O-1 ',O-2 '-bis aqua(oxalato-kappa O-2(1),O-2)diphenylstannate(IV). Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online, 66 (12), M1645-m1646.

Bolundut, L., Haiduc, I., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2010. Supramolecular self-assembly in the lead(II) bis(di-iso-butylthiophosphate). 1,10-phenanthroline aduct, Pb[S2P(OBui)2]2 · Phen. Revue Roumaine De Chimie, 55 (11-12), pp. 741-746.

Hollingsworth, N., Johnson, A., Kingsley, A., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2010. Structural study of the reaction of methylzinc amino alcoholates with oxygen. Organometallics, 29 (15), pp. 3318-3326.

Mcclymont, D., Kolaczkowski, S. T. and Molloy, K. C., 2010. Catalyst system design for the control of NOx using hydrogen. In: DTC Summer Showcase 2010, 2010-07-08 - 2010-07-09, Bath.

Hollingsworth, N., Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K. C. and Sudlow, A. L., 2010. The synthesis and reaction chemistry of new amino-functionalised tin(ii) alkoxides. Dalton Transactions, 39 (23), pp. 5446-5452.

Shankar, R., Jain, A., Kociok-Kohn, G., Mahon, M. F. and Molloy, K. C., 2010. Cleavage of Sn-C and S-C-alkyl bonds on an organotin scaffold: synthesis and characterization of a novel organotin-sulfite cluster bearing methyltin- and dimethyltin fragments. Inorganic Chemistry, 49 (10), pp. 4708-4715.

Choujaa, H., Johnson, A., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2010. The synthesis of a novel heterobimetallic amidotungsten-antimony complex. Polyhedron, 29 (6), pp. 1607-1611.

Leventis, H. C., King, S. P., Sudlow, A., Hill, M., Molloy, K. C. and Haque, S. A., 2010. Nanostructured hybrid polymer-inorganic solar cell active layers formed by controllable in situ growth of semiconducting sulfide networks. Nano Letters, 10 (4), pp. 1253-1258.

Kumar, A., Chauhan, R., Molloy, K. C., Kociok-Kohn, G., Bahadur, L. and Singh, N., 2010. Synthesis, structure and light-harvesting properties of some new transition-metal dithiocarbamates involving ferrocene. Chemistry - A European Journal, 16 (14), pp. 4307-4314.

Singh, N., Kumar, A., Prasad, R., Molloy, K. C. and Mahon, M. F., 2010. Syntheses, crystal, photoluminescence and electrochemical investigation of some new phenylmercury(II) dithiocarbamate complexes involving ferrocene. Dalton Transactions, 39 (10), pp. 2667-2675.

Sow, Y., Diop, L., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2010. X-ray crystal structure of ((Pr2NH2)-Pr-n)(2)C2O4 center dot SnCl4. Main Group Metal Chemistry, 33 (4-5), pp. 205-207.

ur Rehman, A., Ali, S., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2009. Synthesis and structural chemistry of metallo-xanthate anions (M = Zn, Sn, Bi). Journal of Molecular Structure, 937 (1-3), pp. 56-60.

Shahid, M., Imtiaz ud, D., Mazhar, M. and Molloy, K. C., 2009. A phosphine complex of copper (I) bromide as single-source precursor for the aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition of phosphide. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 362 (9), pp. 3069-3072.

Molloy, K. C. and Stanley, J. E., 2009. Atmospheric pressure deposition of F-doped SnO2 thin films from organotin fluoroalkoxide precursors. Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 23 (2), pp. 62-67.

Shahid, M., Tahir, A. A., Hamid, M., Mazhar, M., Zeller, M., Molloy, K. C. and Hunter, A. D., 2009. Copper(II) Oligomeric Derivatives for Deposition of Copper Thin Films. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Shankar, R., Jain, A., Singh, A. P., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2009. Facile Synthesis of Novel Two- And Three-Dimensional Coordination Polymers Containing Dialkyltin Phosphonate-Based Tri/Tetra-Nuclear Clusters with Appended Sulfonate Groups. Inorganic Chemistry, 48 (8), pp. 3608-3616.

Johnson, A. L., Hollingsworth, N., Kingsley, A., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2009. Organocadmium Hydrazide and Hydrazine Complexes. Organometallics, 28 (8), pp. 2650-2653.

Tahir, A. A., Mazhar, M., Hamid, M., Wijayantha, K. G. U. and Molloy, K., 2009. Photooxidation of water by NiTiO3 deposited from single source precursor [Ni2Ti2(OEt)2(μ-OEt)6(acac)4] by AACVD. Dalton Transactions, 19, pp. 3674-3680.

Choujaa, H., Cosham, S. D., Johnson, A. L., Kafka, G. R., Mahon, M. F., Masters, S. L., Molloy, K. C., Rankin, D. W. H., Robertson, H. E. and Wann, D. A., 2009. Structural Tungsten-Imido Chemistry: The Gas-Phase Structure of W(NBut)(2)(NHBut)(2) and the Solid-State Structures of Novel Heterobimetallic W/N/M (M = Rh, Pd, Zn) Species. Inorganic Chemistry, 48 (5), pp. 2289-2299.

Apostolico, L., Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K. C., Blackman, C. S., Carmalt, C. J. and Parkin, I. P., 2009. The reaction of tin(IV) iodide with phosphines: formation of new halotin anions. Dalton Transactions, 47, pp. 10486-10494.

Alam, N., Hill, M. S., Kociok-Köhn, G., Zeller, M., Mazhar, M. and Molloy, K. C., 2008. Pyridine adducts of nickel(II) xanthates as single-source precursors for the aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition of nickel sulfide. Chemistry of Materials, 20 (19), pp. 6157-6162.

Singh, N., Kumar, A., Molloy, K. C. and Mahon, M. F., 2008. Syntheses, crystal and molecular structures, and properties of some new phenylmercury(ii) dithiolate complexes. Dalton Transactions, 2008 (37), pp. 4999-5007.

Bolundut, L., Haiduc, I., Mahon, M. F. and Molloy, K. C., 2008. A Dinuclear Adduct of bis (di-sec-butyl dithiophosphato) Cadmium(II) Built around the Hexamethylenetetramine Cage as Coordination Center. Revista De Chimie, 59 (11), pp. 1194-1196.

Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K. C. and Rodriguez-Castro, J., 2008. A single-source precursor route to antimony sulpho-iodide. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 11 (6), pp. 599-603.

Molloy, K. C. and Williams, P. A., 2008. AACVD of WO3 thin films from W(O)(OPri)(3)[O(CH2)(n)NMe2] (n=2, 3). Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 22 (12), pp. 676-683.

Hamid, M., Tahir, A. A., Mazhar, M., Molloy, K. C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2008. Copper-cobalt heterobimetallic ceramic oxide thin film deposition: Synthesis, characterization and application of precursor. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 11 (10), pp. 1159-1161.

Hamid, M., Tahir, A. A., Mazhar, M., Ahmad, F., Molloy, K. C. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2008. Deposition and characterization of ZnO thin films from a novel hexanuclear zinc precursor. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 361 (1), pp. 188-194.

Castro, J. R., Molloy, K. C., Liu, Y., Lai, C. S., Dong, Z. L., White, T. J. and Tiekink, E. R. T., 2008. Formation of antimony sulfide powders and thin films from single-source antimony precursors. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 18 (44), pp. 5399-5405.

Johnson, A. L., Hollingsworth, N., Kociok-Köhn, G. and Molloy, K. C., 2008. Organocadmium aminoalcoholates: Synthesis, structure, and materials chemistry. Inorganic Chemistry, 47 (20), pp. 9706-9715.

Molloy, K., 2008. Precursors for the formation of tin(IV) oxide and related materials. Journal of Chemical Research-S

Shankar, R., Singh, A. P., Mahon, M. F., Molloy, K. C., Hundal, G., Biesemans, M. and Willem, R., 2008. Recipe for new diorganostannates, [R2Sn(OS(O)(2)R-1)(4)](2-), bearing alkanesulfonate groups using dialkyl sulfite as the reagent. Inorganic Chemistry, 47 (3), pp. 790-792.

Hollingsworth, N., Kanna, M., Kociok-Kohn, G., Molloy, K. C. and Wongnawa, S., 2008. Synthesis and characterisation of new titanium amino-alkoxides: precursors for the formation of TiO2 materials. Dalton Transactions

Shankar, R., Singh, A. P., Jain, A., Mahon, M. F. and Molloy, K. C., 2008. Synthesis, characterization, and structural studies of mixed-ligand diorganotin esters, [R2Sn(OP(O)(OH)Ph)(OS(O)(2)R-1)](n) [R = n-Bu, R-1 = Me (1), n-Pr (2); R = Et, R-1 = Me (3)] with 1D and 3D coordination polymeric motifs. Inorganic Chemistry, 47 (13), pp. 5930-5935.

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