Vacant Positions:
Applications from potential PhD students are always welcome - please contact me to discuss current opportunities and details of potential projects and/or complete and return a University of Bath Postgraduate application form.
Dr Matthew Jones
Profile
Research activities and interests within the group focus on several different aspects of the synthesis of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable chemical transformations and green chemistry.
Our work involves a major synthetic component, most of which is carried out using inert atmosphere techniques. Work will utilise solution-state NMR (within the department) and solid-state NMR (in collaboration with the EPSRC service and other UK based collaborators), mass spectrometry, electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography to probe the structure of the homogeneous catalysts.
Research Interests:
- Asymmetric Heterogeneous Catalysts
- Sustainable Chemistry
Publications
Hancock, S.L., Mahon, M.F. and Jones, M.D., 2013. Aluminium salalen complexes based on 1,2-diaminocyclohexane and their exploitation for the polymerisation of rac-lactide. Dalton Transactions, 42 (25), pp. 9279-9285.
Minett, D., O'Byrne, J., Jones, M., Mattia, D. and Plucinski, P., 2013. Carbon dioxide conversion to hydrocarbons using structured carbon nanotube supports. In: SuBiCat 1: Symposium on sustainable catalytic conversions of renewable substrates, 2012-03-24 - 2013-03-26, St Andrews.
Griffiths, O.G., O'Byrne, J.P., Torrente-Murciano, L., Jones, M.D., Mattia, D. and McManus, M.C., 2013. Identifying the largest environmental life cycle impacts during carbon nanotube synthesis via chemical vapour deposition. Journal of Cleaner Production, 42, pp. 180-189.
Di Iulio, C., Middleton, M., Kociok-Kohn, G., Jones, M.D. and Johnson, A.L., 2013. Synthesis and characterization of zinc ketoiminate and zinc alkoxide-/phenoxide-ketoiminate complexes. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2013 (9), pp. 1541-1554.
Minett, D. R., O'Byrne, J. P., Jones, M. D., Ting, V. P., Mays, T. J. and Mattia, D., 2013. One-step production of monolith-supported long carbon nanotube arrays. Carbon, 51 (1), pp. 327-334.
O'Byrne, J., Owen, R., Minett, D., Pascu, S. I., Plucinski, P. K., Jones, M. D. and Mattia, D., 2013. High CO2 and CO conversion to hydrocarbons using bridged Fe nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes. Catalysis Science and Technology, 3 (5), pp. 1202-1207.
Xia, F., Pan, M., Mu, S., Jones, M. D., Kociok-Kohn, G., Tsang, S. C. and Marken, F., 2013. Forthcoming. Imparting pH- and small molecule selectivity to nano-Pd catalysts via hydrothermal wrapping with chitosan. Electrochimica Acta
Forder, T., Jones, M. and Davidson, M., 2013. Unsymmetrical group 4 amine tris(phenolate) complexes as initiators for the controlled polymerisation of racemic-lactide. In: SuBiCat 1: Symposium on sustainable catalytic conversions of renewable substrates, 2012-03-24 - 2013-03-26, St Andrews.
Xia, F., Pan, M., Mu, S., Xiong, Y., Edler, K.J., Idini, I., Jones, M.D., Tsang, S.C. and Marken, F., 2012. Hydrothermal core-shell carbon nanoparticle films : Thinning the shell leads to dramatic pH response. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14 (45), pp. 15860-15865.
Di Iulio, C., Jones, M. D. and Mahon, M. F., 2012. Synthesis of Al(III) silsesquioxane complexes and their exploitation for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 718, pp. 96-100.
Hancock, S.L., Jones, M.D., Langridge, C.J. and Mahon, M.F., 2012. Al(iii)-homopiperazine complexes and their exploitation for the production of polyesters. New Journal of Chemistry, 36 (9), pp. 1891-1896.
Minett, D., O'Byrne, J., Mattia, D. and Jones, M., 2012. Catalysts for carbon dioxide conversion using carbon nanotube supports. In: Gordon Research Conference on Green Chemistry, 2012-07-21 - 2012-07-28, Il Ciocco, Barga.
Xia, F., Pan, M., Mu, S., Jones, M.D., Wolverson, D. and Marken, F., 2012. Chitosan-based hydrothermal nanocarbon: Core-shell characteristics and composite electrodes. Electroanalysis, 24 (8), pp. 1703-1708.
Taylor, J. E., Jones, M. D., Williams, J. M. J. and Bull, S. D., 2012. N -acyl DBN tetraphenylborate salts as N -acylating agents. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 77 (6), pp. 2808-2818.
Minett, D., Mattia, D., O'Byrne, J. and Jones, M., 2012. Novel approach for the production of monolith supported carbon nanotubes. In: ChemonTubes 2012, International meeting on the chemistry of nanotubes and graphene, 2012-04-01 - 2012-04-05, Archachon.
Jeffery, B. J., Whitelaw, E. L., Garcia-Vivo, D., Stewart, J. A., Mahon, M. F., Davidson, M. G. and Jones, M. D., 2011. Group 4 initiators for the stereoselective ROP of rac-β-butyrolactone and its copolymerization with rac-lactide. Chemical Communications, 47 (45), pp. 12328-12330.
Whitelaw, E. L., Loraine, G., Mahon, M. F. and Jones, M. D., 2011. Salalen aluminium complexes and their exploitation for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide. Dalton Transactions, 40 (43), pp. 11469-11473.
Hancock, S. L., Mahon, M. F., Kociok-Kohn, G. and Jones, M. D., 2011. Homopiperazine and piperazine complexes of Zr(IV) and Hf(IV) and their application to the ring-opening polymerisation of lactide. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2011 (29), pp. 4596-4602.
Borner, J., Vieira, I. D., Jones, M. D., Doring, A., Kuckling, D., Florke, U. and Herres-Pawlis, S., 2011. Zinc complexes with guanidine-pyridine hybrid ligands - guanidine effect and catalytic activity. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2011 (28), pp. 4441-4456.
Whitelaw, E. L., Davidson, M. G. and Jones, M. D., 2011. Group 4 salalen complexes for the production and degradation of polylactide. Chemical Communications, 47 (36), pp. 10004-10006.
Minett, D., Mattia, D. and Jones, M., 2011. Conversion of carbon dioxide into useful feedstocks using carbon nanotube supports. In: Great Western CO2 meeting, 2011-06-06 - 2011-06-06, Bath.
Minett, D., Mattia, D. and Jones, M., 2011. Conversion of carbon dioxide into useful feedstocks using carbon nanotube supports - talk. In: Great Western CO2 meeting, 2011-06-06 - 2011-06-06, Bath.
Jones, M. D., Keir, C. G., Di Iulio, C., Robertson, R. A. M., Williams, C. V. and Apperley, D. C., 2011. Investigations into the conversion of ethanol into 1,3-butadiene. Catalysis Science and Technology, 1 (2), pp. 267-272.
Hancock, S. L., Mahon, M. F. and Jones, M. D., 2011. Crystallographic characterisation of Ti(IV) piperazine complexes and their exploitation for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide. Dalton Transactions, 40 (9), pp. 2033-2037.
Wu, X., Jones, M. D., Davidson, M. G., Chaudhuri, J. B. and Ellis, M. J., 2011. Surfactant-free poly(lactide-co-glycolide) honeycomb films for tissue engineering: relating solvent, monomer ratio and humidity to scaffold structure. Biotechnology Letters, 33 (2), pp. 423-430.
Cooper, C. J., Jones, M. D., Brayshaw, S. K., Sonnex, B., Russell, M. L., Mahon, M. F. and Allan, D. R., 2011. When is an imine not an imine? Unusual reactivity of a series of Cu(II) imine-pyridine complexes and their exploitation for the Henry reaction. Dalton Transactions, 40 (14), pp. 3677-3682.
Taylor, J. E., Jones, M., Williams, J. M. J. and Bull, S. D., 2010. Friedel-Crafts acylation of pyrroles and indoles using 1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non-5-ene (DBN) as a nucleophilic catalyst. Organic Letters, 12 (24), pp. 5740-5743.
Di Lulio, C., Jones, M. D., Mahon, M. F. and Apperley, D. C., 2010. Zinc(II) silsesquioxane complexes and their application for the ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide. Inorganic Chemistry, 49 (22), pp. 10232-10234.
Minett, D., Mattia, D., Jones, M. and Johnson, A., 2010. Synthesis of catalytic species for the conversion of hydrogen to useful feedstocks using carbon nanotubes as a support. In: Chemical Science & Technology towards a Low-Carbon Economy, 2010-10-09, Oxford.
Whitelaw, E. L., Jones, M. D. and Mahon, M. F., 2010. Group 4 salalen complexes and their application for the ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide. Inorganic Chemistry, 49 (15), pp. 7176-7181.
Johnson, A., Davidson, M. G., Jones, M. D. and Lunn, M. D., 2010. Acid activation of titanium alkoxide systems: structural characterisation of Ti(IV) sulfonyl-imide complexes. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 363 (10), pp. 2209-2214.
Jones, M., Cooper, C., Mahon, M. F., Raithby, P. R., Apperley, D., Wolowska, J. and Collison, D., 2010. Cu(II) homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for the asymmetric Henry reaction. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 325 (1-2), pp. 8-14.
Börner, J., Flörke, U., Döring, A., Kuckling, D., Jones, M. D., Steiner, M., Breuning, M. and Herres-Pawlis, S., 2010. Unexpected activity of novel 9-oxabispidine zinc complexes in lactide polymerization. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 13 (3), pp. 369-371.
Borner, J., Florke, U., Gloge, T., Bannenberg, T., Tamm, M., Jones, M. D., Doring, A., Kuckling, D. and Herres-Pawlis, S., 2010. New insights into the lactide polymerisation with neutral N-donor stabilised zinc complexes: Comparison of imidazolin-2-imine vs. guanidine complexes. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 316 (1-2), pp. 139-145.
Jones, M. D., Davidson, M. G. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2010. New titanium and zirconium initiators for the production of polylactide. Polyhedron, 29 (2), pp. 697-700.
Jones, M. D., Keir, C. G., Johnson, A. L. and Mahon, M. F., 2010. Crystallographic characterisation of novel Zn(II) silsesquioxane complexes and their application as initiators for the production of polylactide. Polyhedron, 29 (1), pp. 312-316.
De Bank, P., Jones, M. and Ellis, M., 2009. Polymeric scaffolds for regenerative medicine. In: Mattiasson, B., Kumar, A. and Galaev, I. Y., eds. Macroporous Polymers: Production Properties and Biotechnological/Biomedical Applications. CRC Press, pp. 467-495.
Jones, M. D., Davidson, M. G., Keir, C. G., Hughes, L. M., Mahon, M. F. and Apperley, D. C., 2009. Zinc(II) homogeneous and heterogeneous species and their application for the ring-opening polymerisation of rac-lactide. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2009 (5), pp. 635-642.
Axe, P., Bull, S. D., Davidson, M. G., Jones, M. D., Robinson, D. E. J. E., Mitchell, W. L. and Warren, J. E., 2009. An enantiopure pseudo-C-3-symmetric titanium triflate with propeller-like chirality as a catalyst for asymmetric sulfoxidation reactions. Dalton Transactions, 2009 (46), pp. 10169-10171.
Whitelaw, E. L., Jones, M. D., Mahon, M. F. and Kociok-Kohn, G., 2009. Novel Ti(IV) and Zr(IV) complexes and their application in the ring-opening polymerisation of cyclic esters. Dalton Transactions, 41, pp. 9020-9025.
Johnson, A. L., Davidson, M. G., Pérez, Y., Jones, M. D., Merle, N., Raithby, P. R. and Richards, S. P., 2009. Synthesis and structure of aluminium amine-phenolate complexes. Dalton Transactions, 2009 (28), pp. 5551-5558.
Chmura, A. J., Davidson, M. G., Frankis, C. J., Jones, M. D. and Lunn, M. D., 2008. Highly active and stereoselective zirconium and hafnium alkoxide initiators for solvent-free ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide. Chemical Communications, 2008 (11), pp. 1293-1295.
Chmura, A. J., Cousins, D. M., Davidson, M. G., Jones, M. D., Lunn, M. D. and Mahon, M. F., 2008. Robust chiral zirconium alkoxide initiators for the room-temperature stereoselective ring-opening polymerisation of rac-lactide. Dalton Transactions, 2008 (11), pp. 1437-1443.
Chaudhuri, J. B., Davidson, M. G., Ellis, M. J., Jones, M. D. and Wu, X. J., 2008. Fabrication of Honeycomb-Structured Poly(DL-lactide) and Poly[(DL-lactide)-co-glycolide)] Films and their Use as Scaffolds for Osteoblast-Like Cell Culture. Macromolecular Symposia, 272 (1), pp. 52-57.
Wu, X., Jones, M.D., Chaudhuri, J.B., Davidson, M.G. and Ellis, M. J., 2008. Fabrication of porous PLGA scaffolds with different methods and their applications for tissue engineering. In: 8th World Biomaterials Congress 2008. Vol. 2. , p. 1021.
Jones, M. D., Davidson, M. G., Keir, C. G., Wooles, A. J., Mahon, M. F. and Apperley, D. C., 2008. Heterogeneous catalysts for the controlled ring-opening polymerisation of rac-lactide and homogeneous silsesquioxane model complexes. Dalton Transactions, 28, pp. 3655-3657.
Wu, X., Chaudhuri, J.B., Ellis, M. J., Jones, M.D. and Davidson, M.G., 2008. Precision fabricated stereoisomeric and stereoregular pla/plga for tissue engineering scaffolds. In: 8th World Biomaterials Congress 2008. Vol. 2. , p. 1020.
Jones, M. D. and Mahon, M. F., 2008. Synthesis of Rh(I) diamine complexes and their exploitation for asymmetric hydrogen transfer processes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 693 (13), pp. 2377-2382.
Clegg, W., Davidson, M. G., Graham, D. V., Griffen, G., Jones, M. D., Kennedy, A. R., O'Hara, C. T., Russo, L. and Thomson, C. M., 2008. Synthetic and structural investigations of alkali metal diamine bis(phenolate) complexes. Dalton Transactions, 2008 (10), pp. 1295-1301.
