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P.R.Raithby

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

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Professor Paul Raithby

Paul Raithby has held the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bath since 2000.  He is currently an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow (2006-2011) working on the development of time resolved crystallography.  In his research he uses synchrotron radiation as one of his key research tools and has worked extensively at the Synchrotron Radiation Source, Daresbury Laboratory, and at the ESRF, Grenoble.  He is chair of the working party that is developing the new “small molecule” single-crystal X-ray diffraction beamline (I19) being built at the Diamond synchrotron at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot.  He is also President of the British Crystallographic Association (2006-2009).

Paul Raithby’s research interests are in the area of solid state materials and materials science where he uses a range of synthetic, spectroscopic, diffraction and knowledge mining techniques to probe the correlation between materials and their properties.  He is currently working on the development of new organometallic oligomers and polymers that have applications in the opto-electronics industry and on coordination complexes that can act as sensors and data storage materials. 

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References

  1. Investigation of the factors favouring solid state [2 + 2] cycloaddition reactions; the [2 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of coumarin-3-carboxylic acid.   M. F. Mahon, P. R. Raithby and H. A. Sparkes, CrystEngComm, 2008, 10, 573-576

  2. A new series of dinuclear Au(I) complexes linked by diethynylpyridine groups.  P. Li,B. Ahrens,A. D. Bond,J. E. Davies,O. F. Koentjoro,P. R. Raithbyand S. J. Teat, Dalton Trans., 2008, 1635-1646

  3. [Rh7(PiPr3)6H18][BArF4]2 : A Molecular Rh(111) Surface Decorated with 18 Hydrogen Atoms.  S. K. Brayshaw, J. C. Green, R. Edge, E. J. L. McInnes, P. R. Raithby, J. E. Warren, and A. S. Weller, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 7844-7848

  4. Sequential reduction of high hydride count octahedral rhodium clusters [Rh6(PR3)6(H)12][BAr4F]2: Redox-switchable hydrogen storage.  S. K. Brayshaw, A. Harrison, J. S. McIndoe, F. Marken, P. R. Raithby, J. E. Warren and A. S. Weller, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 1793-1804

  5. Small molecule chemical crystallography – for three to four dimensions: a personal perspective.  P. R. Raithby, Crystallography Reviews, 2007, 13, 121-142

  6. Photocrystallographic structure determination of a new geometric isomer of [Ru(NH3)4(H2O)(h1‑-OSO)][MeC6H4SO3]2.  K. F. Bowes, J. M. Cole, S. L. G. Husheer, P. R. Raithby, T. L. Savarese, H. A. Sparkes, S. J. Teat and J. E. Warren, Chem. Comm.  2006, 2448-2450

  7. Carbonyl….carbonyl interactions in first-row transition metal complexes.  H. A. Sparkes, P. R. Raithby, E. Clot, G. P. Shields, J. A. Chisholm and F. H. Allen, CrystEngComm 2006, 8, 563-570

  8. Monolayers and nanoparticles on nickel silicide for molecular electronics.  E. Marx, M. Chiesa, M. Borg, S. Bengtsson, R. J. Less, P. R. Raithby, C. J. B. Ford and N. C. Greenham, Applied Physics Letters 2006, 88, 143107

  9. Structures of 2,4,6-tri-alpha-pyridyl-1,3,5-triazine complexes of the lanthanoid nitrates: A study in the lanthanoid contraction.  S. A. Cotton, V. Franckevicius, M. F. Mahon, L. L. Ooi, P. R. Raithby and S. J. Teat, Polyhedron 2006, 25, 1057-1068

  10. Scanning tunnelling microscopy of self-assembled phenylene ethynylene oligomers on Au(111) substrates.  K. Walzer, E. Marx, N. C. Greenham, R. J. Less, P. R. Raithby and K. Stokbro, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 1229-1234

  11. Synthesis, characterisation and optical spectroscopy of platinum(II) di-ynes and poly-ynes incorporating condensed aromatic spacers in the backbone.  M. S. Khan, M. R. A. Al-Mandhary, M. K. Al-Suti, F. R. Al-Battashi, S. Al-Saadi, B. Ahrens, J. K. Bjernemose, M. F. Mahon, P. R. Raithby, M. Younus, N. Chawdhury, A. Köhler, E. A.  Marseglia, E. Tedesco, N. Feeder and S. J. Teat, Dalton Trans., 2004, 2377-2385