Career
- 2006- ARC Australian Professorial Research Fellow, Monash University.
(position held concurrently with Personal Chair at Cardiff University until November 2007).
- 2004- Chairman of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Main Group Chemistry Interest Group.
- 2003-2007: Founder and Director of the Centre for Fundamental and Applied Main Group Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK.
- 2002- Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK.
- 1998-02: Reader in Inorganic Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK..
- 1994-98: Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, Swansea University, UK.
- 1992-94: EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sussex
(Supervisor: Prof. John F. Nixon FRS)
- 1989-92: PhD, Griffith University
(Supervisor: Professor Colin L. Raston)
- 1985-87: Research Officer, Department of Surgery, University of Western Australia.
- 1984: B.Sc.(Hons.), University of Western Australia
Fellowships and Prizes
- 2006: ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship
- 2004: Royal Society of Chemistry's Prize and Medal for Main Group Element Chemistry.
- 2003: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- 2002: Royal Society of Chemistry Visiting Academic Fellow, Monash University.
- 1996: Royal Society of Chemistry JWT Jones Visiting Research Fellow, Monash University.
Research Areas
Jones' research ambitions lie with the development of new and fundamentally important areas of main group chemistry which challenge previously held views on the structure, bonding and inherent stability of hydrido, low-valent and/or low oxidation state main group compounds. The chemistry of such compounds is highly topical and in the past 5-10 years has led to some of the most important fundamental advances in the history of main group chemistry. Jones has published more than 200 papers, including 10 invited review articles, in this area. Funding for his work has come from a variety of public, industrial and charitable bodies in the UK and Australia. He has attracted more than $4.5M for projects on which he was/is the Principal Investigator and a further $4M for projects on which he was/is a Co-Investigator. Jones has current collaborations with a number of groups in the UK (Oxford, Cardiff, Bristol, Durham) and the US (Texas).
Current areas of focus for the Jones group include:
- The stabilisation, coordination chemistry and synthetic applications of group 13 metal(I) heterocycles.
- The development of novel low coordination compounds of the heavier group 15 elements and utilising these as ligands in the synthesis of fundamentally interesting yet exploitable metal complexes.
- The application of low oxidation state main group halides, e.g. "GaI", as new environmentally friendly reagents for organic synthetic methodologies.
- The use of bulky guanidinate ligands to stabilise previously inaccessible low oxidation state and/or multiply bonded p-, d- and f-block metal complexes.
- The use of theoretical techniques to probe the nature of "unconventional" metal-metal bonds in complexes derived from the above studies.
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