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Dr Stuart Batten

Stuart Batten Senior Lecturer
BSc(Hons), PhD, MRACI, C.Chem, GCHE
Address: School of Chemistry, Monash University 3800, Australia.
Telephone: (03) 9905 4606
Fax: (03) 9905 4597
Email: stuart.batten@sci.monash.edu.au
Web: http://www.chem.monash.edu.au/staff/sbatten/index.html
   
 

Crystal Engineering of Coordination Polymers

The aim of crystal engineering is to control the way molecules assemble in the solid state. Since the properties of any material are largely due to its structure, control over the structure allows us to manipulate these properties. The crystal engineering of coordination polymers is of particular interest to our group. By judicious choice of preferred ligand and metal coordination geometries, control over the topology and geometry of the infinite networks can be gained. Such control allows the deliberate design of materials with a range of useful properties, including electronic properties, magnetic properties (long-range magnetic ordering, spin-crossover materials), microporosity (including the related properties of ion exchange and heterogeneous catalysis), non-linear optical effects and luminescent properties. We are currently developing a number of approaches to such materials..

Selected References

  • "Coordination Polymers", Stuart R. Batten, Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry, Eds. JL Atwood and JW Steed, Marcel Dekker, New York, USA, 2006.
  • "Glorious Uncertainty - Challenges for Network Design", Stuart R. Batten, J. Solid State Chem., 2005, 178, 2475-2479.
  • "New bis-, tris- and tetrakis(pyrazolyl)borate ligands with 3-pyridyl and 4-pyridyl substituents: synthesis and coordination chemistry", Harry Adams, Stuart R. Batten, Graham M. Davies, Martin B. Duriska, John C. Jeffery, Paul Jensen, Jinzhen Lu, Graham R. Motson, Simon J. Coles, Michael B. Hursthouse and Michael D. Ward, Dalton Trans., 2005, 1910-1923.
  • "A Neutral 3D Copper Coordination Polymer Showing 1D Open Channels and the First Interpenetrating NbO-Type Network", Xian-He Bu, Ming-Liang Tong, Ho-Chol Chang, Susumu Kitagawa and Stuart R. Batten, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2004, 43, 192-195.
  • "A New Self-Penetrating Uniform Net, (8,4) (or 86), Containing Planar 4-Connecting Nodes", Ming-Liang Tong, Xiao-Ming Chen, and Stuart R. Batten, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 16170-16171.
  • "Malleable Coordination Networks", Stuart R. Batten and Keith S. Murray, Aust. J. Chem., 2001, 54, 605-609.
  • "Coordination Polymers", Stuart R. Batten, Curr. Opin. Solid State Mater. Sci., 2001, 5, 107-114.
  • "Copper(I) dicyanamide coordination polymers: ladders, sheets, layers, diamond-like networks and unusual interpenetration", Stuart R. Batten, Alexander R. Harris, Paul Jensen, Keith S. Murray and Angela Ziebell, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2000,3829-3836.
  • "Ni(tpt)(NO3)2 - A Three-Dimensional Network with the Exceptional (12,3) Topology: A Self-Entangled Single Net", Brendan F. Abrahams, Stuart R. Batten, Martin J. Grannas, Hasan Hamit, Bernard F. Hoskins and Richard Robson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 1999, 38, 1475-1477; Angew. Chem., 1999, 111, 1538-1540.
  • "Interpenetrating Nets: Ordered, Periodic Entanglement", Stuart R. Batten and Richard Robson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 1998, 37, 1460-1494; Angew. Chem., 1998, 110, 1558-1595.
  • "A Cubic 3,4-Connected Net with Large Cavities in Solvated [Cu3(tpt)4](ClO4)3 (tpt = 2, 4, 6-Tri(4-pyridyl)-1, 3, 5-triazine)", Brendan F. Abrahams, Stuart R. Batten, Hasan Hamit, Bernard F. Hoskins and Richard Robson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 1996, 35, 1690-2; Angew. Chem., 1996, 108, 1794-6.
  • "Two Interpenetrating 3D Networks Which Generate Spacious Sealed-Off Compartments Enclosing of the Order of 20 Solvent Molecules in the Structures of Zn(CN)(NO3)(tpt)2/3.solv (tpt = 2,4,6-tri(4-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine, solv = ~3/4C2H2Cl4.3/4CH3OH or ~3/2CHCl3.1/3CH3OH)", Stuart R. Batten, Bernard F. Hoskins and Richard Robson, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1995, 117, 5385-5386.
        (cf. "Sentencing Molecules to Prison", Robert F. Service, Science, 1995, 268,1698 and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Book of the Year, 1996, 240-241)