Matthew Polson's profile
I'm male and 34
What I do
I am a ruthenium polypyridyl chemist but I branch into other metals as well. I have studied many techniques to investigate these complexes including Raman spectroscopy, electrochemistry, absorption spectroscopy, spectroelectrochemistry, transient spectroscopies, X-ray crystallography, nmr, IR and emission spectroscopy.
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- Position
- Post-Doc Fellow
- Company
- University Of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Interests
I am interested in the use of ruthenium polypyridyl complexes as oxidation catalysts. More fundamentally I am interested in how the use of many different physical techniques can give not just a more complete, but more insightful view of a molecule.
Projects
In the past I have studied ruthenium complexes as antenna for light harvesting and investigated the nature of metal-metal interactions, Iridium complexes for use in LEDs and I am now working on a water oxidation catalyst.
Publications
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POLSON M, BLACKMAN A, GORDON K. Binuclear ruthenium and osmium mixed-valence complexes containing fused and flexible polypyridyl bridging ligands Polyhedron (2) , 266 - 274 (2007) doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2006.05.012
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Polson M, Chiorboli C, Fracasso S, Scandola F. Site-specific electronic couplings in dyads with MLCT excited states. Intramolecular energy transfer in isomeric Ru(ii)?Ru(ii) cyclometalated complexes Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. (4) (2007) doi: 10.1039/b611115g
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Polson M, Loiseau F, Campagna S, Hanan G. Bridging ligand planarity as a route to long-lived, near infrared emitting dinuclear ruthenium(ii) complexes Chem. Commun. (12) (2006) doi: 10.1039/b515493f
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Wang J, Fang Y, Bourget-Merle L, Polson M, Hanan G, Juris A, Loiseau F, Campagna S. The Multichromophore Approach: Prolonged Room-Temperature Luminescence Lifetimes in RuII Complexes Based on Tridentate Polypyridine Ligands Chem. Eur. J. (33) , 8539 - 8548 (2006) doi: 10.1002/chem.200600245
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Ioachim E, Medlycott E, Polson M, Hanan G. Synthesis of a Novel Series of 6,6'-Disubstituted 4,4'-Bipyrimidines by Radical Anion Coupling: New π-Accepting Ligands for Coordination Chemistry Eur. J. Org. Chem. (17) , 3775 - 3780 (2005) doi: 10.1002/ejoc.200500335
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