Jones' research ambitions lie with the development of new and fundamentally important areas of main group and transition metal chemistry which challenge previously held views on the structure, bonding and inherent stability of hydrido, low coordination number and/or low oxidation state metal complexes

Stable Magnesium(I) Compounds with Mg-Mg Bonds, S.P. Green, C. Jones and A. Stasch, Science, 2007, 318, 1754. DOI: 10.1126/science.1150856 Two-Coordinate Magnesium(I) Dimers Stabilized by Super Bulky Amido Ligands, A. J. Boutland, D. Dange, A. Stasch, L. Maron, C. Jones, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 9239. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201604362 Enabling and Probing Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination at a Group 14 Metal Center: Cleavage and Functionalization of E-H bonds by a Bis(boryl)stannylene, A.V. Protchenko, J.I. Bates, L.M.A. Saleh, M.P. Blamke, A.D. Schwarz, E.L. Kolychev, J.M. Goicoechea, A.L. Thompson, C. Jones, P. Mountford, S. Aldridge, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 4555. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b00710 A Mixed-Valence Tri-Zinc Complex, LZnZnZnL (L = Bulky Amide), Bearing a Linear Chain of Two-Coordinate Zinc Atoms, J. Hicks, E. J. Underhill, C. E. Kefalidis, L. Maron, C. Jones, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 34, 10000. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201504818 Activation of CO by Hydrogenated Magnesium(I) Dimers: Sterically Controlled Formation of Ethenediolate and Cyclopropanetriolate Complexes, R. Lalrempuia, C.E. Kefalidis, S.J. Bonyhady, B. Schwarze, L. Maron, A. Stasch, C. Jones, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 8944. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b06439 A Two-Coordinate Manganese(0) Complex with an Unsupported Mn–Mg Bond: Allowing Access to Low Coordinate Homo- and Heterobimetallic Compounds, J. Hicks, C.E. Hoyer, B. Moubaraki, G.L. Manni, E. Carter, D.M. Murphy, K.S. Murray, L. Gagliardi, C. Jones, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 14, 5283. DOI: 10.1021/ja5021348 Low Coordinate Germanium(II) and Tin(II) Hydride Complexes: Efficient Catalysts for the Hydroboration of Carbonyl Compounds, T.J. Hadlington, M. Hermann, G. Frenking, C. Jones, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 3028. DOI: 10.1021/ja5006477 Oxidative Bond Formation and Reductive Bond Cleavage at Main Group Metal Centers: Reactivity of Five Valence Electron MX2 Radicals, A.V. Protchenko, D. Dange, M.P. Blake, A.D. Schwarz, C. Jones, P. Mountford, S. Aldridge, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 10902. DOI: 10.1021/ja5062467 Stable GaX2, InX2 and TlX2 Radicals, A.V. Protchenko, D. Dange, J. Harmer, C.Y. Tang, A.D. Schwarz, M.J. Kelly, N. Phillips, K.H. Birjkumar, C. Jones, N. Kaltsoyannis, P. Mountford, S. Aldridge, Nature Chem. , 2014, 6, 5283.