1983 The University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences, Teaching Excellence Award in Chemistry 1983 Meldola Medal and Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry in concurrence with the Society of Maccabaeans (Best British Chemist under the age of 30) 1985-87 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

We are interested in fundamental questions of synthesis, structure, and bonding in organometallic and coordination chemistry. We have ongoing projects in both d-block and f-block chemistry which are focused on understanding the properties of novel compounds at the molecular level. A particular interest is in the development of compounds which can serve as functional materials or as precursors to materials--a molecules-to-materials approach.

Feng, W.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, Z.; Su, P.; Lu, X.; Song, J.; Fan, D.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A.; Su, C. Near-infrared (NIR) luminescent metallopolymers based on Ln4(Salen)4 nanoclusters (Ln = Nd or Yb) J. Mater. Chem. C 2014, 2, 1489-1499. DOI: 10.1039/C3TC31814A

Murugesan, S.; Quintero, O. A.; Chou, B. P.; Xiao, P.; Park, K.; Hall, J. W.; Jones, R. A.; Henkelman, G.; Goodenough, J. B.; Stevenson, K. J. Wide electrochemical window ionic salt for use in electropositive metal electrodeposition and solid state Li-ion batteries J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2, 2194-2201. DOI: 10.1039/C3TA15010K

Yang, X.; Jones, R. A.; Huang, S. Luminescent 4f and d-4f polynuclear complexes and coordination polymers with flexible salen-type ligands Coord. Chem. Rev. 2013, In press. DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2013.11.012

Wang, Z.; Feng, W.; Su, P.; Liu, H.; Zhang, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Miao, T.; Lu, X.; Fang, D.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Hetero-trinuclear near-infrared (NIR) luminescent ZnLn2 (Ln = Nd, Yb or Er) complexes based on monomer ZnL Schiff-base precursor and o-vanillin Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2013, 36, 11-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2013.07.004

Liu, H.; Zhang, Y.; Feng, W-X.; Su, P-Y.; Shi, G-X.; Zhang, Z.; Fan, D-D.; Lu, R.; Lu, X-Q.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Photo-luminescent hetero-tetranuclear Zn2Ln2 (Ln = Nd, Yb, Er, Gd, Eu or Tb) complexes self-assembled from the benzimidazole-based HL and bpe Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2013, 35, 213-216. DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2013.06.031

Yang, X.; Oye, M. M.; Jones, R. A.; Huang, S. Anion dependent self-assembly of a linear hexanuclear Yb(III) salen complex with enhanced near-infrared (NIR) luminescence properties Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 9579-9581. DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45651J

Zhang, Z.; Feng, W.; Su, P.; Liu, H.; Zhang, Y.; Wang, Z.; Miao, T.; Lu, X.; Fan, D.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Near-infrared (NIR) luminescent hetero-tetranuclear Zn2Ln2 (Ln = Nd, Yb or Er) complexes self-assembled from the benzimidazole-based HL and two rigid 4,4'-bipyridine ligands with different spacers Spectrochim. Acta, Part A 2013, 116, 102-110. DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2013.06.122

Rivers, J. H.; Jones, R. A. Synthesis and structures of Co bis-trifluoromethylpyrazolate complexes Dalton Trans. 2013, 42, 12898-12907. DOI: 10.1039/C3DT50758K

Yang, X.; Schipper, D.; Jones, R. A.; Lytwak, L. A.; Holliday, B. J.; Huang, S. Anion-Dependent Self-Assembly of Near-Infrared Luminescent 24- and 32-Metal Cd–Ln Complexes with Drum-like Architectures J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 8468-8471. DOI: 10.1021/ja4031243

Chen, S-C.; Zhang, Z-H.; Chen, Q.; Wang, L-Q.; Xu, J.; He, M-Y.; Du, M.; Yang, X-P.; Jones, R. A. An efficient strategy to achieve hydrophilic polymeric silver(I) materials with exceptional antibacterial activity Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 1270-1272. DOI: 10.1039/C2CC36538C

Zhang, J.; Zhong, C.; Zhu, X.; Tam, H-L.; Li, K-F.; Cheah, K-W.; Wong, W-Y.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Polyhedron 2013, 49, 121-128. DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2012.09.050

Yang, X.; Schipper, D.; Liao, A.; Stanley, J. M.; Jones, R. A.; Holliday, B. J. Anion dependent self-assembly of luminescent Zn–Ln (Eu and Tb) salen complexes Polyhedron 2013, 52, 165-169. DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2012.10.014

McCarty, W. J.; Yang, X.; DePue, L. J.; Jones, R. A. Chemical vapour deposition of amorphous Ru(P) thin films from Ru trialkylphosphite hydride complexes Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 13496-13503. DOI: 10.1039/C2DT31541F

Zou, D.; Feng, W.; Shi, G.; Lu, X.; Zhang, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, H.; Fan, D.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Hetero-binuclear near-infrared (NIR) luminescent Zn–Nd complexes self-assembled from the benzimidazole-based ligands Spectrochim. Acta, Part A 2012, 98, 359-366. DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2012.08.048

Feng, W.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, Z.; Lu, X.; Liu, H.; Shi, G.; Zou, D.; Song, J.; Fan, D.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Anion-Induced Self-Assembly of Luminescent and Magnetic Homoleptic Cyclic Tetranuclear Ln4(Salen)4 and Ln4(Salen)2 Complexes (Ln = Nd, Yb, Er, or Gd) Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 11377-11386. DOI: 10.1021/ic300918c

Zhang, Y.; Feng, W.; Liu, H.; Zhang, Z.; Lu, X.; Song, J.; Fan, D.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Photo-luminescent hetero-trinuclear Zn2Ln (Ln = Nd, Yb, Er or Gd) complexes based on the binuclear Zn2L precursor Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2012, 24, 148-152. DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2012.08.011

Yang, X.; Chan, C.; Lam, D.; Schipper, D.; Stanley, J. M.; Chen, X.; Jones, R. A.; Holliday, B. J.; Wong, W-K.; Chen, S.; Chen, Q. Anion-dependent construction of two hexanuclear 3d–4f complexes with a flexible Schiff base ligand Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 11449-11453. DOI: 10.1039/C2DT31268A

Shi, G-X.; Feng, W-X.; Zou, D.; Lu, X-Q.; Zhang, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Fan, D-D.; Zhao, S-S.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Hetero-binuclear near-infrared (NIR) luminescent ZnLn (Ln = Nd, Yb or Er) complexes self-assembled from the benzimidazole-based ligand Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2012, 22, 126-130. DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2012.05.041

Feng, W-X.; Hui, Y-N.; Shi, G-X.; Zou, D.; Lu, Q-X.; Song, J-R.; Fan, D-D.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Synthesis, structure and near-infrared (NIR) luminescence of series of Zn2Ln (Ln = Nd, Yb or Er) complexes based on the Salen-type Schiff-base ligand with the flexible linker Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2012, 20, 33-36. DOI: 10.1039/C2CE06566E

Feng, W.; Zhang, Y.; Lu, X.; Hui, Y.; Shi, G.; Zou, D.; Song, J.; Fan, D.; Wong, W-K.; Jones, R. A. Near-infrared (NIR) luminescent homoleptic lanthanide Salen complexes Ln4(Salen)4 (Ln = Nd, Yb or Er) CrystEngComm 2012, 14, 3456-3463. DOI: 10.1039/C2CE06566E