Dr Matthew Polson
Position
Compliance and Instrument Technician
Qualifications
BSc(Hons)(Otago), PhD(Otago)
Contact Details
Email: matthew.polson@canterbury.ac.nz
Room
740
Research Topic
Synthesis and photophysics of ruthenium polypyridyl complexes
Crystallography
Publications
Garrett, D.J., Jenkins, P., Polson, M.I.J., Leech D., Baronian, K.H.R., Downard, A.J., Diazonium salt derivatives of osmium bipyridine complexes: electrochemical grafting and characterisation of modified surfaces. Electrochim. Acta., 2011, 56, 2213-2220. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2010.11.070.
A. Mobinikhaledi, P.J. Steel and M. Polson. Rapid and Efficient Synthesis of Schiff Bases Catalysed by Copper Nitrate. Synth. React. Inorg. Met.-Org Nano-Met. Chem., 2009, 39(4), 189-192.
Lind, S.J., Walsh, T.J., Blackman, A.G., Polson, M.I.J., Irwin, G.I.S. and Gordon, K.C. Trinuclear Copper(I) Complex Containing 3,4,9,10,15,16-Hexamethyl-1,6,7,12,13,18-hexaazatrinaphthylene: A Structural, Spectroscopic and Computational Study. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2009, 113(15), 3566-3575.
Matthew I. J. Polson. and Garry S. Hanan. Bis(2-phenyl-4,6-di-2-pyridyl-1,3,5-triazine--κ3N4,N5,N6 )ruthenium(II) bis(hexafluoridophosphate). Acta Crystallographica Section E, Structure Reports Online, 2008, 64, m254–m255.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Franco Scandola. and Peter J. Steel. 4-[4-(Methylsulfanyl)phenyl]-6-phenyl-2,2'-bipyridine. Acta Crystallographica Section E, Structure Reports Online, 2008, 64, o279.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Garry S. Hanan. and Nicholas J. Taylor. [4'-(2-Bromo-5-pyridyl)-2,2':6',2''-terpyridine-κ3N,N',N'']bis(triphenylphosphine-κP)copper(I)tetrafluoridoborate dichloromethane hemisolvate. Acta Crystallographica Section E, Structure Reports Online, 2008, 64, m205.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Peter J. Steel. 3,3'-Dibromo-5,5'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-dimethoxybiphenyl. Acta Crystallographica Section E, Structure Reports Online, 2008, E64, o530.
Matthew I. J. Polson. (h6-Benzene)(2,2'-bipyridine-κ2N,N)chloridoruthenium(II) chloride methanol sesquisolvate. Acta Crystallographica Section E, Structure Reports Online, 2008, 64, m256.
Marcella Ravaglia, Marco Garavelli. and Matthew Polson, Franco Scandola. (2007) Iridium complexes with terdentate ligands: cyclometalated vs. polypyridine analogues; hybrid vs. "pure" DFT. AIP Conference Proceedings, 2007, 963, 659-662.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Sandro Fracasso, Claudio Chiorboli, Franco Scandola. Site-specific electronic couplings in dyads with MLCT excited states. Intramolecular energy transfer in isomeric Ru(II)-Ru(II) cyclometalated complexes. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2007 , 6 , 438-443.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Allan G. Blackman, Keith C. Gordon. Binuclear ruthenium and osmium mixed-valence complexes containing fused and flexible polypyridyl bridging ligands. Polyhedron , 2007 , 26 , 266–274.
Matthew I. J. Polson. Water oxidation by ruthenium dimers. Chemistry in New Zealand , 2006 , 70(3) , 82-84.
Jianhua Wang, Yuan-Qing Fang, Laurence Bourget-Merle, Matthew I. J. Polson, Garry S. Hanan, Alberto Juris, Frédérique Loiseau, Sebastiano Campagna. The multi-chromophore approach: prolonged room temperature luminescence lifetimes in Ru(II) complexes based on tridentate polypyridine ligands. Chem. Eur. J., 2006 , 12 , 8539 – 8548.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Peter J. Steel. N,N,N'-Triacetyl-2,6-diamino-4- tert -butylanisole. Acta Cryst. E ., 2006 , 62(4) , o1300-o1301.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Garry S. Hanan, Frédérique Loiseau, Rosalba Passalacqua, Sebastiano Campagna. Bridging ligand planarity as a route to long-lived, near infrared emitting dinuclear ruthenium (II) complexes. Chem. Commun., 2006 , 1301-1303.
Elena Ioacchim, Elaine A. Medlycott, Matthew I. J. Polson, Garry S. Hanan. Synthesis of a novel series of 6,6'-disubstituted-4,4'-bipyrimidines by radical anion coupling: new p-accepting ligands for coordination chemistry. Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2005 , 3775-3780.
Matthew Polson, Marcella Ravaglia, Sandro Fracasso, Marco Garavelli, Franco Scandola. Iridium cyclometalated complexes with axial symmetry. Synthesis, photophysical properties, and time-dependent density functional theory investigation of a series of trans -bis-cyclometalated complexes containing the terdentate ligand 2,6-diphenyl-pyridine. Inorg. Chem., 2005 , 44, 1282-1289.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Elaine A. Medlycott, Garry S. Hanan, Larisa Mikelsons, Nick J. Taylor, Masashi Watanabe, Yasutaka Tanaka, Frédérique Loiseau, Rosalba Passalacqua, Sebastiano Campagna. Ruthenium complexes of synthetically accessible tridentate ligands based on the 2-aryl-4,6-di(2-pyridyl)- s -triazine motif: Absorption spectra, luminescence properties and redox behavior. Chem. Eur. J., 2004 , 10(15) , 3640-3648.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Garry S. Hanan, Nicholas J. Taylor, Bernold Hasenknopf, René Thouvenot. The first solid state structure of a triruthenium polypyridyl complex. Chem. Commun., 2004 , 1314-1315.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Sarah L. Howell, Amar H. Flood, Anthony K. Burrell, Allan G. Blackman, Keith C. Gordon. The synthesis and spectroelectrochemistry of the osmium and rhenium complexes of a new series of mononuclear bridging ligand complexes. Polyhedron , 2004 , 23 , 1427-1439.
Sarah L. Howell, Benjamin J. Matthewson, Matthew I. J. Polson, Anthony K. Burrell, Keith C. Gordon. Structural changes upon reduction of dipyrido[2,3-a:3',2'-c]phenazine probed by vibrational spectroscopy, ab initio calculations, and deuteration studies. Inorg. Chem., 2004 , 43 , 2876-2887.
Matthew Polson, Sandro Fracasso, Valerio Bertolasi, Marcella Ravaglia, Franco Scandola. Iridium cyclometalated complexes with axial symmetry. Synthesis and photophysical properties of a trans -cyclometalated complex containing the terdentate ligand 2,6-diphenyl-pyridine. Inorg. Chem. , 2004 , 43(6), 1950-1956 .
Yuan-Qing Fang, Matthew I. J. Polson, Garry S. Hanan. Creating new binding sites in ligands and metal complexes using the Negishi cross-coupling reaction. Inorg. Chem., 2003 , 42 , 5-7.
Matthew I. J. Polson, John A. Lotoski, K. Olof Johansson, Nicholas J. Taylor, Garry S. Hanan, Bernold Hasenknopf, René Thouvenot, Frédérique Loiseau, Rosalba Passalaqua, Sebastiano Campagna. Symmetric and asymmetric coupling of pyridylpyrimidine for the synthesis of polynucleating ligands. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2002, 2549-2552.
Matthew I. J. Polson, Nicholas J. Taylor, Garry S. Hanan. Facile syntheses of tridentate ligands for room temperature luminescence in ruthenium complexes. Chem. Commun. , 2002 , 1536-1537.
Keith C. Gordon, Anthony K Burrell, Timothy J. Simpson, Simon E. Page, Geoffrey Kelso, Matthew I. J. Polson, Amar H. Flood. Probing the nature of the redox products and lowest excited-state of [(bpy) 2 Ru( m -bptz)Ru(bpy) 2 ] 4+ : A resonance Raman study. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2002, 554-563.
Benjamin J. Matthewson, Amar H. Flood, Matthew I. J. Polson, Christopher Armstrong, David L. Phillips, Keith C. Gordon. Vibrational spectra of dipyrido[3,2-a:2',3'-c]phenazine and its radical anion analyzed by ab initio calculations and deuteration studies. Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2002 , 75 , 933-942.
Amar Flood, Reuben B. Girling, Keith C. Gordon, Ronald E. Hester, John N. Moore, Matthew I. J. Polson. Revealing the chromophoric composition of multichromophoric polypyridyl complexes of Re(I) and Os(II): A resonance Raman study. J. Raman Spectrosc., 2002 , 33 , 434-442.
Frédérique Loiseau, Rosalba Passalaqua, Sebastiano Campagna, Matthew I. J. Polson, Yuan-Qing Fang, Garry S. Hanan. New dinuclear Ru(II) complexes containing free chelating polypyridine sites within the bridging ligands: absorption spectra, luminescence properties, redox behavior and sensoring properties. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2002 , 1 , 982-990.
Justin R. Sherborne, Simon E. Page, Amar H. Flood, Matthew I. J. Polson, Keith C. Gordon. Resonance Raman spectroelectrochemistry, using a Raman OTTLE cell, of molybdenum tetracarbonyl complexes with polypyridine ligands. Asian Journal of Spectroscopy 2002 , 6(4) , 169-177.