Dr Hazel Sparkes
PhD(Bath), MCHEM(Bath)
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Current positions
Research Fellow in X-Ray Crystallography
School of Chemistry
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Research interests
My role involves running the single crystal and powder X-ray crystallography service for the department.
My research interests are focussed primarily on examining processes that can be induced in the solid state for example the photo [2+2] cycloaddition reactions of alkenes, thermo and photo chromism in anils as well as spin crossover. This research aims to gain a greater understanding of structure-property relationships. Alongside this research I also carry out single crystal X-ray charge density refinement to study bonding and intermolecular interactions in both small organic molecules and organometallic complexes and conduct synchrotron or neutron diffraction experiments to support this research.
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
14/05/2024Backbone-functionalised ruthenium diphosphine complexes for catalytic upgrading of ethanol and methanol to iso-butanol
Dalton Transactions
Synthesis, structural and computational study, DNA binding and cytotoxic activity of Cu(II) complexes of 6- and 7-chloro-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3- carbaldehyde-2-furoyl-hydrazones
Inorganica Chimica Acta
Diphosphine Bioconjugates via Pt(0)-Catalyzed Hydrophosphination. A Versatile Chelator Platform for Technetium-99m and Rhenium-188 Radiolabeling of Biomolecules
Inorganic Chemistry
A metal complex based fluorescent chemodosimeter for selective detection of 2,4-dinitrophenol and picric acid in aqueous media
Dalton Transactions
Supramolecular interactions between ethylene-bridged oligoureas
Chemical Science