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Last updated: Aug 24 2016

 

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2008

88. “Colorimetric ‘naked-eye’ and fluorescent sensors for anions based on amidourea functionalised 1,8-naphthalimide structures: Anion recognition via either deprotonation or hydrogen bonding in DMSO”, Haslin Dato Paduka Ali, Paul E. Kruger and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, New. J. Chem. 2008, 32, In Press.

87. “Selective formation of the rctt chair stereoisomers of octa-O-alkyl resorcin[4]arenes using Brønsted acid catalysis”, Deborah Moore, Graeme W. Watson, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Susan E. Matthews, New. J. Chem. 2008, 32, In Press.

86.“Improved synthesis of a C3-symmetrical pyridinophane” Claire Nolan and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson Tetrahedron Lett., 2008, 49, In Press.

2007

85. "Selective fluorescent PET sensing of fluoride (F-) using naphthalimide-thiourea and -urea conjugates", Rebecca M. Duke and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Tetrahedron Lett., 2007, 48, In Press.

84. "Selective mono N-alkylation of cyclen in one step syntheses" Julien Massue, Sally E. Plush, Celia S. Bonnet, Doireann A. Moore and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Tetrahedron Lett., 2007, 48, In Press.

83. “Highly effective DNA photocleavage by novel ‘rigid’ Ru(bpy)3-4-nitro- and 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide conjugates”,Gary J. Ryan, Susan Quinn and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Inorg. Chem., 2007, 46, Accepted (under revision).

82.  “Self-assembly of chiral luminescent lanthanide coordination bundles”, Joseph P. Leonard, Paul Jensen, Thomas McCabe, John E. O’Brien, Robert D. Peacock, Paul E. Kruger and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson ; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, In Press.

81.  “Colorimetric recognition of anions using preorganized tetra-amidourea derived calix[4]arene sensors”, Eoin Quinlan, Susan E. Matthews, and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, J. Org. Chem., 2007, 72, In Press.

80.  “Lanthanide luminescent anion sensing: evidence of multiple anion recognition through hydrogen bonding and metal ion coordination” Cidália M. G. dos Santos, Pablo Barrio Fernández, Sally E. Plush, Joseph P. Leonard, and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Chem. Commun., 2007, In Press. 

79. “Luminescent sensing of dicarboxylates in water by a bis-macrocyclic di-nuclear Eu(III) conjugate”, Sally E. Plush and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Org. Lett., 2007, 9, 1919-1922.

78.  “Anion mediated self assembly and anion recognition studies of thiourea functionalised fused [3]polynorbornyl frameworks”, Frederick M. Pfeffer, Paul E. Kruger and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2007, 5, 1894-1902.

77. “Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Lanthanides”, Joseph P. Leonard, Claire B. Nolan, Floriana Stomeo and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Top. Curr. Chem., 2007, In Press (Invited Chapter: Eds. V. Balzani and S. Campagna).

76.  “Selective fluorescent sensing of chloride”, Cidalia M. G. dos Santos, Thomas McCabe and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Tetrahedron Lett., 2007, 48, 3135-3139.

75.  “Recent advances in the formation of luminescentlanthanide architectures and self-assemblies from structurally defined ligands”, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Floriana Stomeo, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2007, 5, 1999-2009

74.  “Histological, Spectroscopic and Surface Analysis of Microdamage in Bone: Towards Real-Time Analysis using Fluorescent Sensors" Raman Parkesh, T. Clive Lee and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Chem. Mat. 2007, 19, 1656-1663.

73. “Synthesis, structural and photophysical evaluations of urea based fluorescent PET sensors for anions” Cidália M. G. dos Santos, Mark Glynn, Tomas McCabe,  J. Sérgio Seixas de Melo,  Hugh D. Burrows and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Supramol. Chem., 2007, 19, In Press.

72.  “Highly selective 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide based fluorescent photoinduced electron transfer (PET) chemosensors for Zn(II) under physiological pH conditions” Raman Parkesh, T. Clive Lee and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2007, 5, 310 - 317.

71.  “pH driven self-assembly of a ternary lanthanide luminescence complex: The sensing of anions using a beta-diketonate-Eu(III) displacement assay”Joseph P. Leonard, Cidalia M. G. dos Santos, Sally E. Plush, Thomas McCabe and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Chem. Commun., 2007, 129 - 131. 

 

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2006

70. Sensitized near-infrared (NIR) lanthanide luminescence from Nd(III) and Yb(III) based cyclen-ruthenium coordination conjugates
Katell Sénéchal-David, Simon J. A. Pope, Susan Quinn, Stephen Faulkner and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 10040-10042.

69. Anion sensing using colorimetric amidourea based receptors incorporated into a 1,3-disubstituted calix[4]arene
Eoin Quinlan, Susan E. Matthews and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Tetrahedron Lett., 2006, 47, 9333-9338.

68. A dinuclear lanthanide complex for the recognition of bis-carboxylates: The formation of Tb(III) luminescent self-assembly ternary complexes in aqueous solution
Andrew J. Harte, Paul Jensen, Sally E. Plush, Paul E. Kruger and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 9465-9474.

67. Tuning the properties of cyclen based lanthanide complexes for phosphodiesters hydrolysis; the role of basic cofactor
Ann-Marie Fanning, Sally E. Plush and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Chem. Commun., 2006, 3791-3793.

66. Anion recognition and sensing in organic and aqueous media using luminescent and colorimetric sensors
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Mark Glynn, Gillian M. Tocci (née Hussey), Paul E. Kruger and Frederick M. Pfeffer, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2006, 250, 3094-3117.

65. Soft matter pH sensing: From luminescent lanthanide pH switches in solution to sensing in hydrogels
Colin P. McCoy, Floriana Stomeo, Sally E. Plush and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Chem. Mat., 2006, 18, 4336-4343.

64. Synthesis and evaluation of novel CT (Computer Tomography) contrast agents for bone structure and microdamage analysis
Raman Perkesh, Wolfgang Gowin, T. Clive Lee and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2006, 4, 3611-3617.

63. Synthesis of α-chloroamides in water
Andrew J. Harte and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Tetrahedron Lett., 2006, 47, 6321-6324.

62. Supramolecular self-assembly of mixed f-d metal ion conjugates
Katell Sénéchal-David, Joseph P. Leonard, Sally E. Plush and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Org. Lett., 2006, 8, 2727-2730.

61. Synthesis and characterisation of bis-cyclen based dinuclear lanthanide complexes
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Andrew J. Harte, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2006, 4, 1572-1579.

60. Microdamage in bone: surface analysis and radiological detection
Raman Parkesh, T. Clive Lee, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Wolfgang Gowin, J. Biomech., 2006, 39. 1552-1556.

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2005

59. Colorimetric "Naked Eye" Sensing of Anions in Aqueous Solutions
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Paul E. Kruger, Paul Jensen, Juliann Tierney, Haslin Dato Paduka Ali, and Gillian M. Hussey, J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 10875-10878.
(featured in Chemical and Engineering News article;
Issue dated February 13, 2006)

58. Anion recognition using preorganized thiourea functionalized [3]polynorbornane receptors
Frederick M. Pfeffer, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Paul Jensen and Paul E. Kruger, Org. Lett., 2006, 7, 5357-5360.

57. 4-Amino-1,8-naphthalimide based anion receptors: employing the naphthalimide N-H moiety in the cooperative binding of dihydrogenphosphate
Frederick M. Pfeffer, Alisha M. Buschgens, Neil W. Barnett, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Paul E. Kruger, Tetrahedron Lett., 2005, 46, 6579-6584.

56. Lanthanide luminescent switches: Modulation of the luminescence of bis-macrocyclic based Tb(III) conjugates in water by H+, Na+ and K+
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Joseph P. Leonard, Dalton Trans., 2005, 3204-3212.

55. Fluorescent Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) Sensors for Anions; From Design to Potential Application
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Haslin Dato Paduka Ali, Mark Glynn, Paul E. Kruger, Gillian M. Hussey, Frederick M. Pfeffer Cidália M. G. dos Santos and Juliann Tierney, J. Fluoresc., 2005, 15, 287-299 (Special issue on ‘Anion Sensing’).

54. Luminescent Eu(III) and Tb(III) complexes: Developing lanthanide luminescence devices as sensor and switches
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Joseph P. Leonard, J. Fluoresc., 2005, 15, 585-595 (Special issue on ‘Lanthanide Luminescence’).

53. Responsive lanthanide luminescent cyclen complexes: from switching/sensing to supramolecular architectures
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Joseph P. Leonard, Chem. Commun., 2005, Feature Article, 3114–3131.

52. Cyclen based lanthanide ion ribonuclease mimics: The effect of pyridine pendant arms upon phosphodiester HPNP hydrolysis
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, R. Jeremy H. Davies, Paul E. Kruger, Paul Jensen, Thomas McCabe, Sinead Mulready, Clarke S. Stevenson and Ann-Marie Fanning, Tetrahedron Letters, 2005, 46, 3761-3766.

51. Synthesis and photophysical evaluations of charge neutral thiourea or urea based fluorescent PET sensors for bis–carboxylates and pyrophosphate
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Anthony P. Davis, John E. O’Brien and Mark Glynn, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 48-56.

50. Microdamage in bone: surface analysis and radiological detection
Raman Parkesh, T. Clive Lee, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Wolfgand Gowin, J. Biomech., 2005, In press.

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2004

49. The effect on pKa of metal bound water molecules in lanthanide ion induced cyclen 'cavities'
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Dermot Brougham, Ann-Marie Fanning, Mark Nieuwenhuyzen, John E. O’Brien and Romain Viguier, Organic Lett., 2004, 6, 4805-4808.

48. Towards the development of Eu(III) luminescent switching/sensing in water-permeable hydrogels
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Colin P. McCoy and Floriana Stomeo, Tetrahedron Letters, 2004, 45, 8403-8407.

47. Highly selective fluorescent chemosensors for cadmium in water
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, T. Clive Lee and Raman Parkesh, Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, 11239-11249 (Tetrahedron Symposium-in-Print issue entitled "Synthetic Receptors in Sensing Application", Guest Ed. Professor Eric Anslyn).

46. Design, synthesis and photophysical studies of simple fluorescent anion PET sensors using charge neutral thiourea receptors
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Anthony P. Davis, Gillian M. Hussey, Juliann Tierney and Mark Glynn, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2004, 2, 1856-1863.

45. Highly selective colorimetric naked-eye Cu(II) detection using an azobenzene chemosensor
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Joseph P. Leonard and Niamh S. Murrey, Organic Lett., 2004, 6, 1557-1560.

44. Fluorescent PET chemosensors for lithium
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Bastien Bichell and Claire Nolan, Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, 5799-5806.

43. Eu(III)-cyclen-phen conjugate as a luminescent copper sensor: the formation of mixed polymetallic macrocyclic complexes in water
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Andrew J. Harte, Joseph P. Leonard and Katell Senechal, Chem. Commun., 2004, 782-783.

42. Three step vs. one pot synthesis and X-ray crystallographic investigation of heptadentate triamide cyclen (1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane) based ligands and some of their lanthanide ion complexes
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Joseph P. Leonard, Sinead Mulready and Mark Nieuwenhuyzen, Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, 105-113.

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2003

41. Simple naphthalimide based anion sensors: Deprotonation induced colour changes and CO2 fixation
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Paul E. Kruger, Paul Jensen, Frederick M. Pfeffer and Gillian M. Hussey, Tetrahedron Letters, 2003, 44, 8909-8913.

40. Highly selective and sensitive fluorescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) chemosensor for Zn(II)
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Clive T. Lee and Raman Parkesh, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2003, 1, 3265-3267.

39. Synthesis and characterisation of novel 3'-O- and 5'-O- modified azobenzene-thymidine phosphoramidites and their oligonucleotide conjugates as colorimeter DNA probes and FRET quenchers
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, John M. Kelly, Mark Nieuwenhuyzen and Aoife M. K. O'Brien, Tetrahedron Letters, 2003, 44, 8571-8575.

38. Cd(II) sensing in water using novel aromatic iminodiacetate based fluorescent chemosensors
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Clive. T. Lee and Raman Parkesh, Organic. Lett., 2003, 5, 4065-4068.

37. H+, Na+ and K+ modulated lanthanide luminescent switching of Tb(III) based cyclen aromatic diaza-crown ether conjugates in water
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Joseph P. Leonard, Chem. Commun., 2003, 2424-2425.

36. Detecting microdamage in bone
Clive. T. Lee, S. Mohsin, David Taylor, Raman Parkesh, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Fergal J. O'Brien, M. Giehl and W. Gowin, J. Anat., 2003, 161-172.

35. pH Responsive Eu(III)-phenanthroline supramolecular conjugate: Novel 'Off-On-Off' luminescent signalling in the physiological pH range
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Andrew J. Harte, Joseph P. Leonard and Katell Senechal, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 12062-12603.

34. Synthesis, X-ray crystallographic, spectroscopic investigation and cleavage studies of HPMP by simple bispyridyl iron, copper, cobalt, nickel and zinc complexes as artificial nucleases
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Mark Nieuwenhuyzen and Claire Nolan, Polyhedron, 2003, 22, 3231-3242.

33. Dual responsive chemosensors for anions: the combination of fluorescent PET (Photoinduced Electron Transfer) and colorimetric chemosensors in a single molecule
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Paul E. Kruger, T. Clive Lee, Raman Parkesh, Frederick M. Pfeffer and Gillian M. Hussey, Tetrahedron Letters, 2003, 44, 6575-6578.

32. Towards the development of controllable and reversible 'on-off' luminescence switching in soft-matter; synthesis and spectroscopic investigation of 1,8-naphthalimide-based PET (photoinduced electron transfer) chemosensors for pH in water-permeable hydrogels
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Colin P. McCoy, Ryan J. Morrow, Caroline Phelan and Floriana Stomeo, Arkivoc, 2003, Part 8, 216-228
(Special issue in honour of Professor Tony McKervey)

31. Synthesis, structural and biological evaluation of GlyAla based lanthanide macrocyclic conjugates as supramolecular ribonuclease mimics
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, R. Jeremy H. Davies, Mark Nieuwenhuyzen, John E. O'Brien, Clarke S. Stevenson and Sinead Mulready, Polyhedron, 2003, 22, 711-724 (Special Issue on Supramolecular Chemistry, Edited by Professor Edwin Constable).

30. The formation of luminescent supramolecular ternary complexes in water: Delayed luminescence sensing of aromatic carboxylates using coordinated unsaturated cationic heptadentate lanthanide ion complexes
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Andrew J. Harte, Joseph P. Leonard and Mark Nieuwenhuyzen, Supramol. Chem., 2003, 15, 505-519 (Special Issue on 'Young' Supramolecular Chemists, Edited by Dr. Mike Hannon).

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2002

29. Glycine-alanine conjugated macrocyclic lanthanide ion complexes as artificial ribonucleases
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, John E. O'Brien and Sinead Mulready, Tetrahedron Letters, 2002, 43, 8493-8497.

28. Synthesis and evaluation of colorimetric chemosensors for monitoring sodium and potassium in the intracellular concentration range
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Joseph P. Leonard, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 2002, 1980-1985.

27. Delayed lanthanide luminescence sensing of aromatic carboxylates using heptadentate tri-amide Tb(III) cyclen complexes: the recognition of salicylic acid in water
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Andrew J. Harte, Joseph P. Leonard and Mark Nieuwenhuyzen, Chem. Commun., 2002, 2134-2135.

26. Rapid hydrolytic cleavage of the mRNA model compound HPNP by glycine based macrocyclic lanthanide ribonuclease mimics
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, R. Jeremy H. Davies, Mark Nieuwenhuyzen, Clarke S. Stevenson, Romain Viguier and Sinead Mulready, Chem. Commun., 2002, 2136-2137.

25. Syntheses of novel functionalised macrocyclic compounds as Na+ and K+ receptors: a mild and high yielding nitration in water of mono and bis 2-methoxyaniline functionalised crown ethers
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, H. Q. Nimal Gunaratne, Mark. Nieuwenhuyzen and Joseph P. Leonard, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 2002, 1954-1962.

24. Fluorescent sensing of pyrophosphate and bis-carboxylates using charge neutral PET chemosensors
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Anthony P. Davis, John E. O'Brien and Mark Glynn, Org. Lett., 2002, 2449-2452.

23. A novel fluorescent photoinduced electron transfer (PET) sensor for lithium
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Bastien Bichell and Claire Nolan, Tetrahedron Letters, 2002, 43, 4989-4992.

22. Novel Sodium Selective Fluorescent-PET and Optically Based Chemosensors: Towards Na+ Determination in Blood
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Mark Nieuwenhuyzen, Ludovic Richard and Vera Thoss, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 2002, 142-151.

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2001

21. Lanthanide macrocyclic quinolyl conjugates as luminescent molecular-level devices
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Dónaill A. Mac Dónaill and David Parker, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 12866-12876.

20. Fluorescent photoinduced electron transfer (PET) sensing of anions using charge neutral chemosensors
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Anthony P. Davis and Mark Glynn, Chem. Commun., 2001, 2556.

19. A novel Eu(III) based luminescent chemosensor: determining pH in a highly acidic environment
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Tetrahedron Letters, 2001, 42, 8901.

18. A novel optically based chemosensor for the detection of blood Na+
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Mark Nieuwenhuyzen, Ludovic Richard and Vera Thoss, Tetrahedron Letters, 2001, 42, 4725.

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2000

17. Luminescent Molecular Logic Gates: The Two-Input Inhibit (INH) Function
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Dónaill A. Mac Dónaill and David Parker, Chem. Commun., 2000, 93.

16. Selective Signalling of zinc ions by modulation of terbium luminescence
Ofer Reany, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and David Parker, Chem. Commun., 2000, 473.

15. A model system exhibiting modulation of lanthanide luminescence to signal Zn2+ ions in competitive media
Ofer Reany, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and David Parker, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 2000, 1817.

14. The selectivity of reversible oxy-anion binding in aqueous solution at a chiral europium and terbium center: Signalling of carbonate chelation by changes in the form and circular polarization of luminescence emission
James I. Bruce, Rachel S. Dickins, Linda J. Govenlock, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Stefan Lopinski , Mark P. Lowe, David Parker, Robert D. Peacock, Justin J. B. Perry, Silvio Aime and Mauro Botta, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 9674.

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