Building Precise Molecular Architectures to Unlock Remarkable f-Element Properties

Project Information

F-ELEMENT_ARCHITECT

Grant agreement ID: 816268

DOI

10.3030/816268

Project closed

EC signature date 25 February 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 990 800,93

EU contribution

€ 1 990 800,93

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (39)

Synthesis and characterization of solvated lanthanide(II) bis(triisopropylsilyl)phosphide complexes

Author(s): Jack Baldwin, Adam Brookfield, George Whitehead, Louise Natrajan, Eric McInnes, Meagan Oakley, David Mills
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 63, 2024, ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-3m17t

Mononuclear Dysprosium Alkoxide and Aryloxide Single-Molecule Magnets.

Author(s): Vijay S. Parmar; David P. Mills; Richard E. P. Winpenny
Published in: Chemistry A European Journal, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 1521-3765
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202100085

Heteroleptic Samarium(III) Chalcogenide Complexes: Opportunities for Giant Exchange Coupling in Bridging σ- and π-Radical Lanthanide Dichalcogenides

Author(s): Conrad A. P. Goodwin, Benjamin L. L. Réant, Gianni F. Vettese, Jon G. C. Kragskow, Marcus J. Giansiracusa, Ida M. DiMucci, Kyle M. Lancaster, David P. Mills, Stephen Sproules
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 59/11, 2020, Page(s) 7571-7583, ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00470

Direct characterisation of <i>m</i>_<i>J</i> = ±15/2 ground state in octahedral Dy(<scp>iii</scp>) single-molecule magnets

Author(s): Vijay S. Parmar, Gemma K. Gransbury, Sophie C. Corner, Wei-Hao Chou, Stephen Hill, Richard E. P. Winpenny, Nicholas F. Chilton, David P. Mills
Published in: Dalton Transactions, Issue 54, 2025, Page(s) 7616-7620, ISSN 1477-9226
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5dt00862j

Isolation of a Bent Dysprosium Bis(amide) Single-Molecule Magnet

Author(s): Jack Emerson-King; Gemma K. Gransbury; George F. S. Whitehead; Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal; Mathieu Rouzières; Rodolphe Clérac; Nicholas F. Chilton; David P. Mills
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12427

Soft magnetic hysteresis in a dysprosium amide–alkene complex up to 100 kelvin

Author(s): Jack Emerson-King, Gemma K. Gransbury, Benjamin E. Atkinson, William J. A. Blackmore, George F. S. Whitehead, Nicholas F. Chilton, David P. Mills
Published in: Nature, Issue 643, 2025, Page(s) 125-129, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09138-0

Measurement of the Quantum Tunneling Gap in a Dysprosocenium Single-Molecule Magnet

Author(s): Blackmore, William J. A.; Mattioni, Andrea; Corner, Sophie C.; Evans, Peter; Gransbury, Gemma K.; Mills, David P.; Chilton, Nicholas F.
Published in: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00034

Trigonal Planar Heteroleptic Lanthanide(III) Bis(silyl)amide Complexes Containing Aminoxyl Radicals and Anions

Author(s): Gemma K. Gransbury, Hannah M. Nicholas, Siobhan R. Murphy, Jack Emerson-King, Michele Vonci, Conrad A. P. Goodwin, Richard E. P. Winpenny, Nicholas F. Chilton, Marcus J. Giansiracusa, David P. Mills
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 63, 2024, Page(s) 22422-22434, ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03281

Influence of weakly coordinating anions binding to the hexa-<i>tert</i>-butyl dysprosocenium cation

Author(s): Sophie C. Corner, Gemma K. Gransbury, David P. Mills
Published in: Dalton Transactions, Issue 54, 2024, Page(s) 198-206, ISSN 1477-9226
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4dt02713b

Metal–carbon bonding in early lanthanide substituted cyclopentadienyl complexes probed by pulsed EPR spectroscopy

Author(s): Lydia E. Nodaraki; Jingjing Liu; Ana-Maria Ariciu; Fabrizio Ortu; Meagan S. Oakley; Letitia Birnoschi; Gemma K. Gransbury; Philip J. Cobb; Jack Emerson-King; Nicholas F. Chilton; David P. Mills; Eric J. L. McInnes; Floriana Tuna
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2041-6539
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sc06175b

Practical and Selective sp3 C−H Bond Chlorination via Aminium Radicals

Author(s): A. J. McMillan, M. Sienkowska, P. Di Lorenzo, G. K. Gransbury, N. F. Chilton, M. Salamone, A. Ruffoni, M. Bietti, D. Leonori
Published in: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, Issue 60, 2021, Page(s) 7132-7139, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100030

Rare earth benzene tetraanion-bridged amidinate complexes

Author(s): Peng-Bo Jin, Qian-Cheng Luo, Gemma K. Gransbury, Richard E. P. Winpenny, David P. Mills, Yan-Zhen Zheng
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 1907-1924, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sc05982d

Characterisation of magnetic relaxation on extremely long timescales

Author(s): William J. A. Blackmore; Gemma K. Gransbury; Peter Evans; Jon G. C. Kragskow; David P. Mills; Nicholas F. Chilton
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 7, 2023, ISSN 1463-9084
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3cp01278f

Polarised covalent thorium( iv )– and uranium( iv )–silicon bonds

Author(s): Benjamin L. L. Réant, Victoria E. J. Berryman, John A. Seed, Annabel R. Basford, Alasdair Formanuik, Ashley J. Wooles, Nikolas Kaltsoyannis, Stephen T. Liddle, David P. Mills
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 56/83, 2020, Page(s) 12620-12623, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc06044e

Isolation and electronic structures of derivatized manganocene, ferrocene and cobaltocene anions

Author(s): Conrad A. P. Goodwin, Marcus J. Giansiracusa, Samuel M. Greer, Hannah M. Nicholas, Peter Evans, Michele Vonci, Stephen Hill, Nicholas F. Chilton, David P. Mills
Published in: Nature Chemistry, Issue 13/3, 2021, Page(s) 243-248, ISSN 1755-4330
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-020-00595-w

Electronic structure comparisons of isostructural early d- and f-block metal(<scp>iii</scp>) bis(cyclopentadienyl) silanide complexes

Author(s): Gemma K. Gransbury; Benjamin L. L. Réant; Ashley J. Wooles; Jack Emerson-King; Nicholas F. Chilton; Stephen T. Liddle; David P. Mills
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 9, 2023, ISSN 2041-6539
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2sc04526e

Synthesis and Characterization of Yttrium Methanediide Silanide Complexes

Author(s): Benjamin L. L. Réant; Ashley J. Wooles; Stephen T. Liddle; David P. Mills
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 1521-3765
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03053

Thermally stable Terbium(II) and Dysprosium(II) Bis-Amidinate Single-Molecule Magnets

Author(s): Peng-Bo Jin; Qian-Cheng Luo; Gemma Gransbury; Iñigo Vitorica-Yrezabal; Tomáš Hajdu; Eric McInnes; Richard Winpenny; Nicholas Chilton; David Mills; Yan-Zhen Zheng
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c07978

Controlling Spin Crossover in a Family of Dinuclear Fe(III) Complexes via the Bis(catecholate) Bridging Ligand

Author(s): Jett T. Janetzki; Maxim G. Chegerev; Gemma K. Gransbury; Robert W. Gable; Jack K. Clegg; Roger J. Mulder; Guy N. L. Jameson; Alyona A. Starikova; Colette Boskovic
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 8, 2023, ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02598

Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of Bis-Halobenzene Decamethyldysprosocenium Cations

Author(s): S. C. Corner, G. K. Gransbury, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, G. F. S. Whitehead, N. F. Chilton, D. P. Mills
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, 2024, ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c04106

³¹P NMR Chemical Shift Anisotropy in Paramagnetic Lanthanide Phosphide Complexes

Author(s): Jack Baldwin, Katherine L. Bonham, Toby R. C. Thompson, Gemma K. Gransbury, George F. S. Whitehead, Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, Daniel Lee, Nicholas F. Chilton, David P. Mills
Published in: JACS Au, Issue 5, 2025, Page(s) 1196-1212, ISSN 2691-3704
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.4c01018

Non‐Classical Early Lanthanide(II) Tris(di‐tert‐butylcyclopentadienyl) Complexes**

Author(s): Jingjing Liu; Lydia E. Nodaraki; Daniel O. T. A. Martins; Marcus J. Giansiracusa; Philip J. Cobb; Jack Emerson‐King; Fabrizio Ortu; George F. S. Whitehead; Gemma K. Gransbury; Eric J. L. Mclnnes; Floriana Tuna; David P. Mills
Published in: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 1099-0682
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202300552

Influence of pressure on a dysprosocenium single-molecule magnet

Author(s): Vijay S. Parmar; Andreas M. Thiel; Rizwan Nabi; Gemma K. Gransbury; Marie S. Norre; Peter Evans; Sophie C. Corner; Jonathan M. Skelton; Nicholas F. Chilton; David P. Mills; Jacob Overgaard
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 1521-3765
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc06722f

Synthesis and characterisation of light lanthanide bis-phospholyl borohydride complexes

Author(s): Jingjing Liu, Lydia E. Nodaraki, Philip J. Cobb, Marcus J. Giansiracusa, Fabrizio Ortu, Floriana Tuna, David P. Mills
Published in: Dalton Transactions, Issue 49/19, 2020, Page(s) 6504-6511, ISSN 1477-9226
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0dt01241f

Bis(trimethylsilyl)phosphide chemistry: a half-century of advances across the periodic table

Author(s): Jack Baldwin, David P. Mills
Published in: Chemical Society Reviews, Issue 54, 2025, Page(s) 3819-3847, ISSN 0306-0012
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4cs01141d

Slow magnetic relaxation in distorted tetrahedral Dy(III) aryloxide complexes.

Author(s): Vijay S. Parmar; Gemma K. Gransbury; George F. S. Whitehead; David P. Mills; Richard E. P. Winpenny
Published in: ChemComm, Issue 57, 2021, Page(s) 9208-9211, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc02707g

<i>Tris</i>-Silanide f-Block Complexes: Insights into Paramagnetic Influence on NMR Chemical Shifts

Author(s): Benjamin L. L. Réant, Fraser J. Mackintosh, Gemma K. Gransbury, Carlo Andrea Mattei, Barak Alnami, Benjamin E. Atkinson, Katherine L. Bonham, Jack Baldwin, Ashley J. Wooles, Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, Daniel Lee, Nicholas F. Chilton, Stephen T. Liddle, David P. Mills
Published in: JACS Au, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 2695-2711, ISSN 2691-3704
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.4c00466

Halobenzene Adducts of a Dysprosocenium Single-Molecule Magnet

Author(s): S. C. Corner, G. K. Gransbury, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, G. F. S. Whitehead, N. F. Chilton, D. P. Mills
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, 2024, ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c04105

Isolation and electronic structures of lanthanide(II) bis(trimethylsilyl)phosphide complexes

Author(s): Jack Baldwin, Adam Brookfield, George Whitehead, Louise Natrajan, Eric McInnes, Meagan Oakley, David Mills
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 63, 2024, ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-bl9lf

f-Element heavy pnictogen chemistry

Author(s): J. Du, P. J. Cobb, J. Ding, D. P. Mills, S. T. Liddle
Published in: Chemical Science, 2023, ISSN 2041-6539
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sc05056d

Comparison of group 4 and thorium M(<scp>iv</scp>) substituted cyclopentadienyl silanide complexes

Author(s): Benjamin L. L. Réant; Dukula De Alwis Jayasinghe; Ashley J. Wooles; Stephen T. Liddle; David P. Mills
Published in: Dalton Transactions, Issue 8, 2023, ISSN 1477-9234
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3dt00987d

Tuning Valence Tautomerism in Dinuclear Cobalt Complexes by Modulating Communication in the Bridging Ligand

Author(s): Jett T. Janetzki, Gemma K. Gransbury, Robert W. Gable, Marcus J. Giansiracusa, Alyona A. Starikova, Colette Boskovic
Published in: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 27, 2024, ISSN 1434-1948
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202400227

In-Field and Zero-Field Relaxation Dynamics of Dysprosocenium in Solution

Author(s): William J. A. Blackmore, Sophie C. Corner, Peter Evans, Gemma K. Gransbury, David P. Mills, Nicholas F. Chilton
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Issue 129, 2025, Page(s) 2144-2150, ISSN 1089-5639
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c06678

Metallocene Anions: From Electrochemical Curiosities to Isolable Complexes

Author(s): Corentin Magnoux; David P. Mills
Published in: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 1099-0682
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202101063

f-Block Phospholyl and Arsolyl Chemistry.

Author(s): Mills, David P.; Evans, Peter
Published in: Chemistry A European Journal, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 1521-3765
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202005231

A fluorobenzene-bound dysprosium half-sandwich dication single-molecule magnet

Author(s): Sophie C. Corner, William J. A. Blackmore, Gemma K. Gransbury, Andrea Mattioni, George F. S. Whitehead, Nicholas F. Chilton, David P. Mills
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 610-620, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sc06661h

Synthesis of heteroleptic yttrium and dysprosium 1,2,4-tris(trimethylsilyl)cyclopentadienyl complexes

Author(s): S. C. Corner, C. A. P. Goodwin, F. Ortu, P. Evans, H. Zhang, G. K. Gransbury, G. F. S. Whitehead, D. P. Mills
Published in: Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2022, ISSN 0004-9425
Publisher: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Publishing
DOI: 10.1071/ch21314

f-Element silicon and heavy tetrel chemistry

Author(s): Benjamin L. L. Réant, Stephen T. Liddle, David P. Mills
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 11/40, 2020, Page(s) 10871-10886, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc04655h

AtomAccess: A Predictive Tool for Molecular Design and Its Application to the Targeted Synthesis of Dysprosium Single-Molecule Magnets

Author(s): Gemma K. Gransbury; Sophie C. Corner; Jon G. C. Kragskow; Peter Evans; Hing Man Yeung; William J. A. Blackmore; George F. S. Whitehead; Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal; Meagan S. Oakley; Nicholas F. Chilton; David P. Mills
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 8, 2023, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08841

Other (1)

Magnetic hysteresis up to 73 K in a dysprosium cyclopentadienyl-amide single-molecule magnet

Author(s): Jack Emerson-King, Jack Baldwin, Sophie Corner, William Blackmore, Nicholas Chilton, David Mills
Published in: ChemRxiv, Issue 1, 2025, Page(s) 1, ISSN 2573-2293
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-31n16