Staff Profile
Dr Paul Waddell
Crystallography Officer
- Email: paul.waddell@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 7049
- Address: Dr Paul G. Waddell
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Paul Waddell took the position of Crystallography Officer here in Newcastle in 2014. He is in charge of the day-to-day running of the Newcastle Chemical Crystallography Service
Before moving to Newcastle, Paul worked as a Research Associate with Dr Jacqui Cole at the University of Cambridge. His work involved using X-ray diffraction and other spectroscopic techniques to elucidate structure-function relationships in various optoelectronic materials with particular emphasis on intermolecular interactions and their effect on physical properties and supramolecular environments.
Paul completed both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees at the University of St Andrews under the supervision of Profs Alex Slawin and Derek Woollins. His Ph.D research focused on the synthesis and characterisation of chalcogen-nitrogen-metal ring complexes with coordinated phosphorus ligands and related compounds with an emphasis on using single-crystal X-ray crystallography to study the relationship between the 31P NMR and X-ray data of these complexes.
Area of Expertise
Crystallography
- Izod K, Evans P, Waddell PG. A diarsagermylene and a diarsastannylene stabilised by arene⋯Ge/Sn interactions. Chemical Communications 2018, 54(20), 2526-2529.
- Izod K, Evans P, Waddell PG. A Fully Phosphane-Substituted Disilene. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 2017, 56(20), 5593-5597.
- Izod K, Jones CF, Wildman EP, Harrington RW, Waddell PG. A Suite of Sterically-Demanding Hybrid Alkyl/Cyclopentadienyl Ligands. Organometallics 2017, 36(21), 4238-4245.
- Izod K, Watson JM, El-Hamruni SM, Harrington RW, Waddell PG. Alkali-metal- and alkaline-earth-metal-mediated C-O activation of an anisole-substituted phosphido-borane ligand. Organometallics 2017, 36(11), 2218-2227.
- Clarke R, Ho KL, Alsimaree AA, Waddell PG, Bogaerts J, Herrebout W, Knight J, Pal R, Penfold T, Hall MJ. Circularly Polarised Luminescence from Helically Chiral 'Confused' N,N,O,C-Boron-Chelated Dipyrromethenes (BODIPYs). ChemPhotoChem 2017, 1(11), 513-517.
- Fleming JT, Waddell PG, Probert MR, Clegg W, Higham LJ. Coinage Metal Complexes of Phosphonite Analogues of 2-Diphenylphosphino-1,1′-binaphthyl (H-MOP) and 2-Diphenylphosphino-2′-methoxy-1,1′-binaphthyl (MeO-MOP). European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2017, 2017(21), 2837-2844.
- Izod K, Evans P, Waddell PG. Desolvation and Aggregation of Sterically Demanding Alkali Metal Diarylphosphides. Dalton Transactions 2017, 46(40), 13824-13834.
- Melnic S, Shova S, Benniston AC, Waddell P. Evolution of Manganese-Calcium Cluster Structures based on Nitrogen and Oxygen Donor Ligands. CrystEngComm 2017, 19, 3674-3681.
- Sirbu D, Butcher JB, Waddell PG, Andras P, Benniston AC. Locally Excited State – Charge Transfer State Coupled Dyes as Optically Responsive Neuron Firing Probes. Chemistry - A European Journal 2017, 23(58), 14639-14649.
- Johnson NT, Waddell PG, Clegg W, Probert MR. Remote access revolution: chemical crystallographers enter a new era at Diamond Light Source beamline I19. Crystals 2017, 7(12), 360.
- Lamming G, Kolokotroni J, Harrison T, Penfold TJ, Clegg W, Waddell PG, Probert MR, Houlton A. Structural Diversity and Argentophilic Interactions in 1-D Silver-based Coordination Polymers. Crystal Growth and Design 2017, 17(11), 5753-5763.
- Tyler A, Mosaei H, Morton S, Waddell PG, Wills C, McFarlane W, Gray J, Goodfellow M, Errington J, Allenby N, Zenkin N, Hall MJ. Structural Reassignment and Absolute Stereochemistry of Madurastatin C1 (MBJ-0034) and the Related Aziridine Siderophores: Madurastatins A1, B1 and MBJ-0035. Journal of Natural Products 2017, 80(5), 1558–1562.
- Alnoman RB, Stachelek P, Knight JG, Harriman A, Waddell PG. Synthesis of 2-aminoBODIPYs by palladium catalysed amination. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2017, 15(36), 7643-7653.
- Fleming JT, Wills C, Waddell PG, Harrington RW, Higham LJ. A comparison of MOP-phosphonite ligands and their applications in Rh(I)- and Pd(II)-catalysed asymmetric transformations. Dalton Transactions 2016, 45(39), 15660-15670.
- Davies LH, Wallis JF, Harrington RW, Waddell PG, Higham LJ. Air-stable fluorescent primary phosphine complexes of molybdenum and tungsten. Journal of Coordination Chemistry 2016, 69(11-13), 2069-2080.
- Alnoman RB, Rihn S, OConnor DC, Black FA, Costello B, Waddell PG, Clegg W, Peacock RD, Herrebout W, Knight JG, Hall MJ. Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Helically Chiral N,N,O,O-Boron Chelated Dipyrromethenes. Chemistry - A European Journal 2016, 22(1), 93-96.
- Zaytsev AV, Pickles JE, Harnor SJ, Henderson AP, Alyasiri M, Waddell PG, Cano C, Griffin RJ, Golding BT. Concise syntheses of bridged morpholines. RSC Advances 2016, 6(59), 53955-53957.
- Walsh JPS, Bowling G, Ariciu A-M, Jailani NFM, Chilton NF, Waddell PG, Collison D, Tuna F, Higham LJ. Evidence of Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Co(AcO)2(py)2(H2O)2. Magnetochemistry 2016, 2(2), 23.
- Al-Aqar R, Atahan A, Benniston AC, Perks T, Waddell PG, Harriman A. Exciton Migration and Surface Trapping for a Photonic Crystal Displaying Charge-Recombination Fluorescence. Chemistry: A European Journal 2016, 22(43), 15420-15429.
- Pepe G, Cole JM, Waddell PG, McKechnie S. Molecular engineering of cyanine dyes to design a panchromatic response in co-sensitized dye-sensitized solar cells. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering 2016, (1), 86-98.
- Izod K, Evans P, Waddell PG, Probert MR. Remote Substituent Effects on the Structures and Stabilities of P=E π-Stabilized Diphosphatetrylenes (R2P)2E (E = Ge, Sn). Inorganic Chemistry 2016, 55(20), 10510-10522.
- Nigam S, Burke BP, Davies LH, Domarkas J, Wallis JF, Waddell PG, Waby JS, Benoit DM, Seymour AM, Cawthorne C, Higham LJ, Archibald SJ. Structurally optimised BODIPY derivatives for imaging of mitochondrial dysfunction in cancer and heart cells. Chemical Communications 2016, 52(44), 7114-7117.
- Abualnaja M, Waddell PG, Clegg W, Hall MJ. Synthesis of pentacyclic pyrrolo[3,4-a]carbazole-1,3(2H)-diones via an intermolecular Diels-Alder, intramolecular carbonyl-ene reaction strategy. Tetrahedron 2016, 72(38), 5798-5806.
- Fleming JT, Ficks A, Waddell PG, Harrington RW, Higham LJ. The design of second generation MOP-phosphonites: efficient chiral hydrosilylation of functionalised styrenes. Dalton Transactions 2016, 45(5), 1886-1890.
- Lamming G, El-Zubir O, Kolokotroni J, McGurk C, Waddell PG, Probert MR, Houlton A. Two-Dimensional Frameworks Based on Ag(I)-N Bond Formation: Single Crystal to Single Molecular Sheet Transformation. Inorganic Chemistry 2016, 55(19), 9644-9652.
- Al-Rammahi TMM, Waddell PG, Henderson RA. X-ray crystal structures of [NHR3]2[Fe4S4X4] (X = PhS, R = Et or n Bu; X = Cl, R = n Bu): implications for sites of protonation in Fe-S clusters. Transition Metal Chemistry 2016, 41(5), 555-561.
- Cowell J, Abualnaja M, Morton S, Linder R, Buckingham F, Waddell PG, Probert MR, Hall MJ. Diastereoselective synthesis of functionalised carbazoles via a sequential Diels-Alder/ene reaction strategy. RSC Advances 2015, 5(21), 16125-16152.
- Izod K, Waddell PG. Dibenzylstrontium and -barium: Simple Molecules with Complex Structures. Organometallics 2015, 34(12), 2726-2730.
- Essa AH, Lerrick RI, Çiftçi E, Harrington RW, Waddell PG, Clegg W, Hall MJ. Grignard-mediated reduction of 2,2,2-trichloro-1-arylethanones. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2015, 13(20), 5793-5803.
- Alwaaly A, Clegg W, Henderson RA, Probert MR, Waddell PG. Mechanisms and rates of proton transfer to coordinated carboxydithioates: studies on [Ni(S2CR){PhP(CH2CH2PPh2)2}]+ (R = Me, Et, Bun or Ph). Dalton Transactions 2015, 44(7), 3307-3317.
- Waddell PG, Liu X, Zhao T, Cole JM. Rationalizing the photophysical properties of BODIPY laser dyes via aromaticity and electron-donor-based structural perturbations. Dyes and Pigments 2015, 116, 74-81.
- Izod K, Wills C, El-Hamruni S, Harrington RW, Waddell PG, Probert MR. Structural Diversity in Alkaline Earth Metal Complexes of a Phosphine-Borane-Stabilized 1,3-Dicarbanion. Organometallics 2015, 34(11), 2406-2414.
- Knight JG, Alnoman RB, Waddell PG. Synthesis of 3-aminoBODIPY dyes via copper-catalyzed vicarious nucleophilic substitution of 2-halogeno derivatives. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2015, 13(12), 3819-3829.
- Schröder FAYN, Cole JM, Waddell PG, McKechnie S. Transforming Benzophenoxazine Laser Dyes into Chromophores for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Molecular Engineering Approach. Advanced Energy Materials 2015, 5(9), 1401728.
- Cole JM, Waddell PG, Wheatley AEH, McIntyre GJ, Peel AJ, Tate CW, Linton DJ. Neutron Diffraction Characterization of C-H...Li Interactions in a Lithium Aluminate Polymer. Organometallics 2014, 33(15), 3919-3923.
- Bayliss SL, Cole JM, Waddell PG, McKechnie S, Liu X. Predicting Solar-Cell Dyes for Cosensitization. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2014, 118(26), 14082-14090.
- Sylvester SO, Cole JM, Waddell PG, Nowell H, Wilson C. SO2 Phototriggered Crystalline Nanomechanical Transduction of Aromatic Rotors in Tosylates: Rationalization via Photocrystallography of [Ru(NH3)4SO2X]tosylate2 (X = pyridine, 3-Cl-pyridine, 4-Cl-pyridine). Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2014, 118(29), 16003-16010.
- Cole JM, Waddell PG, Wilson CC, Howard JAK. Molecular and Supramolecular Origins of Optical Nonlinearity in N-methylurea. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2013, 117(48), 25669–25676.
- Liu X, Cole JM, Waddell PG, Lin T-C, McKechnie S. Molecular Origins of Optoelectronic Properties in Coumarins 343, 314T, 445, and 522B. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2013, 117(27), 14130−14141.
- Zhang L, Cole JM, Waddell PG, Low KS, Liu X. Relating Electron Donor and Carboxylic Acid Anchoring Substitution Effects in Azo Dyes to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Performance. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2013, 1(11), 1440-1452.
- Merz TA, Waddell PG, Cole JM. Systematic Molecular Design of p‐Phenylene Lasing Properties. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2013, 117(16), 8429−8436.
- Liu X, Cole JM, Waddell PG, Lin T-C, Radia J, Zeidler A. Molecular Origins of Optoelectronic Properties of Coumarin Dyes: Toward Designer Solar Cell and Laser Applications. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2012, 116(1), 727-737.
- Sylvester SO, Cole JM, Waddell PG. Photo-conversion Bonding Mechanism in Ruthenium Sulfur Dioxide Linkage Photo-isomers Revealed by in Situ Diffraction. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134(29), 11860-11863.
- Cole JM, Waddell PG, Jayatilaka D. Solid-State Dilution of Dihydroxybenzophenones with 4,13-Diaza-18-crown-6 for Photocrystallographic Studies. Crystal Growth & Design 2012, 12(5), 2277-2287.
- Cole JM, Aherne CM, Waddell PG, Banister AJ, Batsanov AS, Howard JAK. Solid-state effects of monofluorophenyl substitution in dithiadiazolyl radicals: Impact on S...S and S...N interactions and their classification via Hirshfeld surfaces and fingerprint plots. Polyhedron 2012, 45(1), 61-70.
- Liu X, Cole JM, Waddell PG, Lin T-C. Molecular origins of commercial laser dye functionality in azacoumarins and 2-quinolones: LD 425, LD 489 and LD 473. Acta Crystallographica B: Structural Science 2011, B67, 560-568.
- Waddell PG, Hulse JOS, Cole JM. Two hydration products of 3,4,5,6-tetrachloro-N-(methyl-2-pyridyl)phthalmic acids. Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications 2011, C67, o255-o258.
- Waddell PG, Slawin AMZ, Woollins JD. Correlating Pt-P Bond lengths and Pt-P Coupling Constants. Dalton Transactions 2010, 39, 8620–8625.
- Waddell PG, Slawin AMZ, Sieffert N, Bühl M, Woollins JD. The Preparation and Structure of [Pt(S2N2){P(OR)nR3–n}2] and [Pt(SeSN2){P(OMe)nPh3–n}2] (n = 0–3). European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 3185-3194.
- Bromley CJ, Slawin AMZ, Waddell PG, Woollins JD. The preparation and X-ray structure of heptasulfurimidostearate. Inorganic Chemistry Communications 2009, 12, 804-805.
- Slawin AMZ, Waddell PG, Woollins JD. cis-Dichloridobis(dimethoxyphenylphosphino)platinum(II). Acta Crystallographica E: Structure Reports Online 2007, E63, m2017.
- Slawin AMZ, Waddell PG, Woollins JD. cis-Dichloridobis(methoxydiphenylphosphino)platinum(II). Acta Crystallographica E: Structure Reports Online 2007, E63, m2018.