Prof Peter Scott

BSc(Salford), DPhil(Oxon), DSc (Warwick), CChem, FRSC

Research Summary

Metallo-organic chemistry, particularly the design of self-assembling chiral systems; their applications as medicines for challenging diseases (superbugs, cancer), catalysts for enantioselective transformations of organic molecules, and materials for high-technology products (magnetism and conductivity)...more

Selected Publications

Structural and Electronic Modulation of Magnetic Properties in a Family of Chiral Iron Coordination Polymers
Lihong Li, Jan M. Becker, Laura E. N. Allan, Guy J. Clarkson, Scott S. Turner, and Peter Scott, Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 5925–5935.

Chiral Semiconductor Phases; the optically pure D₃[M^III(S,S-EDDS)]₂ (D = TTF, TSF) family
Nikola Paul Chmel, Guy J. Clarkson, Alessandro Troisi, Scott S. Turner and Peter Scott, Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 4039–4046

Zirconium-Catalyzed Polymerization of a Styrene: Catalyst Reactivation Mechanisms Using Alkenes and Dihydrogen
Giles W. Theaker, Colin Morton and Peter Scott, Macromolecules 2011, 44, 1393–1404.

Mechanism of Catalytic Cyclohydroamination by Zirconium Salicyloxazoline Complexes
Laura E. N. Allan, Guy J. Clarkson, David J. Fox, Andrew L. Gott, and Peter Scott, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 15308–15320.

Self-Assembling Optically Pure Fe(A-B)₃ Chelates
S. E. Howson, L. E. N. Allan, N. P. Chmel, G. J. Clarkson, R. van Gorkum, P. Scott, Chem Comm, 2009, 1727