Dr David Cordes

X-Ray Crystallographer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463874

Email

dbc21@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Cordes carried out his PhD (awarded 2006) at the University of Otago, under the supervision of Prof Lyall Hanton, working on metallosupramolecular chemistry. This was followed by postdoctoral work at The University of Alabama in 2007 (with Prof Robin Rogers), Imperial College London in 2008 (with Prof Paul Lickiss), and the University of St Andrews in 2010 (with Prof Alex Slawin). These projects ran across a variety of topics but all had an underlying link to single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Following this, in 2012 he moved to Texas Tech University to take up a position running the X-ray diffraction lab, but returned to St Andrews in 2013 to take up a position as X-Ray Crystallographer.

Teaching

Dr Cordes teaches the Crystallographic Structure Determination section of CH4421, as well as taking tutorials and labs across levels two, three, and four.

Research areas

Dr Cordes, along with Prof. Slawin, run the single-crystal X-ray diffraction facilities in the School of Chemistry, providing a molecular structure determination service for crystalline solid-state materials.  This service is predominantly used by researchers within the School of Chemistry, but collaborative services are available to those outside the University.

Selected publications

• Conjugated, rigidified bibenzimidazole ancillary ligands for enhanced photoluminescence quantum yields of orange/red-emitting iridium(III) complexes

  Henwood, A. F., Anto?n-Garci?a, D., Morin, M., Rota Martir, D., Cordes, D. B., Casey, C., Slawin, A. M. Z., Lebl, T., Buehl, M. & Zysman-Colman, E., 14 Jul 2019, In : Dalton Transactions. 48, 26

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• STA-27, a porous Lewis acidic scandium MOF with an unexpected topology type prepared with 2,3,5,6-tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)pyrazine

  Prasad, R., Seidner, S., Cordes, D. B., Lozinska, M., Dawson, D., Thompson, M., Düren, T., Chakarova, K., Mihaylov, M., Hadjiivanov, K., Hoffmann, F., Slawin, A. M. Z., Ashbrook, S. E., Clarke, M. & Wright, P., 14 Mar 2019, In : Journal of Materials Chemistry. 7, 10, p. 5685-5701

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• A luminescent [Pd₄Ru₈]²⁴⁺ supramolecular cage

  Rota Martir, D., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Escudero, D., Jacquemin, D., Warriner, S. & Zysman-Colman, E., 14 Jun 2018, In : Chemical Communications. 54, 47, p. 6016-6019 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Modulator-controlled synthesis of microporous STA-26, an interpenetrated 8,3-connected zirconium MOF with the the-i topology, and its reversible lattice shift

  Bumstead, A., Cordes, D. B., Dawson, D. M., Chakarova, K. K., Mihaylov, M. Y., Hobday, C. L., Düren, T., Hadjiivanov, K., Slawin, A. M. Z., Ashbrook, S. E., Prasad, R. R. R. & Wright, P. A., 23 Mar 2018, In : Chemistry - A European Journal. Early View, 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Homochiral emissive ?₈- and?₈-[Ir₈Pd₄]¹⁶⁺ supramolecular cages

  Rota Martir, D., Escudero, D., Jacquemin, D., Cordes, D., Slawin, A., Fruchtl, H., Warriner, S. & Zysman-Colman, E., 12 Oct 2017, In : Chemistry - A European Journal. 23, 57, p. 14358?14366

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• A highly active manganese catalyst for enantioselective ketone and ester hydrogenation

  Widegren, M. B., Harkness, G. J., Slawin, A. M. Z., Cordes, D. B. & Clarke, M. L., 8 May 2017, In : Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56, 21, p. 5825-5828 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Solubilised bright blue-emitting iridium complexes for solution processed OLEDs

  Henwood, A. F., Bansal, A. K., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Samuel, I. D. W. & Zysman-Colman, E., 7 May 2016, In : Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 4, 17, p. 3726-3737 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• What can NMR spectroscopy of selenoureas and phosphinidenes teach us about the ?-accepting abilities of N-heterocyclic carbenes?

  Vummaleti, S. V. C., Nelson, D. J., Poater, A., Gomez Suarez, A., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Nolan, S. P. & Cavallo, L., Mar 2015, In : Chemical Science. 6, 3, p. 1895-1904 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Nanoporous Carbohydrate Metal-Organic Frameworks

  Forgan, R. S., Smaldone, R. A., Gassensmith, J. J., Furukawa, H., Cordes, D. B., Li, Q., Wilmer, C. E., Botros, Y. Y., Snurr, R. Q., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Stoddart, J. F., 11 Jan 2012, In : Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134, 1, p. 406-417 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Cubic Polyhedral Oligosilsesquioxanes

  Cordes, D. B., Lickiss, P. D. & Rataboul, F., Apr 2010, In : Chemical Reviews. 110, p. 2081-2173 93 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

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