Dr David Cordes

X-Ray Crystallographer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3874

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 runs 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

• Open access

  A desilylative approach to alkyl substituted C(1)-ammonium enolates: application in enantioselective [2+2] cycloadditions

  Wang, Y., Young, C. M., Liu, H., Hartley, W., Wienhold, M., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Smith, A. D., 12 Sept 2022, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61, 38, 9 p., e202208800.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Substitution effects on a new pyridylbenzimidazole acceptor for thermally activated delayed fluorescence and their use in organic light-emitting diodes

  Hall, D., Rajamalli, P., Duda, E., Madayanad Suresh, S., Rodella, F., Bagnich, S., Carpenter-Warren, C. L., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Strohriegl, P., Beljonne, D., Köhler, A., Olivier, Y. & Zysman-Colman, E., 18 Oct 2021, In: Advanced Optical Materials. 9, 20, 13 p., 2100846.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Cu(OTf)₂-mediated cross-coupling of nitriles and N-heterocycles with arylboronic acids to generate nitrilium and pyridinium products

  Bell, N., Xu, C., Fyfe, J., Vantourout, J. C., Brals, J., Chabbra, S., Bode, B. E., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., McGuire, T. M. & Watson, A. J. B., 29 Mar 2021, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60, 14, p. 7935-7940 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Supramolecular packing of alkyl substituted Janus face all-cis 2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorocyclohexyl motifs

  Clark, J., Taylor, A., Geddis, A., Neyyappadath, R. M., Piscelli, B., Yu, C., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Cormanich, R., Guldin, S. & O'Hagan, D., 4 Jun 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chemical Science. Advance Article, 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Hydrocarbon-soluble, hexaanionic fulleride complexes of magnesium

  Lawrence, S., Ohlin, C. A., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Stasch, A., 14 Dec 2019, In: Chemical Science. 10, 46, p. 10755-10764 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  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 › peer-review

• Open access

  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 › peer-review

• Open access

  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 › peer-review

• 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 › peer-review

• 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 › peer-review

 

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