Our research group has been involved in the development of novel materials, with the emphasis on the design and synthesis of functional materials (small molecules and macromolecules), for applications in fields other than catalysis or biology. Examples of these include the development of CO-releasing molecules, kinetic, stability and/or computational studies of inorganic/organometallic molecules and compounds that present interesting structures and bonding in their own right at a fundamental level.
Selected Publications
Siphelele Malaza, Preshendren Govender, Marietjie Schutte-Smith, Hendrik G. Visser* and Gregory S. Smith*
Synthesis and Substitution Kinetics of Tricarbonylrhenium(I) Dendritic Complexes
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2017, 3919-3927
Felix Bacher, Orsolya Dömötör, Eva A. Enyedy, Lana Filipovic, Sinisa Radulovic, Gregory S. Smith and Valdimir Arion*
Complex formation reactions of gallium(III) and iron(III/II) with L-proline-thiosemicarbazone hybrids: A comparative study
Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2017, 455, 505-513
Akella Sivaramakrishna, Chinduluri Sravani, Sadhana Venkatesh, B.B. Pavankumar, Kari Vijayakrishna, Haamid R. Bhat, Prakash C. Jha and Gregory S. Smith
Theoretical and experimental investigations on stability and chemistry of organoiridium(III) complexes
RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 105528-105539.
Sadhana Venkatesh, Chinduluri Sravani, Sannapaneni Janardan, Pothini Suman, E. Veerashekhara Goud, B.B. Pavankumar, Vardi Leninkumar, Haamid R. Bhat, Akella Sivaramakrishna, Kari Vijayakrishna, Prakash C. Jha, Gregory S. Smith
Synthesis, structure and thermolysis of cis-dialkylplatinum(II) complexes – Experimental and theoretical perceptions
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2016, 818, 72-81.
G. Kabelo Ramollo, María J. López-Gómez, David C. Liles, Leah C. Matsinha, Gregory S. Smith and Daniela I. Bezuidenhout
Rhodium(I) Ferrocenylcarbene Complexes: Synthesis, Structural Determination, Electrochemistry, and Application as Hydroformylation Catalysts Precursors
Organometallics, 2015, 34, 5745-5753.
Lara C. Sudding, Prinessa Chellan, Preshendren Govender and Gregory S. Smith
Cyclometalated Benzaldimine – Terminated Rhodium and Iridium Dendrimers: Synthesis, Characterisation and Molecular Structures of Mononuclear Analogues
Journal of Inorganic Polymers and Materials, 2015, 25, 457-465.
Preshendren Govender, Sandesh Pai, Ulrich Schatzschneider and Gregory S. Smith
Next Generation PhotoCORMs: Polynuclear Tricarbonylmanganese(I)-Functionalized Polypyridyl Metallodendrimers
Inorganic Chemistry, 2013, 52, 5470-5478.
Tawfeeq Ismail, Daniel D. Rossouw, Philip Beukes, Jacobus P. Slabbert and Gregory S. Smith
Synthesis, characterisation and preliminary in vitro cellular uptake studies of 67Ga(III) thiosemicarbazones
Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2013, 33, 154-157.
Setshaba D. Khanye, Nikoletta B. Bathori, Gregory S. Smith and Kelly Chibale.
Gold(I) derived thiosemicarbazone complexes with rare halogen-halogen interaction-reduction of [Au(damp-C1,N)Cl2]
Dalton Transactions, 2010, 39, 2697-2700.
Gregory S. Smith, Sanjib K. Patra, Lawrence Vanderark, Saowanit Saithong, Jonathan Charmant and Ian Manners.
Photocontrolled Living Anionic Polymerisation of Silicon-Bridged [1]Ferrocenophanes with Fluorinated Substitutents Synthesis and Characterisation of Fluorinated
Polyferrocenylsilane (PFS) Homopolymers and Block Copolymers