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Publications: DR Chris Jones

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Sanapalli BKR, Jones CR, Sanapalli V ( 2026 ) . Targeting Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis: Structural Insights and Emerging Therapeutic Strategies . Pharmaceutics vol. 18 , ( 1 )
Xu Y, Zhang M, Yang B, Li Q, Titirici M-M, Jones CR ( 2025 ) . Tailoring quaternary nitrogen sites to multi-walled carbon nanotubes as electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction . Electrochimica Acta vol. 539 ,
Hussain MS, Rafique F, Zhang M, Jones CR, Hussain Z, Din MI ( 2025 ) . Ultralow‐Iridium Decorated NiOOH Matrix: A Robust and Highly Stable Electrocatalyst for Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction . ChemistrySelect vol. 10 , ( 41 )
Xu Y, Li Q, Zhang M, Titirici M-M, Jones CR ( 2025 ) . A review on the arylation of carbon nanomaterials: fabrication, characterization, and applications in energy storage and conversion devices . Carbon vol. 243 ,
Friedrich H, Siddiq K, Arafah N, Kulanda R, Aguilar-Sanchez LG, Jones CR ( 2025 ) . Arynes in green solvent: employing o -silylaryl triflates with propylene carbonate . Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry vol. 23 , ( 19 ) 4648 - 4653 .
Siddiq K, Jones CR ( 2024 ) . Alkynes fuel free carbene formation . Nature Chemistry vol. 16 , ( 7 ) 1047 - 1048 .
Li Q, Zhao Q, Pedersen A, Zhang M, Lin Z, Xu Y, Cullen PL, Sapelkin A et al. ( 2024 ) . Investigating the effect of Fe–N 5 configuration in the oxygen reduction reaction using N-heterocycle functionalized carbon nanotubes . Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 12 , ( 41 ) 28074 - 28084 .
Ur Rehman Shah H, Li Q, Jones CR ( 2024 ) . syn -1,2-Diaminobenzocyclobutenes from [2+2] cycloaddition of 2-imidazolones with arynes . Chemical Communications vol. 60 , ( 83 ) 11928 - 11931 .
Li Q, Xu Y, Pedersen A, Wang M, Zhang M, Feng J, Luo H, Titirici M et al. ( 2023 ) . Investigating the Role of Fe‐Pyrrolic N4 Configuration in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction via Covalently Bound Porphyrin Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes . Advanced Functional Materials vol. 34 , ( 16 )
Xu Y, Xie R, Li Q, Feng J, Luo H, Ye Q, Guo Z, Cao Y et al. ( 2023 ) . Pyridine Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes: Unveiling the Role of External Pyridinic Nitrogen Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction . Small vol. 19 , ( 45 )
Idiris FIM, Jones CR ( 2023 ) . Rarely used strained molecules step up for organic synthesis . Nature vol. 618 , ( 7966 ) 683 - 685 .
Sun W, Uttendorfer M, Idiris FIM, Werling AYR, Siddiq K, Jones CR ( 2023 ) . Selective access to dihydrophenanthridines and phenanthridinones via cyclisation of aryl amines onto N -tethered arynes . Chemical Communications vol. 59 , ( 79 ) 11823 - 11826 .
Jones CR, Yang Y ( 2022 ) . The Aryne Ene Reaction . Synthesis vol. 54 , ( 22 ) 5042 - 5054 .
Cao Y, Xu Y, Li Q, Rose R-S, Abrahams I, Jones CR, Sheriff TS ( 2022 ) . Corrosion inhibition and disinfection of central heating and cooling water systems using in situ generated hydrogen peroxide . New Journal of Chemistry vol. 46 , ( 37 ) 17880 - 17888 .
Fang L, Crespo-Otero R, Jones CR, Watkinson M ( 2021 ) . Protect to detect: A Golgi apparatus targeted probe to image mobile zinc through the use of a lipophilic cell-labile protecting group strategy . Sensors and Actuators B Chemical vol. 338 ,
Neal EA, Werling AYR, Jones CR ( 2021 ) . A simple Hückel model-driven strategy to overcome electronic barriers to retro-Brook silylation relevant to aryne and bisaryne precursor synthesis . Chem Commun (Camb)
Fang L, Trigiante G, Crespo-Otero R, Philpott MP, Jones CR, Watkinson M ( 2019 ) . An alternative modular 'click-SNAr-click' approach to develop subcellular localised fluorescent probes to image mobile Zn2+  . Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
Yang Y, Xu Y, Jones CR ( 2019 ) . A Ring Expansion Route to Benzofused N‐Heterocycles Through Aryne Insertion into 1,3‐Diaza‐heterocycles . European Journal of Organic Chemistry vol. 2019 , ( 31-32 ) 5196 - 5200 .
Clément P, Trinchera P, Cervantes‐Salguero K, Ye Q, Jones CR, Palma M ( 2019 ) . A One‐Step Chemical Strategy for the Formation of Carbon Nanotube Junctions in Aqueous Solution: Reaction of DNA‐Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes with Diazonium Salts . ChemPlusChem vol. 84 , ( 9 ) 1235 - 1238 .
Fang L, Trigiante G, Crespo-Otero R, Hawes CS, Philpott MP, Jones CR, Watkinson M ( 2019 ) . Endoplasmic reticulum targeting fluorescent probes to image mobile Zn 2+ . Chemical Science vol. 10 , ( 47 ) 10881 - 10887 .
Jones C, Sun W, Trinchera P, Kurdi N, Palomas D, Crespo-Otero R, Afshinjavid S, Javid F ( 2018 ) . Aryne-Mediated Arylation of Hantzsch Esters: Access to Highly Substituted Aryl-dihydropyridines, Aryl-tetrahydropyridines and Spiro[benzocyclobutene-1,1′-(3′,4′-dihydropyridines)] . Synthesis vol. 50 , ( 23 ) 4591 - 4605 .
Idiris FIM, Majesté CE, Craven GB, Jones CR ( 2018 ) . Intramolecular hydride transfer onto arynes: redox-neutral and transition metal-free C(sp 3 )–H functionalization of amines . Chemical Science vol. 9 , ( 11 ) 2873 - 2878 .
Trinchera P, Sun W, Smith JE, Palomas D, Crespo-Otero R, Jones CR ( 2017 ) . Intermolecular Aryne Ene Reaction of Hantzsch Esters: Stable Covalent Ene Adducts from a 1,4-Dihydropyridine Reaction . Organic Letters vol. 19 , ( 17 ) 4644 - 4647 .
Idiris FIM, Jones CR ( 2017 ) . Recent advances in fluoride-free aryne generation from arene precursors . Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry vol. 15 , ( 43 ) 9044 - 9056 .
Ferguson MD, Donohoe TJ, Jones CR ( 2014 ) . Lithium 4,4′‐Di‐tert‐butylbiphenylide . Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis , Wiley
Donohoe TJ, Jones CR, Kornahrens AF, Barbosa LCA, Walport LJ, Tatton MR, O'Hagan M, Rathi AH et al. ( 2014 ) . ChemInform Abstract: Total Synthesis of the Antitumor Antibiotic (.+‐.)‐Streptonigrin: First‐ and Second‐Generation Routes for de Novo Pyridine Formation Using Ring‐Closing Metathesis . ChemInform vol. 45 , ( 21 ) no - no .
Donohoe TJ, Jones CR, Winter C ( 2014 ) . 8.22 Partial and Complete Reduction of Pyrroles, Furans, Thiophenes, and their Benzo Analogs, Heterocycles Containing More Than One Heteroatom . Comprehensive Organic Synthesis II , Elsevier
Donohoe TJ, Jones CR, Kornahrens AF, Barbosa LCA, Walport LJ, Tatton MR, O'Hagan M, Rathi AH et al. ( 2013 ) . Total synthesis of the antitumor antibiotic (±)-streptonigrin: first- and second-generation routes for de novo pyridine formation using ring-closing metathesis . J Org Chem vol. 78 , ( 24 ) 12338 - 12350 .
Jones CR, Baruah PK, Thompson AL, Scheiner S, Smith MD ( 2012 ) . Can a C-H•••O interaction be a determinant of conformation? . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 134 , ( 29 ) 12064 - 12071 .
Jones CR, Dan Panto G, Morrison AJ, Smith MD ( 2009 ) . Plagiarizing proteins: enhancing efficiency in asymmetric hydrogenbonding catalysis through positive cooperativity . Angewandte Chemie International Edition vol. 48 , ( 40 ) 7391 - 7394 .
Jones CR, Pantoş GD, Morrison AJ, Smith MD ( 2009 ) . Plagiarizing Proteins: Enhancing Efficiency in Asymmetric Hydrogen‐Bonding Catalysis through Positive Cooperativity . Angewandte Chemie vol. 121 , ( 40 ) 7527 - 7530 .
Jones CR, Qureshi MKN, Truscott FR, Hsu STD, Morrison AJ, Smith MD ( 2008 ) . A nonpeptidic reverse turn that promotes parallel sheet structure stabilized by C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds in a cyclopropane γ-peptide . Angewandte Chemie International Edition vol. 47 , ( 37 ) 7099 - 7102 .
Jones CR, Qureshi MKN, Truscott FR, Hsu SD, Morrison AJ, Smith MD ( 2008 ) . A Nonpeptidic Reverse Turn that Promotes Parallel Sheet Structure Stabilized by CH⋅⋅⋅O Hydrogen Bonds in a Cyclopropane γ‐Peptide . Angewandte Chemie vol. 120 , ( 37 ) 7207 - 7210 .
Donohoe TJ, O Riordan TJC, Peifer M, Jones CR, Miles TJ . Asymmetric Synthesis of the Fully Elaborated Pyrrolidinone Core of Oxazolomycin A . ORGANIC LETTERS vol. 14 , Article 21 , {5460-5463} - {5460-5463} .
Fang L, Crespo Otero R, Jones C, Watkinson M . Protect to Detect: A Golgi Apparatus Targeted Probe to Image Mobile Zinc Through the Use of a Lipophilic Cell-Labile Protecting Group Strategy .
Journot G, Jones CR, Blangy V, Neier R . THE HYDROGENATION OF HETEROCYCLIC CALIX[4]ARENES, A TRANSFORMATION LEADING TO NOVEL MACROCYCLIC LIGANDS . HETEROCYCLES vol. 85 , Article 4 , {749-797} - {749-797} .
Donohoe TJ, Jones CR, Barbosa LCA . Total Synthesis of (+/-)-Streptonigrin: De Novo Construction of a Pentasubstituted Pyridine using Ring-Closing Metathesis . JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY vol. 133 , Article 41 , {16418-16421} - {16418-16421} .
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