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Professor Maxwell J Crossley, FAA

Professor of Chemistry (Organic Chemistry)

Contact Details

School of Chemistry, Building F11
The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Email address: maxwell.crossley@sydney.edu.au
Telephone: +61 (2) 9351-2751
Fax: +61 (2) 9351-3329
Home Page: http://sydney.edu.au/science/chemistry/~mjcgroup

Research Interests

  • Porphyrin Chemistry

  • Metalloporphyrin assemblies and arrays

  • Molecular recognition, molecular clefts and chiral cavities

  • Molecular electronics

  • Artificial photosynthesis

For research opportunities see our home page: http://www.chem.usyd.edu.au/~mjcgroup

Publications (2009 to 2012)

  1. Cheng, YY; Fückel, B; MacQueen, RW; Khoury, T; Clady, RGCR; Schulze, TF; Ekins-Daukes, NJ; Crossley, MJ; Stannowski, B; Lips, K and Schmidt, TW. Improving the light-harvesting of amorphous silicon solar cells with photochemical upconversion. Energy & Environmental Science, online, 2012. DOI: 10.1039/c2ee21136j

  2. Huyang, G; Petermann, I; Canning, J; Naqshbandi, M and Crossley, MJ. Characterisation and functionalisation of cold-processed titania sol-gel layers on silica and silicate surfaces. Optical Materials Express, 2 (2), 222-227, 2012. DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000222

  3. Lee, S-H; Larsen, AG; Ohkubo, K; Cai, Z-L; Reimers, JR; Fukuzumi, S and Crossley, MJ. Long-lived long-distance photochemically induced spin-polarized charge separation in β,β′-pyrrolic fused ferrocene-porphyrin-fullerence systems. Chemical Science, 3 (1), 257-269, 2012. DOI: 10.1039/c1sc00614b

  4. Ou, Z; Zhu, W; Fang, Y; Sintic, PJ; Khoury, T; Crossley, MJ and Kadish, KM. Unusual multi-step sequential AuIII/AuII processes of gold(III) quinoxalinoporphyrins in acidic non-aqueous media. Inorganic Chemistry, 50 (24), 12802-12809, 2011. DOI: 10.1021/ic2019567

  5. Fukuzumi, S; Ohkubo, K; Saito, K; Kashiwagi, Y; Khoury, T and Crossley, MJ. Multiple photosynthetic reaction centers composed of supramolecular assemblies of a zinc porphyrin dendrimer with pyridylnaphthalenediimide. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 15 (11-12), 1292-1298, 2011. DOI: 10.1142/S1088424611004178

  6. Yu, M-L; Wang, S-M; Feng, K; Khoury, T; Crossley, MJ; Fan, Y; Zhang, J-P; Tung, C-H and Wu, L-Z. Photoinduced electron transfer and charge-recombination in 2-ureido-4[1H]-pyrimidinone quadruple hydrogen-bonded porphyrin-fullerence assemblies. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 (47), 23634-23641, 2011. DOI: 10.1021/jp207852j

  7. O'Connor, GD; Troy, TP; Roberts, DA; Chalyavi, N; Fückel, B; Crossley, MJ; Nauta, K; Stanton, JF and Schmidt, TW. Spectroscopy of the free phenalenyl radical. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 (37), 14554-14557, 2011. DOI: 10.1021/ja206322n

  8. Coenen, MJJ; Cremers, M; den Boer, D; van den Bruele, FJ; Khoury, T; Sintic, M; Crossley, MJ; van Enckevort, WJP; Hendriksen, BLM; Elemans, JAAW and Speller, S. Little exchange at the liquid/solid interface: Defect-mediated equilibration of physisorbed porphyrin monlayers. Chemical Communications, 47 (34), 9666-9668, 2011. DOI: 10.1039/c1cc12569a

  9. Kotani, H; Ohkubo, K; Crossley, MJ and Fukuzumi, S. An efficient fluorescence sensor for superoxide with an acridinium ion-lnked porphyrin triad. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 (29), 11092-11095, 2011. DOI: 10.1021/ja204161j

  10. Canning, J; Lau, A; Naqshbandi, M; Petermann, I and Crossley, MJ. Measurement of fluorescence in a rhodamine-123 doped self-assembled "giant" mesostructured silica sphere using a smartphone as optical hardware. Sensors, 11, 7055-7062, 2011. DOI: 10.3390/s110707055

  11. Fukuzumi, S; Saito, K; Ohkubo, K; Khoury, T; Kashiwagi, Y; Absalom, MA; Gadde, S; D'Souza, F; Araki, Y; Ito, O and Crossley, MJ. Multiple photosynthetic reaction centres composed of supramolecular assemblies of zinc porphyrin dendrimers with a fullerene acceptor. Chemical Communications, 47 (28), 7980-7982, 2011. DOI: 10.1039/c1cc11725d

  12. Huyang, G; Canning, J; Åslund, ML; Naqshbandi, M; Gibson, B; Petermann, I; Stocks, D and Crossley, MJ. Porphyrin-doped solgel-lined structured optical fibers for local and remote sensing. Optics Letters, 36 (11), 2011. DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001975

  13. Canning, J; Padden, W; boskovic, D; Naqshbandi, M; de Bruyn, H and Crossley, MJ. Manipulating and controlling the evanescent field within optical waveguides using high index nanolayers. Optical Materials Express, 1 (2), 192-200, 2011. DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000192

  14. Fückel, B; Roberts, DA; Cheng, YY; Clady, RGCR; Piper, RB; Ekins-Daukes, NJ; Crossley, MJ and Schmidt, TW. Singlet oxygen mediated photochemical upconversion of NIR light. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2 (9), 966-971, 2011. DOI: 10.1021/jz200270w

  15. den Boer, D; Habets, T; Coenen, MJJ; van der Maas, M; Peters, TPJ; Crossley, MJ; Khoury, T; Rowan, AE; Nolte, RJM; Speller, S and Elemans, JAAW. Controlled templating of porphyrins by a molecular command layer. Langmuir, 27 (6), 2644-2651, 2011. DOI: 10.1021/la104724v

  16. Cheng, YY; Fückel, B; Khoury, T; Clady, RGCR; Ekins-Daukes, NJ; Crossley, MJ and Schmidt, TW. Entropically driven photochemical upconversion. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 115 (6), 1047-1053, 2011. DOI: 10.1021/jp108839g

  17. Chin, Y; Panduwinata, D; Sintic, M; Sum, TJ; Hush, NS; Crossley, MJ and Reimers, JR. Atomic-resolution kinked structure of an alkylporphyrin on highly ordered pyrolytic graphite. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2 (2), 62-66, 2011. DOI: 10.1021/jz101529t

  18. Kadish, KM; Ou, Z; Zhan, R; Khoury, T; E, W and Crossley, MJ. Synthesis, electrochemistry and spectroelectrochemistry of tetraundecylporphyrins in nonaqueous media. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 14 (10), 866-876, 2010. DOI: 10.1142/S1088424610002732

  19. Wong, WWH; Khoury, T; Vak, D; Yan, C; Jones, DJ; Crossley, MJ and Holmes, AB. A porphyrin-hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene-porphyrin triad: Synthesis, photophysical properties and performance in a photovoltaic device. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20 (33), 7005-7014, 2010. DOI: 10.1039/c0jm00311e

  20. Cheng, YY; Fückel, B; Khoury, T; Clady, RGCR; Tayebjee, MJY; Ekins-Daukes, NJ; Crossley, MJ and Schmidt, TW. Kinetic analysis of photochemical upconversion by triplet-triplet annihilation: Beyond any spin statistical limit. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 1 (12), 1795-1799, 2010. DOI: 10.1021/jz100566u

  21. Huyang, G; Canning, J; Åslund, ML; Stocks, D; Khoury, T and Crossley, MJ. Evaluation of optical fiber microcell reactor for use in remote acid sensing. Optics Letters, 35 (6), 817-819, 2010. DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.000817

  22. Martelli, C; Canning, J; Khoury, T; Skivesen, N; Kristensen, M; Huyang, G; Jensen, P; Neto, C; Sum, TJ; Hovgaard, MB; Gibson, BC and Crossley, MJ. Self-assembled porphyrin microrods and observation of structure-induced iridescence. J. Mater. Chem., 20 (12), 2310-2316, 2010. DOI: 10.1039/b917695k

  23. Zhu, W; Sintic, M; Ou, Z; Sintic, PJ; McDonald, JA; Brotherhood, PR; Crossley, MJ and Kadish, KM. Electrochemistry and spectroelectrochemistry of beta,beta´-fused quinoxalinoporphyrins and related extended bis-porphyrins with Co(III), Co(II), and Co(I) central metal ions. Inorg. Chem., 49 (3), 1027-1038, 2010. DOI: 10.1021/ic901851u

  24. Guo, Q-N; Li, Z-Y; Chan, W-H; Lau, K-C and Crossley, MJ. Appending zinc tetraphenylporphyrin with an amine receptor at beta-pyrrolic carbon for designing a selective histamine chemosensor. Supramolecular Chemistry, 22 (2), 122-129, 2010. DOI: 10.1080/10610270903377349

  25. Cheng, YY; Khoury, T; Clady, RGCR; Tayebjee, MJY; Ekins-Daukes, NJ; Crossley, MJ and Schmidt, TW. On the efficiency limit of triplet-triplet annihilation for photochemical upconversion. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12 (1), 66-71, 2010. DOI: 10.1039/b913243k

  26. Huyang, G; Canning, J; Gibson, BC; Khoury, T; Sum, TJ; Neto, C and Crossley, MJ. Focused ion beam processing and engineering of devices in self-assembled supramolecular structures. Nanotechnology, 20 (48), 485301 (6pp), 2009. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/48/485301

  27. Ohkubo, K; Garcia, R; Sintic, PJ; Khoury, T; Crossley, MJ; Kadish, KM and Fukuzumi, S. Change in the site of electron-transfer reduction of a zinc-quinoxalinoporphyrin/gold-quinoxalinoporphyrin dyad by binding of scandium ions and the resulting remarkable elongation of the charge-shifted-state lifetime. Chem. Eur. J., 15 (40), 10493-10503, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/chem.200901105

  28. Auckett, JE; Cheng, YY; Khoury, T; Clady, RGCR; Ekins-Daukes, NJ; Crossley, MJ and Schmidt, TS. Efficient up-conversion by triplet-triplet annihilation. The 8th Asian International Seminar on Atomic and Molecular Physics, University of Western Australia, 24-28 November, 2008. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 185, 012037 (4pp), 2009. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/185/1/012002

  29. Saraireh, SA; Smith, PV; King, BV; Reimers, JR; Wallace, BJ and Crossley, MJ. Norbornadiene-based molecules for functionalizing the Si(001) surface. J. Phys. Chem. C, 113 (36), 16094-16103, 2009. DOI: 10.1021/jp903481w

  30. Hulsken, B; Elemans, JAAW; Gerritsen, JW; Khoury, T; Crossley, MJ; Rowan, AE; Nolte, RJM and Speller, S. STM studies of the self-assembly of manganese porphyrin catalysts at the Au(111)-n-tetradecane interface, New J. Phys., 11, 083011/1-14, 2009. DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/8/083011

  31. Yap, BCM; Simpkins, GL; Collyer, CA; Hunter, N and Crossley, MJ. Porphyrin-linked nitroimidazole antibiotics targeting porphyromonas gingivalis. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 7 (14), 2855-2863, 2009. DOI: 10.1039/b904340c

  32. Hutchison, JA; Sintic, PJ; Brotherhood, PR; Scholes, C; Blacke, IM; Chiggino, KP and Crossley, MJ. Control of photoinduced charge transfer lifetimes in porphyrin arrays by ligand addition. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 133 (27), 11796-11804, 2009. DOI: 10.1021/jp9018553

  33. Khoury, T and Crossley, MJ. Expansion of the porphyrin pi-system: stepwise annelation of porphyrin beta,beta '-pyrrolic faces leading to trisquinoxalinoporphyrin. New Journal of Chemistry, 33 (5), 1076-1086, 2009. DOI: 10.1039/b901338e

  34. Hutchison, JA; Sintic, PJ; Crossley, MJ and Nagamura, T and Ghiggino, KP. The photophysics of selectively metallated arrays of quinoxaline-fused tetraarylporphyrins. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 11 (18), 3478-3489, 2009. DOI: 10.1039/b820969c

  35. Martelli, C; Canning, J; Reimers, JR; Sintic, M; Stocks, D; Khoury, T and Crossley, MJ. Evanescent-field spectroscopy using structured optical fibers: Detection of charge-transfer at the porphyrin-silica interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (8), 2925-2933, 2009. DOI: 10.1021/ja8081473

  36. Brotherhood, PR; Luck, IJ and Crossley, MJ. Complete H-1 and Sn-119 NMR spectral assignment for an asymmetric di[dihydroxotin(IV)] bis-porphyrin supramolecular host and its corresponding tetraacetato complex Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 47 (3), 257-262, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/mrc.2356