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PROF RICHARD ROBSON



Contact Details

Organization: Chemistry
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Work: 83446469
Room: 508
Level: 05
Building: Chemistry-East Wing
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Coordination Chemistry, Coordination Polymers Coordination. Metal. Ligand. Polymer Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Oxford
Doctor of Philosophy University of Oxford

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Unspecified Royal Society of Chemistry Member 01-Jan-1964
Unspecified Royal Australian Chemical Institute Member 01-Jan-1988

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 01-Jan-2001

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) RACI Burrows Award, RACI 01-Jan-1998

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Coordination polymers and oligomers Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Coordination networks based on carbonate and related ions Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Contributions to the foundations upon which true crystal engineering of functional solids will be based. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
"Coordination Polymers and Oligomers and Labyrinthine Molecular Solids as Materials for the Sorption of Gases/Vapours, with Emphasis on Hydrogen" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
X-ray Molecular Structure Elucidation Facility (MSEF) Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A new approach to TCNQ-based coordination polymers via TCNQH2
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Crystal Growth & Design
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1123-1125
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  • Cu(SO3)47- : A Readily Accessible Building Block for New Coordination Polymers
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Crystal Growth & Design
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1288-1293
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  • Design and its limitations in the construction of bi- and poly-nuclear coordination complexes and coordination polymers (aka MOFs): a personal view.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Dalton Transactions
    Volume: 2008
    Issue: 38
    Page numbers: 5113-5131
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  • Tetranuclear and octanuclear cobalt(II) citrate cluster single molecule magnets
    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 2008
    Issue: 29
    Page numbers: 4525-4529
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  • Trianionic Organoborate Triangles
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 9797-9803
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • An Extensive Class of Solids Full of Holes Large Enough To Enclose over 200 Molecules of H2O 
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 8640-8643
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  • Metal Exchange within a Body-Centred Cubic Hydrogen-Bonded Network 
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 60
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 68-71
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  • The structure-directing influence of guanidinium cations in the crystal structures of [C(NH2)3][MII(H2O)4(VO3)4].4H2O(M=Mn, Co, Ni)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Polyhedron
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 300-304
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Citrate, in Collaboration with a Guanidinium Ion, as a Generator of Cubane-like Complexes with a Range of Metal Cations: Synthesis,Structures, and Magnetic Properties of [C(NH2)3]8[(MII)4(cit)4]?8H2O(M ) Mg, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Zn; cit ) Citrate)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 3549-3556
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  • Coordination networks incorporating the in situ generated ligands[OC(CO2)3]4- and [OCH(CO2)2]3-
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Molecular Structure
    Volume: 796
    Page numbers: 2-8
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  • In Situ Synthesis of Trisubstituted Methanol Ligands and Their Potential as One-Pot Generators of Cubane-like Metal Complexes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Chemistry - A European Journal
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 7095-7102
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  • Tetranionic organoborate squares glued together by cations to generate nanotubular stacks.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 806-810
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • An unexpected network in guanidinium rhodizonate
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Crystal Engineering Communications
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 629-632
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Guanidinium ion as a symmetrical template in the formation of cubic hydrogen-bonded borate networks with the boracite topology
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 127
    Page numbers: 816-817
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Cubic, hydrogen-bonded (10,3)-a networks in the family [C(NH2)3][N(CH3)4][XO4] (X = S, Cr, and Mo)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 45
    Page numbers: 6157-6160
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Highly symmetric networks derived from cubane-relaed octametallic complexes of a new oxyanion of carbon, C4O74-, each molecule attached to eight neighbors by equivalent hydrogen bonds
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 126
    Issue: 28
    Page numbers: 8624-8625
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Serendipity and design in the generation of new coordination polymers: An extensive series of highly symmetrical guanidinium-templated, carbonate-based networks with the sodalite topology
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 126
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 2894-2904
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • [Co(NH3)6]3[Cu4(OH)(CO3)8].2H2O - a new carbonato-copper(II) anion stabilized by extensive hydrogen bonding
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 938-939
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • AgC(CN)3-based coordination polymers
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 2654-2664
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Channel-containing lanthanide mucate structures
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Crystal Engineering Communications
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 55
    Page numbers: 313-317
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  • New tricks for an old dog: The carbonate ion as a building block for networks including examples of composition [Cu6(CO3)12-{C(NH2)3}8]4- with the sodalite topology
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1112-1115
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Zinc saccharate: A robust, 3D coordination network with two types of isolated, parallel channels, one hydrophilic and the other hydrophobic
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 1848-1851
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Alpha-polonium coordination networks constructed from bis(imidazole) ligands
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Crystal Engineering Communications
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 79
    Page numbers: 478-482
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Dihydroxybenzoquinone and chloranilic acid derivatives of rare earth metals
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions
    Volume: 2002
    Page numbers: 1586-1594
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • 3D networks constructed using both coordinative and hydrogen bonding: synthesis, structure and magnetic properties of M(tcm)2(H2O)2.Me4pyz, M = Co, Ni
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Communications
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Gordon Breach Publishing(Pennsylvania)
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  • A metallosupramolecular capsule with the topology of the Tetrahedron, 33, assembled from four guanidine-based ligands and twelve cadmium centers
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: 4385-4386
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • A reexamination of the structure of "Honeycomb Cadmium Cyanide"
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Solid State Chemistry
    Volume: 156
    Page numbers: 51-56
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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