Professor Peter Styring: Publications
Journal Papers
D.W. Bruce, D.A. Dunmur, E., Lalinde, P. Styring and P.M. Maitlis
‘Novel Transition Metal-Containing Nematic and Smectic Liquid Crystals’
J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1986, 581-582.
D.W. Bruce, D.A. Dunmur, E. Lalinde, P.M. Maitlis and P. Styring
‘Novel Types of Ionic Thermotropic Liquid Crystals’
Nature (London), 1986, 323, 791-792.
H. Adams, N.A. Bailey, D.W. Bruce, D.A. Dunmur , E. Lalinde, M. Marcos, C. Ridgway, A.J. Smith, P. Styring and P.M. Maitlis
‘Mesogenic Transition Metal Complexes; Liquid Crystal Phase Behaviour and Crystal and Molecular Structures of Some Nitrile Complexes of the Platinum Metals’
Liquid Crystals, 1987, 2(3), 381-393.
D.W. Bruce, D.A. Dunmur, E. Lalinde, P.M. Maitlis and P. Styring
‘trans-4-Alkyloxy-4'-stilbazoles: New Heterocyclic Mesogens’
Liquid Crystals, 1988, 3, 385-395.
H. Adams, N.A. Bailey, R. Dhillon, D.A. Dunmur, S.E., Hunt, E. Lalinde, A.A. Maggs, R. Orr, P. Styring, M.S. Wragg and P.M. Maitlis
‘Metallo-Mesogens and Liquid Crystals With a Heart of Gold’
Polyhedron, 1988, 7, 1861-1867.
D.W. Bruce, D.A. Dunmur, P.M. Maitlis and P. Styring
‘Nematic Phases in Ionic Melts: Mesogenic Ionic Complexes of Silver (I)’
Chemistry of Materials, 1989, 1, 479-481.
P.M. Maitlis, D.W. Bruce, R. Dhillon, D.A. Dunmur, F.P. Fanizzi, S.E. Hunt, R. Le Lagadec, E. Lalinde, R. Orr, J.P. Rourke, N.J.S. Salt, J.P. Stacey
‘Metallomesogens: Organometallic and Coordination Complexes with Liquid Crystalline Properties’
New J. Chemistry, 1990, 14, 549-551.
D.W. Bruce, D.A. Dunmur, S.A. Hudson, E. Lalinde, P.M. Maitlis, M.P. McDonald, R. Orr and P. Styring, with A.S. Cherodian, R.M. Richardson, J.L. Faijo
‘Polymorphic Thermotropic Mesogens of Silver (I): Ionic Materials Exhibitting a Cubic Mesophase’
Mol. Cryst., Liq. Cryst., 1991, 206, 79-92.
P. Styring, S. Tantrawong, D.R. Beattie and J.W. Goodby
‘Magnetomesogens: bis(1,3-di(4'-decoxyphenyl)propane-1,3-dionato)oxovanadium(IV)’
Liquid Crystals, 1991, 10, 581-584.
D.W. Bruce, D.A. Dunmur, S.A. Hudson, P.M. Maitlis and P. Styring
‘Mesomorphic Stilbazole Complexes of Silver(I) with Triflate and Nitrate Counter-anions’
Adv. Mater. for Optics and Electronics, 1992, 1, 37-42.
A.J. Slaney, I. Nishiyama, P. Styring, and J.W. Goodby
'Twist Inversion in a Cholesteric Material Containing a Single Chiral Centre’
J. Mater. Chem., 1992, 2, 805-810.
P. Styring, J.D. Vuijk, I. Nishiyama, A.J. Slaney and J.W. Goodby
‘Inversion of Chirality-dependent Properties in Optically Active Liquid Crystals’
J Mater. Chem., 1993, 3, 399-405.
C. Loubser, P.L. Wessels, J.W. Goodby and P. Styring
‘Observing Molecular Motions of a Fluorinated Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal using Fluorine-19 NMR’
Liq. Cryst., 1993, 15, 233-238.
P, J . Hindmarsh, M. Hird, P. Styring and J.W. Goodby
‘Lateral Substitution in the Peripheral Moieties of Triphenylen-2,3,6,7,10,11-hexayl Hexakis(4-alkoxybenzoate)s: Dimethyl Substituted Systems’
Mater. Chem., 1993, 3, 1117-1128.
S. Tantrawong, P. Styring and J.W. Goodby
‘Discotic Mesomorphism in Oxovanadium(IV) Complexes Possessing Four Lateral Alkyl Substituents’
J Mater. Chem., 1993, 12, 1209-1216.
J.W. Goodby, P. Styring, A.J. Slaney, J.D. Vuijk, J.S. Patel, C. Loubser and P.L. Wessels
‘Inversion Phenomena in Chiral Liquid Crystals’
Ferroelectrics, 1993, 147, 291-304.16.
C. Loubser, P.L. Wessels, P. Styring and J.W. Goodby
‘A Helix Inversion in the Chiral Nematic Phase of a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Containing a Single Chiral Centre’
J Mater. Chem., 1994, 4, 71-79.
J.W. Goodby, I. Nishiyama, A.J. Slaney, J.D. Vuijk, C.J. Booth, P. Styring and K.J. Toyne
‘Chirality and Frustration in Ordered Fluids’
Mol. Cryst., Liq. Cryst., 1994, 243, 231-298.
P. Styring, J.D. Vuijk, S.A. Wright, K. Takatoh and C.C. Dong
‘Inversion of Chirality-dependent Properties in Helical Liquid Crystals: Effects of Structural Modification’
J Mater. Chem., 1994, 4, 1365-1375.
K. Takatoh, M.J. Watson, P. Styring, M. Hird and J.W. Goodby
‘The Synthesis of Novel Liquid-Crystalline Materials and Their Twist Inversion Phenomenon’
Proc. Jpn. Liq. Cryst. Conference, Nagoya, Japan, October 1994, 2G-309. (In Japanese)
W.K. Robinson, C. Carboni, H.F. Gleeson, M. Hird, P. Styring and A.J. Seed
‘Electro-optic and Piezo-optic Studies on an Antiferro-Ferri-Ferro-Electric System’
Mol. Cryst., Liq. Cryst., 1995, 263, 69-79.
W.K. Robinson, H.F. Gleeson, M. Hird, A.J. Seed and P. Styring
‘Antiferroelectricity in Novel Liquid Crystalline Materials’
Ferroelectrics, 1996, 178, 237-247.
W.K. Robinson, R.J. Miller, H.F. Gleeson, M. Hird, A.J. Seed and P. Styring
‘The Synthesis, Mesomorphic Behaviour and Physical Properties of a Chiral Liquid Crystal Exhibiting an Antiferroelectric Smectic I Phase’
Ferroelectrics, 1996, 178, 249-266.
C.C. Dong, M. Hird, J.W. Goodby, P. Styring and K.J. Toyne
‘The Synthesis and Transition Temperatures of Some Fluorinated Terphenyls with Alkyl Terminal Chains’
Ferroelectrics, 1996, 180, 245-257.
W.K. Robinson, R.J. Miller, H.F. Gleeson, M. Hird, A.J. Seed and P. Styring
‘The Influence of Sulfur on Phenyl Propiolates for Ferroelectric Applications’
Ferroelectrics, 1996, 180, 291-313.
I.M. Saez and P. Styring
‘Oligo(siloxane) Rings and Cages Possessing Nickel-Containing Liquid Crystal Side Chains
Adv. Mater., 1996, 8, 1001-1005.
S. Tantrawong and P. Styring
‘Metal-containing Liquid Crystals with Potential Application in Optical Storage Devices’
Liq. Cryst., 1997, 22, 17-22.
S. Tantrawong and P. Styring
‘Oxovanadium(IV) Metallomesogens Derived from 1,3-Diketonate Ligands: The Importance of Ligand Design’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1997, 302, 309-314.
I.M. Saez and P. Styring
‘Synthesis and Liquid Crystalline Phase Behaviour of a Novel Metallomesogenic Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymer Free from Cross-linking’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1997, 299, 163-168.
C.C. Dong, P. Styring, L.K.M. Chan and J.W. Goodby
‘Difluorobiphenyl Dioxaborinanes for Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Applications’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1997, 302, 289-294.
A.J. Seed, M. Hird, P. Styring, H.F. Gleeson and J.T. Mills
‘Heterocyclic Esters Exhibiting Frustrated Liquid Crystal Phases’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1997, 299, 19-25.
J.T. Mills, R. Miller, H.F. Gleeson, A.J. Seed, M. Hird and P. Styring
‘The Physical Properties of a Series of Antiferroelectric Heterocyclic Esters’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1997, 303, 145-152.
I.M. Saez, G.H. Mehl, E. Sinn and P. Styring
'The Effect of Low Molecular Weight Organosiloxane Substituents on Mesophase Formation and Structure in Non-symmetric Nickel(II) Complexes’
J. Organomet. Chem., 1998, 551, 299-311.
M.J. Watson, M.K. Horsburgh, J.W. Goodby, K. Takatoh, A.J. Slaney, J. Patel and P. Styring
‘A Phenomenological Approach to the Inversion of the Helical Twist Sense in the Chiral Nematic Phase’
J. Mater. Chem., 1998, 8, 1963-1969.
J.T. Mills, H.F. Gleeson, J.W. Goodby, M. Hird, A.J. Seed and P. Styring
‘X-ray and Optical Studies of the Tilted Phases of Materials Exhibiting Antiferroelectric, Ferrielectric and Ferroelectric Mesophases’
J. Mater. Chem., 1998, 8, 2385-2390.
K Praefcke, D. Blunk, D. Singer, J.W. Goodby, K.J. Toyne, M. Hird, P. Styring and W.D.J.A. Norbert
‘Design of Low Molar Mass Materials in the Search for Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1998, 323, 231-259.
P. Styring
‘Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Smectic Phases in Pentamethyldisiloxane-Terminated Mesogens’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1999, 332, 199-206 (plus colour plates).
C.C. Dong, P. Styring, L.K.M. Chan and J.W. Goodby
‘Synthesis and Electro-optic Preoperties of Liquid Crystalline 2-(2,3-Difluorophenyl-4’-yl)-1,3-dioxanes’
J Mater. Chem., 1999, 9, 1669.
N. Dal Mas, A. Ferrarini, P.L. Nordio, P. Styring and S.M Todd
‘Prediction of the Pitch in Twisted Nematics: Some Puzzling Cases’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1999, 328, 391-399.
J.T. Mills, H.F. Gleeson, J.W. Goodby, M. Hird, A.J. Seed and P. Styring
‘A Comparrison of the Optical and Steric Tilt in Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1999, 330, 1693-1700.
H.F. Gleeson, L. Baylis, W.K. Robinson, J.T. Mills, J.W. Goodby, A. Seed, M. Hird, P. Styring, C. Rosenblatt, and S. Zhang
‘Preliminary communication - A possible structural model of the SmC beta* phase’
Liq. Cryst., 1999, 26, 1415-1419.
J.W. Goodby, M. Hird, P. Styring, R.A. Lewis, A. Beer, C.C. Dong, M.E. Glendenning, J.C. Jones, K.P. Lymer, A.J. Slaney, V. Minter and L.K.M. Chan
Proc. SPIE, 2000, 3955, 2-14.
G.M. Greenway, S.J. Haswell, D.O. Morgan, V. Skelton and P. Styring
‘The use of a novel microreactor for high throughput continuous flow organic synthesis’
Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical, 2000, 63, 153-158.
J.W. Goodby, K.J. Toyne, M. Hird, P. Styring, R.A. Lewis, A. Beer, C.C. Dong, M.E. Glendenning, J.C. Jones, K.P. Lymer, A.J. Slaney, V. Minter and L.K
‘Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Materials: Hosts, Dopants and Gels for Display Applications’
Mol. Cryst. Liq Cryst, 2000, 346, 169-182.
V. Skelton, G.M. Greenway, S.J. Haswell, P. Styring, D.O. Morgan, B.H. Warrington and S.Y.F. Wong
‘The Generation of Concentration Gradients Using Electroosmotic Flow in Micro Reactors Allowing Stereoselective Chemical Synthesis’
Analyst, 2001, 126, 11-13.
V. Skelton, G.M. Greenway, S.J. Haswell, P. Styring, D.O. Morgan, B. Warrington, S.Y.F. Wong
‘The Preparation of a Series of Nitrostilbene Ester Compounds Using Micro Reactor Technology’
Analyst, 2001, 126, 7-10.
S.J. Haswell, R.J. Middleton, B. O'Sullivan, V. Skelton, P. Watts and P. Styring
‘The Application of Micro Reactors to Synthetic Chemistry’, 391-398.
P. Watts, C. Wiles, S.J. Haswell, E. Pombo-Villar and P. Styring
‘The Synthesis of Peptides Using Micro Reactors’
Chem. Commun., 2001, 990-991.
M. Sands, S.J. Haswell, S.M. Kelly, V. Skelton, D.O. Morgan, P. Styring And B.H. Warrington
‘The Investigation of an Equilibrium Dependant Reaction for the Formation of Enamines in a Micro Chemical System’
Lab-on-a-Chip, 2001, 1, 64.
S.J. Haswell, B. O Sullivan and P. Styring
‘Kumada–Corriu Reactions in a Pressure-driven Microflow Reactor’,
Lab-on-a-Chip, 2001, 1, 164.
P. Styring, C. Grindon and C.M Fisher
‘A Polymer Supported Nickel(II) Catalyst for Room Temperature Tamao-Kumada-Corriu Coupling Reactions’
Catal. Lett., 2001, 77, 219.
S. Clark, J.M. Elliott, J.R. Chipperfield, P. Styring and E. Sinn
‘The First Uranium Based Liquid Crystals. Uranyl Metallomesogens from -Diketone and Tropolone Ligands’
Inorg. Chem. Commun., 2002, 5, 249.
D.H. Brown and P. Styring
‘Synthesis, Regioisomerism and Characterisation of Unsymmetrical Alkenyl Terminated Isoxazole Liquid Crystals’
Liq. Cryst., 2003, 30, 23-30.
V. Das, D.H. Brown, P. Styring and R.W.K. Allen
‘Electromechanical Behaviour of Smectic Liquid Crystal Elastomers’
Proc. SPIE, 2003, 5051, 458-463.
P. Styring
‘Towards Liquid Crystal Synthesis Using High Throughput and Micro Reactor Technologies’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 2004, 411, 1059-1070.
P. Styring and I.M. Saez
‘Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polyacrylate and Polymethacrylate Nickel Complexes Free From Covalent Cross-linking’
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 2004, 411, 1533-1544.
N.T.S. Phan, D.H. Brown, H. Adams, S.E. Spey and P. Styring
'Solid-supported Cross-coupling Catalysts Derived from Homogeneous Nickel and Palladium Coordination Complexes’
Dalton Trans., 2004, 1348-57.
N.T.S. Phan, D.H. Brown, and P. Styring
‘A Facile Method for Catalyst Immobilisation on Silica: Nickel Catalysed Kumada Reactions in Mini-continuous Flow and Batch Reactors’
Green Chem., 2004, 6, 526-532.
N.T.S. Phan, D.H. Brown, and P. Styring
‘A polymer-supported salen-type palladium complex as a catalyst for the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction’
Tet. Letts., 2004, 45, 7915-7919.
S. Doherty, P. Goodrich, C. Hardacre, H.K. Luo, D.W. Rooney, K.R. Seddon and P. Styring
‘Marked enantioselectivity enhancements for Diels-Alder reactions in ionic liquids catalysed by platinum diphosphine complexes’
Green Chem., 2004, 6, 63-67.
H. Adams, R.W.K. Allen, J. Chin, B. O'Sullivan, P. Styring and LR Sutton
‘4 '-(Dimethylamino)-4-nitroazobenzene’
Acta Cryst. Section E-Structure Reports Online, 2004, 60, O289-O290.
M. Iqbal, A. Saeed, R.G.J. Edyvean, B. O’Sullivan and P. Styring
‘Production of fungal biomass immobilized loofa sponge (FBILS)-discs for the removal of heavy metal ions and chlorinated compounds from aqueous solution’
Biotech. Lett., 2005, in press.
N.T.S. Phan, J. Khan and P. Styring
'Polymer-supported palladium catalysed Suzuki-Miyaura reactions in batch and a mini-continuous flow reactor system'
Tetrahedron, 2005, in press.
P. Styring and S.F.C. Chong
‘Stereoselective synthesis of a thiazolane amide using molecular recognition in the triazolyl-activated ester intermediate’
Tet. Letts., 2006,in press.
Conference Papers
P. Styring, N.T.S. Phan, D.H. Brown, T. Hanasaki, B. O’Sullivan, R.W.K. Allen, A.I. Parracho and P.L. Lau
‘Rate Enhancement in Micro Flow Reactors’, Switching from Batch to Continuous Processing'
Proceedings, IChemE, 2004.
P.L. Lau, P. Styring and R.W.K. Allen
‘Continuous Flow Catalytic Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide’'
7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering Proceedings, 2005.
P. Styring, N.T.S. Phan, D.H. Brown, T. Hanasaki, B. O’Sullivan, R.W.K. Allen and A.I. Parracho
‘Clean Batch and Micro Reactors Processes Based on Environmentally Friendly Solid-Supported Homogeneous Catalysts’
7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering Proceedings, 2005.
Published articles
P. Styring
'New Route PhD’
TCE, August 2002 (734), 39-39 (Unrefereed article).
P. Styring, A.F. Routh and S. Smith
‘Smart Ski’
Piste (Snowsport England), February 2005 (Unrefereed article).
P. Styring
‘Microreactors: Jumping the catalyst hurdle'
TCE, March 2005 (765), 40-41 (Unrefereed article).
Book chapters
P. Styring, Ed. W. Zimmerman
Polymer Supported Catalysts in Micro Reactors in ‘Transport Limited Heterogeneous Catalysis’
Submitted June 2003.
P. Styring, Ed. W. Zimmerman
Introduction to Chemical Micro Reactors in ‘Microfluidics: History, Theory and Applications‘
Submitted September 2003.
P. Styring, Ed. W. Zimmerman
Homogeneous Solution Chemistry in Chemical Micro Reactors in ‘Microfluidics: History, Theory and Applications‘
Submitted September 2003.
P. Styring, Ed. W. Zimmerman
Heterogeneous Catalysis in Chemical Micro Reactors in ‘Microfluidics: History, Theory and Applications‘
Submitted September 2003.
P. Styring, Ed. W. Zimmerman
Recent Advances in Chemistry in Chemical Micro Reactors in ‘Microfluidics: History, Theory and Applications‘
Submitted September 2003.
P. Styring and R.W.K. Allen, Ed. W. Zimmerman
Soft Materials as Electromechanical Components in Chemical Micro Reactors in ‘Microfluidics: History, Theory and Applications‘
Submitted September 2003.
Patent applications
D.W. Bruce, D.A. Dunmur, E. Lalinde, P.M. Maitlis and P. Styring
‘Metal-containing Liquid Crystals’, GB Patent Application No. 8527377 (1986).
P. Styring, J.W. Goodby, M.J. Cooper and R.D.C. Richards
‘Optically Active Fluorophenyl Derivatives’, GB2260320 (1993).
P. Styring, J.W. Goodby, M.J. Cooper and R.D.C. Richards
‘Liquid Crystalline Fluorophenyl Derivatives with Optically Active Oxiran-2,3-diyl Backbone’, GB2260321 (1993).
P. Styring, J.W. Goodby, C. Dong and L.K.M. Chan
‘Dioxane Derivatives’, WO9406885 (1994).
J.W. Goodby, P. Styring, C. Loubser and P.L. Wessels
‘Liquid Crystal Materials, Mixtures and Devices’, GB2278841 (1994).
J.W. Goodby, P. Styring, C. Loubser and P.L. Wessels
‘Liquid Crystal Materials, Mixtures and Devices’, GB2294461 (1994).
J.W. Goodby, P. Styring, C. Loubser and P.L. Wessels
‘Liquid Crystal Materials, Mixtures and Devices’, DE694414574D (1994).
J.W. Goodby, P. Styring, C. Loubser and P.L. Wessels
‘Liquid Crystal Materials, Mixtures and Devices’, EP0703955 (1994).
J.W. Goodby, P. Styring, C. Loubser and P.L. Wessels
‘Liquid Crystal Materials, Mixtures and Devices’, WO9429405 (1994).
P. Styring, J.W. Goodby, C. Dong and L.K.M. Chan
‘Dioxane Derivatives’, US5683623 (1997).
P. Styring, J.W. Goodby, C. Dong and L.K.M. Chan
‘Dioxane Derivatives’, DE69308213T (1997).
I.M. Saez, P. Styring, N. Gough. J.W. Goodby and E. Sinn
‘Metal-containing Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers’, GB Patent Application No 9613068.7 (1997).
I.M. Saez, P. Styring, N. Gough. J.W. Goodby and E. Sinn
‘Metal-containing Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers’, WO09749671 (1997).
P. Styring and A.F. Routh
‘Smart Ski’, UK Patent Application, filed 5 January 2004.
P. Styring
‘Chemical Reactions in Aqueous Media’, UK Patent Application 0415544.6, filed May 2004
P. Styring and A.F. Routh
‘Smart Ski’, PCT/GB2005/00013 filed 5 January 2005.
P. Styring and A.F. Routh
‘Lubricants’, UK Patent Application No 0513252.7, filed 29 June 2005.
Virtual publications
V. Skelton, G.M. Greenway, S.J Haswell, D.O. Morgan, P. Styring, B.H. Warrington and S.Y.F. Wong
'Preliminary Results: The Development of a Continuous Flow Injection Microreactor for Organic Synthesis and Combinatorial Applications using Wittig Chemistry'
Third International Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry (ECSOC-3).
Published Abstracts
M.A. Oakley, P. Styring and E. Sinn
‘Polymorphism in a Classical Copper Complex’
Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 1993, 206, Pt1, 106-INOR.
I.M. Saez, P. Styring and E. Sinn
‘Novel Asymmetric Macromolecules and Transition Metal Complexes’
Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 1996, 207, Pt1, 386-INOR.
J.W. Goodby, I.M. Saez, P. Styring and E. Sinn
‘New Asymmetrically Liganded Cu and Ni Metallomesogens’
Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 1996, 212, Pt1, 136-INOR.
