Associate Professor Nicholas White
Biography
Nick was born in the UK, but completed high school and undergrad in New Zealand. He completed his BSc(Hons) at the University of Otago (in Dunedin, New Zealand), working with Prof. Sally Brooker on the study of transition metal complexes of triazole-based ligands. He then moved to the University of Oxford to conduct a DPhil with Prof. Paul Beer looking at the synthesis of catenanes and rotaxanes containing hydrogen- and halogen-bond donors for anion recognition (2009–2013). After this, Nick moved to the University of British Columbia (in beautiful Vancouver, Canada) as a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2013–2015), investigating the self-assembly of supramolecular materials in Prof. Mark MacLachlan’s group.
Nick was then appointed as a Lecturer at ANU, and took up his position in October 2015. His group works in the area of supramolecular chemistry, and is particularly interested in anions, hydrogen bonding, and self-assembly. Nick teaches coordination chemistry at the first and second-year undergraduate level, and porous materials at third-year.
Outside of chemistry, Nick enjoys nerding out about coffee and listening to music, particularly Bob Dylan and Nick Cave. He loves living in Canberra – Australia’s “bush capital,” as it’s incredibly easy to get out of the city to do outdoorsy things and he is particularly keen on running and bouldering.
Please note grants/publications etc below are likely out of date. More recent information is available through Nick's website: https://nwhitegroup.com
Publications
- Yu, L, Cullen, D, Morshedi, m et al. 2021, 'Room Temperature Hydrolysis of Benzamidines and Benzamidiniums in Weakly Basic Water', Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 86, no. 19, pp. 13762-13767.
- White, N 2021, 'Amidinium⋯carboxylate frameworks: Predictable, robust, water-stable hydrogen bonded materials', Chemical Communications, vol. 57, no. 84, pp. 10998-11008.
- Nicks, J, Boer, S, White, N et al. 2021, 'Monolayer nanosheets formed by liquid exfoliation of charge-assisted hydrogen-bonded frameworks', Chemical Science, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 3322-3327.
- Maria Thomas, C, Foyle, E, Walker, S et al. 2021, 'An Investigation of Five Component [3+2] Self-Assembled Cage Formation Using Amidinium···Carboxylate Hydrogen Bonds', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 74, pp. 787-794.
- Foyle, E & White, N 2021, 'Anion Templated Supramolecular Structures Assembled using 1,2,3-Triazole and Triazolium motifs', Chemistry - An Asian Journal, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 575-587.
- Yeoh, J, Di Bernardo, I, White, N et al. 2021, 'Iron-based energy storage materials from carbon dioxide and scrap metal', Materials Advances, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 292-302.
- Bunchuay, T, Docker, A, White, N et al. 2021, 'A new halogen bonding 1,2-iodo-triazolium-triazole benzene motif for anion recognition', Polyhedron, vol. 209.
- Boer, S, Yu, L, Genet, T et al. 2020, 'What's in an Atom? A Comparison of Carbon and Silicon-Centred Amidinium...Carboxylate Frameworks', Chemistry, A European Journal, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1768-1776.
- Zhao, W, Flood, A & White, N 2020, 'Recognition and applications of anion-anion dimers based on anti-electrostatic hydrogen bonds (AEHBs)', Chemical Society Reviews, vol. 49, no. 22, pp. 7893-7906.
- Foyle, E & White, N 2020, 'Anion templated crystal engineering of halogen bonding tripodal tris(halopyridinium) compounds', CrystEngComm, vol. 22, no. 14, pp. 2526-2536.
- Liang, W, Carraro, F, Solomon, M et al. 2019, 'Enzyme Encapsulation in a Porous Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 141, no. 36, pp. 14298-14305.
- Owais, A, Djerdjev, A, Hook, J et al. 2019, 'Host-guest interactions of catechol and 4-ethylcatechol with surface-immobilized blue-box molecules', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 7, no. 20, pp. 12713-12722.
- Cullen, D, Gardiner, M & White, N 2019, 'A three dimensional hydrogen bonded organic framework assembled through antielectrostatic hydrogen bonds', Chemical Communications, vol. 55, no. 80, pp. 12020-12023.
- Boer, S, Morshedi, M, Tarzia, A et al 2019, 'Molecular Tectonics: A Node-and-Linker Building Block Approach to a Family of Hydrogen-Bonded Frameworks', Chemistry, A European Journal, vol. 25, no. 42, pp. 10006-10012.
- White, N 2019, 'Recent advances in self-assembled amidinium and guanidinium frameworks', Dalton Transactions, vol. 48, no. 21, pp. 7062-7068.
- White, N 2019, 'Antielectrostatically hydrogen bonded anion dimers: counter-intuitive, common and consistent', CrystEngComm, vol. 21, no. 33, pp. 4855-4858.
- Boer, S, Wang, P, MacLachlan, M et al. 2019, 'Open Pentiptycene Networks Assembled through Charge-Assisted Hydrogen Bonds', Crystal Growth & Design, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 4829-4835.
- Anglim Lagones, T, Boer, S & White, N 2019, 'Hydrogen Bonding Guests Direct the Packing of a Small Organic Cage Molecule', Crystal Growth and Design, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 4121-4126.
- Boer, S, Foyle, E, Maria Thomas, C et al. 2019, 'Anion coordination chemistry using O-H groups', Chemical Society Reviews, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 2596-2614.
- Morshedi, M, Thomas, M, White, N et al 2019, 'Easily-prepared Hydroxy-containing Receptors Recognize Anions in Aqueous Media', Chemistry - An Asian Journal, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 1271-1277.
- RodrÃguez-Jimenez, S, Barltrop, A, White, N et al. 2018, 'Solvent Polarity Predictably Tunes Spin Crossover T-1/2 in Isomeric Iron(II) Pyrimidine Triazoles', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. 6266-6282pp.
- Beaulieu-Houle, G, White, N & MacLachlan, M 2018, 'Coordination Polymers from Functionalized Bipyrimidine Ligands and Silver(I) Salts', Crystal Growth & Design, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 2210-2216pp.
- Morshedi, M, Ward, J, Kruger, P et al 2018, 'Supramolecular frameworks based on 5,10,15,20-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrins', Dalton Transactions, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 783-790.
- White, N 2018, 'A Rapid and Straightforward Supramolecular Self-Assembly Experiment to Prepare and Characterize a Triple Helicate Complex', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 648-651.
- Brown, A, Bunchuay, T, Crane, C et al 2018, 'A Bis-Triazacyclononane Tris-Pyridyl N9-Azacryptand “Beer Can” Receptor for Complexation of Alkali Metal and Lead(II) Cations', Chemistry, A European Journal, vol. 24, no. 41, pp. 10434-10442.
- Brown, A, Mennie, K, Mason, O et al 2017, 'Copper(II)-directed synthesis of neutral heteroditopic [2]rotaxane ion-pair host systems incorporating hydrogen and halogen bonding anion binding cavities', Dalton Transactions, vol. 46, no. 39, pp. 13376-13385.
- Mehr, H, Oshima, H, Carta, V et al 2017, 'Tuning the tautomeric behavior of tris(salicylaldimines)', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 15, no. 39, pp. 8418-8424.
- Bennington, M, Feltham, H, Buxton, Z et al 2017, 'Tuneable reversible redox of cobalt(iii) carbazole complexes', Dalton Transactions, vol. 46, no. 14, pp. 4696-4710.
- Morshedi, M, Thomas, M, Tarzia, A et al 2017, 'Supramolecular anion recognition in water: synthesis of hydrogen-bonded supramolecular frameworks', Chemical Science, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 3019-3025.
- Morshedi, M & White, N 2017, 'Mixed halide/oxoanion-templated frameworks', CrystEngComm, vol. 19, no. 17, pp. 2367-2371pp.
- M Thomas, T Anglim Lagones, M Judd, Morshedi, M, O'Mara, M & White, N 2017, 'Hydrogen bond-Driven Self-Assembly between Amidinium Cations and Carboxylate Anions: A Combined Molecular Dynamics, NMR Spectroscopy, and Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Study', Chemistry - An Asian Journal, vol. 12, no. 13, pp. 1587-1597.
- Chen, Z, Guieu, S, White, N et al 2016, 'The Rich Tautomeric Behavior of Campestarenes', Chemistry, A European Journal, vol. 22, no. 49, pp. 17657 -17672pp.
- Morshedi, M, Willis, A & White, N 2016, 'Anion-templated 2D frameworks from hexahydroxytriphenylene', CrystEngComm, vol. 18, no. 23, pp. 4281-4284.
- White, N & Brooker, S 2016, 'New complexation behaviour of the potentially bis-terdentate triazole based ligands PMAT and PMPT: FeIII4 oxo-bridged metallomacrocycles', Polyhedron, vol. 103, no. 8 January 2016, pp. 283-287.
- Gilday, L, White, N & Beer, P 2016, 'Shielded alkyl-functionalised rotaxane host cavities for improved anion recognition', Supramolecular Chemistry, vol. 28, no. 1-2, pp. 62-83.
- White, N & MacLachlan, M 2015, 'Soluble Tetraaminotriptycene Precursors', Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 80, no. 16, pp. 8390-8397.
- White, N & MacLachlan, M 2015, 'Anion-templated hexagonal nanotubes', Chemical Science, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 6245-6249.
- White, N & MacLachlan, M 2015, 'Anion and Cation Effects on Anion-Templated Assembly of Tetrahydroxytriptycene', Crystal Growth & Design, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 5629-5636.
- Crane, A, White, N & MacLachlan, M 2015, 'Metal organic frameworks from extended, conjugated pentiptycene-based ligands', CrystEngComm, vol. 17, no. 26, pp. 4912-4918pp.
- Robinson, S, Mustoe, C, White, N et al 2015, 'Evidence for Halogen Bond Covalency in Acyclic and Interlocked Halogen-Bonding Receptor Anion Recognition', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 137, no. 1, pp. 499-507.
- White, N, Carta, V & MacLachlan, M 2015, 'Layered 2D Sheetlike Supramolecular Polymers Formed by O−H···Anion Hydrogen Bonds', Crystal Growth & Design, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1540-1545.
- White, N, Colaco, A, Marques, I et al 2014, 'Halide selective anion recognition by an amide-triazolium axle containing [2]rotaxane', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 12, no. 27, pp. 4924-4931.
- White, N, Caballero, A & Beer, P 2014, 'Observation of strong halogen bonds in the solid state structures of bis-haloimidazolium macrocycles', CrystEngComm, vol. 16, no. 18, pp. 3722-3729.
- White, N, Serpell, C & Beer, P 2014, 'Structural Study of Triazole and Amide Containing Anion-Templated Pseudorotaxanes', Crystal Growth & Design, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 3472-3479.
- Caballero, A, White, N & Beer, P 2014, 'A ferrocene imidazolium-based macrocycle as an electrochemical chemosensor for halide anions', CrystEngComm, vol. 16, no. 18, pp. 3694 - 3698.
- Hoque, R, Miller, R, White, N et al 2014, 'Hysteretic spin crossover in iron(II) complexes of a new pyridine-triazole-pyrazine ligand is tuned by choice of NCE co-ligand', Chemical Communications, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 1435-1437.
- White, N, Lovett, H & Beer, P 2014, 'Bis-triazolium containing macrocycles, pseudorotaxanes and interlocked structures for anion recognition', RSC Advances, vol. 4, no. 24, pp. 12133-12147.
- White, N & Brooker, S 2013, 'Metal acetates form diverse polynuclear complexes with 4-amino-3,5-di( 2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole ( adpt)', Supramolecular Chemistry, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 806-811.
- White, N, Costa, P, Carvalho, S et al 2013, 'Increased Halide Recognition Strength by Enhanced Intercomponent Preorganisation in Triazolium Containing [2] Rotaxanes', Chemistry, A European Journal, vol. 19, no. 52, pp. 17751-17765.
- Gilday, L, White, N & Beer, P 2013, 'Halogen- and hydrogen-bonding triazole-functionalised porphyrin-based receptors for anion recognition', Dalton Transactions, vol. 42, no. 44, pp. 15766-15773.
- Liang, Q, Chong, J, White, N et al 2013, 'Towards a self-assembled honeycomb structure via diaminotriptycene metal complexes', Dalton Transactions, vol. 42, no. 47, pp. 16474-16477.
- Kitchen, J, Olguin, J, Kulmaczewski, R et al 2013, 'Effect of N4-Substituent Choice on Spin Crossover in Dinuclear Iron(II) Complexes of Bis-Terdentate 1,2,4-Triazole-Based Ligands', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 52, no. 19, pp. 11185-11199.
- White, N & Beer, P 2013, 'A rotaxane host system containing integrated triazole C-H hydrogen bond donors for anion recognition', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 1326-1333.
- White, N & Beer, P 2012, 'A ferrocene redox-active triazolium macrocycle that binds and senses chloride', Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 8, pp. 246-252.
- White, N & Beer, P 2012, 'A catenane host system containing integrated triazole C-H hydrogen bond donors for anion recognition', Chemical Communications, vol. 48, no. 68, pp. 8499-8501.
- White, N & Beer, P 2012, 'Jack of all trades: anion and transition metal binding by bis-triazole receptors', Supramolecular Chemistry, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 473-480.
- White, N, Carvalho, S, Felix, V et al 2012, 'Anion binding in aqueous media by a tetra-triazolium macrocycle', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 10, no. 34, pp. 6951 - 6959.
- Zapata, F, Caballero, A, White, N et al 2012, 'Fluorescent Charge-Assisted Halogen-Bonding Macrocyclic Halo-Imidazolium Receptors for Anion Recognition and Sensing in Aqueous Media', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 134, no. 28, pp. 11533-11541.
- Brooker, S, White, N, Bauza, A et al 2012, 'Understanding the Forces That Govern Packing: A Density Functional Theory and Structural Investigation of Anion-pi-Anion and Nonclassical C-H center dot center dot center dot Anion Interactions', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 51, no. 19, pp. 10334-10340.
- White, N, Kitchen, J, Joule, J et al 2012, 'Copper-induced N-N bond cleavage results in an octanuclear expanded-core grid-like complex', Chemical Communications, vol. 48, no. 50, pp. 6229-6231.
- Caballero, A, Zapata, F, White, N et al 2012, 'A Halogen-Bonding Catenane for Anion Recognition and Sensing', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 1876-1880.
- Spence, G, White, N & Beer, P 2012, 'Investigating the effect of macrocycle size in anion templated imidazolium-based interpenetrated and interlocked assemblies', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 10, no. 36, pp. 7282-7291.
- Gilday, L, White, N & Beer, P 2012, 'Triazole- and triazolium-containing porphyrin-cages for optical anion sensing', Dalton Transactions, vol. 41, no. 23, pp. 7092 - 7097.
- Kitchen, J, White, N, Jameson, G et al 2011, 'Effect of Counteranion X on the Spin Crossover Properties of a Family of Diiron(II) Triazole Complexes [FeII2(PMAT)2](X)4', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 50, no. 10, pp. 4586-4597.
- Caballero, A, White, N & Beer, P 2011, 'A bidentate halogen-bonding bromoimidazoliophane receptor for bromide ion recognition in aqueous media', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 1845 -1848.
- Leontiev, A, Serpell, C, White, N et al 2011, 'Cation-induced molecular motion of spring-like [2]catenanes', Chemical Science, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 922-927.
- Evans, N, Serpell, C, White, N et al 2011, 'A 1,2,3,4,5-Pentaphenylferrocene-Stoppered Rotaxane Capable of Electrochemical Anion Recognition', Chemistry, A European Journal, vol. 17, no. 44, pp. 12347-12354.
- White, N, Feltham, H, Gandolfi, C et al 2010, 'Towards Langmuir-Blodgett films of magnetically interesting materials: solution equilibria in amphiphilic iron(II) complexes of a triazole-containing ligand', Dalton Transactions, vol. 39, no. 15, pp. 3751-3758.
- Kitchen, J, White, N, Gandolfi, C et al 2010, 'Room-temperature spin crossover and Langmuir-Blodgett film formation of an iron(II) triazole complex featuring a long alkyl chain substituent: the tail that wags the dog', Chemical Communications, vol. 46, no. 35, pp. 6464-6466.
- White, N, Kitchen, J & Brooker, S 2009, 'A Structural Investigation of Anion-Triazole Interactions: Observation of "Î -Pockets" and "Î -Sandwiches"', European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2009, no. 9, pp. 1172-1180.
- Kitchen, J, White, N, Boyd, M et al 2009, 'Iron(II) Tris-[N4-substituted-3,5-di(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole] Complexes: Structural, Magnetic, NMR, and Density Functional Theory Studies', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 48, no. 14, pp. 6670-6679.
- Bhattacharjee, A, Ksenofontov, V, Kitchen, J et al. 2008, 'Effect of pressure and light on the spin transition behavior of the dinuclear iron(II) compound [FeII2(PMAT)2](BF4)4â‹…DMF', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 92, pp. 174104 -1-3.
- Price, J, White, N, Perez-Velasco, A et al 2008, 'Factors Influencing Tetranuclear [2 x 2] Grid vs Dinuclear Side-by-Side Structures for Silver(I) Complexes of Pyridazine-Based Bis-Bidentate Ligands', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 47, pp. 10729-10738.
- Brandt, C, Kitchen, J, Beckmann, U et al 2007, 'Synthesis and Structures of 3,5-disubstituted 1,2,4-triazole Head Units and Incorporation of 3,5-dibenzoyl-1,2,4-triazolate into New [2 + 2] Schiff- Base Macrocyclic Complexes', Supramolecular Chemistry, vol. 19, no. 1-2, pp. 17-27.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Self-assembled supramolecular cages for guest binding and catalysis (Primary Investigator)
- Next generation supramolecular frameworks (Primary Investigator)
- Enzyme-inspired polymer nanomaterials (Secondary Investigator)
- Next generation facility for investigating thermodynamics and kinetics (Secondary Investigator)
- Anion-templated functional architectures (Primary Investigator)