UCD School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Scoil na Ceimice agus na Ceimbhitheolaíochta UCD

Dr Grace Morgan BSc, PhD, PGCE

Contact Details

Title	Lecturer
Address	School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Science Centre Belfield Dublin 4
Telephone:	Ext. 2295
Email:	ei.dcu@nagrom.ecarg

Biography:

1991 BSc (Hons), The Queen's University of Belfast
1995 PhD, The Open University
1996 P.G.C.E. The Queen's University of Belfast
1996-1999 Instructor in Inorganic Chemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast
1999-2000 Post doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
2000- Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University College Dublin

Research Interests

1. Design, preparation and evaluation of the biological activity of 1,4-benzoquinone ligands and their silver and gold complexes, particularly their antitumour, cytotoxic and antiparasitic properties (with Dr Jane Irwin, UCD Veterinary Science.

2. Evaluation of the efficacy of inorganic dyes as light harvesting media in dye-sensitized solar cells (Gratzel cells

3. Investigation of the geometric and electronic factors which promote magnetic switching between spin states in manganese(III) and iron(III) complexes.

4. Design of main group and transition metal complexes for fixation of CO2 and subsequent heteroeneous catalytic conversion to high value oxygenated hydrocarbons by reaction with molecular hydrogen (in collaboration with Dr James Sullivan, UCD Chemistry & Chemical Biology.

Peer Reviewed Journals

P. N. Martinho, B. Gildea, M. M. Harris, T. Lemma, A. D. Naik, H. Muller-Bunz, T. E. Keyes, Y. Garcia and G. G. Morgan (2012) 'Cooperative Spin Transition in a Mononuclear Manganese(III) Complex'. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, . [DOI] [Details]

Komala Pandurangan, Brendan Gildea, Caroline Murray, Charles J. Harding, Helge Muller-Bunz and Grace G. Morgan; (2012) 'Lattice Effects on the Spin Crossover Profile of a Manganese(III) Cation'. Chemistry-A European Journal, 18 :2021-2029. [Details]

Grace G. Morgan, Kevin Fennell, M. Jhansi L. Kishore, James A. Sullivan (2012) 'Tethering of bi-nuclear complexes to SBA-15 and their application in CO2 hydrogenation'. Chemcatchem, . [Details]

C. Murray, B. Gildea, H. Müller-Bunz, C. J. Harding and G. G. Morgan (2012) 'Co-crystallisation of Competing Structural Modes in Geometrically Constrained Jahn-Teller Manganese(III) Complexes'. Dalton Transactions, . [DOI] [Details]

P, N. Martinho, T. Lemma, B. Gildea, G. Picardi, H. Müller-Bunz, R. J. Forster, T. E. Keyes, G. Redmond and G. G. Morgan (2012) 'Template Assembly of Spin Crossover 1D Nanowires'. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, . [DOI] [Details]

P. N. Martinho, Y. Ortin, B. Gildea, C. Gandolfi, G. McKerr, B. O¿Hagan, M. Albrecht and G. G. Morgan (2012) 'Inducing Hysteretic Spin Crossover in Solution'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, 41 . [Details]
B. Gildea, L. C. Gavin, C. A. Murray, H. Müller-Bunz, C. J. Harding and G. G. Morgan (2012) 'Supramolecular Modulation of Transition Profile in Spin Crossover Manganese(III)'. Supramolecular Chemistry, . [Details]
C.Gandolfi, G. G. Morgan and M. Albrecht (2012) 'A Magnetic Iron(III) Switch with Controlled and Adjustable Thermal Response for Solution Processing'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, 41 :3726-3730. [Details]
M. Griffin, S. Shakespeare, H. J. Shepherd, C. J. Harding, J.-F. Létard, C. Desplanches, A. E. Goeta, J. A. K. Howard, A. K. Powell, V. Mereacre, Y. Garcia, A. D. Naik, H. Müller-Bunz and G. G. Morgan ; (2011) 'A Symmetry Breaking Spin Transition in Iron(III)'. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 50 (4):896-900. [DOI] [Details]
Claudio Gandolfi, Tatiana Cotting, Paulo N. Martinho, Olha Sereda, Antonia Neels, Grace G. Morgan and Martin Albrecht ; (2011) 'Synthesis and self-assembly of spin-labile and redox-active manganese(III) complexes'. Dalton Transactions, 40 :1855-1865. [DOI] [Details]
G. G. Morgan, K. Pandurangan, K. D. Murnaghan, A. Walsh, F. Paradisi and H. Müller-Bunz; (2011) 'Design, Synthesis and Structure of Novel Para-Quinones and Assessment of their Antibacterial Activity'. Chemical Biology and Drug Design, 78 :787-799. [Details]
Martinho, PN,Harding, CJ,Muller-Bunz, H,Albrecht, M,Morgan, GG; (2010) 'Inducing Spin Crossover in Amphiphilic Iron(III) Complexes'. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2010 (5):675-679. [DOI] [Details]
K. Pandurangan, S. Gallagher, G. G. Morgan, H. Müller-Bunz and F. Paradisi; (2010) 'Structure and Antibacterial Activity of the Silver(I) Complex of 2-Aminophenoxazine-3-one'. Metallomics, 2 :530-534. [Details]
Gandolfi, C,Miyashita, N,Kurth, DG,Martinho, PN,Morgan, GG,Albrecht, M; (2010) 'Organization of spin- and redox-labile metal centers into Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, 39 :4508-4516. [DOI] [Details]
Claudio Gandolfi, Christian Moitzi, Peter Schurtenberger, Grace G. Morgan and Martin Albrecht; (2008) 'Improved Cooperativity of Spin-Labile Iron(III) Centers by Self-Assembly in Solution'. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130 . [Details]
Morgan, G. G., Murnaghan, K. D., Muller-Bunz, H., McKee, V. and Harding, C. J. ; (2006) 'Manganese(III) Spin Crossover Triggered by Geometric Tuning'. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 45 :7192-7195. [Details]
McKee, V., Nelson, J. and Morgan, G. G. ; (2006) 'Tris[2-(2-nitrobenzylideneamino)ethyl]amine'. Acta Crystallogr E, 62 (9):3747-3749. [Details]
McKee, V; Morgan, GG; ; (2003) 'A perchlorate salt of an octaprotonated cryptand'. Acta Crystallographica Section C-Crystal Structure, 59 (NA):150-152. [Details]
Drew, M.G.B., O. W. Howarth, N. Martin, G. G. Morgan and J. Nelson; (2000) 'Encapsulated Tl(III) Strongly Retained within an Iminophenolate Cryptand host'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, . [Details]
Drew, M.G.B., D. Farrell, G.G. Morgan, V. McKee and J. Nelson; (2000) 'd10 Cations within Triple-helical Cryptand hosts; a Structural and Modelling Study'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, . [Details]
O. W. Howarth, G. G. Morgan, V. McKee and J. Nelson; (1999) 'Conformational Choice in a Disilver Cryptate: an 1H nmr and Structural Study'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, . [Details]
Morgan, G.G., J. Nelson and V. McKee Prog. Inorg. Chem., 1998, 47, 167.; (1998) 'Coordination of Azacryptands'. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry, 47 . [Details]
F. A. Deeny, C. J. Harding, G. G. Morgan, V. McKee, S. J. Teat and W. Clegg; (1998) 'Response to Steric Constraint in Azacryptate and Related Complexes of Iron-(II) and -(III)'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, . [Details]
M. G. B. Drew, C. J. Harding, O. W. Howarth, Q. Lu, D. J. marrs, G. G. Morgan, V. McKee and J. Nelson; (1996) 'Thiophene-Linked Azacryptand Sites for Dicopper and Disilver; Thiophene as an Inert Spacer?'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, :3021-3030. [Details]
M. G. B. Drew, V. Felix, V. McKee, G. Morgan and J. Nelson; (1995) '15. The Importance of Methyl Groups and Aromatic Rings in Homo-and Hetero-Cyclophane Structures - A Molecular Mechanics and X-ray Crystallographic Investigation'. Supramolecular Chemistry, 2 . [Details]
G. Morgan, V. McKee and J. Nelson; (1995) 'Caged Anions - Perchlorate and Perfluoroanion Cryptates'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Chemical Communications, . [Details]
M. G. B. Drew, C. J. Harding, V. McKee, G. G. Morgan and J. Nelson; (1995) 'Geometric Control of Manganese Redox State'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Chemical Communications, . [Details]
M. G. B. Drew, O. W. Howarth, G. G. Morgan and J. Nelson; (1994) '18. Proton Transfer in a Phenol-Based Compartmental Cryptate ¿ Solution and Solid-State Structural Studies'. Journal of the Chemical Society-Dalton Transactions, . [Details]
G. Morgan, V. McKee and J. Nelson; (1994) 'Disorder in a Disilver Azacryptate Structure'. Inorganic Chemistry, 33 . [Details]
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Conference Publications

Thampi, KR (Thampi, K. Ravindranathan); Morgan, G (Morgan, Grace); Sullivan, J (Sullivan, James); Coburn, N (Coburn, Nadia); Dini, D (Dini, Danilo); Vos, H (Vos, Han); MacElroy, JMD (MacElroy, J. M. Don) ; (2011) New methods and architectures for CO(2) reduction through artificial photosynthesis AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Meeting Abstract: 117-FUEL [Details]