Bespoke Organometallic Compounds for Anticancer Studies PhD 36 months PHD Programme By Loughborough University |TopUniversities
Subject Ranking

# 301-350QS Subject Rankings

Programme Duration

36 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

27,500 Tuition Fee/year

Application Deadline

30 Sep, 2025Application Deadline

Programme overview

Main Subject

Chemistry

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

Organometallic compounds, complexes bearing a M-C bond, constitute a highly important class that find uses in a multitude of areas. Various globally significant applications, for example, developing new drugs for medicinal chemistry can attribute their huge success to the diversity of ancillary ligands that can be incorporated to access libraries of organometallic compounds possessing similar structural features.
We have been interested, for many years, in studying the chemistry of various organometallic compounds based primarily on late transition metals such as ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, palladium, and platinum to name but a few. Ideal spectator ligands, complimentary to those aforementioned target metals, often include specific Group 15 donor atoms incorporating nitrogen or phosphorus centres that can firmly anchor these metal centres.
In this exciting project, we will use synthetic methodologies developed in our research group to prepare novel families of (i) New fluorescent Schiff base chelating ligands and (ii) Preorganised fluorescent diphosphane ligands with unique bridging capabilities for anchoring two organometallic metal centres. Once synthesised and characterised, these compounds will be systematically evaluated for their cytotoxic properties.
This project will provide an excellent training opportunity, for a prospective PhD candidate, in modern well-equipped laboratories with access to multinuclear NMR facilities, X-ray crystallography, fluorescence spectroscopy, elemental imaging and bio lab testing facilities.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Chemistry

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

Organometallic compounds, complexes bearing a M-C bond, constitute a highly important class that find uses in a multitude of areas. Various globally significant applications, for example, developing new drugs for medicinal chemistry can attribute their huge success to the diversity of ancillary ligands that can be incorporated to access libraries of organometallic compounds possessing similar structural features.
We have been interested, for many years, in studying the chemistry of various organometallic compounds based primarily on late transition metals such as ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, palladium, and platinum to name but a few. Ideal spectator ligands, complimentary to those aforementioned target metals, often include specific Group 15 donor atoms incorporating nitrogen or phosphorus centres that can firmly anchor these metal centres.
In this exciting project, we will use synthetic methodologies developed in our research group to prepare novel families of (i) New fluorescent Schiff base chelating ligands and (ii) Preorganised fluorescent diphosphane ligands with unique bridging capabilities for anchoring two organometallic metal centres. Once synthesised and characterised, these compounds will be systematically evaluated for their cytotoxic properties.
This project will provide an excellent training opportunity, for a prospective PhD candidate, in modern well-equipped laboratories with access to multinuclear NMR facilities, X-ray crystallography, fluorescence spectroscopy, elemental imaging and bio lab testing facilities.

Admission Requirements

3.2+
6.5+
92+

30 Sep 2025
3 Years
Apr
Jul

Domestic
4,786
International
27,500

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