Professor Woollins currently holds the position of Vice Principal (Research) and Provost of St Leonards College at the University of St Andrews where he is a Professor of Synthetic Chemistry
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Chemical Sciences; Crystallography; Inorganic Chemistry; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Infrared spectroscopy; Metal complex; Organic reagent; Sulfur nitrogen; Phosphorus sulfur; Raman spectroscopy; Organophosphorus sulfide; Synthetic inorganic
My major interests are in the synthesis and study of main group sulfur and phosphorus heterocycles. Sulfur nitrogen [NS] and phosphorus sulfur [PS] compounds are under investigation with particular interest in the preparation of materials with interesting electrical properties and new organic reagents.
Structural investigations are carried out using X-ray crystallography, infrared/Raman and multielement nuclear magnetic resonance [NMR].
Currently, my work is particularly concerned with the preparation of metal complexes containing simple NS and PS ligands, and in the synthesis of simple organophosphorus sulfides.