Publications

2025

• Stubbs, C. L.; Bryant, M. J.; Hatcher, L. E.; Raithby, P. R. 2025. Manipulating vapochromic or solvatochromic properties of platinum(ii) pincer complexes through ligand modifications. CrystEngComm, 27 (46), 7498–7513, (10.1039/D5CE00747J)

• Lewis, S. G.; Warren, M. R.; Hatcher, L. E. 2025. The Impact of X-ray Damage in Chemical Crystalline Materials and New Opportunities for Small Molecule Serial Crystallography. Chemistry – A European Journal, e01711. (https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202501711)

• Wayment, L. E.; Scott, C. D.; Saunders, L. K.; Payne, P.; Hatcher, L. E.; Winter, G.; Williams, B.; Allan, D. R.; Wilson, C. C.; Warren, M. R.; et al. 2025. Segmented milli-fluidic crystallisation of paracetamol with in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Chemical Science, 16 (30), 13769–13773. (10.1039/D4SC08565E)

• Lewis, S. G.; Coulson, B. A.; Harris, K. D. M.; Warren, A. J.; Warren, M. R.; Hatcher, L. E. 2025. Controlled microcrystallization for in situ photocrystallography: optimizing crystal size and habit. CrystEngComm 2025, 27, 4965 – 4975. (10.1039/D5CE00367A)

• White, L. E. M.; Gianga, T.-M.; Pradaux-Caggiano, F.; Faverio, C.; Taddeucci, A.; Rzepa, H. S.; Jonhannesen, C.; Hatcher, L. E.; Siligardi, G.; Carbery, D. R.; et al. 2025. Enantiopure synthesis of [5]helicene based molecular lemniscates and their use in chiroptical materials. Nature Communications, 16 (1), 2837. (10.1038/s41467-025-58162-1)

2024

• Lewis, S. G., Coulson, B. A., Warren, A. J., Warren, M. R. and Hatcher, L. E. 2024. Small-rotative fixed-target serial synchrotron crystallography (SR-FT-SSX) for molecular crystals. Communications Chemistry 7(1), 264. (10.1038/s42004-024-01360-7)

• Hatcher, L. E., Warren, M. R. and Raithby, P. R. 2024. Methods in molecular photocrystallography. Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry 80(10), article number: C80. (10.1107/s2053229624007460)

• Pallikara, I., Skelton, J. M., Hatcher, L. E. and Pallipurath, A. R. 2024. Going beyond the ordered bulk: A perspective on the use of the Cambridge Structural Database for predictive materials Design. Crystal Growth and Design 24(17), pp. 6911-6930. (10.1021/acs.cgd.4c00694)

• Hatcher, L. E. and Raithby, P. R. 2024. Dynamic crystal structure of a molecular framework. Nature Chemistry 16, pp. 674-675. (10.1038/s41557-024-01514-z)

• Morris, J. J. et al. 2024. Exploring pyroelectricity, thermal and photochemical switching in a hybrid organic-inorganic crystal by in situ X-ray diffraction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 63(20), article number: e202401552. (10.1002/anie.202401552)

•  Li, W.; Hatcher, L. E.; Wilson, C. C.; Rielly, C. D.; Benyahia, B. 2024. A framework for systematic crystal shape tuning – Case of Lovastatin's needle-shaped crystals. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 202, 126–146. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2023.12.016)

2023

• Bryant, M. J., Fuertes, S., Hatcher, L. E., Thomas, L. H. and Raithby, P. R. 2023. Structural modifications to platinum(ii) pincer complexes resulting in changes in their vapochromic and solvatochromic properties. Faraday Discussions 244, pp. 411-433. (10.1039/d3fd00025g)

• Hatcher, L. E., Saunders, L. K. and Coulson, B. A. 2022. Uncovering the role of non-covalent interactions in solid-state photoswitches by non-spherical structure refinements with NoSpherA2. Faraday Discussions (10.1039/d2fd00158f)

2022

• Hatcher, L. E. et al. 2022. LED-pump-X-ray-multiprobe crystallography for sub-second timescales. Communications Chemistry 5(1), article number: 102. (10.1038/s42004-022-00716-1)

• Coulson, B. A. and Hatcher, L. E. 2022. Exploring the influence of polymorphism and chromophore co-ligands on linkage isomer photoswitching in [Pd(bpy4dca)(NO2)2]. CrystEngComm 24(20), pp. 3701-3714. (10.1039/D2CE00213B)

2020

• Hatcher, L. E., Burgess, A. J., Payne, P. and Wilson, C. C. 2020. From structure to crystallisation and pharmaceutical manufacturing: the CSD in CMAC Workflows. CrystEngComm 22, pp. 7475-7489. (10.1039/D0CE00898B)

• Hatcher, L. E., Li, W., Payne, P., Benyahia, B., Rielly, C. D. and Wilson, C. C. 2020. Tuning morphology in active pharmaceutical ingredients: controlling the crystal habit of lovastatin through solvent choice and non-size-matched polymer additives. Crystal Growth and Design 20(9), pp. 5854-5862. (10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00470)

• Kaminski, R. et al. 2020. Instrument-model refinement in normalized reciprocal-vector space for X-ray Laue diffraction. Journal of Applied Crystallography 53(5), pp. 1370-1375. (10.1107/S1600576720011929)

• Charles, B. et al. 2020. Phase behavior and substitution limit of mixed cesium-formamidinium lead triiodide perovskites. Chemistry of Materials 32(6), pp. 2282-2291. (10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04032)

• Hatcher, L. E., Warren, M. R., Pallipurath, A. R., Saunders, L. K. and Skelton, J. M. 2020. Watching photochemistry happen: recent developments in dynamic single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. In: 21st Century Challenges in Chemical Crystallography I., Vol. 185. Structure and Bonding Springer-verlag, pp. 199-238., (10.1007/430_2020_78)

2019

• Saunders, L. K. et al. 2019. Exploring short strong hydrogen bonds engineered in organic acid molecular crystals for temperature dependent proton migration behaviour using single crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SCSXRD). CrystEngComm 21(35) (10.1039/C9CE00925F)

• Turner, T. D., Hatcher, L. E., Wilson, C. C. and Roberts, K. J. 2019. Habit modification of the active pharmaceutical ingredient lovastatin through a predictive solvent selection approach. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 108(5) (10.1016/j.xphs.2018.12.012)

• Hatcher, L. E., Skelton, J. M., Warren, M. R. and Raithby, P. R. 2019. Photocrystallographic studies on transition metal nitrito metastable linkage isomers: manipulating the metastable state. Accounts of Chemical Research 52(4) (10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00018)

2018

• Hatcher, L. E. 2018. Understanding solid-state photoswitching in [ReIJOMe2-bpy)IJCO)3IJη1-NO2)] crystals via in situ photocrystallography. CrystEngComm 20(39), article number: 5990. (10.1039/C8CE00774H)

• Saunders, L. K. et al. 2018. Tuning charge-assisted and weak hydrogen bonds in molecular complexes of the proton sponge DMAN by acid co-former substitution. CrystEngComm 20(22) (10.1039/C8CE00443A)

• Gee, W. J., Hatcher, L. E., Cameron, C. A., Stubbs, C., Warren, M. R., Burrows, A. D. and Raithby, P. R. 2018. Evaluating iodine uptake in a crystalline sponge using dynamic X-ray crystallography. Inorganic Chemistry 57(9), pp. 4959-4965. (10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03218)

• Henderson, J. et al. 2018. New polymorphs of perylene: tetracyanoquinodimethane charge transfer cocrystals. Crystal Growth and Design 18(4), pp. 2003-2009. (10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01391)

• Hatcher, L. E., Skelton, J. M., Warren, M. R., Stubbs, C., da Silva, E. L. and Raithby, P. R. 2018. Monitoring photo-induced population dynamics in metastable linkage isomer crystals: a crystallographic kinetic study of [Pd(Bu4dien)NO2]BPh4. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20(8) (10.1039/C7CP05422J)

2017

• Bryant, M. J. et al. 2017. A rapidly-reversible absorptive and emissive vapochromic Pt(II) pincer-based chemical sensor. Nature Communications 8, article number: 1800. (10.1038/s41467-017-01941-2)

• Hatcher, L. E. and Raithby, P. R. 2017. The impact of hydrogen bonding on 100% photo-switching in solid-state nitro-nitrito linkage isomers. CrystEngComm 19(42) (10.1039/C7CE01366C)

2016

• Hendon, C. H. et al. 2016. Magnetic coupling in a hybrid Mn(ii) acetylene dicarboxylate. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18(48) (10.1039/C6CP06886C)

• Woodall, C. H. et al. 2016. Observation of a re-entrant phase transition in the molecular complex tris­(μ2-3,5-diiso­propyl-1,2,4-triazolato-κ2N1:N2)trigold(I) under high pressure. IUCrJ 3(5), pp. 376. (10.1107/S2052252516013129)

• Hatcher, L. E. 2016. Raising the (metastable) bar: 100% photo-switching in [Pd(Bu4dien)(η1-O2)]+ approaches ambient temperature. CrystEngComm 18(22), pp. 4180-4187. (10.1039/C5CE02434J)

• Murray, A. T. et al. 2016. Modelling flavoenzymatic charge transfer events: development of catalytic indole deuteration strategies. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 14(15), pp. 3787-3792. (10.1039/C6OB00361C)

• Shepherd, H. et al. 2016. A high pressure investigation of the order-disorder phase transition and accompanying spin crossover in [FeL12](ClO4)2 (L1 = 2,6-bis{3-methylpyrazol-1-yl}-pyrazine). Magnetochemistry 2(1), pp. -., article number: 9. (10.3390/magnetochemistry2010009)

2015

• Skelton, J. M., Lora da Silva, E., Crespo-Otero, R., Hatcher, L. E., Raithby, P. R., Parker, S. C. and Walsh, A. 2015. Electronic excitations in molecular solids: bridging theory and experiment. Faraday Discussions 177 (10.1039/C4FD00168K)

• Skelton, J. M., Crespo-Otero, R., Hatcher, L. E., Parker, S. C., Raithby, P. R. and Walsh, A. 2015. Energetics, thermal isomerisation and photochemistry of the linkage-isomer system [Ni(Et4dien)(η2-O,ON)(η1-NO2)]. CrystEngComm 17(2) (10.1039/C4CE01411A)

2014

• Woodall, C. H. et al. 2014. Tunable trimers: using temperature and pressure to control luminescent emission in gold(I) pyrazolate-based trimers. Chemistry - A European Journal 20(51), pp. 16933-16942. (10.1002/chem.201404058)

• Hatcher, L. E. and Raithby, P. R. 2014. Dynamic single-crystal diffraction studies using synchrotron radiation. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 277-27, pp. 69-79. (10.1016/j.ccr.2014.02.021)

• Hatcher, L. E. et al. 2014. Thermal and photochemical control of nitro-nitrito linkage isomerism in single-crystals of [Ni(medpt)(NO2)(η2-ONO]. CrystEngComm 16(35) (10.1039/C4CE00675E)

• Hatcher, L. E. et al. 2014. Steady‐state and pseudo‐steady‐state photocrystallographic studies on linkageiIsomers of [Ni(Et4dien)(η2‐O,ON)(η1‐NO2)]: identification of a new linkage isomer. Chemistry - A European Journal 20(11), pp. 3128-3134. (10.1002/chem.201304172)

2013

• Hatcher, L. E. and Raithby, P. R. 2013. Solid-state photochemistry of molecular photo-switchable species: the role of photocrystallographic techniques. Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications 69(12) (10.1107/S010827011303223X)

• Woodall, C. H. et al. 2013. Hingeless negative linear compression in the mechanochromic gold complex [(C6F5Au)2(μ‐1,4‐diisocyanobenzene)]. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 52(37) (10.1002/anie.201302825)

2012

• Jarvis, A. G. et al. 2012. Photochemical-mediated solid-state [2+2]-cycloaddition reactions of an unsymmetrical dibenzylidene acetone (monothiophos-dba). CrystEngComm 14(17) (10.1039/c2ce25480h)

• Warren, M. R. et al. 2012. Photoactivated linkage isomerism in single crystals of nickel, palladium and platinum di-nitro complexes – a photocrystallographic investigation. Dalton Transactions 41(42) (10.1039/c2dt30314k)

• Bajwa, S. E. et al. 2012. On the appearance of nitrite anion in [PdX(OAc)L2] and [Pd(X)(C^N)L] syntheses (X = OAc or NO2): photocrystallographic identification of metastable Pd(η1-ONO)(C^N)PPh3. Chemical Science 3(5) (10.1039/c2sc01050j)

2011

• Hatcher, L. E. et al. 2011. Metastable linkage isomerism in [Ni(Et4dien)(NO2)2]: a combined thermal and photocrystallographic structural investigation of a Nitro/Nitrito interconversion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50(36), pp. 8371-8374. (10.1002/anie.201102022)