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2019

• Anticancer activity of electron‐deficient metal complexes against colorectal cancer in vitro models
  M. Azmanova, J. J. Soldevila-Barreda, H. Bani Hani, R.M. Lord, A. Pitto-Barry, S. Picksley, and N. P. E. Barry, ChemMedChem, 2019, DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201900528
• Influence of boron doping on the dynamics of formation of Os metal nanoclusters on graphitic surfaces
  A. Pitto-Barry and N. P. E. Barry*, Chemical Communications, 2019, 55, 6038-6041.

2018

• Controlled Release of Carbon Monoxide from a Pseudo Electron-Deficient Organometallic Complex
  A. Pitto-Barry and N. P. E. Barry*, ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 15623-15627.
• In Vivo Selectivity and Localization of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Induction by Osmium Anticancer Complexes That Circumvent Platinum Resistance
  J. P. C. Coverdale, H. E. Bridgewater, J.-I. Song, N. A. Smith, N. P. E. Barry, I. Bagley, P. J. Sadler, and I. Romero-Canelon, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2018, 61, 9246-9255.
• Exploiting topology-directed nanoparticle disassembly for triggered drug delivery
  M. C. Arno, R. J. Williams, P. Bexis, A. Pitto-Barry , N. Kirby, A. P. Dove, R. K. O’Reilly, Biomaterials , 2018, 180, 184-192.
• New Class of Hybrid Materials for Detection, Capture, and “On-Demand” Release of Carbon Monoxide
  A. Pitto-Barry, A. Lupan, C. Ellingford, A. A. A. Attia, and N. P. E. Barry*, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2018, 10, 13693-13701.
• Structural determinants of the stability of enzyme‐responsive polyion complex (PIC) nanoparticles targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa Elastase
  I. Insua, M. Petit, L. D. Blackman, R. Keogh, A. Pitto-Barry, R. K. O’Reilly, A. F. Peacock, A.-M. Krachler, F. Fernandez-Trillo, ChemNanoMat, 2018, 4, 807-814
• Schizophrenia: synthetic strategies and recent advances in drug design
  M. Azmanova, A. Pitto-Barry*, and N. P. E. Barry*, Medicinal Chemistry Communications, 2018, 9, 759-782.

  2017

• Anti-inflammatory activity of electron-deficient organometallics
  J. Zhang, A. Pitto-Barry, L. Shang*, and N. P. E. Barry*, Royal Society Open Science, 2017, 4, 170786.
• Halide Control of N,N-Coordination versus N,C-Cyclometalation and Stereospecific Phenyl Ring Deuteration of Osmium(II) p-Cymene Phenylazobenzothiazole Complexes
  R. J. Needham, A. Habtemariam, N. P. E. Barry, G. Clarkson, and P. J. Sadler*, Organometallics, 2017, 36, 4367-4375.
• Controlled fabrication of osmium nanocrystals by electron, laser and microwave irradiation and characterisation by microfocus X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  A. Pitto-Barry, K. Geraki, M. D. Horbury, V. G. Stavros, J. F. W. Mosselmans, R. I. Walton, P. J. Sadler*, and N. P. E. Barry*, Chemical Communications, 2017, 53, 12898-12901.
• Pseudo electron-deficient organometallics: limited reactivity towards electron-donating ligands
  A. Pitto-Barry, A. Lupan, M. Zegke, T. Swift, A. A. A. Attia, R. M. Lord, and N. P. E. Barry*, Dalton Transactions,  2017, 46, 15676-15683.

• 1D vs. 2D shape selectivity in the crystallization-driven self-assembly of polylactide block copolymers
  M. Inam, G. Cambridge, A. Pitto-Barry, Z. P. L. Laker, N. R. Wilson, R. T. Mathers, A. P. Dove, and R. K. O’Reilly, Chemical Science, 2017, 8, 4223-4230, part of the themed collection ISACS21: Challenges in Nanoscience.
  
• The hydrolytic behavior of N,N’-(dimethylamino) ethyl acrylate-functionalized polymeric stars
  M. S. Rolph, A. Pitto-Barry, and R. K. O’Reilly, Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 8, 5060-5070.

2016

• CO₂/pH-responsive particles with built-in fluorescence read-out
  A. B. Mabire, Q. Brouard, A. Pitto-Barry, R. J. Williams, H. Willcock, N. Kirby, E. Chapman, R. K. O’Reilly, Polymer Chemistry, 2016, 7, 5943-5948
• Pyrene: The Guest of Honor
  N. P. E. Barry*, B. Therrien*, in Organic Nanoreactors, Samahe Sadjadi, Oxford: Elsevier, 2016, 421-461.
• Nanoparticles of chitosan conjugated to organo-ruthenium complexes
  Y. Wang, A. Pitto-Barry, A. Habtemariam, I. Romero-Canelon, P J. Sadler*, N. P. E. Barry*, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2016, 3, 1058-1064.
• Micellar nanoparticles with tuneable morphologies through interactions between nucleobase-containing synthetic polymers in aqueous solution
  Z. Hua, A. Pitto-Barry, Y. Kang, N. Kirby, T. R. Wilks, R. K. O’Reilly, Polymer Chemistry, 2016, 7, 4254-4262.
• Use of complementary nucleobase-containing synthetic polymers to prepare complex self-assembled morphologies in water
  Y. Kang, A. Pitto-Barry, M. S. Rolph, Z. Hua, I. Hands-Portman, N. Kirby and R. K. O’Reilly, Polymer Chemistry, 2016, 7, 2836-2846.
• Cyclic graft copolymer unimolecular micelles: Effects of cyclization on particle morphology and thermoresponsive behavior
  R. J. Williams, A. Pitto-Barry, N. Kirby, A. P. Dove, and R. K. O’Reilly, Macromolecules, 2016, 49, 2802-2813.
• Core functionalization of semi-crystalline polymeric cylindrical nanoparticles using photo-initiated thiol–ene radical reactions
  L. Sun, A. Pitto-Barry, A. W. Thomas, M. Inam, K. Doncom, A. P. Dove, and R. K. O’Reilly, Polymer Chemistry, 2016, 7, 2337-2341
  
• Dynamics of formation of Ru, Os, Ir and Au metal nanocrystals on doped graphitic surfaces
  A. Pitto-Barry, P. J. Sadler, N. P. E. Barry*, Chemical Communications, 2016, 52, 3895-3898.
• The synthesis and unexpected solution chemistry of thermochromic carborane-containing osmium half-sandwich complexes
  A. Pitto-Barry, A. South, A. Rodger, N. P. E. Barry*, Dalton Transactions, 2016, 45, 1763-1768.
• Retaining Individualities: the Photodynamics of Self-Ordering Porphyrin Assemblies
  W. Quan, A. Pitto-Barry, L. Baker, E. Stulz, R. M. Napier, R. K. O’Reilly and V. Stavros, Chemical Communications, 2016, 52, 1938-1941.

2015

• Synthesis and controlled growth of osmium nanoparticles by electron irradiation
  A. Pitto-Barry, L. M. A. Perdigao, M. Walker, J. Lawrence, G. Costantini*, P. J. Sadler*, N. P. E. Barry*, Dalton Transactions, 2015, 44, 20308-20311, part of Dalton Transactions’ HOT articles from 2015.
  

• The copolymer blending method: a new approach for targeted assembly of micellar nanoparticles
  D. W. Wright, J. P. Patterson, A. Pitto-Barry, A. Lu, N. Kirby, N. C. Gianneschi, C. Chassenieux, O. Colombani, R. K. O’Reilly, Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 6516-6522
• Amphiphilic block copolymer self-assemblies of poly(NVP)-b-poly(MDO-co-vinyl esters): tunable dimensions and functionalities
  G. G. Hedir, A. Pitto-Barry, A. P. Dove, R. K. O’Reilly, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2015, 53, 2699-2710.
• Self-assembly of temperature-responsive protein-polymer bioconjugates
  D. Moatsou, J. Li, A. Ranji, A. Pitto-Barry, I. Ntai, M. C. Jewett, R. K. O’Reilly, Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2015, 26, 1890-1899.
  
• Osmium Atoms and Os2 Molecules Move Faster on Selenium-Doped Compared to Sulfur-Doped Boronic Graphenic Surfaces
  N. P. E. Barry*, A. Pitto-Barry, J. Tran, S. E. F. Spencer, A. M. Johansen, A. M. Sanchez, A. P. Dove, R. K. O’Reilly, R. J. Deeth, R. Beanland, P. J. Sadler*, Chemistry of Materials, 2015, 27, 5100-5105.
• RAFT dispersion polymerization: A method to tune the morphology of thymine-containing self-assemblies
  Y. Kang, A. Pitto-Barry, A. Maitland, R. K. O’Reilly, Polymer Chemistry, 2015, 6, 4984-4992.
• Arene ruthenium dithiolato–carborane complexes for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT)
  I. Romero-Canelón, B. Phoenix, A. Pitto-Barry, J. Tran, J. J. Soldevila-Barreda, N. Kirby, S. Green*, P. J. Sadler*, N. P. E. Barry*, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2015, 796, 17-25, dedicated to Professor Georg Süss-Fink on the occasion of his 65^th birthday.
• Complementary light scattering and synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering studies of the micelle-to-unimer transition of polysulfobetaines
  K. E. B. Doncom, A. Pitto-Barry, H. Willcock, A. Lu, B. E. McKenzie, N. Kirby and R. K. O’Reilly, Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 3666-3676.
• Tuning the aggegation behaviour of pH-responsive micelles by copolymerization
  D. B. Wright, J. P. Patterson, A. Pitto-Barry, P. Cotanda, C. Chassenieux, O. Colombani and R. K. O’Reilly, Polymer Chemistry, 2015, 6, 2761-2768.
• Exploiting nucleobase-containing materials – from monomers to complex morphologies using RAFT dispersion polymerization
  Y. Kang, A. Pitto-Barry, H. Willcock, W-D. Quan, N. Kirby, A. M. Sanchez and R. K. O’Reilly, Polymer Chemistry, 2015, 6, 106-117

2014

• Designing Supramolecular Liquid-Crystalline Hybrids from Pyrenyl-Containing Dendrimers and Arene Ruthenium Metalla-Cycles
  A. Pitto-Barry, N. P. E. Barry, V. Russo, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio*, B. Therrien*, and R. Deschenaux*, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136, 17616-17625.
• Structural reorganization of cylindrical nanoparticles triggered by polylactide stereocomplexation
  L. Sun, A. Pitto-Barry, N. Kirby, T. Schiller, A. Sanchez, M. Dyson, J. Sloan, N. Wilson, R. K. O’Reilly, and A. P. Dove, Nature Communications, 2014, 5, 5746.
• Dual effect of thiol addition on fluorescent polymeric micelles: ON-to-OFF emissive switch and morphology transition
  A. Mabire, M. P. Robin, H. Willcock, A. Pitto-Barry, N. Kirby and R. K. O’Reilly, Chemical Communications, 2014, 50, 11492-11495.
• Precious metal carborane polymer nanoparticles: characterisation of micellar formulations and anticancer activity
  N. P. E. Barry*, A. Pitto-Barry, I. Romero-Canelón, J. Tran, J. J. Soldevila-Barreda, I. Hands-Portman, C. J. Smith, N. Kirby, A. P. Dove, R. K. O’Reilly, and P. J. Sadler*, Faraday Discussions, 2014, 175, 229-240.
• Fabrication of crystals from single metal atoms
  N. P. E. Barry*, A. Pitto-Barry, A. M. Sanchez, A. P. Dove, R. J. Procter, J. J. Soldevila-Barreda, N. Kirby, I. Hands-Portman, C. J. Smith, R. K. O’Reilly, R. Beanland*, and P. J. Sadler*, Nature Communications, 2014, 5, 3851.
• Synthetic strategies, sustainability and biological applications of malic acid-based polymers
  S. L. King, V. X. Truong, C. Kirchhoefer, A. Pitto-Barry, A. P. Dove, Green Materials, 2014, 2, 107-122
• Pluronic^® block-copolymers in medicine: From chemical and biological versatility to rationalisation and clinical advances
  A. Pitto-Barry*, N. P. E. Barry*, Polymer Chemistry, 2014, 5, 3291-3297.

• 100 years of metal coordination chemistry: from Alfred Werner to anticancer metallodrugs
  N. P. E. Barry and P. J. Sadler*, Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2014, 86, 1897-1910.
• The Potent Oxidant Anticancer Activity of Organoiridium Catalysts
  Z. Liu, I. Romero-Canelón, B. Qamar, J. M. Hearn, A. Habtemariam, N. P. E. Barry, A. M. Pizarro, G. J. Clarkson, P. J. Sadler*, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014, 53, 3941–3946.
• A multinuclear ₁H, ₁₃C and ₁₁B solid-state MAS NMR study of 16- and 18-electron organometallic ruthenium and osmium carborane complexes
  N. P. E. Barry, T. F. Kemp, P. J. Sadler*, J. V. Hanna*, Dalton Transactions, 2014, 43, 4945-4949, part of a themed issue on Carboranes.
• Rational design of an arene ruthenium chlorin conjugate for in vivo anticancer activity
  M. Pernot, N. P. E. Barry, T. Bastogne, C. Frochot, M. Barberi-Heyob*, B. Therrien*, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2014, 414, 134-140.
• Construction of DNA–polymer hybrids using intercalation interactions
  T. Wilks, A. Pitto-Barry, N. Kirby, E. Stulz and R. K. O’Reilly, Chemical Communications, 2014, 50, 1338-1340.
• Expanding the scope of the crystallization-driven self-assembly of polylactide-containing polymers
  A. Pitto-Barry, N. Kirby, A. P. Dove and R. K. O’Reilly, Polymer Chemistry, 2014, 5, 1427-1436.

2013

• Tuning the size of cylindrical micelles from poly(L-lactide)-b-poly(acrylic acid) diblock copolymers based on crystallization-driven self-assembly
  L. Sun, N. Petzetakis, A. Pitto-Barry, T. Schiller, N. Kirby, D. Keddie, B. Boyd, R. K. O’Reilly and A. P. Dove, Macromolecules, 2013, 46, 9074–9082.
• Challenges for Metals in Medicine: How Nanotechnology May Help to Shape the Future
  N. P. E. Barry*, P. J. Sadler*, ACS Nano, 2013, 7, 5654-5659.
• Exploration of the medical periodic table: towards new targets
  N. P. E. Barry, P. J. Sadler*, Chemical Communications, 2013, 49, 5106-5131.
• Thermochromic organometallic complexes: experimental and theoretical studies of 16- to 18-electron interconversions of adducts of arene Ru(II) carboranes with aromatic amine ligands
  N. P. E. Barry, R. J. Deeth, G. J. Clarkson, I. Prokes, P. J. Sadler*, Dalton Transactions, 2013, 42, 2580-2587.
• Metal-DNA Coordination Complexes
  A. M. Pizarro, N. P. E. Barry, P. J. Sadler*, in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry II, Vol 3, Jan Reedijk and Kenneth Poeppelmeier, editors. Oxford: Elsevier; 2013, 752-784.

2012

• Systems biology approach for in vivo photodynamic therapy optimization of ruthenium-porphyrin compounds
  M. Pernot, T. Bastogne, N. P. E. Barry, B. Therrien, G. Koellensperger, S. Hann, V. Reshetov, M. Barberi-Heyob*, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology, 2012, 117, 80-89.
• Enhancement of cytotoxicity by combining pyrenyl-dendrimers and arene ruthenium metalla-cages
  A. Pitto-Barry, O. Zava, P. J. Dyson, R. Deschenaux and B. Therrien, Inorganic Chemistry, 2012, 51, 7119-7124
• Dicarba-closo-dodecarborane-containing half-sandwich complexes of ruthenium, osmium, rhodium and iridium: biological relevance and synthetic strategies
  N. P. E. Barry, P. J. Sadler*, Chemical Society Reviews, 2012, 41, 3264-3279.
• Delivery of Floxuridine Derivatives to Cancer Cells by Water-Soluble Organometallic Cages
  J. W. Yi, N. P. E. Barry, M. A. Furrer, O. Zava, P. J. Dyson, B. Therrien*, B. H. Kim*, Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2012, 23, 461-471.
• Organometallic Cages as Vehicles for Intracellular Release of Photosensitizers
  F. Schmitt, J. Freudenreich, N. P. E. Barry, L. Juillerat-Jeanneret, G. Süss-Fink, B. Therrien*, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 754-757.
• Encapsulation of hydrophobic pyrenyl-cycloplatinate complexes within a water-soluble arene ruthenium metalla-cage
  N. P. E. Barry, O. Zava, W. Wu, J. Zhaoc, B. Therrien*, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2012, 18, 25-28.
• Encapsulation of inorganic and organic guest molecules into an organometallic hexacationic arene osmium metalla-prism: Synthesis, characterisation and anticancer activity
  N. P. E. Barry, O. Zava, P. J. Dyson, B. Therrien*, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2012, 705, 1-6.
• Efficient photodynamic therapy of cancer using chemotherapeutic porphyrin–ruthenium metalla-cubes
  F. Schmitt, N. P. E. Barry, L. Juillerat-Jeanneret, B. Therrien*, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2012, 22, 178-180.

2011

• Excellent Correlation between Drug Release and Portal Size in Metalla-Cage Drug-Delivery Systems
  N. P. E. Barry, O. Zava, P. J. Dyson*, B. Therrien*, Chemistry A European Journal, 2011, 17, 9669-9677.
• Anticancer activity of tetra-cationic arene ruthenium metalla-cycles
  N. P. E. Barry, F. Edafe, B. Therrien*, Dalton Transactions, 2011, 40, 7172-7180.
• Encapsulation of pyrene-functionalised poly(benzyl ether) dendrons into an arene ruthenium metalla-prism
  A. Pitto-Barry, N. P. E. Barry, O. Zava, R. Deschenaux, B. Therrien*, Chemistry An Asian Journal, 2011, 6, 1595-1603.
• Double Targeting of Tumours with Pyrenyl-Modified Dendrimers Encapsulated in an Arene-Ruthenium Metalla-Prism, A. Pitto-Barry, N. P. E. Barry, O. Zava, R. Deschenaux, P. J. Dyson, B. Therrien*, Chemistry A European Journal, 2011, 17, 1966-1971.
• Ru²(CO)⁴(OOCR)²L² sawhorse-type complexes containing axial 5-(4-pyridyl)-10,15,20-triphenylporphyrin ligands
  M. Gras, N. P. E. Barry, B. Therrien, G. Süss-Fink*, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2011, 371, 59-62.

2010

• Synthesis, Characterisation and Anticancer Activity of Porphyrin Containing Organometallic Cubes
  N. P. E. Barry, O. Zava, P. J. Dyson, B. Therrien*, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2010, 63, 1529-1537.

• In- and out-of-cavity interactions by modulating the size of ruthenium metalla-rectangles
  N. P. E. Barry, J. Furrer, B. Therrien*, Helvetica Chimica Acta, 2010, 93, 1313-1328.
• Anticancer activity of opened arene ruthenium metalla-assemblies
  N. P. E. Barry, O. Zava, J. Furrer, P. J. Dyson, B. Therrien*, Dalton Transactions, 2010, 39, 5272-5277.
• Permanent encapsulation or host-guest behavior of aromatic molecules in hexanuclear arene ruthenium prisms
  J. Freudenreich, N. P. E. Barry, G. Süss-Fink, B. Therrien*, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2010, 2400-2405.
• Anticancer activity of osmium metalla-rectangles
  N. P. E. Barry, F. Edafe, P. J. Dyson, B. Therrien*, Dalton Transactions, 2010, 39, 2816-2820.
• Designing the host-guest properties of tetranuclear arene ruthenium metalla-rectangles to accommodate a pyrene molecule,
  N. P. E. Barry, J. Furrer, J. Freudenreich, G. Süss-Fink, B. Therrien*, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2010, 725-728.

2009

• Interactions of ruthenium coordination cubes with DNA,
  N. P. E. Barry, N. H. Abd Karim, R. Vilar*, B. Therrien*, Dalton Transactions, 2009, 10717-10719.
• Host-guest chemistry in the hexanuclear arene ruthenium metalla-prismatic cage [Ru⁶(p-cymene)⁶(tpt)²(dhnq)³]₆₊,
  N. P. E. Barry, B. Therrien*, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, 4695-4700.
• Highly efficient NMR enantiodiscrimination of chiral octanuclear metalla-boxes in polar solvent
  N. P. E. Barry, M. Austeri, J. Lacour*, B. Therrien*, Organometallics, 2009, 28, 4894-4897.
• Photochemical [2 + 2] cycloaddition of the olefinic double bonds in the supramolecular rectangle [Ru⁴(p-cymene)⁴(oxalato)²(4,4′-bipyridylethylene)²]₄₊
  N. P. E. Barry, B. Therrien*, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2009, 12, 465-468.

2008

• Organometallic boxes built from 5,10,15,20-tetra(4-pyridyl)porphyrin panels and hydroxyquinonato-bridged diruthenium clips,
  N. P. E. Barry, P. Govindaswamy, J. Furrer, G. Süss-Fink, B. Therrien*, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2008, 11, 1300-1303.

Patents

2. A. Pitto-Barry, and N. P. E. Barry, “CO absorber”, 2018, GB1806060.8, PCT/GB2019/051059

1. A. Pitto-Barry, R. Beanland, P. J. Sadler and N. P. E. Barry, “Nanocrystals”, 2015, PCT/GB2015/051264