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Dr Nicole Rijs

Dr Nicole Rijs

Scientia Fellow (Level B)

Bachelor of Science, degree with Honours, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne 2003-2006; Doctor of Philosophy, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne 2008-2012; Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Technical University Berlin, 2012-2015; Research Group Leader, Institute for Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2015-2017; Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow (2017); Australian Academy of Science J. G. Russel Award (2017); Scientia Fellow (2018), and Research Group Leader and Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney,Ìý²õ¾±²Ô³¦±ðÌý2018.

Science
School of Chemistry

DrÌýNicole J Rijs is an academic in the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales Sydney who uses mass spectrometry and ion mobility to answer fundamental questions about chemical structure and reaction mechanisms.

After completing her PhDÌýat the UniversityÌýof Melbourne, Dr Rijs was appointed as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the TUÌýBerlin, Germany. She commenced her independent career in 2015 founding her group at the KIT, Karlsruhe. In 2018, Dr Rijs relocated her research group from where it was based at the KIT inÌýGermany,Ìýto UNSW Sydney, in order to take up a prestigious Scientia Fellowship. She was awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA fellowship and anÌýAustralian Academy of Science J. G. Russel Award. She's been a Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemistry at UNSW Sydney since 2024.
Phone
+61293857876
E-mail
n.rijs@unsw.edu.au
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Lloyd Williams OH; Cox CS; Zhang MY; Lessio M; Rusli O; Donald WA; Jekimovs L; Marshall DL; Pfrunder MC; Poad BLJ; Brotin T; Rijs NJ, 2024, 'Cation induced changes to the structure of cryptophane cages', Dalton Transactions,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Xu L; Xie Z; Zenere KA; Clegg JK; Kenny E; Rijs NJ; Jameson GNL; Kepert CJ; Powell BJ; Neville SM, 2022, 'Co-existence of five- and six-coordinate iron(ii) species captured in a geometrically strained spin-crossover Hofmann framework', Dalton Transactions, 51, pp. 9596 - 9600,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lloyd Williams OH; Rijs NJ, 2021, 'Reaction Monitoring and Structural Characterisation of Coordination Driven Self-Assembled Systems by Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry', Frontiers in Chemistry, 9, pp. 682743,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Firouzbakht M; Rijs NJ; Schlangen M; Kaupp M; Schwarz H, 2018, 'Ligand Effects on the Reactivity of [CoX]+ (X = CN, F, Cl, Br, O, OH) Towards CO2: Gas-Phase Generation of the Elusive Cyanoformate by [Co(CN)]+ and [Fe(CN)]+', Topics in Catalysis, 61, pp. 575 - 584,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Firouzbakht M; Rijs NJ; González-Navarrete P; Schlangen M; Kaupp M; Schwarz H, 2016, 'On the Activation of Methane and Carbon Dioxide by [HTaO]+and [TaOH]+in the Gas Phase: A Mechanistic Study', Chemistry - A European Journal, 22, pp. 10581 - 10589,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Rijs NJ; González-Navarrete P; Schlangen M; Schwarz H, 2016, 'Penetrating the Elusive Mechanism of Copper-Mediated Fluoromethylation in the Presence of Oxygen through the Gas-Phase Reactivity of Well-Defined [LCuO]+ Complexes with Fluoromethanes (CH(4-n)Fn, n = 1-3)', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138, pp. 3125 - 3135,
    Journal articles | 2015
    O'Hair RAJ; Rijs NJ, 2015, 'ChemInform Abstract: Gas Phase Studies of the Pesci Decarboxylation Reaction: Synthesis, Structure, and Unimolecular and Bimolecular Reactivity of Organometallic Ions', ChemInform, 46, pp. no - no,
    Journal articles | 2015
    O'Hair RAJ; Rijs NJ, 2015, 'Gas phase studies of the Pesci decarboxylation reaction: Synthesis, structure, and unimolecular and bimolecular reactivity of organometallic ions', Accounts of Chemical Research, 48, pp. 329 - 340,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Rijs NJ; Weiske T; Schlangen M; Schwarz H, 2015, 'Effect of Adduct Formation with Molecular Nitrogen on the Measured Collisional Cross Sections of Transition Metal-1,10-Phenanthroline Complexes in Traveling Wave Ion-Mobility Spectrometry: N2 Is Not Always an "Inert" Buffer Gas', Analytical Chemistry, 87, pp. 9769 - 9776,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Rijs NJ; Weiske T; Schlangen M; Schwarz H, 2015, 'Erratum: Effect of Adduct Formation with Molecular Nitrogen on the Measured Collisional Cross Sections of Transition Metal-1,10- Phenanthroline Complexes in Traveling Wave Ion-Mobility Spectrometry: N2 Is Not Always an "inert" Buffer Gas (Anal. Chem. (2015) 87:19 (9769-9776) (DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b01985))', Analytical Chemistry, 87, pp. 11601,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Tang SY; Rijs NJ; Li J; Schlangen M; Schwarz H, 2015, 'Ligand-controlled CO2 activation mediated by cationic titanium hydride complexes, [LTiH]+ (L=Cp2, O)', Chemistry - A European Journal, 21, pp. 8483 - 8490,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Rijs NJ; Weiske T; Schlangen M; Schwarz H, 2014, 'On divorcing isomers, dissecting reactivity, and resolving mechanisms of propane CH and aryl CX (X = halogen) bond activations mediated by a ligated copper(III) oxo complex Dedicated to the memory of John P. Boyd.', Chemical Physics Letters, 608, pp. 408 - 424,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Rijs NJ; Yoshikai N; Nakamura E; O'Hair RAJ, 2014, 'Unraveling organocuprate complexity: Fundamental insights into intrinsic group transfer selectivity in alkylation reactions', Journal of Organic Chemistry, 79, pp. 1320 - 1334,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Rijs NJ; Brookes NJ; O'Hair RAJ; Yates BF, 2012, 'Theoretical approaches to estimating homolytic bond dissociation energies of organocopper and organosilver compounds', Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 116, pp. 8910 - 8917,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Rijs NJ; O'Hair RAJ, 2012, 'Dimethylcuprate-catalyzed decarboxylative coupling of allyl acetate', Organometallics, 31, pp. 8012 - 8023,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Rijs NJ; O'Hair RAJ, 2012, 'Forming trifluoromethylmetallates: Competition between decarboxylation and C-F bond activation of group 11 trifluoroacetate complexes, [CF 3CO 2ML] -', Dalton Transactions, 41, pp. 3395 - 3406,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Rijs NJ; Yoshikai N; Nakamura E; O'Hair RAJ, 2012, 'Gas-phase reactivity of group 11 dimethylmetallates with allyl iodide', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, pp. 2569 - 2580,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Rijs NJ; O'Hair RAJ, 2010, 'Unimolecular reactions of organocuprates and organoargentates', Organometallics, 29, pp. 2282 - 2291,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Rijs NJ; Sanvido GB; Khairallah GN; O'Hair RAJ, 2010, 'Gas phase synthesis and reactivity of dimethylaurate', Dalton Transactions, 39, pp. 8655 - 8662,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Rijs NJ; Yates BF; O'Hair RAJ, 2010, 'Dimethylcuprate undergoes a dyotropic rearrangement', Chemistry - A European Journal, 16, pp. 2674 - 2678,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Rijs NJ; O'Hair RAJ, 2009, 'Gas-Phase synthesis of organoargenate anions and comparisons with their organocuprate analogues', Organometallics, 28, pp. 2684 - 2692,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Rijs N; Khairallah GN; Waters T; O'Hair RAJ, 2008, 'Gas-phase synthesis of the homo and hetero organocuprate anions [MeCuMe]-, [EtCuEt]-, and [MeCuR]-', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, pp. 1069 - 1079,

University of Melbourne Monica Reum Prize - 2012;ÌýAlexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2012);ÌýÌýARC DECRA Fellowship (2016); .

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The Rijs utilises a range of cutting edge computational and instrumental techniques, such as ion-mobility mass spectrometry, to look at the structure and function of molecules in exquisiteÌýdetail.

My Research Supervision

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  • "Predicting Molecular Structures and Interactions of Pesticides Using Ion-Mobility Mass Spectrometry"
  • "Deconstructing molecular self-assembly by advanced mass spectrometry."
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