The NMR Periodic Table | Department of Chemistry HKU

Date	17 Nov 2025
Time	6:00 - 6:50 pm (HKT)
Venue	Lecture Theatre P2, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building
Speaker	Prof. Peter Sadler
Institution	Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick

Title:

The NMR Periodic Table

Schedule:

Date: 17^th November, 2025 (Monday)

Time: 6 - 6:50 pm (HKT)

Venue: Lecture Theatre P2, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building

Speaker:

Prof. Peter Sadler

Department of Chemistry

University of Warwick

Biography:

Peter Sadler obtained his BA, MA and DPhil at the University of Oxford. Subsequently he was a Medical Research Council Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and National Institute of Medical Research. From 1973-96 he was Lecturer, Reader and Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and from 1996-2007 Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. In 2007 he took up a Chair in Chemistry at the University of Warwick as Head of Department, where he is now a Professor.

He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Society of London, and an EPSRC RISE Fellow (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India, and the Chinese Chemical Society.

He was awarded The Royal Society Davy Medal in 2022, The European Academy of Sciences Blaise Pascal Medal in Chemistry in 2025, and a Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Division Horizon Team Prize in 2022.

Abstract:

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy continues to develop as an exciting technique for studying the structure and dynamics of a wide range of materials both in solution and in the solid state.

I will review briefly the basis of NMR, the nuclei of the periodic table which can be studied, their sensitivity to detection, and applications, especially for heteronuclear NMR in chemical biology and medicinal chemistry.

If you have an NMR problem, or a problem you think might be suitable for NMR study, then you are welcome to bring it along for discussion.

References:

Coordination chemistry of metallodrugs: insights from NMR spectroscopy. S.J. Berners-Price and P.J. Sadler Coord. Chem. Rev. 1996, 151, 1-40.

Applications of heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy in biological and medicinal inorganic chemistry. L. Ronconi and P.J. Sadler Coord. Chem. Rev. 2008, 252, 2239-2277.

Speciation of precious metal anti-cancer complexes by NMR spectroscopy. T. Zou, P.J. Sadler Drug Discovery Today 2015, 16, 7-15.

NMR studies of group 8 metallodrugs: 187Os-enriched organo-osmium half-sandwich anticancer complex. R.J. Needham, I. Prokes, A. Habtemariam, I. Romero-Canelón, G.J. Clarkson, P.J. Sadler Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 12970-12981.

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