Subject Areas:
- Organic Chemistry
- Inorganic Chemistry
One underlying theme of research in my group is catalysis.
A second theme of research in my group involves the activation of small molecules, since molecules like water, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide are readily available but difficult to use for chemical reactions.
A third theme of my research is designing water-soluble compounds with proton responsive ligands.
We have a strong interest in green chemistry and we aim to use these methods to develop new means of storing energy, performing organic transformations, and testing metal complexes as anti-cancer drugs.
We work on two main projects in the group:
- organometallic catalysis using both earth abundant and precious metals
- a ruthenium anticancer project
Research Interests:
- Organometallic project 1 – carbon dioxide reduction
- Organometallic project 2 – hydrogenation chemistry
- Organometallic project 3 – water oxidation chemistry
- Anticancer Project – Ruthenium dihydroxybipyridine complexes
