Research: Bioinorganic Chemistry Concerning Dioxygen (O2) Activation and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) Interconversion; Bio-inspired Synthetic Structural/Functional Models of Metalloenzyme Active Sites; Mechanistic Interrogations of Metalloprotein Biochemistries Involving O2 and NOx’s; Metallobiochemistry Implicated with Human Pathogenesis and Therapeutics; Structural (Geometric and Electronic), Spectroscopic and Computational Analysis of Transient Reaction Intermediates; Designing and Developing Bio-inspired Environmentally Benign (Green), Cheaper Catalysis for Industrially/Synthetically Indispensable Transformations, and/or Next Generation Alternative Energy Applications
Skills and Expertise
- Inorganic Synthesis
- Bioinorganic Chemistry
- Homogeneous Catalysis
- Crystal Structure
- Density Functional Theory
- Spectroscopy
- EPR
- Electronic Structure
- Electron Spin Resonance
