Abstract: Synthesizing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as nanoparticles is critical for their large-scale processability in real-world technologies and is poised to alter wide-ranging MOF behaviors, especially those related to transport phenomena. Little is known about controlled synthetic techniques, however, and studies into the impact of nanosizing have only just begun.
Abstract: Metalloproteins catalyze some of Nature’s most amazing and difficult chemical transformations. One such transformation, of interest to our laboratory, is the use of a high valent Fe-based oxidant to facilitate the functionalization of a traditionally inert C–H bond. Since this chemistry is vital to a variety of biochemical pathways, metalloproteins are recognized for their potential to build natural products with medical, environmental, and industrial relevance, and to degrade environmental contaminants.
Abstract: The synthesis of metal coordination complexes of non-innocent ligands aims to expand the reactivity profile of the metals. Our group has been interested in the preparation of Group 13 (Al, Ga, and In) coordination complexes implementing non-innocent ligands, with an end goal of realize new ways of making and breaking chemical bonds.
Abstract: Most electronic materials typically exhibit a single majority carrier type, either electrons or holes, uniformly along all directions of the crystal. These n-type and p-type regions are then integrated together to create virtually all modern electronic and energy-harvesting devices.
Over the past several years, we and others have been engaged in the development of a toolbox of organometallic reagents that can transfer complex functional groups onto biomolecules. This talk will describe some historical perspectives, reagent design considerations and state of the art chemistry that was developed in our laboratory. I will also highlight several key emerging opportunities for this area of research.