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.