Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

Inorganic

• Molecular and solid-state inorganic chemistry; thin films and nanometer-sized clusters molecules

• Organometallic chemistry: reactions, mechanisms, photochemistry, and catalysis

• Solid-state chemistry; high Tc superconductors, low-dimensional solids, ionic conductors

• Synthesis of chiral organometallic complexes

• Reaction mechanisms of manganese in proteins; intramolecular electron transfer

• Develop and integrate nanotechnologies and chemical functional genomics

• Inorganic and solid-state chemistry; hybrid materials and nanostructures

• Coordination chemistry, special pair mimics, inhibiting oxidative damage in neurological disease and trauma

• Organic synthesis and methodology. Asymmetric catalysis using organocatalysts, transition metals and multi-component systems.

• Synthetic organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry, transition metal catalyzed asymmetric reactions for the synthesis of biologically active compounds, biomimetic chemistry, molecular recognition and material chemistry