Synthesis and Catalysis

Innovative molecular design and advanced synthetic methodology relevant to grand challenges in energy, health, and the sustainable use of natural resources.

Inorganic materials on the molecular scale: photocatalysis using cluster molecules and cluster derived (nano)materials

Synthetic organometallic chemistry and catalysis with a supramolecular twist. Activation of alkanes and nitrous oxide.

Synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry; drug discovery and development; synthetic methodology.

Synthetic chemist; organocatalysis meets main group catalysis; novel catalysts; unconventional interactions; understanding mechanism.

Biorelevant coordination and organometallic metallodrugs as chemotherapeutics for cancer treatments and antimicrobial agents.

Working at the interface of supramolecular chemistry, nanomedicine and biomaterials, using a toolbox of synthetic organic chemistry.

Self-assembling molecules as antimicrobials and cancer medicines; interfacially-active polyolefin materials for recycling.

Coordination and supramolecular chemistry, especially self-assembly and host-guest chemistry of metal complex cages.

Asymmetric catalysis and synthetic organic chemistry methodology, with applications to medicinal chemistry and chemical biology.