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RESEARCH OVERVIEW    

The research projects involve the design and synthesis of new organometallic and coordination compounds with applications as catalysts, medicines and as new materials:

CATALYSIS
■ Catalyst synthesis for:
  • Polymerisation/oligomerisation
  • Hydroformylation
  • Carbonylation
  • Oxidation
  • Carbon-carbon cross-coupling
■ Catalyst testing:
  • High pressure autoclaves
 
MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
■ Synthesis of new:
  • Anti-malarial drugs
  • Anti-cancer drugs
■ In vitro and in vivo testing
■ Structure-activity relationships of drugs
 
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
■ Design and synthesis of:
  • New polymers (organic and inorganic/organometallic)
  • Metallodendrimers
The research in the group accommodates students with interests in all areas of chemistry and provides students with a broad training in small mononuclear molecules, polymers and dendritic/polynuclear complexes (materials synthesis), and characterization techniques. Many of our projects are interdisciplinary in nature. Thus, projects can involve both synthetic chemists, medical biochemists and through collaboration, industrial researchers.