Current areas of research that we are looking at!!!

1.  Coordination Polymers - We have an interest in new materials, specifically using metals and molecules with variable coordination modes that we can construct novel polymers.  In our hands, the N-oxide motif provides multiple binding modes and is a very versatile ligand system that allows for construction of unique materials.

2.  Halogen Bonding - There is an increase in studying the properties of halogen bonding species as these type of interactions become more prevalent in biological systems as well as electronics.

3. Novel Transition Metal Complexes - We have synthesized a number of new transition metal complexes for investigation as potential catalytic agents.  We use "open-face" chelate compounds to template our metal centers.  

4. Synthetic Modeling of Bioinorganic Systems - We have used our ligand systems to synthesize novel structural and functional models of protein sites found in nature.  This model is of a copper active site in quercitin dioxygenase.