Lena Becker

Visiting Student

Education


Research
Lena is studying second-row transition metal complexes supported by a binucleating naphthyridine-based PNNP ligand, as well as stepwise routes towards heterobimetallic analogues.

Experience
At Heidelberg University Lena worked in the Gade Group on the nitrene reactivity of a PNP-Rh(II) azide complex, photochemically generating a rhodium nitrene and studying its reactions with organic substrates as a possible route to C–H amination. Additionally, Lena carried out a research internship in the Dabringhaus Group, focusing on ligand synthesis for boron-bismuth compounds. 

Contact
lena [dot] becker [at] berkeley [dot] edu