Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Lab

🔶Design and syntheses (eg, by self-assembly) of coordination compounds, high-nuclear and supramolecular metal structures, including multi- and heterometalic complexes, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and coordination polymers, their ligands, nano- and functional materials, etc. Metal-mediated synthesis, synthesis assisted by non-covalent and cooperative interactions

🔶 Applications of the above compounds as catalysts, chemosensors, species with pharmacological significance, adsorbents for water purification, etc

🔶 Catalysis towards sustainability involving alkane functionalization and conversion of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to added-value organic compounds, oxidation of alcohols, ketones and water under mild conditions; carbon dioxide coupling reactions; C-C couplings and other catalytic reactions. Catalysis either homogeneous or under heterogeneous and unconventional conditions, tandem catalysis, water in catalysis

🔶 Photochemical studies: photoactive molecules and materials, eg, photosensitizers

🔶 Electrochemical studies, including establishment of potential-structure relationships and induction of chemical reactivity by electron-transfer, mechanistic studies, electrocatalytic energy conversion reactions, such as oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) from water splitting, and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)

🔶 Biological (eg, anticancer and antibacterial activity with significance in chemotherapy and theranostics) and analytical (eg, selective chemosensoring) studies

🔶 Theoretical studies for interpretation of properties and reactivity at the molecular level, namely towards the establishment of reaction mechanisms