Fields of Research

F-block chemistry
Organometallic chemistry

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the chemical sciences
Organic industrial chemicals (excl. resins, rubber and plastics)
Inorganic industrial chemicals

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Novel Access to Monovalent Group 13 Metal Complexes: Synthetic and Theoretical Studies of the Thermal Decomposition of Metallocyclopent-3-enes; 2005 Inorganic Chemistry Symposium of the RACI Victorian Branch
Novel Access to Monovalent Group 13 Metal Complexes: Synthetic and Theoretical Studies of the Thermal Decomposition of Metallocyclopent-3-enes; OZOM3: 3rd Australian Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry
Novel Access to Monovalent Group 13 Metal Complexes: Synthetic and Theoretical Studies of the Thermal Decomposition of Metallocyclopent-3-enes; IC07: Royal Australian Chemical Institute Conference of the Inorganic Division
Samarium(II) Pyridine Adducts: A Systematic Investigation of the Steric Effects of Lewis Base Binding; OZOM6: 6th Australian Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry
Sm(II) reduction chemistry of heteroalkynes: stable adducts, reductive coupling, reductive C-C/C-N bond cleavage and trapping of the tert-butyl fragment with bulky nitriles, phosphaalkynes and isonitriles; Dalton Transactions
Synthesis and reactivity of trans-N,N'-dimethyl-meso-octaalkylporphyrinogen Sm(II), Eu(II) and Yb(II) complexes: Metal-based influences on the reduction of t-butyl-1,4-diazabuta-1,3-diene; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
The path to end-on binding of N2 to a samarium(II) complex; OZOM6: 6th Australian Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry

Research Projects

Research Candidate Supervision