Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

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2016 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMolecular machines

Chemistry is about creating objects and new things.

– J. Fraser Stoddart

Sauvage Stoddart Feringa

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Metal-ligand misfits

h-index = 47; #3 in NorwayNature Index 1995-2015: #1 in Norway

Amphiphilic gold corroles:Phototoxicity against AY27 rat bladder cancer cells with blue light

Alemayehu, A. B. et. al. Gold Tris(carboxyphenyl)corroles as Multifunctional Materials: Room Temperature Near-IR Phosphorescence and Applications to Photodynamic Therapy and Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 8, 18935–18942.

Dye-sensitized solar cells

New, general coordination chemistry

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RT near-IR phosphorescence:Oxygen sensing

J. Mater. Chem. C. 2016, 4, 5822-5828.

Tc/Re corroles:Toward corrole-based theranostics

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Einrem, R. F. (pictured); Gagnon, K. J.; Alemayehu, A. B.; Ghosh, A. Metal-Ligand Misfits: Facile Access to Rhenium-Oxo Corroles by Oxidative Metalation. Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 517-520.

Au[(CF3)8TpFPC]:Ligand noninnocence

Experimental probes ofligand noninnocence

Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 16839–16847

Ag L3 XAS

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2016, 3225-3227.

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Tungsten biscorroles

A new inherently chiral chromophore:No stereogenic center!

Superheavy elements:Does the island of stability exist?