Area(s) of Expertise

Computational studies of ground and excited state properties of inorganic compounds. Our primary focus is on obtaining a deeper understanding of light-induced processes, such as excited-state electron transfer and nonradiative decay, in first-row transition metal complexes.

Publications

• Highly-destabilized ligand field excited states of iron carbene complexes and their relation to charge transfer state lifetimes , Chemical Science (2026)
• A Rhenium Bis- tetramethylphenanthroline Catalyst for CO₂ Reduction to Formate , Energy & Fuels (2025)
• Cobalt(II) Phthalocyanine Substituents Tune the Electrocatalytic CO ₂ Conversion to Methanol , Inorganic Chemistry (2025)
• Fullerene Promotes CO₂ Reduction to Methanol by a Cobalt(II) Phthalocyanine Electrocatalyst , Inorganic Chemistry (2025)
• Illuminating the mechanistic impacts of an Fe-quaterpyridine functionalized crystalline poly(triazine imide) semiconductor for photocatalytic CO ₂ reduction , Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (2025)
• Iron N-Heterocyclic Carbene Photoactive Complexes with Rigid Phenylethynyl Substituents as Ligand π-System Extensions , Inorganic Chemistry (2025)
• Kinetic trapping for the production of a long-lived ³ MLCT excited state in Fe( ii ) complexes , Chemical Communications (2025)
• Mechanistic Insights into Visible-Light-Induced ATRA Reactions Powered by the Symbiotic Relationship between Cu(II)/Cu(I) Phenanthroline Complexes , ACS Catalysis (2025)
• Modulating Excited State Lifetimes in Cu(I) Complexes: The Role of Surface Binding Motifs , ACS Applied Energy Materials (2025)
• Photophysical Characterization and Excited State Dynamics of Decamethylruthenocenium , The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2025)

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