Development of new catalytic chemistry to impact both chemical synthesis as well as chemical storage of solar energy

Development and understanding new earth-abundant catalysts for energy conversion chemistry and the selective functionalization of hydrocarbons

Chemistry of p-block and late transition metal elements with applications in the domain of molecular recognition, anion sensing and transport, and catalysis

Development of time-dependent electronic structure theory, relativistic quantum mechanical techniques, and new methods for studying non-adiabatic dynamics of large-scale systems

Development and synthesis of novel catalyst architectures for important organic reactions