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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
http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/10/Molecular-machines-garner-2016-Nobel-Prize-in-Chemistry.html
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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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Use fourth-generation light sources!
Tungsten biscorroles
A new inherently chiral chromophore:No stereogenic center!
Superheavy elements:Does the island of stability exist?