John Anderson

Metal ligand cooperativity is an essential strategy for both synthetic and biological systems that incorporate transition metals…

Division/Committee: [INOR] Division of Inorganic Chemistry

Coordination polymers have emerged as an exciting new class of materials with myriad applications. Despite the now wide-array of these materials, there are comparatively fewer compounds that feature metal-sulfur linkages as structurally constitutive motifs…

Transition metal oxo complexes, particularly those of later transition metals, have been cited as important intermediates in processes such as C-H hydroxylation and oxygen evolution. In general, however, these species are highly reactive and difficult to isolate and study…

Many biological processes, from metabolic C–H activation to water oxidation, involve the concerted transfer of both a proton and an electron (CPET)…

Iron-sulfur clusters feature prominently in biological systems as well as microscopic models of bulk iron sulfides…

Semiconducting metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of extended architectures with high electrical conductivity in addition to degrees of modularity, synthetic flexibility and structural diversity that are unprecedented in other MOFs…

The emergence of conductive 2D, and less commonly 3D, coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) promise novel applications in chemical sensing, energy storage, optoelectronics, thermoelectrics, and spintronics…

Dioxygen is utilized as a stoichiometric oxidant in biological metalloenzymes where highly organized active sites mediate the transfer of electrons and protons with a substrate…

Near-infrared (NIR) emitting molecules are promising candidates for biological sensing and imaging applications; however, many NIR dyes are large conjugated systems which frequently have issues with stability, solubility, and tunability…

Metal ligand cooperativity is an essential strategy for both synthetic and biological systems that incorporate transition metals…

Scorpoinate ligands are common platforms for studying transition metal chemistry. However, the pendant alkyl groups used to stabilize the lower coordination geometry of these complexes typically have accessible C–H bonds which are vulnerable to oxidation…

Conducting coordination polymers have been an area of increasing interest…

Molecular electron spins are promising candidates as scalable and tunable qubits; however, these unpaired spins often suffer from air sensitivity or other undesirable decomposition pathways…

We investigated the temperature-dependent spin-crossover (SCO) behavior in the dimeric triple-decker Cr(II) complex ([(η5-C5Me5)Cr(μ2:η5-P5)Cr(η5-C5Me5)]+) using multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory…

Near-infrared (NIR) lumiphores are promising candidates for numerous bioimaging, communication, and sensing applications, but they typically require large, conjugated scaffolds to achieve emission in this low energy region…

Metal-sulfur metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of hybrid mate- rials which has received growing attention in the research community because of their intrinsic magnetic, conductive, and catalytic properties…

Tetrathiafulvalene-2,3,6,7-tetrathiolate (TTFttn–, n = 4, 3, and 2) is a sulfur-based, redox-active ligand. The related dinulcear complexes and coordination polymers exhibit various properties such as high electrical conductivity, near-infrared fluorescence, and unusual spin transitions…

Since the discovery of poly-acetylene in 1977, conducting and semi-conducting organic materials have been of interest to scientists for both their unique properties and their potential applications…

Iron-sulfur clusters are ubiquitous in nature. They are present in many enzymes due to their shape, and specific electronic structure: properties that are fundamental for their reactivity…

Transition metal oxo complexes, particularly those of later transition metals, have been cited as important intermediates in processes such as C–H hydroxylation and oxygen evolution. However, these species are highly reactive and thus often difficult to isolate and study…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials show unique properties that have led to their extensive study for diverse applications. 2D materials are mainly dielectrics, semiconductors, or semimetals…

Covalent surface modification represents a powerful strategy for tailoring the properties of two-dimensional (2D) inorganic materials…

Two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) are distinguished by their chemically accessible, covalently modifiable surfaces…