Inorganic Chemistry
Description
Inorganic chemistry at Penn encompasses many fields of study, ranging from main group, transition metal, and organometallic chemistry to solid-state polymers, conducting materials, bioinorganic chemistry, inorganic nanoparticles, computational design, and organic ligand synthesis. Inorganic chemists in the department study fundamental biological electron-transfer and charge separation processes, design new catalysts for organic transformations, and create materials with enhanced physical or electronic properties. Research efforts often combine synthesis and computation with sophisticated spectroscopic techniques to design and elucidate interesting materials properties.
Energy-minimized structure of an amine-containing cryptophane cage (green)
bound to xenon (purple) Dmochowski Group
Structure of Na3(THF)6(BINOLate)3La illustrating the Na-C p-interactions. The
triangular face is drawn in black. A view down the C3-axes with the 3-H
protons in torques (right). Walsh Group
