One of the main techniques we use to characterize reaction products is Gas Chromatography (GC). Our Thermo Scientific Trace 1300 holds two columns simultaneously. The first is a standard polar column attached to a standard split/splitless injection port and a flame ionization detector (FID). We use this column to separate and quantify the organic products […]
Our group uses this Pine WaveDriver potentiostat for our electrochemical studies. This potentiostat is capable of performing cyclic voltammetry (CV), bulk electrolysis (BE), and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV), which we use to determine the oxidation and reduction potentials of the catalysts we design in the lab, as well as those of the substrates we are […]
Our lab uses this PerkinElmer Lambda 465 to study the reaction kinetics of our catalysts in solution. The sample chamber is surrounded by a water jacket attached to a circulating heating/refrigerating bath, which allows us to control and adjust the reaction temperature. This instrument uses a photodiode array, which allows it to collect full UV-Visible […]
A big Parent lab welcome to Austin MacRae and Yutaro Aimoto. Austin joins our research group as a new graduate student in chemistry at NDSU, and is working with the CSMS developing more sustainable syntheses of polymer building blocks. Yutaro is a visiting graduate student from Prof. Ken Sakai’s lab at Kyushu university, and will […]
Congratulations to Christian, Hashini, and Hanna on their Dalton Paper!
Our group’s first manuscript has just been published in Dalton Transactions! Congratulations to Christian, Hashini, and Hanna for all of their hard work. You can read their article on C-H bond oxidation by Ru on the RSC website here: Electrochemical properties and C-H bond oxidation activity of [Ru(tpy)(pyalk)Cl]+ and [Ru(tpy)(pyalk)OH]+.
Parent Lab at the ACS GLRM in Fargo!
Congratulations to everyone in the lab for excellent presentations at the ACS Great Lakes Regional meeting in Fargo last week! We got a lot of great comments from the conference participants, and are back in the lab ready to make them into reality!
