Postgraduate (Synthetic Chemistry - Inorganic & Organometallics Group)
BSc (Hon) (First Class)
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Chemistry Building |
| Room Reference | 306 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 7893 |
| Curtis.Ho@utas.edu.au |
Laboratory demonstrator in undergraduate synthetic chemistry laboratory sessions, for first year chemistry units, KRA113 and KRA114, and second year units KRA224 and KRA225. Has previously been a senior/assistant demonstrator for third year units formerly known as KRA334 (Structural Methods) and KRA333 (Organometallic Chemistry).
Currently my PhD project focuses on structure and reactivity chemistry of bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) palladium complexes, looking at the lower oxidation states of palladium (i.e. Pd(II), Pd(I) and Pd(0)). The project has an overall industrial catalysis application (in CO/ethylene copolymerisation) and also fundamental research into discovering novel NHC-palladium structures. X-ray crystal structure analysis (Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction) is heavily relied upon for structural determination and confirmation of ligand binding modes. My work is also in collaboration with the computational chemistry group of the School of Chemistry in probing reaction pathways and formations mechanisms.
Supervisors: Assoc Prof Michael Gardiner and Dr David McGuinness