Welcome to the research page of The Carsch Group at The University of Texas at Austin!

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We will merge fundamental design principles from synthetic inorganic and organic chemistry, organometallic catalysis, chemical engineering, and materials science to manipulate the electronic structures of coordinatively unsaturated metal ions in both molecular complexes and extended porous materials to advance catalysis, separations, and material processability. In particular, we are interested in designing transition metals with unusual electron counts and coordination environments to explore their propensity for new bond activations and transformations.

 

The focus of our ambitious research program will address topics across alkane homologation, C–H functionalization, ambient air separations, liquid chemisorption, microporous metallopolymers, ultramicroporous polycrystalline membrane, ligand field inversion, hyper-low-coordinate metal ions, frustrated metalloradical pair catalysis, multi-gas single-site binding, MOF gels, and liquid porous materials.

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Early-career researchers will establish critical reasoning skills, gain interdisciplinary expertise to bridge disparate concepts, and master both synthesis and characterization techniques to ultimately become independent scientists. We will employ a broad suite of spectroscopic and diffraction techniques, electrochemical methods, imaging probes, and film deposition approaches.

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Please check out updates to our research page for details on our program!