Organometallic and Inorganic Chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis, Materials Precursors.

ORGANOMETALLIC AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS, MATERIALS PRECURSORS.

Welcome to the website of the research group headed by
Prof. David J. Cole-Hamilton.

B.Sc. University of Edinburgh1972
Ph. D. University of Edinburgh 1975
Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College, London 1975-8
Irvine Professor of Chemistry and Director of Teaching

Sir Edward Frankland Fellow 1984-5
Tilden Lecturer, 2000-2001

FRSE, FRSC

Corday Morgan Medal 1983
RSC Industrial Award for Organometallic Chemistry, 1988
Scientific Editor, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Transactions
Editor, Advanced Materials for Optics and Electronics
Museums and Galleries Commision Award for Innovation in Conservation (Runner up), 1995

Our research is in the general area of the application of metal containing compounds to the solution of a variety of problems, mainly in homogeneous catalysis or materials Chemistry.

Areas of Interest		Homogeneous Catalysis Carbonylation Chemistry Homogeneous Catalyst Recovery Supercritical Fluids Dendrimers Fluorous biphasic catalysis Polymer Synthesis Catalyst Testing
		Main Group organometallic compounds in Materials Synthesis MOCVD percursors Semiconductor Quantum Dots
		Conservation of Archaeological Wood
		Catalyst Evaluation and Optimisation Sevices (CATS)

Last Modified: September 1999 gps

Keywords: Homogeneous, Catalysis, Carbonylation, Organometallic, Precursors, MOCVD, Quantum dots, Electron transfer, Polymers, Conservation, Wood.