The Carsch Group will merge fundamental design principles from synthetic inorganic and organic chemistry, organometallic catalysis, chemical engineering, and materials science to manipulate the electronic structures of reactive transition metal intermediates and coordinatively unsaturated metal ions in both molecular complexes and extended porous materials to advance catalysis, separations, and material processability. Our work bridges disparate concepts and employs an interdisciplinary approach to accomplish unsolved challenges across different fields.
In particular, our research program aims to establish new frontiers across synthesis, organometallic catalysis, and gas separations relevant to alkane homologation, C–H functionalization, ambient air separations, chemisorption in liquid media, microporous metallopolymers, ultramicroporous polycrystalline membranes, ligand field inversion, hyper-low-coordinate metal ions, frustrated metalloradical pair catalysis, multi-gas single-site binding, MOF gels, and liquid porous materials.
My program is open to students of all background with a passion to apply fundamental knowledge of chemistry and materials design toward major unsolved challenges in energy and chemical synthesis. Previously, I have mentored graduate students (14), undergraduate students (3), and high school students (1).
