Alan Storr
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Research and Teaching Interests
Dr. Storr's research group is probing the use of new multidentate ligands in transition-metal chemistry with a view to creating catalytic systems of broad applicability. Numerous uninegative tridentate chelating ligands have been synthesized and these have been incorporated in a number of unique transition-metal complexes. The stability of these complexes is attributed to the flexibility of the new ligands and also to their propensity to create electron-rich transition-metal centres in their complexes. Research in this area of "designer" ligands and their complexes is continuing. In materials chemistry, transition-metal pyrazolate and imidazolate polymers are being studied with a view to creating novel materials with useful magnetic and electrical properties.
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Curriculum Vitae
B.Sc., Nottingham (1960); Ph.D., Newcastle (N.N. Greenwood, 1963); Postdoctoral, Newcastle (N.N. Greenwood, 1963-64) and Cornell (A.W. Laubengayer, 1964-65).