Chemistry Seminar – John Kiernicki

About the event

Speaker: Dr. John Kiernicki, Drury University

Host: Dr. Ivan Popov

Title: Controlling Hydrogen Bond Donor/Acceptor Interactions through Redox Activity

Abstract: Hydrogen bonds are electrostatic by nature and, therefore, are influenced by electronic perturbations. Our lab is investigating methods to control the presence of hydrogen bonds and their strength through adjacent redox events. This talk will highlight applications of this work toward controlling metal-ligand assembly processes and designing on/off tunable organocatalysts while supplementing these studies with simplified model systems.