Colorado State University NSF-REU Summer
Program in Materials Chemistry Research:
Synthesis, Characterization, and Device Fabrication
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Richard G. Finke
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The central theme behind
the research in the Finke group is synthetic and mechanistic chemistry and
biochemistry with an emphasis on chemical catalysis, bio-inorganic/bio-organic
chemistry and materials chemistry. Three primary research subareas currently
are: the intriguing Coenzyme B12-dependent enzyme ribonucleotide triphosphate
reductase; investigations of the synthesis, characterization and catalytic
reactions of the inorganic metal-oxide materials known as polyoxoanions,
especially their dioxygenase oxygenation reactions of organic substrates, and
several projects in nanocluster materials chemistry.
Additional subtopics within
these three areas include: organic and organometallic synthesis; protein
biochemistry; catalysis and the applications of catalysis to environmental
problems, especially selective oxidation chemistry; physical-inorganic and
physical-organic chemistry; polyoxoanion inorganic and organometallic
chemistry; and materials chemistry, especially the synthesis, mechanisms of
formation and catalysis of polyoxoanion-stabilized transition-metal
nanoclusters.