Research Research Groups White Group Our research focuses on supramolecular chemistry – the chemistry of non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, halogen bonding and coordination bonds. label Research theme Research themes Catalysis Inorganic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry Organic chemistry Supramolecular Chemistry Division Synthesis About Our research focuses on supramolecular chemistry – the chemistry of non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, halogen bonding and coordination bonds. We are interested in using these interactions to prepare a range of materials including cages, interlocked molecules and frameworks. We investigate these for a variety of applications including environmental remediation, protection of unstable molecules and biomolecules, and selective catalysis. More information is available at our website www.nwhitegroup.com Projects Catenanes and/or rotaxanes This project will involve a reasonable amount of organic synthesis, as well as some host-guest binding studies and potentially some X-ray crystallography. Read more Student intake Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students Theme Organic chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry Read more Cool cages for coordination chemistry We hope that these will give interesting catalytic properties as we will be able to incorporate coordinatively unsaturated metal ions next to a well-defined 3D binding pocket. This will be studied in collaboration with the Colebatch group. Read more Student intake Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students Theme Inorganic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry Read more Hydrogen bonded organic frameworks This project involves designing and developing new recognition motifs to assemble H-bonded frameworks, and using different interactions such as halogen bonding and chalcogen bonding to prepare frameworks. Read more Student intake Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students Theme Organic chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry Read more Members Leader A/ Prof. Nicholas White Associate ProfessorAustralian Research Council Future Fellow Researcher Dr. Jordan Smith Postdoctoral Fellow Student Ms Rosie Avery PhD Candidate Phonlakrit (Petch) Muang-Non PhD Candidate Mr Craig Stewart PhD Candidate Oscar Swiprepik Honours Student News Congratulations Nick White - ARC Future Fellowship Congratulations to Dr Nick White who has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship. This is fantastic news, and a tribute to all of Nick’s hard work and achievements in supramolecular chemistry. Read the article toc
