Our research focuses on supramolecular chemistry – the chemistry of non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, halogen bonding and coordination bonds. 

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

This project will involve a reasonable amount of organic synthesis, as well as some host-guest binding studies and potentially some X-ray crystallography.

Theme

Organic chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry

Student intake

Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students

Status

Potential

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.

Theme

Inorganic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry

Student intake

Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students

Status

Potential

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.

Theme

Organic chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry

Student intake

Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students

Status

Potential

Members

Leader

Nick White 2023

Associate Professor
Australian Research Council Future Fellow

Researcher

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Postdoctoral Fellow

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Postdoctoral Fellow

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Student

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PhD Candidate

News

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.

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