Research Focuses

A brief list of current SP8 Group research interests!

Sustainability from a Multifaceted Approach

Here in the Speight group, we view sustainability wholelistically. From what waste we produce in reactions all the way to what we're teaching chemists daily. This approach helps us give a more well rounded feel to our science and to our outputs.

Sustainable and Scalable Organic Chemistry

Think of all the things organic chemistry enables? Medicine, materials, technology, agriculture, foods, textiles, cosmetics. All of these ways to use organic chemistry requires new and safe ways to do them. Our group is focused on changing the narratives behind organic chemistry to make it safer, easier, faster, and more powerful than ever through mechanochemistry!

3D Printed Milling Equipment

By printing milling equipment or modified laboratory equipment, we aim to make chemistry more accessible. Turning traditional lab equipment into tools for synthetic chemistry through creative approaches and low cost alternatives. (Images from designs and experiments conducted by A. Klaus and V. Dunu.)

Metal Organic Frameworks

Imagine being able to build huge structures and vast architectural feats at the microscopic level! Our group's work in metal organic frameworks focuses on exploring fundamental structure and function of these coordination complexes, but with unique metals, like mercury! (Image from data from T. Bremner, Background image from Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 1811-1818.)

Mechanocatalysis

We seek to use milling materials made of various metals to perform catalytic organic reactions! This approach should lead us to methods that reduce the need for designer ligands and complex reaction mixtures. (Image from experiment performed by S. Guinea)

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