Projects currently running in the group are geared towards fundamental research in organophosphorus chemistry and new ways of harnessing the phosphorus content in chemical waste

  Current areas of focus include:

• Asymmetric catalysis: The development of novel methods for preparing P-stereogenic molecules (chiral molecules in which the phosphorus atom is a stereogenic centre). Projects in this area will have applications in the medicinal chemistry space, particularly directed toward anti-infective and oligonucleotide chemotherapies. 

• Sustainable Organophosphorus Chemistry: Harnessing waste sources of phosphorus to make high-value organophosphorus compounds and feedstock reagents. This work is ultimately geared towards establishing a more sustainable phosphorus cycle and a circular phosphorus economy.

• Applied research: The discovery of novel or improved applications of organophosphorus compounds in any area of materials and pharmaceutical science, chemical biology, and medicinal or analytical chemistry. 

• NMR Method Development: The development of new 31P NMR methods for the determination of enantiomeric excess in P-stereogenic compounds.