Mark Stradiotto

Professor, Faculty of Science
Killam Professor of Chemistry

BSc (McMaster), PhD (McMaster) 

E-mail: mark.stradiotto@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-7190
Fax: (902) 494-1310
 
* Accepting Graduate Students
 
Research interests: Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis. 

Research efforts in the Stradiotto group are directed toward developing new classes of ancillary ligands/transition metal complexes that exhibit interesting and unusual reactivity, with the goal of incorporating such reactivity into useful substrate transformations. Our research program is focused on the development of: highly effective ancillary ligands for use in challenging cross-coupling reactions, including Buchwald-Hartwig aminations involving ammonia and hydrazine; new late metal catalyst complexes for the hydroamination of unsaturated substrates; and zwitterionic relatives of more traditional cationic late metal complexes, in anticipation that these may prove useful in a range of catalytic substrate transformations. Key themes that link these programs include: the establishment of innovative ligation strategies for use in constructing reactive metal complexes; the evaluation of structure-activity relationships including mechanistic studies to guide the development of increasingly reactive complexes; and the development of new and synthetically useful substrate transformations.

Visit Our lab: Stradiotto Research Group, Organometallic Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis