Tahsini Lab
News
- Supplemental cover of Inorganic Chemsitry
18 March 2024
Our recent publication in inorganic chemistry was selected as a supplemental cover of the journal. Congratulations to John and Jennifer!
- 2024 President’s Fellows Faculty Research Award
- Congratulations to John for his poster award
18 March 2024
John Raincrow won a poster award at the Great Plain Catalysis Society (GPCS) meeting at KU this summer! - OCAST HEALTH Grant
16 May 2023
Dr. Tahsini receives a grant from the health program of Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST).Our group will be designing and investigating the efficient copper-based catalysts for the building block synthesis of pharmaceuticals and natural products through carboxylation and decarboxylative coupling.
- RJAG Grant
30 September 2021
Dr. Tahsini receives funding from the OSU's Research Jumpstart/Accelerator Grants (RJAG) program. We thank the VPR office for their support of our research on CO2 reduction by molecular Cu catalysts. - ACS PRF Grant
11 June 2020
Dr. Tahsini receives an American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grant. We are excited to have the support of PRF donors through this ND grant to start a new chapter of our research on Ni- and Cu-phosphine chemistry. - Joy Kerfoot Scholarship winner
21 May 2020
Congratulations and good luck with your educational plans Jennifer. - Congratulations to Jennifer!
02 March 2020
Congratulations to Jennifer for the new publication at Dalton Transaction! - Congratulations to Jennifer, Doaa, and Rachel
18 February 2020
Jennifer and Rachel published their paper in Frontiers in Chemistry on C−X (X = N, O) Cross-Coupling Reactions Catalyzed by Copper-Pincer Bis(N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Complexes.
- Dr. Tahsini's presentation at GRC Organometallic!
25 July 2019
Dr. Tahsini presented the recent work of the group on copper-based luminophores at GRC Organometallic in Salve Regina University, Newport, RI.
- Congratulations to Kwame and Shepard!
15 July 2019
Kwame and Shepard published their paper in RSC Advances on Synthesis, characterization, and photoluminescent studies of three-coordinate Cu(I)–NHC complexes bearing unsymmetrically-substituted dipyridylamine ligands. - Grandparent university (2019)
11 June 2019
The group withhold a workshop for grandparent university program in June 2019.A day full of science hands-on activities for the youngest chemists in lab and their parents and grandparents. Check out the photos of the indoor and outdoor activities.
- Congratulations to Jennifer!
27 April 2019
Jennifer won the first-place poster award in the 64th ACS Pentasectional Meeting, 2019 in Norman, OK. - Missouri Inorganic Day (MOID)
27 April 2019
The group presented their work in the Missouri Inorganic Day (MOID) 2019 at Washington University. - Dr. Tahsini’s poster talk at GRC Organometallic
10 July 2018
Dr. Tahsini’s poster titled “Electronic and Structural Modification of Pincer-Based Bis(N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Copper Complexes:
Application in Strong Bond Activation and Catalysis” was selected for a poster talk at GRC Organometallic in Salve Regina University, New Port, RI. Link: https://www.grc.org/organometallic-chemistry-conference/2018/
- Grandparent's University (2018)
11 June 2018
The group withhold a workshop for grandparent university program in June 2019.
A day full of science hands-on activities for the youngest chemists in lab and their parents and grandparents. Check out the photos of this exciting program and a video of our ICE CREAM time! Link: http://chemistry.okstate.edu/latest-news/386-grandparents-university
- Congratulations to Doaa
01 April 2018
Doaa published a paper in the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry on Sonogashira-type cross-coupling reactions catalyzed by copper complexes of pincer N-heterocyclic carbenes. - Congratulations to Doaa
17 March 2017
Doaa won the first-place poster award in the ACS Pentasectional Meeting, 2017 in Cameron University, Lawton, OK.
- Congratulations to Doaa and Sydney!
03 November 2016
Congratulations to Doaa and Sydney!





















