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  • Supplemental cover of Inorganic Chemsitry

    18 March 2024

     

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    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

     

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    John Raincrow won a poster award at the Great Plain Catalysis Society (GPCS) meeting at KU this summer!

  • OCAST HEALTH Grant

    16 May 2023

     

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    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

     

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    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

     

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    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

     

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    Congratulations and good luck with your educational plans Jennifer.

  • Congratulations to Jennifer!

     02 March 2020

     

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    Congratulations to Jennifer for the new publication at Dalton Transaction!

  • Congratulations to Jennifer, Doaa, and Rachel

    18 February 2020

     

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    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

     

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    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

     

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    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

     

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    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

     

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    Jennifer won the first-place poster award in the 64th ACS Pentasectional Meeting, 2019 in Norman, OK.

  • Missouri Inorganic Day (MOID)

     27 April 2019

     

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    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

     

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    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

     

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    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

     

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    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

     

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    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

     

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    Congratulations to Doaa and Sydney!

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