We are interested in making unusual and reactive complexes of the lanthanides and actinides, and early transition metals. Our labs are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for the synthesis of highly air-sensitive complexes, and the study of their reactivity towards small molecules that are traditionally considered inert, and as homogeneous catalysts.

Please use the links above to find out more, or contact me using the information below.

Polly L. Arnold, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh,West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JJ, UK. Polly.Arnold@ed.ac.uk. Tel. +44 (0)131 650 5429.

News

Jul '11: Congratulations Anne-Frederique, for winning a poster prize at the XIX EuCheMS Conference on Organometallic Chemistry in France.

Jul '11: Congratulations Guy, for winning best talk at the USIC conference in Glasgow.

Mar '11: the student we hired as Ms Nat Jones is now Dr Nat Potter, after very successfully passing her viva examination and getting married. Congratulations on both.

Feb '11: Dr Zoe Turner starts a Fulbright fellowship with Prof Paul Chirik at Princeton, US.

Jan '11: Isobel appears on the BBC, helping to lanch IYC by showing how Edinburgh Professor Crum Brown's used woollen models in the 1860s to demonstrate molecular structures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12298375.

November '10 Zoe Turner has passed her viva, many congratulations!

August '10 Stephen Pearson has passed his viva, well done!

May '10 The Joseph Black Carbon Dioxide Laboratory website is now live, describing the chemistry going on in the new labs, and our links with engineers and geologists.

Feb '10 All four of our 2009-graduating PhDs are now in postdoc positions across the world (US, Germany, UK). good luck to all.

Jan '10 Our single crystal X-ray diffractometer is now installed and working full-time. pictures and structures to follow...