Overview
Metallurgy - Solvent Extraction
Coordination Chemistry
Supramolecular Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Structural Chemistry
Sustainable Chemistry
Research Opportunities
If you are an undergraduate student at Imperial College London looking for a BSc/MSci/Summer project, or an 'MRes in Green Chemistry: Energy and the Environment' research student, drop me an email or come chat to talk about research opportunities that may be available!
Gold
Primary Amides
Doidge ED, Carson I, Tasker PA, et al., 2016, A Simple Primary Amide for the Selective Recovery of Gold from Secondary Resources, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, Vol: 55, Pages: 12436-12439, ISSN: 1433-7851
Rhodium
Ongoing work, stay tuned ;)
Copper
Phenolic pyrazoles / phenolic oximes
Doidge ED, Roebuck JW, Healy MR, et al., 2015, Phenolic pyrazoles: Versatile polynucleating ligands, COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS, Vol: 288, Pages: 98-117, ISSN: 0010-8545
Healy MR, Roebuck JW, Doidge ED, et al., 2016, Contributions of inner and outer coordination sphere bonding in determining the strength of substituted phenolic pyrazoles as copper extractants, DALTON TRANSACTIONS, Vol: 45, Pages: 3055-3062, ISSN: 1477-9226
Nickel/Cobalt
Synergistic extractants
Carson I, Healy MR, Doidge ED, et al., 2017, Metal-binding motifs of alkyl and aryl phosphinates; versatile mono and polynucleating ligands, COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS, Vol: 335, Pages: 150-171, ISSN: 0010-8545
Platinum
Amino amides
Carson I, MacRuary KJ, Doidge ED, et al., 2015, Anion Receptor Design: Exploiting Outer-Sphere Coordination Chemistry To Obtain High Selectivity for Chloridometalates over Chloride, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Vol: 54, Pages: 8685-8692, ISSN: 0020-1669
Lanthanides
Metalates
Doidge ED, Carson I, Love JB, et al., 2016, The Influence of the Hofmeister Bias and the Stability and Speciation of Chloridolanthanates on Their Extraction from Chloride Media, SOLVENT EXTRACTION AND ION EXCHANGE, Vol: 34, Pages: 579-593, ISSN: 0736-6299
Research Techniques
ICP-OES (metal content analysis)
Mass Spectrometry (FT-ICR-ESI-MS, speciation)
Computational DFT/MD simulations
Karl Fischer water content determination
EXAFS for solution structure
Inorganic NMR