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Xuan Zhao

Associate Professor

Phone
901.678.1423
Fax
901.678.3447
Office
SM 305
Office Hours
TBD
Xuan Zhao

About Dr. Zhao

Education

B.S. Chemistry, 1993, Nankai University
M.S. Chemistry, 1996, Peking University
Ph.D. Inorganic, 2002, Texas A&M University

Previous Experience

2002-2005, Post Doc, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

My research involves areas of inorganic, organometallic, bioinorganic chemistry and chemical biology, with particular interest in the design and engineering of models for the oxygen-evolving center in photosystem II, through either synthetic methods using organic ligands or biosynthetic approach using small, stable and well-characterized proteins.

Recent Publications

  • Lewandowska-Andralojc, A.; Baine, T.; Zhao, X.; Muckerman, J. T.; Fujita, E.; Polyanskya, D. E. Mechanistic studies of hydrogen evolution in aqueous solution catalyzed by a tertpyridineamine cobalt complex. Inorg. Chem. 2015, submitted.

  • Vennampalli, M.; Liang, G.; Katta, L.; Webster, C. E.; Zhao, X. Electronic Effects on Mononuclear Cobalt Complex with Pentadentate Ligand for Catalytic H2 Evolution, Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 10094-10100.

  • Vennampalli, M.; Liang, G.; Webster, C. E.; Zhao, X. Water Oxidation by Mononuclear Rhthenium Complex with a Pentadentate Isoquinoline-Bipyridyl Ligand. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2014, 715-721.

Please see CV for a comprehensive list of publications