Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies

Professor of Energy and Sustainability

Our research

The Reisner laboratory develops new concepts and technologies for the conversion of solar energy and renewable electricity into sustainable fuels and chemicals for a circular economy. Thus, we explore chemical aspects of energy and sustainability, in particular photo- and electrocatalysis and the interface of synthetic chemistry, materials and nano-science, chemical biology and engineering. Central themes of our cross-disciplinary and collaborative approach are the development of processes for the upcycling of plastic and biomass waste as well as the use of carbon dioxide and water to produce green fuels and chemicals for a sustainable future.

More information can be found on our group website.

Keywords: Solar fuels, solar chemicals, artificial photosynthesis, biohybrid materials, water and CO₂ splitting, small molecule activation, catalysis, metalloenzymes, microbiology, biomimetic chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry, synthetic chemistry, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, materials Chemistry, nanotechnology, functional and energy materials.

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Publications

Water-Gas Shift Reaction Catalyzed by Redox Enzymes on Conducting Graphite Platelets

O Lazarus, TW Woolerton, A Parkin, MJ Lukey, E Reisner, J Seravalli, E Pierce, SW Ragsdale, F Sargent, FA Armstrong

J Am Chem Soc

(2009)

131

14154

(doi: 10.1021/ja905797w)

Catalytic electrochemistry of a [NiFeSe]-hydrogenase on TiO2 and demonstration of its suitability for visible-light driven H 2 production

E Reisner, JC Fontecilla-Camps, FA Armstrong

Chemical Communications

(2008)

550

(doi: 10.1039/b817371k)

Dynamic electrochemical investigations of hydrogen oxidation and production by enzymes and implications for future technology.

FA Armstrong, NA Belsey, JA Cracknell, G Goldet, A Parkin, E Reisner, KA Vincent, AF Wait

Chem Soc Rev

(2008)

38

36

(doi: 10.1039/b801144n)

An electrochemical study of antineoplastic gallium, iron and ruthenium complexes with redox noninnocent alpha-N-heterocyclic chalcogensemicarbazones.

CR Kowol, E Reisner, I Chiorescu, VB Arion, MS Galanski, DV Deubel, BK Keppler

Inorganic chemistry

(2008)

47

11032

(doi: 10.1021/ic8013249)

Reactions of synthetic [2Fe-2S] and [4Fe-4S] clusters with nitric oxide and nitrosothiols

TC Harrop, ZJ Tonzetich, E Reisner, SJ Lippard

J Am Chem Soc

(2008)

130

15602

(doi: 10.1021/ja8054996)

Synthesis and reactivity of the aquation product of the antitumor complex trans-[(RuCl4)-Cl-III(indazole)(2)](-)

B Cebrián-Losantos, E Reisner, CR Kowol, A Roller, S Shova, VB Arion, BK Keppler

Inorganic chemistry

(2008)

47

6513

(doi: 10.1021/ic800506g)

Electron-transfer activated metal-based anticancer drugs

E Reisner, VB Arion, BK Keppler, AJL Pombeiro

Inorganica Chimica Acta

(2008)

361

1569

(doi: 10.1016/j.ica.2006.12.005)

Synthesis of Dicarboxylate “C‐Clamp” 1,2‐Diethynylarene Compounds as Potential Transition‐Metal Ion Hosts

E Reisner, SJ Lippard

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

(2007)

2008

156

(doi: 10.1002/ejoc.200700816)

A planar carboxylate-rich tetrairon(II) complex and its conversion to linear triiron(II) and paddlewheel diiron(II) complexes

E Reisner, J Telser, SJ Lippard

Inorganic chemistry

(2007)

46

10754

(doi: 10.1021/ic701663j)

Influence of steric hindrance on the core geometry and sulfoxidation chemistry of carboxylate-rich diiron(II) complexes

E Reisner, TC Abikoff, SJ Lippard

Inorganic chemistry

(2007)

46

10229

(doi: 10.1021/ic7014176)