Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Professor Erwin Reisner

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

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
(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
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2008)
130
(doi: 10.1021/ja8054996)
Synthesis and reactivity of the aquation product of the antitumor complex trans-[RuIIICl4(indazole)2]-
B Cebrián-Losantos, E Reisner, CR Kowol, A Roller, S Shova, VB Arion, BK Keppler
Inorganic Chemistry
(2008)
47
(doi: 10.1021/ic800506g)
Electron-transfer activated metal-based anticancer drugs
E Reisner, VB Arion, BK Keppler, AJL Pombeiro
Inorganica Chimica Acta
(2008)
361
(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
(doi: 10.1002/ejoc.200700816)
A planar carboxylate-rich tetraironII complex and its conversion to linear triironII and paddlewheel diironII complexes.
E Reisner, J Telser, SJ Lippard
Inorganic Chemistry
(2007)
46
(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
(doi: 10.1021/ic7014176)
INOR 472-Synthesis and characterization of a planar tetranuclear iron(II) complex and its conversion into linear triiron and paddlewheel diiron complexes
E Reisner, SJ Lippard
ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S
(2007)
234
INOR 899-Electron-transfer activation of anionic ruthenium(III) anticancer drugs
E Reisner, VB Arion, BK Keppler, AJL Pombeiro
ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S
(2007)
234
Structure−Activity Relationships for NAMI-A-type Complexes (HL)[trans-RuCl4L(S-dmso)ruthenate(III)] (L = Imidazole, Indazole, 1,2,4-Triazole, 4-Amino-1,2,4-triazole, and 1-Methyl-1,2,4-triazole):  Aquation, Redox Properties, Protein Binding, and Antiproliferative Activity
M Groessl, E Reisner, CG Hartinger, R Eichinger, O Semenova, AR Timerbaev, MA Jakupec, VB Arion, BK Keppler
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
(2007)
50
(doi: 10.1021/jm061081y)

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01223 336323

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er376@cam.ac.uk

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St John's College
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
Lensfield Road
Cambridge
CB2 1EW
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