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

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
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
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(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
J Med Chem
(2007)
50
(doi: 10.1021/jm061081y)
Dinuclear Iron Centers for dioxygen activation and selective oxidation chemistry
SJ Lippard, JJ Kodanko, A Morys, M Zhao, E Reisner, S Friedle
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2006)
231
Redox behavior of tumor-inhibiting ruthenium(III) complexes and effects of physiological reductants on their binding to GMP
P Schluga, CG Hartinger, A Egger, E Reisner, MS Galanski, MA Jakupec, BK Keppler
Dalton Trans
(2006)
6
(doi: 10.1039/b511792e)
KP1019 (FFC14A) from bench to bedside: preclinical and early clinical development--an overview.
MA Jakupec, VB Arion, S Kapitza, E Reisner, A Eichinger, M Pongratz, B Marian, N Graf von Keyserlingk, BK Keppler
Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther
(2005)
43
(doi: 10.5414/CPP43595)
Tuning of redox properties for the design of ruthenium anticancer drugs: part 2. Syntheses, crystal structures, and electrochemistry of potentially antitumor [Ru III/II Cl6-n(Azole)n]z(n = 3, 4, 6) complexes.
E Reisner, VB Arion, A Eichinger, N Kandler, G Giester, AJL Pombeiro, BK Keppler
Inorganic Chemistry
(2005)
44
(doi: 10.1021/ic0503737)
Isomeric [RuCl2(dmso)2(indazole)2] complexes: ruthenium(ii)-mediated coupling reaction of acetonitrile with 1H-indazole
E Reisner, VB Arion, A Rufińska, I Chiorescu, WF Schmid, BK Keppler
Dalton Transactions
(2005)
(doi: 10.1039/b503650j)
Redox-active antineoplastic ruthenium complexes with indazole: Correlation of in vitro potency and reduction potential
MA Jakupec, E Reisner, A Eichinger, M Pongratz, VB Arion, MS Galanski, CG Hartinger, BK Keppler
J Med Chem
(2005)
48
(doi: 10.1021/jm0490742)
Reactions of potent antitumor complex trans-[Ru(III)Cl4(indazole)2]- with a DNA-relevant nucleobase and thioethers: insight into biological action.
A Egger, VB Arion, E Reisner, B Cebrián-Losantos, S Shova, G Trettenhahn, BK Keppler
Inorganic Chemistry
(2004)
44
(doi: 10.1021/ic048967h)

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er376@cam.ac.uk

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