Dr Peter VanNatta

Technical Staff
NMR Laboratory Manager
PhD
UNT Eagle

Expertise

  • Synthetic and computational chemistry and spectroscopy
  • Special focus on magnetic spectroscopies (EPR, NMR, SQUID)
  • Transition metal and metal-free catalysis and electrocatalysis
  • C-H bond activation at extreme-pressure
  • Framework materials synthesis and characterization

Research

  • Frustrated Lewis pair hydrogenation catalysis in heterogeneous framework materials for asymmetric catalysis of pharmaceutical precursors
  • Recalcitrant C-H bond activation by geometric and electronic structure perturbations of dinuclear copper complexes towards selective methane monooxygenation at room temperature
  • Investigation of thermodynamically accessible pathways of homogeneous electrocatalysts for water oxidation
  • Design and synthesis of lanthanide-based MOFs and evaluation of photophysical behavior for on/off sensing of small molecules 
  • Interrogation of quadrupolar nuclei and paramagnetic species by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy