PeterVanNattaDrNMR Laboratory ManagerPhDTechnical Staffpeter.vannatta@unt.eduCHEM 112

Technical StaffExpertise 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