Tolman Group Laboratory

Tolman Group at WUSTL, June 2020.

One aspect of the research we do focuses on modeling the active sites of copper based enzymes like LPMO using small molecules complexes to understand their structure and reactivity toward activating C-H bonds.

Our group is interested in modeling the coopertivity of multi-copper enzymatic sites.

We use a wide array of spectroscopic and analytical techniques to determine the structure and function of complexes we synthesize.

The Tolman Lab is proud to be part of the Center for Sustainable Polymers! Check out the official CSP website.

We develop alternatives to petroleum sources for polyolefins, and are working to decarbonylate bioderived carboxylic acids to olefins.

We analyze the mechanism of Ring Opening Transesterification Polymerizations (ROTEP) for bionewable monomers in order to gain a fundemental understanding of how the structure of our organometallic catalysts affect the dispersity and polymerization rate for these degradable polyesters.

We thank the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health for funding our research.