The Tolman Group works at the interfaces of inorganic, organic, biological, and polymer chemistry to address important problems related to human health and the environment.

 

Tolman Group at WUSTL, September 2019.

One aspect of the bioinorganic side of the Tolman lab 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 using macrocyclic ligands.

Our group uses 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.

The Tolman lab is committed to finding alternatives to petroleum sources for polyolefins. Using biomass, we’re working to decarbonylate fatty acids to 1-olefins in our drop-in strategy.

Our group analyses the kinetic 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’d like to thank the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health for funding our research.

The search for new postdoctoral research associates has closed! Announcements upcoming about new group members . . .

Tolman Group Laboratory, Contact Information

  • Mailing Address: Washington University in St. Louis
    One Brookings Dr. 
    St. Louis, Missouri (MO) 63130
  • Phone: 314-935-6530
  • Fax: 314-935-4481

Department of Chemistry

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