Alison Thompson
Professor, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Pyrrole Chemistry for Chemical Biology and Energy
Related information
Email: Alison.Thompson@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
Department of Chemistry
H漫画 University
6243 Alumni Crescent
P.O. Box 15000
Halifax NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:- Organic chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Synthesis
- Materials
- Heterocycles
- Pyrroles
- Natural products
- Ligand design
- Transition metals
- Main group metals
Education
- BSc University of Leicester (UK)
- PhD, University of Sheffield (UK)
- PDF, Ecole de Chimie 脿 Strasbourg (France) and University of British Columbia
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Research interests
Our research focuses on the synthesis of pyrroles and polypyrroles to enable evaluation of new compounds with unique biological, physical and optical properties: applications target functional materials and improved pharmaceutical function. We develop/invent synthetic methodology, and characterize our new compounds in various ways to assess success.
Selected awards and honours
- Anne Marie MacKinnon Educational Leadership Award, 2019
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2018
- H漫画 Alumni Association Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching, 2018
- H漫画 Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision, 2018
- Chemistry Professor of the Year Award, 2015
Selected publications
- Diaz-Rodriguez, R. M., Burke, L., Robertson, K. N., & Thompson, A. (2020). Synthesis, properties and reactivity of BCl 2 aza-BODIPY complexes and salts of the aza-dipyrrinato scaffold. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.
- Grover, N., Locke, G. M., Flanagan, K. J., Beh, M. H., Thompson, A., & Senge, M. O. (2020). Bridging and Conformational Control of Porphyrin Units through Non鈥怲raditional Rigid Scaffolds. Chemistry鈥揂 European Journal, 26(11), 2405-2416.
- Kim, M. J., Gaube, S. M., Beh, M. H., Smith, C. D., &听Thompson, A.听(2019). Synthesis and reactivity of 2-thionoester pyrroles: a route to 2-formyl pyrroles.听RSC Advances,听9(54), 31773-31780.
- Hilborn, J. W., Moya-Barrios, R., &听Thompson, A.听(2019). Photodecarboxylation of Substituted Naphthylmethyl Arylacetate Esters: Synthesis of Naphthylarylethanes.听The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84, 18, 11992鈥�11999.
- Figliola, C., Marchal, E., Groves, B. R., &听Thompson, A.听(2019). A step-wise synthetic approach is necessary to access 纬-conjugates of folate: folate-conjugated prodigiosenes.听RSC Advances,听9(25), 14078-14092.
- Diaz-Rodriguez, R. M., Robertson, K. N., &听Thompson, A.听(2019). Classifying donor strengths of dipyrrinato/aza-dipyrrinato ligands.听Dalton Transactions.听48(22), 7546-7550.