Events

Date: 9 May 2025   Time: 14:00 - 15:00

Location: Geography 1.26

Dr. Alison Thompson

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

FRSC (UK) and Professor of Chemistry

Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Pyrrole Chemistry

Synthetic, photochemical, and photodynamic therapy adventures with pyrroles and BODIPYs

Synthetic chemistry involving pyrroles is challenging courtesy of electron-rich aromaticity and the propensity to oxidise or polymerise. BODIPYs incorporate two pyrrole units – double the fun, and double the challenge! Harnessing the chemistry of the pyrrolic motif leads to dipyrrolic structures that exhibit desirable properties as ligands and as photoactive species useful in chemical biology sensing/staining, photodynamic therapy and energy harvesting. This research seminar will include discussion of new strategies by which to functionalise pyrroles en route to BODIPYs appended with chalcogenophenes, including tellurophene.