麻豆传媒

 
 

Department of Chemistry

Faculty of Science

Alison Thompson

Professor, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Pyrrole Chemistry for Chemical Biology and Energy

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Department of Chemistry

Email: Alison.Thompson@dal.ca
Mailing Address: 
Department of Chemistry
麻豆传媒
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
  • 麻豆传媒 Alumni Association Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching, 2018
  • 麻豆传媒 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.