Anders Thapper
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Institutionen för kemi - Ångström; Syntetisk molekylär kemi
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 36 32
- E-mail:
- anders.thapper@kemi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmslaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- Box 523
751 20 Uppsala
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Short presentation
Anders Thapper's scientific activities lies in the field of bioinorganic and biomimetic chemistry, studying metal complexes that are structural and/or functional models of metal containing enzymes.
The research within artificial photosynthesis is focused on using transition metal complexes as catalysts for the oxidation of water to oxygen. The overall goal is to link these catalysts to photosensitisers to perform water oxidation driven by energy from the sun.
Biography
Anders Thapper did his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at Lund University, Sweden in 2001. After a first postdoctoral stay at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal with Professor José Moura he returned to Sweden during 2005 for a second postdoctoral stay at Uppsala University. In Uppsala he started out by studying Photosystem II together with Professor Stenbjörn Styring but over time got more involved in artificial photosynthesis and manganese and cobalt based catalyst for water oxidation. Since May 2007 he is employed as a researcher at the Department Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory in the Molecular Biomimetics program.
Publications
Selection of publications
- Synthesis, crystal structure, mass spectrometry, electrochemistry and magnetism of a Mn-III-substituted trilacunary Keggin tungstosilicate (2013)
- Voltammetric and spectroscopic characterization of early intermediates in the Co(II)-polypyridyl-catalyzed reduction of water (2013)
- Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels – an Evolving Research Field within AMPEA, a Joint Programme of the European Energy Research Alliance (2013)
- FTIR Study of Manganese Dimers with Carboxylate Donors As Model Complexes for the Water Oxidation Complex in Photosystem II (2012)
- Atomic structure of cobalt-oxide nanoparticles activein light-driven catalysis of water oxidation (2012)
- Mechanistic Studies on the Water-Oxidizing Reaction of Homogeneous Manganese-Based Catalysts (2011)
- Photochemical water oxidation with visible light using a cobalt containing catalyst (2011)
- Synthesis and characterisation of low valent Mn-complexes as models for Mn-catalases (2010)
- Two tetranuclear Mn-complexes as biomimetic models of the oxygen evolving complex in Photosystem II. A synthesis, characterisation and reactivity study (2009)
- Formation of stoichiometrically O-18-labelled oxygen from the oxidation of O-18-enriched water mediated by a dinuclear manganese complex (2008)
Recent publications
- Photocatalytic Generation of Divalent Lanthanide Reducing Agents (2023)
- Water Oxidation by Pentapyridyl Base Metal Complexes? (2022)
- Gold nanoparticle-based supramolecular approach for dye-sensitized H-2-evolving photocathodes (2022)
- Two routes to hydrogen evolution for a Co-polypyridyl complex with two open sites (2022)
- Electronic and geometric structure effects on one-electron oxidation of first-row transition metals in the same ligand framework (2021)
All publications
Articles
- Photocatalytic Generation of Divalent Lanthanide Reducing Agents (2023)
- Water Oxidation by Pentapyridyl Base Metal Complexes? (2022)
- Gold nanoparticle-based supramolecular approach for dye-sensitized H-2-evolving photocathodes (2022)
- Two routes to hydrogen evolution for a Co-polypyridyl complex with two open sites (2022)
- Electronic and geometric structure effects on one-electron oxidation of first-row transition metals in the same ligand framework (2021)
- Spin transition in a ferrous chloride complex supported by a pentapyridine ligand (2020)
- Understanding the Performance of NiO Photocathodes with Alkyl-Derivatized Cobalt Catalysts and a Push-Pull Dye (2020)
- Using Surface Amide Couplings to Assemble Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Production Applications (2020)
- Synthesis and properties of a heterobimetallic iron-manganese complex and its comparison with homobimetallic analogues (2019)
- A new tri-nuclear Cu-carbonate cluster utilizing CO2 as a C1-building block - reactive intermediates, a probable mechanism, and EPR and magnetic studies (2019)
- Structural features of molecular electrocatalysts in multi-electron redox processes for renewable energy (2019)
- Formation of persistent organic diradicals from N,N'-diphenyl-3,7- diazacyclooctanes (2019)
- Heterometallic Mn/Fe complexes versus homometallic Mn/Mn and Fe/Fe complexes as models for the dimetal carboxylate cofactors. (2017)
- Water oxidation catalyzed by mononuclear iron and cobalt polypyridine complexes (2017)
- Ligand modification to stabilize the cobalt complexes for water oxidation (2017)
- Homogeneous Water Oxidation by Half-Sandwich Iridium(III) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes with Pendant Hydroxy and Amino Groups (2017)
- Iron Pentapyridyl Complexes as Molecular WaterOxidation Catalysts (2016)
- Mononuclear Iron Complexes with Tetraazadentate Ligands as Water Oxidation Catalysts (2016)
- Homogeneous Cobalt/Vanadium Complexes as Precursors for Functionalized Mixed Oxides in Visible-Light-Driven Water Oxidation (2016)
- Structural transformation of Bi1-x/3V1-xMoxO4 solid solutions for light-driven water oxidationt (2016)
- A nickel (II) PY5 complex as an electrocatalyst for water oxidation (2016)
- Water oxidation catalysed by a mononuclear CoII polypyridine complex; possible reaction intermediates and the role of the chloride ligand (2015)
- First turnover analysis of water-oxidation catalyzed by Co-oxide nanoparticles (2015)
- Structural, magnetic, thermal and visible light-driven water oxidation studies of heterometallic Mn/V complexes (2015)
- A Luz ao Serviço da Humanidade – A produção de combustíveis solares (2015)
- Quantitative determination of the Ru(bpy)(3)(2+) cation in photochemical reactions by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (2014)
- Water oxidation by manganese oxides formed from tetranuclear precursor complexes (2014)
- A Ru-Co hybrid material based on a molecular photosensitizer and a heterogeneous catalyst for light-driven water oxidation (2014)
- Photo-Induced Water Oxidation Based on a Mononuclear Cobalt(II) Complex (2014)
- Water Oxidation Catalyzed by a Dinuclear Cobalt–Polypyridine Complex (2014)
- Synthesis, crystal structure, mass spectrometry, electrochemistry and magnetism of a Mn-III-substituted trilacunary Keggin tungstosilicate (2013)
- Voltammetric and spectroscopic characterization of early intermediates in the Co(II)-polypyridyl-catalyzed reduction of water (2013)
- Copper-substituted forms of the wild type and C42A variant of rubredoxin (2013)
- Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels – an Evolving Research Field within AMPEA, a Joint Programme of the European Energy Research Alliance (2013)
- FTIR Study of Manganese Dimers with Carboxylate Donors As Model Complexes for the Water Oxidation Complex in Photosystem II (2012)
- Atomic structure of cobalt-oxide nanoparticles activein light-driven catalysis of water oxidation (2012)
- Mechanistic Studies on the Water-Oxidizing Reaction of Homogeneous Manganese-Based Catalysts (2011)
- Photochemical water oxidation with visible light using a cobalt containing catalyst (2011)
- Synthesis and characterisation of low valent Mn-complexes as models for Mn-catalases (2010)
- Two tetranuclear Mn-complexes as biomimetic models of the oxygen evolving complex in Photosystem II. A synthesis, characterisation and reactivity study (2009)
- Analysis of current and alternative phenol based RNA extraction methodologies for cyanobacteria (2009)
- Kinetic, Structural, and EPR Studies Reveal That Aldehyde Oxidoreductase from Desulfovibrio gigas Does Not Need a Sulfido Ligand for Catalysis and Give Evidence for a Direct Mo-C Interaction in a Biological System (2009)
- Defining the Far-Red Limit of Photosystem II in Spinach (2009)
- Formation of stoichiometrically O-18-labelled oxygen from the oxidation of O-18-enriched water mediated by a dinuclear manganese complex (2008)
- Functional characterization of monomeric photosystem II core preparations from Thermosynechococcus elongatus with or without the Psb27 protein (2007)
- Correlating EPR and X-ray structural analysis of arsenite-inhibited forms of aldehyde oxidoreductase. (2007)
- A dinuclear manganese complex with an asymmetric ligand as a functional mimic of manganese catalase
- A diiron complex as a structural model of Class 1a Robonucleotide Reductase
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