Dr. Mohammed Fettouhi
Associate Professor
Fettouhi’s group research interest includes the use of coordination chemistry as a tool for the design of molecular entities with interesting chemical, physical and biological properties, catalysis, single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis and the study of the structure-properties correlation.
Research Areas
Inorganic
Fettouhi’s group scope of research varies from the design and synthesis of ligands and their coordination compounds for a target chemical, physical or biological property to the structural characterization by spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis. Advanced studies are realized through a collaborative work with different groups around the world for the magnetic, photo-physical and biological properties.
The catalysis research work is based on the design of new ligands and their transition metal complexes to catalyze a variety of chemical transformations. Our focus was on coupling and carbonylative coupling reactions. We are extending our work to CO2 activation. One particular interest is the oxidative carboxylation of olefins.
The research work on molecular materials convers the design of molecular magnetic systems using open-shell ligands such as nitronylnitroxides as spin carriers to build 1, 2 and 3 dimensional magnetic systems. The scope of work extends to the photo-physical properties and the tuning of electronic instabilities such as spin transitions in coordination compounds. The quest for a synergy between multiple phenomena is an important objective.
OFFICE
4 - 220
PHONE
2941
EMAIL
fettouhi@kfupm.edu.sa
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