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Alison Thompson

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

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Email: Alison.Thompson@dal.ca
Mailing Address: 
Department of Chemistry
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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

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
  • 黄色直播 Alumni Association Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching, 2018
  • 黄色直播 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.