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Dr. Aidan Mc Donald

Associate Prof in Inorganic Chemistry (Chemistry)
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE

 aidan.mcdonald@tcd.ie

 3531896 4546


Biography

Career: Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, The University of Dublin, 2017 - date Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, The University of Dublin, 2012 - 2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioinorganic Chemistry, The University of Minnesota, 2008 - 2012 Ph.D., Organometallic Chemistry, Utrecht University, 2003 - 2008 B.A. (Hons) Chemistry, gold medalist, The University of Dublin, 1998 - 2002 Honours/Awards: Irish Research Council Laureate Award. 2022 Awarded EUROBIC Medal by Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 2020 Elected to Fellowship of the University of Dublin. 2020 Royal Society of Chemistry Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship, 2017 Elected member of the Young Academy of Europe, 2017 Royal Society/SFI University Research Fellowship, 2016 EU/Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant, 2015 EU/FP7 Marie-Curie Fellowship, 2013 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2009

Research Tags

  Bioinorganic Chemistry   Catalysis/Kinetics   Homogeneous catalysis   Inorganic Chemistry   IRON   Mechanisms of reactions   Organometallic chemistry
Philipp Heim, Sachidulal Biswas, Hugo Lopez, Robert Gericke, Brendan Twamley, Aidan R. McDonald, A CoII-Hydroxide Complex That Converts Directly to a CoII-Acetamide during Catalytic Nitrile Hydration, Inorganic Chemistry, 63, (17), 2024, p7896-7902 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Lorna Doyle, Adriana Magherusan, Shuangning Xu, Kayleigh Murphy, Erik R. Farquhar, Florian Molton, Carole Duboc, Lawrence Que, Jr., Aidan R. McDonald, Class Ib Ribonucleotide Reductases: Activation of a Peroxido-MnIIMnIII to Generate a Reactive Oxo-MnIIIMnIV Oxidant, Inorganic Chemistry, 63, (4), 2024, p2194-2203 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Doyle, L.M. and Bienenmann, R.L.M. and Gericke, R. and Xu, S. and Farquhar, E.R. and Que, L. and McDonald, A.R., Preparation and characterization of MnIIMnIII complexes with relevance to class Ib ribonucleotide reductases, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 257, (112583), 2024, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Krajewska, A.M. and Paiva, A.E. and Morris, M. and McDonald, A.R., Reduction of Exfoliated MoS2 Nanosheets Yields the Semi-Conducting 2H-polymorph Rather Than the Metallic 1T-polymorph, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2024, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Philipp Heim and Giuseppe Spedalotto and Marta Lovisari and Robert Gericke and John O{\textquotesingle, Synthesis and Characterization of a Masked Terminal Nickel-Oxide Complex, Chemistry {\textendash, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Aleksandra M. Krajewska, Aislan Esmeraldo Paiva, Michael Morris, Aidan R. McDonald, Synthesis, Characterisation, and Functionalisation of Charged Two"Dimensional MoS2, Chemistry " A European Journal, 29, (57), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Marta Lovisari, Oscar Reid Kelly, Aidan R. McDonald, Hydrocarbon Oxidation by a Porphyrin"""Cation Radical Complex, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, (31), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Chakadola Panda, Onyinyechukwuka Anny-Nzekwue, Lorna M. Doyle, Robert Gericke, Aidan R. McDonald, Evidence for a High-Valent Iron-Fluoride That Mediates Oxidative C(sp3)-H Fluorination, JACS Au, 3, (3), 2023, p919-928 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Philipp Heim, Robert Gericke, Giuseppe Spedalotto, Marta Lovisari, Erik R. Farquhar, Aidan R. McDonald, Aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbon hydroxylation via a formally NiIV"O oxidant, Dalton Transactions, 52, (9), 2023, p2663-2671 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Chakadola Panda, Lorna M. Doyle, Robert Gericke, Aidan R. McDonald, Rapid Iron(III)"Fluoride"Mediated Hydrogen Atom Transfer, Angewandte Chemie, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
  

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