Xavier Ottenwaelder
Associate professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
PEOPLE
Research team

Graduate students

Farshid Effaty
Since January 2020
Ph.D. candidate
Catalytic oxidations
Alyson MacKay
Since September 2020
M.Sc. candidate
Hydroxylamine and nitroso complexes

Hardeep Singh
Since September 2018
M.Sc. candidate
Hydroxylamine and nitroso complexes
Undergraduate students
Past group members

Saïda Latreche
September 2014 - August 2015
Nitroso chemistry
Paul Hoschtettler
January - April 2020
M2 candidate, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Phenol oxidations

Farshid Effaty
September 2016 - November 2019
M.Sc.
Hydroxylamine and nitroso complexes

Yuxuan Li
September 2014 - August 2018
M.Sc.
Aerobic copper catalysis

Kenrick Cabral-Cerqueira
September 2016 - DNF
M.Sc. candidate
Catalytic Oxidations

Federica Gennarini
August - October 2016
Visiting Ph.D. student from Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
Electrochemistry

Laura Rodríguez-Solano
September 2014 - DNF
Ph.D. candidate
Aerobic copper catalysis

Nooshin Sheibany
September 2013 - April 2017
M.Sc.
Arylnitroso complexes

Mohammad Sharif Askari
September 2009 - August 2015
Ph.D.
NSERC CGS-M and PGS-D
Inner-sphere redox reactions and catalysis

Laura Chaloner
June 2008 - August 2015
Ph.D.
Coordinating cryptands

David de Bellefeuille
September 2011 - April 2014
M.Sc.
Metalloradical species

Maryam Habibian
May 2008 - December 2010
M.Sc. candidate
Pre-arranged ligands for oxidation chemistry

Badr Benassila (M2 France)
February - June 2009 visiting student
M2 France
Catalytic Oxidations

François David
September 2016 - DNF
M.Sc. candidate
Coordinatively unsaturated complexes
Louis Paton
September 2019 - April 2020
Phenol oxidations
Rachelle Wiener
January - April 2020
John Abbott College
Catalyst design

Cassandra Wong
May - August 2019
ICE student from Ryerson, CCVC support
Phenol oxidation catalysis

Loïc Tan
June - August 2019
MITACS Globalink exchange student from France
Catalysis with nitroso complexes
Paul Hoschtettler
January - April 2019
M1, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Alcohol oxidations
Jonathan Eid
January - April 2019
John Abbott College
Hydroxylamine ligands
Mark Kit
April - August 2018
RISE student from McMaster, CCVC support
Phenol oxidations
Dario Di Girolamo
January - April 2018
Vanier College
Ligand design

Joseph Zsombor Pindera
May 2017 - June 2018
B.Sc. Honours, USRA
Hydroxylamine complexes
Léon Escomel
May - August 2017
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Hydroxylamine ligands
Alexia Piercey
January - April 2017
John Abbott College
Semiquinone complexes

Peter Gilich
January - August 2016
John Abbot college
Semiquinones

Kenrick Cabral-Cerqueira
May - December 2015
Phenol oxidations

Michael Glazerman
May - August 2015
USRA student
Phenol oxidations

Bryony McAllister
May - August 2014
ICE student from UVic, USRA
Phenol oxidations

Layla Halabi
June - August 2014
Ligand synthesis

Pierre-Etienne Rouet
May - August 2015
Oxidation reactions

Andrew Dalton
May - December 2013
Oxidation reactions

Andrew Proppe
January 2013 - August 2014
Oxidation reactions

Janet McMillan
May - August 2012
Ligand synthesis

Maëlle Mosser
May - August 2012
Hydroxylamines

Klervi Dalle
June - August 2012
Hydroxylamines

Alyona Khomutovskaya
May - August 2012
May - August 2011
Cryptand synthesis

Fei Chen
September - April 2012
Nitroso complexes

Anastasia Kazakova
September 2011- April 2012
Nitroso complexes

Brad Sabat
May - December 2011
Catalysis

Bryan Zimmerman
May - August 2011
Oxidation reactions

Frédéric Rousseau
May - August 2011
Schiff base complexes

Seungguk Kim
May - August 2011
Ruthenium complexes

Carlos Leung
September- December 2010
Ligand design

Guillaume Beaulieu-Houle
May - August 2010
Supramolecular reactions

Genevieve Clark
May - August 2010
Oxygen-atom transfer reactions

Fawn McIntyre
May - August 2010
Inner-sphere redox reactions

Emily Wei-Hsin Sun
May - August 2010
Ligand synthesis

Vivien Séjournant
April - August 2010
Inner-sphere redox reactions

Michael Holtz-Mulholland
June - August 2009
C-H bond activation

Yahaya A. Rahaman
January - August 2009
Supramolecular ligands

Mohammad Sharif Askari
September 2008 - August 2009
Organometallic chemistry

Badr Benassila
May - August 2008
Organometallic chemistry

Armen Janjanian
May - August 2008
Organometallic chemistry

Adrian Kutteh
May - August 2008
Supramolecular ligands

Brigitte Girard
January - August 2008
Inner-sphere redox reactions

Maxim Handfield
January - April 2008
Inner-sphere redox reactions

Tatiana Le Gall
January - April 2008
Valence tautomerism

Laura Chaloner
September 2007 - May 2008
Supramolecular ligands

Daniel Rosenberg
May - August 2007
Supramolecular ligands

Steven Horvath
January - August 2007
Supramolecular ligands