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