The Daly Group uses coordination chemistry to address fundamental questions relevant to nuclear energy and materials, small molecule transformations, separations, and electroactive molecules. While the applications are quite diverse, our projects are similar in that they rely on the design of new ligands capable of promoting a desired function or property when bound to metals. Students in the group learn to characterize new complexes using a wide range of physical and analytical methods that include multi-nuclear NMR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, mass spectrometry, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and electrochemical methods. Our efforts generally fall into one of the following research areas: development of transition metal complexes with redox-active and dinucleating ligands, X-ray spectroscopy investigations of metal complexes with boron and phosphorus ligands, and the synthesis of lanthanide and actinide borohydride complexes. Please see our website for additional details.