Xavier Ottenwaelder
Associate professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
PEOPLE
Research team
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Graduate students
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Farshid Effaty
Since January 2020
Ph.D. candidate
Catalytic oxidations
Alyson MacKay
Since September 2020
M.Sc. candidate
Hydroxylamine and nitroso complexes
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Hardeep Singh
Since September 2018
M.Sc. candidate
Hydroxylamine and nitroso complexes
Undergraduate students
Past group members
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Saïda Latreche
September 2014 - August 2015
Nitroso chemistry
Paul Hoschtettler
January - April 2020
M2 candidate, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Phenol oxidations
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Farshid Effaty
September 2016 - November 2019
M.Sc.
Hydroxylamine and nitroso complexes
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Yuxuan Li
September 2014 - August 2018
M.Sc.
Aerobic copper catalysis
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Kenrick Cabral-Cerqueira
September 2016 - DNF
M.Sc. candidate
Catalytic Oxidations
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Federica Gennarini
August - October 2016
Visiting Ph.D. student from Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
Electrochemistry
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Laura Rodríguez-Solano
September 2014 - DNF
Ph.D. candidate
Aerobic copper catalysis
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Nooshin Sheibany
September 2013 - April 2017
M.Sc.
Arylnitroso complexes
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Mohammad Sharif Askari
September 2009 - August 2015
Ph.D.
NSERC CGS-M and PGS-D
Inner-sphere redox reactions and catalysis
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Laura Chaloner
June 2008 - August 2015
Ph.D.
Coordinating cryptands
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David de Bellefeuille
September 2011 - April 2014
M.Sc.
Metalloradical species
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Maryam Habibian
May 2008 - December 2010
M.Sc. candidate
Pre-arranged ligands for oxidation chemistry
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Badr Benassila (M2 France)
February - June 2009 visiting student
M2 France
Catalytic Oxidations
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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
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Cassandra Wong
May - August 2019
ICE student from Ryerson, CCVC support
Phenol oxidation catalysis
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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
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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
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Peter Gilich
January - August 2016
John Abbot college
Semiquinones
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Kenrick Cabral-Cerqueira
May - December 2015
Phenol oxidations
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Michael Glazerman
May - August 2015
USRA student
Phenol oxidations
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Bryony McAllister
May - August 2014
ICE student from UVic, USRA
Phenol oxidations
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Layla Halabi
June - August 2014
Ligand synthesis
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Pierre-Etienne Rouet
May - August 2015
Oxidation reactions
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Andrew Dalton
May - December 2013
Oxidation reactions
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Andrew Proppe
January 2013 - August 2014
Oxidation reactions
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Janet McMillan
May - August 2012
Ligand synthesis
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Maëlle Mosser
May - August 2012
Hydroxylamines
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Klervi Dalle
June - August 2012
Hydroxylamines
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Alyona Khomutovskaya
May - August 2012
May - August 2011
Cryptand synthesis
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Fei Chen
September - April 2012
Nitroso complexes
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Anastasia Kazakova
September 2011- April 2012
Nitroso complexes
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Brad Sabat
May - December 2011
Catalysis
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Bryan Zimmerman
May - August 2011
Oxidation reactions
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Frédéric Rousseau
May - August 2011
Schiff base complexes
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Seungguk Kim
May - August 2011
Ruthenium complexes
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Carlos Leung
September- December 2010
Ligand design
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Guillaume Beaulieu-Houle
May - August 2010
Supramolecular reactions
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Genevieve Clark
May - August 2010
Oxygen-atom transfer reactions
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Fawn McIntyre
May - August 2010
Inner-sphere redox reactions
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Emily Wei-Hsin Sun
May - August 2010
Ligand synthesis
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Vivien Séjournant
April - August 2010
Inner-sphere redox reactions
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Michael Holtz-Mulholland
June - August 2009
C-H bond activation
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Yahaya A. Rahaman
January - August 2009
Supramolecular ligands
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Mohammad Sharif Askari
September 2008 - August 2009
Organometallic chemistry
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Badr Benassila
May - August 2008
Organometallic chemistry
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Armen Janjanian
May - August 2008
Organometallic chemistry
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Adrian Kutteh
May - August 2008
Supramolecular ligands
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Brigitte Girard
January - August 2008
Inner-sphere redox reactions
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Maxim Handfield
January - April 2008
Inner-sphere redox reactions
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Tatiana Le Gall
January - April 2008
Valence tautomerism
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Laura Chaloner
September 2007 - May 2008
Supramolecular ligands
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Daniel Rosenberg
May - August 2007
Supramolecular ligands
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Steven Horvath
January - August 2007
Supramolecular ligands