The Tasker Group

Based at the University of Edinburgh, and with collaborations with other UK universities and international companies, the Tasker group is involved with projects that cover a variety of themes, from selective metal recovery and purification, corrosion protection and passivation, to lubricants and perfumes.

Coordination Chemistry and Ligand Design

Co-ordination chemistry has a major impact on many areas of science, ranging from photophysics to biology, and underpins the development of many industrial products and processes. Primarily focussing on ligand design, the understanding of fundamental interactions is core to our research and can lead to the development of much greener products and processes.

Examples of our recent publications are:

Ellis, R.J. et al., Outer-sphere Amidopyridyl Extractants for Zinc(II) and Cobalt(II) Chlorometallates, ChemComm, (In Press).

Gordon, R.J. et al., Polyacidic multiloading metal extractants, ChemComm, 2008 (39), 4801-4803.

Rio-Echevarria, I.M. et al., Surface binding vs. sequestration; the uptake of benzohydroxamic acid at iron(III) oxide surfaces, ChemComm, 2008 (38), 4570-4572.

Forgan, R. et al., Transport of metal salts by zwitterionic ligands; simple but highly efficient salicylaldoxime extractants, ChemComm, 2008 (34), 4049-4051.

If you would like any information regarding work in the Tasker group, please email Prof. Tasker: Peter.Tasker@ed.ac.uk.

updated October 2008 by Tim Simmance.