Dr Rose Haque
B. Sc. (Chemistry, Sonoma State University, Ca, USA)
M.Sc. (Physical Organic, San Jose State University, Ca, USA)
Ph.D. ( Synthetic Inorganic, The University of Western Australia, Australia )


E-mail : rosenani@usm.my
telephone (office): (604)-6533888 ext 3578
Facsimile: (604)-6574854

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My research work currently is on synthesis and characterizations of metal complexes of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC). We focus mainly on Ag, Hg, Pd and the Ln series. A carbene is defined as a neutral divalent carbon atom with two nonbonding electrons. The nonbonding electrons in a carbene carbon can either be in a singlet or a triplet state. NHCs are usually in the singlet state. NHCs can be formed by removing an acidic proton from a heterocyclic system such as an imidazolium ion. Nowadays, NHC have been complexed with almost all transition metals, for examples, silver, palladium, nickel, ruthenium, mercury, gold and other transition metals. These complexes find applications as catalysts in many important industrial transformations.

Our laboratory is fully equipped for synthetic work. We routinely use NMR, X-ray, FTIR and microanalysis for characterization studies.We synthesize the complexes for biological applications towards many different types of cancer cells as well as the Pd complexes are applied in catalysis. So far the results for cancer applications has been exceptionally good.