Research area

The research area involves kinetics and mechanisms of substitution reactions in a square-planar platinum(II) complexes. Water and S-donor nucleophiles like amino acids and glutathione are of particular importance. The complexes are mainly bimetallic with a bridging ligand between metal centers.

Besides kinetics, the research area involves fabrication and chracterization of new inorganic nanomaterials based on titanium dioxide, eg. nanotubes, nanowires, etc. These materials are modified with platinum complexes like those described above.

Previous investigations was devoted to kinetics and mechanisms of ligand substitution in octahedral chromium(III) complexes as well as the heterobimetallic complexes of chromium(III) and iron(II). Some attention was focused on heterobimetallic complexes of iron(III), copper(II) and vanadium(V) and their catalytic/redox properties (see the list of publications).