Bas De Bruin Email and Phone Number

Bas de Bruin studied chemistry at the University of Nijmegen from 1989-1994. He obtained his Ph.D. (April 20, 1999) from the same university (Rh Mediated Olefin Oxygenation). He did his postdoc in the group of Wieghardt at the Max-Planck Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie (Mülheim a/d Ruhr, Germany, April 1999-April 2000) for which he obtained an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship in 1999. After his postdoc he returned to the University of Nijmegen as an Assistant Professor in Inorganic Chemistry (Metal-Organic Chemistry), where he was involved in several research activities ranging from olefin oxygenation, radical organometallic chemistry, EPR spectroscopy, catalysis, light-switchable redox bistable molecules, DFT calculations, and (catalytic) synthesis of new materials. November 2005 he moved to the University of Amsterdam (UvA, group Reek, Homogeneous and Supramolecular Catalysis), where he was promoted to Associate Professor (UHD, October 2008). January 2013 he was promoted to Full Professor (chair) at the same university. Bas de Bruin presently focuses at the development of new tools in homogeneous catalysis, using metals in unconventional oxidation states and unconventional ligands, specifically aiming at the development of new catalytic reactions. January 2008, Bas de Bruin obtained a prestigious ERC Starting Grant (first round of the EU 7th framework Ideas Program; ERC = European Research Council). In 2012 he obtained a prestigious NWO-VICI grant to investigate new controlled (catalytic) radical-type transformations. Bas de Bruin is involved in teaching Inorganic Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Organometallic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis and (Catalytic) Reaction Mechanisms.Specialties: Organometallic ChemistryHomogeneous CatalysisEPR Spectroscopy & SimulationComputational CatalysisCarbene ReactivityRadical-type Reactivity