Welcome to the Groves Lab

Welcome to the Groves Lab
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University

The Groves Group (2011)

The major thrust of our research program is at the interface of organic, inorganic, and biological chemistry. Many biochemical transformations as well as important synthetic and industrial processes are catalyzed by metals. Current efforts focus on understanding the mechanisms of metalloproteins, the design of new, biomimetic catalysts and the molecular mechanisms of these processes, studies of host-pathogen interactions related to iron acquisition by small molecule siderophores and molecular probes of the role of peroxynitrite in biological systems.

Group News

July, 2012. Congratulations to Xiaoshi Wang, Erika Milczek, Wei Liu and Xiongyi Huang for the recent publication of their articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Science.

May 1, 2012. Professor John T. Groves has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Congratulations, Prof. Groves!

July 2010. Congratulations to Prof. Groves on receiving the 2010 Hans Fischer Career Award in Porphyrin Chemistry. This award is given every two years to a senior scientist for his accomplishments in the field of porphyrin-related bioinorganic chemistry. The award comes from the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. It is sponsored by the Hans Fischer Gesellschaft in Munich, named for the German organic chemist who received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Groves will be presented with the award at the International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines in July 2010 in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.

June 2010. Congratulations to Prof. Groves on receiving the 2010 Remsen Award!. The award was presented at Johns Hopkins University in June. Groves was cited for his wide-ranging contributions to bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, enzymology, and understanding molecular mechanisms. The award, which has been given annually since 1946 for all areas of the chemical sciences, is named in honor of Ira Remsen, the first professor of chemistry and second president of Johns Hopkins University. It recognizes chemists for outstanding achievements.

Alumni News

Joydeep Lahiri has been promoted to Division Vice President and Senior Research Director of Organic and Biochemical Technologies at Corning, Inc., in January 2009.

Ankona Datta, currently a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Ken Raymond at UC Berkeley, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Tata Institute of Technology in Mumbai, India, beginning in 2010.

Melanie Sanford, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, has received the BASF Catalysis Award for 2009 and the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award for 2008. Recent work from the Sanford lab has appeared on the cover of JACS 2009, showing two mechanistically distinct pathways for the reductive elimination from Pd(IV) complexes to form carbon-oxygen and carbon-carbon bonds.

Prof. John T. Groves: e-mail jtgroves@princeton.edu

Last updated: 9/19/2012