Molecular Design and Synthesis
Research
The School currently conducts research in: catalyst design; computational chemistry; free radical chemistry; ligands and metal complexes; macromolecules; supramolecular chemistry; templates
People
- Brendan Abrahams, crystal engineering, supramolecular chemistry
- Colette Boskovic, polynuclear metal complexes, ligand synthesis, coordination chemistry
- Paul Donnelly, coordination chemistry, macrocyclic chemistry, metal-based drugs, new electroactive materials
- Ken Ghiggino, polymer synthesis, photoactivated pro-drugs
- Craig Hutton, natural products, synthetic organic chemistry, amino acids, cyclic peptides
- David Jones, design and synthesis of organic semiconducting materials
- Anastasios Polyzsos, visible light photoredox catalysis, transition metal catalysis, C-H activation, synergistic catalysis, novel reaction discovery, medicinal chemistry, flow chemistry
- Daniel Priebbenow, transition-metal catalysis, C-H activation, organosilicon chemistry, photochemistry, medicinal chemistry
- Gavin Reid, post translational modifications, amino acids, peptides
- Mark Rizzacasa, total synthesis of natural products, bioactive molecule synthesis
- Richard Robson, new inorganic materials
- Alessandro Soncini, polynuclear metal complexes with large magnetic anisotropy
- Tony Wedd, polyoxometalate clusters
- Jonathan White, stereoelectronic effects, structure correlation principle, DNA-binding radiomodifiers
- Uta Wille, radical reactions, synthetic methodology, photochemistry, electrochemistry, computational chemistry
- Spencer Williams, carbohydrates, flavonols, sulfation
- Wallace Wong, controlled polymerisation, supramolecular chemistry, fullerene chemistry

Professor Brendan Abrahams
Professor
Email: bfa@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 267, Chemistry Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 0341
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Associate Professor Colette Boskovic
Associate Professor
Email: c.boskovic@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 272, Chemistry Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 4971

Professor Paul Donnelly
Professor
Email: pauld@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 506, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute
Address: Bio21 Institute, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2399

Professor Ken Ghiggino
Masson Professor of Chemistry
Email: ghiggino@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 358, Chemistry East Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 8939

Professor Franz Grieser
Professor of Chemistry
Email: franz@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 251, Chemistry Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 6476

Dr Yuning Hong
McKenzie Fellow
Email: yuningh@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room B09, Chemistry East Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9035 8129

Professor Craig A Hutton
Professor
Email: chutton@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 502, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2393

Dr David Jones
Senior Research Fellow
Email: djjones@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 438, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2371

Dr Anastasios Polyzos
Senior Lecturer
Email: anastasios.polyzos@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 276, Chemistry Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 8264

Dr Daniel Priebbenow
ARC DECRA Fellow
Email: daniel.priebbenow@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 274, Chemistry Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 403 799 275

Professor Gavin E. Reid
Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry
Email: gavin.reid@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 431, Bio21 Institute
Address: Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2650

Professor Mark A. Rizzacasa
Professor
Email: masr@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 505, Bio21 Institute
Address: Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2397

Professor Richard Robson
Professor
Email: r.robson@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 508, Chemistry Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 6469

Professor Carl Schiesser
Professor
Email: carlhs@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 538, Bio21 Institute
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2432

Associate Professor Alessandro Soncini
Associate Professor
Email: asoncini@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 280, Chemistry Building Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 6484

Professor Tony Wedd
Senior Research Fellow
Email: agw@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 431, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2383

Professor Jonathan White
Professor
Email: whitejm@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 551, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2445

Professor Uta Wille
Professor
Email: uwille@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 534, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2425

Professor Spencer Williams
Professor
Email: sjwill@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 532, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Rd, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2422

Dr Wallace W.H. Wong
Senior Lecturer
Email: wwhwong@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 438, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Rd, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9035 6154