Welcome to the Morris Group Homepage!

Welcome to the homepage of the Morris Research Group at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Under the supervision of Robert (Bob) Morris, the group conducts world-class inorganic chemistry research involving metal hydrides, homogeneous catalysis, catalytic mechanisms, and more.

For more information on our group and its research, please follow the links at the top of the page.

The Morris Group - Nov 2011

Latest News

November 2011 - The Morris group welcomes Dr. Weiwei Zuo as a postdoctoral resarcher.

October 2011 - The Morris group welcomes Professor Faraj Hasanayn as a visiting professor.

September 2011 - Congratulations to Jessica for being awarded an NSERC Vanier Scholarship!

July 2011 - Stereoelectronic factors in iron-catalyzed asymmetric tranfer hydrogenation catalysis: click here for more info.

May 2011 - We have reported the first example of base-free asymmetric transfer hydrogenation using iron PNNP complexes. Click here for more info.

February 2011 - Mechanistic investigations of transfer Hydrogenation using Ru(II) piano stool carbene complexes. Click here for more info.

November 2010 - Congratulations to Demyan for his poster award at the 2010 Inorganic Discussion Weekend in Windsor!

October 2010 - Take a look at Vivian's latest paper regarding iron complexes for transfer hydrogenation.

July 2010 - Prof. Morris has been appointed Chair of the Department of Chemistry.

April 2010 - See our new paper on cyclic phosphonium salts in the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry.

January 2010 - The new and improved Morris Group website is now online.

December 2009 - Congratulations to Vivian on her first published paper in the Morris group!

November 2009 - Wylie has recently published two papers in Organometallics on Platinum(II)/Palladium(II) NHCs and Nickel(II)/Ruthenium(II) NHCs. Congrats!

November 2009 - Congratulations to Vivian, Alex and Peter for their awards at the 2009 Inorganic Discussion Weekend in Guelph!