Brian James

Wall Associate

Title

Professor Emeritus

Department/School

Chemistry

Faculty

Science

University

UBC

Dr. Brian James is Professor Emeritus in Chemistry. Professor James’ major research is concerned with determining factors that govern the binding of gases to metal centres of coordination compounds and the subsequent activation of the gases for catalytic processes; thermodynamic, kinetic and mechanistic aspects are studied. Thus, in the presence of added substrates (usually unsaturated organics), hydrogenation (H2), oxygenation and oxidation (O2), and carbonylation (CO) of the substrate are investigated, including asymmetric syntheses when the catalytic metal complex contains chiral ligands.