Research Interests:
1. Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms of dinuclear
hydroxo-bridged transition metal complexes with dissolved SO2 and
some oxoanions. We are the first group to synthesise and fully
characterise an oxygen bridged sulfito complex of
chromium(III).
2. Electrochemical studies on trinuclear mixed
valence and mixed metal transition metal complexes in non aqueous
solvents. This includes investigation of Standard Reduction
Potentials and Electrode Kinetic reactions by cyclic
voltammetry.
3. Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms of the
oxidation of biological reductants with trinuclear transition
metal complexes.
4. Synthesis and Characterization of Transfer
Hydrogenation Catalysts, used in the hydrogenation of ketones and
immines.
5. Synthesis of [2,2]Paracyclophane-type
derivatives of N-Heterocyclic carbenes, their transition metal
complexes, and studies on their catalytic activity.
6. Analysis and quantification of acrylamide in
foods; kinetics and mechanism of the formation of acrylamide and
the interaction with body fluid constituents.
7. Analysis of MTBE, BTEX and other VOC.s in
Jamaican Water and soil. Hydrolysis and microbial degradation
studies on MTBE.
8. Catalytic studies on the dechlorination of
Polychlorobiphenyls
Selected Publication
- A Family of Active Iridium Catalysts for Transfer
Hydrogenation of Ketones. Zaheer E. Clarke, Paul T. Maragh, Tara
P. Dasgupta, Dmitri Gusev, Alan J. Lough and Kamaluddin
Abdur-Rashid. Organometallics (2006), 25(17), 4113-4117
- Kinetics and Mechanism of the Electron Transfer Reaction
between Di-m-cyanobis[tetracyanoferrate(III)] Ion and Sulfite in
Aqueous Acidic Solution. Jane Lui-Lym, Tara Dasgupta, Paul
Maragh, Floyd Beckford, Geoff Stedman. Inorganica Chimica Acta
(2007), 360(7), 2284-2290.
- The Crystal Structure of a
Bis(2,6-pyridinedicarboxylato)chromate(III) Anion with an
Elaborate Network of Hydrogen Bonding and p Stacking. Vince C.R.
Payne,1 Oliver St.C. Headley, Robert T. Stibrany, Paul T. Maragh,
Tara P. Dasgupta, Anthony M. Newton, and Alvin A. Holder. Journal
of Chemical Crystallography (2007), 37(4), 309-314.
- Analysis and Quantification of Acrylamide in Jamaican Foods
by Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. Grace-Anne Bent, Paul
Maragh and Tara Dasgupta. Jamaican Journal of Science and
Technology (2007), 18, 64-69.
- Solid State 13C-NMR and Infrared Studies on the Molecular
Packing of Anhydrous Zinc(II) n-Alkanoates. Richard A. Taylor,
Henry A. Ellis and Paul T. Maragh, Journal of Molecular Structure
(2009), 921(1-3), 118-125.
- Dynamic Studies of Transnitrosation of Thiols of Biological
Importance by the Nitrosated
4,42,422,4222-Tetrasulfophthalocyaninecobaltate(III) Anion in
Aqueous Solution. Ross F. Brown, Tara P. Dasgupta, Paul T. Maragh
and Alvin A. Holder, Biophysical Chemistry (2009), 141,
198-202.
Created and maintained by Prof. Robert J.
Lancashire,
The Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies,
Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
Created March 1996. Last modified 21st October, 2009.
URL http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm/chpm.html