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Education
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 B.S. , University of Michigan, 1/1979
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Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley, 1/1985
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Professor Periana's research primarily focuses on developing new generations of homogeneous catalysts that will affect the conversion of alkane CH bonds to C-O, C-N and C-S bonds at lower temperatures. His approach is to acquire and utilize knowledge of reaction mechanisms of known homogeneous catalysts to aid in the design and synthesize of new, ligated metal complexes that he predicts could be efficient homogeneous catalysts for alkane CH bond conversions.
Professor Periana is currently embarking on an exciting, long-term extension of his alkane oxidation research based on CH activation, in which he will develop homogeneous catalysts that could provide the basis for the next generation of fuel cells that operate with higher efficiency, reliability and lower cost than possible today. To this end, novel homogeneous complexes will be synthesized and studied in solution and attached to electrode surfaces to begin defining the requirements for electrocatalysts that facilitate the complete, reversible, low temperature, anodic oxidation of alkanes to carbon dioxide and water. Utilizing the strategies outlined above, his other areas of focus are the discovery and study of homogeneous catalysts, for N2 fixation, oxycarbonylation of alkanes and addition of various HX (with emphasis on OH, SH, NH and alkyl and aryl CH) bonds to olefins.
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