The Rawson Group The University of Windsor
Past Windsor Students
Follow the links below to find out information on previous group members at U. Windsor.
MSc Students
Mitchell Nascimento
2018 Structural studies and crystal engineering of dithiadiazolyl radicals and their metal complexes.
I joined the Rawson group as an Outstanding Scholar and my summer research experiences supported through NSERC USRA awards convinced me to pursue research. I received a best talk prize at the 2015 Inorganic Discussion weekend (2015) at the RMC and best poster award at the CSC Materials division in Halifax (2016). My graduate studies have been funded through OGS and NSERC CGS-M awards and worked on a dithiadiazolyl (DTDA) radical project, examining their reactivity towards metals and their ability to form cocrystals. I received an NSERC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement to work with Bill Evans (UC Irvine) looking at the reactivity of radicals with f-block metal complexes. After completing my Masters, I moved west and am currently studying towards a PhD with Prof. Ian Manners at UVic.
Zeinab Ahmed
2017 Expanding the oxidative addition route for the rational design of multi-metallic metal dithiolene complexes
I became a member of the Rawson group through the UWindsor Outstanding scholars program and continued on to a Masters degree. I worked on the oxidative addition chemistry of tetrathiocines to group 10 metals forming a range of mono-, di- and hexa-nuclear complexes and learned a lot about analytical techniques such as multinuclear NMR. I am currently using my science background teaching General Science and Chemistry at the Windsor Islamic High School.
Natalia Mroz
2015 Magnetostructural correlations in 1,3,2-dithiazolyl radicals: A DFT study.
As an undergraduate my final year research project investigated the use of computational methods to probe the reaction mechanisms of organometallic complexes. I then joined the rawson group as the resident computational chemist for several years examining magnetic communication pathways in sulfur-nitrogen radicals in the solid state and modelling magnetic data using a variety of 'standard' models for exchange coupled clusters and low dimensional materials. I then moved to australia with my husband and am currently completing my Pharmacy School program.
Justin Wrixon
2013 Synthesis and Reactivity of Some 1,2,5,6-Tetrathiocines
I joined the Rawson group as a volunteer as an undergraduate and continued on to do a final year 410 research project. These experiences gave me a passion to continue onto graduate research and I used microwave chemistry to prepare many tetrathiocin derivatives and examine their reactivity as precursors to making metal dithiolate complexes and also sulfur-nitrogen radicals. I learned a lot of analytical techniques for compound characterization (NMR, X-ray, IR and EPR etc) which helped me secure my position at Jamieson Vitamins where I am currently a QC technologist.
Visiting Masters students
Victor Monnot (Universite Paris Descartes, International Masters)
2018 Developing the synthesis and reactivity patterns of tetraselenocins. Currently
completing his qualification
Ines Taarit (Universite Paris Descartes, International Masters)
2017 Worked on the development of tetraselenocins as precursors for metal diselenolate complexes
Currently a research intern at U. Paris-Descartes
Sebastien Zeine (Universite Paris Descartes, International Masters)
2016 Examined the chemistry of tetrathiocins and pioneered work on tetraselenocin chemistry.
Nadia Fendi (Universite Paris Descartes, International Masters)
2015 Examined the oxidative addition chemistry of tetrathiocins to Ni(0) complexes.After completing her
Masters program she worked in RnD for Nestle Skin Health and is currently a validation consultant for
Evalu Conseil, France.
Yassine Beldjoudi (Universite Paris Descartes, International Masters)
2011 Worked on the synthesis and characterization of a family of dithiadiazolyl radicals, focusing on the
effects of substitution patterns on crystal packing. After completing his Masters he returned to Windsor
as a PhD student in the Rawson group. Yassine is currently a PDF position with Sir Fraser Stoddart
(Northwestern).
