Rene Boere, University of Lethbridge

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Lethbridge profile.

Stable free radicals free radicals of the main group elements redox-active compounds electrochemistry

Latest funding

Molecular Electrochemistry as Enabling Technology in Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$144,000
Redox Active Compounds & Non-innocent Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, Electrochemistry, EPR Spectroelectrochemistry
NSERC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$175,000
Solution- and Solid-State 500 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility Upgrade
NSERC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$150,000

All 13 grants and awards

No publications available.

Molecular Electrochemistry as Enabling Technology in Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Boeré, René

Keywords: synthesis; voltammetry; spectroscopy; x-ray crystallography; electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; electrolysis; chemotherapeutic agents; molecular design; density functional theory computation

$144,000

Redox Active Compounds & Non-innocent Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, Electrochemistry, EPR Spectroelectrochemistry

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Boeré, René

$175,000

Solution- and Solid-State 500 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility Upgrade

Co-investigatorNSERC2012Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Hazendonk, Paul

$150,000

Electrochemistry glove box

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Boeré, René

$22,024

Redox-generated free radicals: basic science to nanomaterials

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Boeré, René

$200,000

X-ray diffraction facility

Co-investigatorNSERC2005Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Gerken, Michael

$142,350

Unsaturated main group compounds and free radicals

Principal investigatorNSERC2005Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Boeré, René

$215,000

MNR spectrometer

Co-investigatorNSERC2005Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Dibble, Peter

$150,000

Stable Phosphorus Based Free Radicals for Magnetometry

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Idea to Innovation

Principal investigators: Boeré, René

$47,800

Tuning the molecular properties of main-group ring compounds and ligands

Principal investigatorNSERC2001Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Boeré, René

$148,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Stable free radicals Dear Professor Boere, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on stable free radicals connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Molecular Electrochemistry as Enabling Technology in Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]