Assistant Professor Susan Odom (Chemistry) and Research Scientist Cameron Lippert (CAER) published an article titled “Carbonic Anhydrase Mimics for Enhanced CO₂ Absorption in an Amine-based Capture Solvent” in Dalton Transactions, featuring undergraduate alumnus Rachael Kelsey as the first author. Kelsey, now a medical student at the University of Kentucky, synthesized and characterizated two new small-molecule enzyme mimics of carbonic anhydrase. She and fellow undergraduate student David Austin Miller tested the homogeneous catalysts in concentrated primary amine solutions through which a dilute CO₂ fluid stream was flowed and found exceptional activity for increased CO₂ absorption rates.

Citation: Dalton Trans. 2016, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/C5DT02943K