The inorganic community at MIT is structured around six primary faculty members whose research interests cover the spectrum from physical-inorganic to synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Ongoing research programs involve biological and medical applications of inorganic chemistry, transition metal and main group organometallic chemistry, coordination chemistry, photo-, heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, and solid state and surface chemistry.

The facilities within the inorganic research laboratories are quite extensive and insure that research is not limited by the availability of instrumentation. In addition to well equipped analytical and preparative facilities which include a number of refrigerated dry boxes and high pressure apparatus, a variety of spectroscopic and electrochemical instrumentation is also available. Of particular note is the broad energy range covered by the spectroscopic facilities found in the inorganic laboratories (NMR and single crystal CCD detector, X-ray diffractometers, EPR, FTIR, IR, Raman and resonance Raman, fast and ultrafast laser, UV-Vis, Mössbauer, UV and X-ray photoelectron [ESCA] spectrometers).

The scope of our inorganic program provides a wide selection of thesis topics as well as a broadening graduate educational experience to be gained through exposure and access to many of the important areas of inorganic chemistry at the research level.

Stephen L. Buchwald Buchwald Research Group		Room 18-490 (617) 253-1885 sbuchwal@mit.edu Fax: (617) 253-3297		Organic Materials Inorganic
Christopher C. Cummins Cummins Research Group		Room 6-435 (617) 253-5332 ccummins@mit.edu Fax: (617) 258-5700		Inorganic
Mircea Dincă Dincă Research Group		Room 2-227 (617) 253-4154 mdinca@mit.edu Fax: (617) 258-7500		Materials Inorganic
Catherine L. Drennan Drennan Research Group		Room 68-680 (617) 253-5622 cdrennan@mit.edu Fax: (617) 258-7847		Biological Inorganic Physical Environmental
Stephen J. Lippard Lippard Research Group		Room 18-498 (617) 253-1892 lippard@mit.edu Fax: (617) 258-8150		Inorganic Biological Environmental
Elizabeth M. Nolan Nolan Research Group		Room 16-573B (617) 452-2495 lnolan@mit.edu Fax: (617) 324-0505		Biological Inorganic
Richard R. Schrock Schrock Research Group		Room 6-331 (617) 253-1596 rrs@mit.edu Fax: (617) 253-7670		Inorganic Organic Materials