Dr. Evans Fosu

Office Location: Pinn Hall, Room 4017

Email:pbh2jh@virginia.edu

Evans is a synthetic chemist interested in designing and synthesizing novel compounds for material and biomedical applications. He has skills and expertise in organic synthesis, inorganic synthesis, the design and synthesis of air- and moisture-sensitive organometallic complexes, homogeneous catalysis, and computational chemistry.

Current position:

Postdoctoral research associate, 01/2025-Present

Previous Education and Professional Experiences:

Ph.D. in Organometallic Chemistry, 08/2019-12/2024
Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University

Publications:

Evans Fosu, Nghia Le, Taofiq Abdulraheem, Bruno Donnadieu, Amanda L. Patrick*, Charles Edwin Webster*, and T. Keith Hollis* A Cationic Pt(II) Dinitrogen Adduct: Synthesis and Characterization of a CCC-aNHC Pincer Pt Complex with Abnormal N‑Heterocyclic Carbene Donor Arms. Organometallics (2024), 43, 467–480 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.organomet.3c00411
Evans Fosu, Cecil Humphrey Botchway, Richard Tia, and Evans Adei. Diels-Alder cycloaddition versus ring-opening esterification: A Computational Study of the Mechanism of Formation of Oxa-norbornene Lactones from the Reaction of Furfuryl Alcohol and Itaconic Anhydride. Comp. and Theo. Chem. 1138 (2018) 7-14 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210271X18302019
Evans Fosu, Richard Tia* and Evans Adei* Mechanistic Studies on Diels-Alder [4 + 2] Cycloaddition Reactions of α,β-Substituted Cyclobutenones: Role of Substituents in Regio- and Stereoselectivity. Tetrahedron 72 (2016) 8261-8273 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004040201631122X