Brief Biography
David J. H. Emslie was born in 1975 in Edinburgh, Scotland and attended the Edinburgh Academy. Here he had an opportunity to prepare ethylenediamine and acetylacetonate complexes of many of the first row transition metals under the supervision of Dr. Tim Blackmore, sparking a particular interest in inorganic chemistry. In 1996 he received his B.Sc. (1st class Honours) degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol (England), at which point he undertook a Ph.D. with Prof. Neil G. Connelly, also at the University of Bristol. The title of this Ph.D. thesis was "The Redox Chemistry of Rhodium(I) Pyrazolylborate and Related complexes". In February 2000, he started a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Warren E. Piers at the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), working on non-cyclopentadienyl scandium and yttrium organometallic chemistry (2000-2002) and borabenzene chemistry (2002-2003). In July 2003, he joined the Department of Chemistry at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) as an Assistant Professor, and he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2009. His research interests are: (1) the development of new organometallic reactivity for metal atomic layer deposition, (2) borane-functionalized late transition metal complexes, with particular emphasis on synthesis, bonding and catalysis, and (3) ultra-rigid ligand lanthanide and actinide complexes for small molecule activation, polymerization catalysis, and/or lanthanide/actinide separation.
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