From left to right: Prof. William J. Leigh, Ian Duffy, Lana Kostina, Joanna Leake, Ketha Jeyakanthan,
Joanna Leake
B.Sc. McMaster University, in progress
Current Position: 4G09 student
Email: leakejd@mcmaster.ca
Project: The Study of Novel Allyl-Ge(II) Compounds by Transient Spectroscopy
Svetlana Kostina
B.Sc. McMaster University, 2008
Current Position: Ph.D. student
kostins@mcmaster.ca
Project: Oxygen and Sulfur Abstraction Reactions by Transient Silylenes and Germylenes from Oxiranes and Thiiranes
Undergraduate Students
Project: Synthesis and Reactivity of Intramolecular Germylene-Alkene Complexes
Ketha Jeyakanthan
B.Sc. University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 2008
Current Position:
M.Sc. student
jeyakak@mcmaster.ca
The Group
Graduate Students
Group 14 Reactive Intermediates
Ian Duffy
B.Sc. University of British Columbia, 2010
Current Position: Ph.D. student
duffyi@mcmaster.ca
Project: Laser Flash Photolysis of Transient Stannylenes
Alphonsus Ballesteros
B.Sc. McMaster University, in progress
Current Position:
2nd year summer student
ballesap@mcmaster.ca
Project: Synthesis of a Novel Radical Clock and its Reactivity with Silylenes
Robin Hayes
B.Sc. McMaster University, in progress
Current Position: 2nd year undergrad. student
Email: robin.hayes9@gmail.com
Project: The Reactivity of Silylene-THF Complexes