Sascha Ott
Uppsala University
Biography
Sascha Ott was born in Heilbronn, Germany, and did his undergraduate studies at Freiburg University, Germany and at the Flinders University of South Australia in Adelaide. He obtained his PhD from University College London, UK, in 2002 on ruthenium polypyridine chemistry in oligoacetylene scaffolds. Following a postdoc in bioinorganic chemistry with Prof. Licheng Sun at Stockholm University, Sweden, he started his independent career at Uppsala University where he was appointed Professor in Synthetic Molecular ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ in 2016.
Research in the group is centred on different topics at the interface of organic chemistry and molecular inorganic chemistry. Amongst these are works on low-coordinate and low-valent phosphorus in an organic chemistry context, and the development of main group element reagents to drive organic transformations. The group also has a strong interest in molecular redox catalysts of energy relevance, more recently in the confinement of metal-organic frameworks.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Dalton Transactions