The Morris Group
University of Toronto
Welcome to the Morris Group Homepage!
Welcome to the homepage of the Morris Research Group at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Under the supervision of Robert (Bob) Morris, the group conducts world-class inorganic chemistry research involving metal hydrides, homogeneous catalysis, catalytic mechanisms, and more.
For more information on our group and its research, please follow the links at the top of the page.
The Morris Group Plus - June 2024
Latest News
September 2024 - Bob Morris wins the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry.
September 2024 - Welcome to undergraduate CHM499 researcher Tin Yam Lau.
May 2024 - Welcome to undergraduate researcher Hannah Bolton.
September 2023 - Welcome to undergraduate CHM499 researcher Josha Ng.
May 2023 - Welcome to undergraduate researcher Madeleine Schmuckler.
January 2023 - The Morris group welcomes Peter Parusel, visiting PhD student from WWU Muenster (Prof. F. Ekkehardt Hahn) as part of the IRTG 2027 Exchange Program.
December 2022 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Benjamin Rennie, for his work on Paramagnetic Transition Metal Hydride Complexes!
September 2022 - Welcome to graduate student Adi Fishkin!
September 2022 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Brian Tsui, for his work on Transition Metal Hydride Complexes!
Summer 2022 - The Morris group welcomes summer student Hana El-Haddad and visiting grad students Lars Hellmann and Leonie Haeser
March 2022 - The Morris group welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Tomilola Joseph Ajayi!
January 2022 - Congratulations to our newest MSc graduate, Shannon Oliphant, for her work on understanding the selective reductive amination using sodium triacetoxyborohydride (STAB) with respect to imines over aldehydes and ketones!
December 2021 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Matt Gradiski, for his work on multidentate phosphorus and nitrogen donor chelating ligands!
September 2021 - The Morris group welcomes new graduate students Amanda Kwan and Renee Eleftheriades and undergraduate students Adi Fishkin and Tony Sharng.
March 2021 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Chris Seo, for his work on Fe- and Mn-based asymmetric hydrogenation catalysts!
January 2021 - Congratulations to our newest MSc graduate, Maddy Sattler, for her work on secondary phosphine oxides!
December 2020 - The Morris group welcomes new graduate student Shannon Oliphant!
September 2020 - The Morris group welcomes new CHM499 student Qingyu Xiong!
April 2020 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Molly Sung, for her work on transition metal hydrides in catalysis, both experimentally and computationally. Great work!
May 2018 - The Morris group welcomes new undergraduate students Sophia Jdanova and Yiqun Zhang!
April 2018 - Farewell to our visiting student Jenny!
April 2018 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Kai Wan, for his work on the development of NHC-based hydrogenation catalysts! Check out the celebration photos here.
April 2018 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Samantha Smith, for her work on the development of base metal hydrogenation catalysts! Check out the celebration photos here.
October 2017 - The Morris group welcomes Jenny Linde, visiting PhD student from WWU Münster (Prof. F. Ekkehardt Hahn) as part of the IRTG 2027 Exchange Program.
September 2017 - The Morris group welcomes new graduate student Benjamin Rennie and undergraduate students Max Olson and Nina-Francesca Farac!
July 2017 - Farewell to our visiting student Tristan!
June 2017 - Cheers to Samantha for being selected as an attendee for the ACS Green Chemistry Institute's Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference. Read more about her passion for green chemistry here!
May 2017 - Congratulations to Kai for receving a poster prize in the CSC 2017 Inorganic Division. Great work!