Liberal Arts and Sciences
Murray Lab
Led by Leslie Murray · Chemistry
What we study
The Murray Lab studies how groups of metal atoms work together to activate small molecules like nitrogen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen, aiming to make fuels and chemicals more efficiently. It designs and makes multi-metal complexes and tests how they react in the lab.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding required
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 2
Current projects
Dinitrogen Insertion and Cleavage By a Metal-Metal Bonded Tri-Cobalt(I) Cluster
Studies how a cluster of three cobalt atoms can split and add nitrogen, a step toward making fuels and chemicals from small molecules.
Modeling Cyanide Docking and Isomerism in H‑Cluster Maturation
The lab builds synthetic models of iron‑sulfur clusters with cyanide bridges to test whether a cyanide ligand can flip orientation during transfer between protein clusters, helping to understand how hydrogen‑producing enzymes mature.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 417
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Recent papers, explained
- Nitrite Causes Nitrosative Stress to Iron Sulfur Clusters
2025 · Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Metal-Tuned Ligand Reactivity Enables CX2 (X = O, S) Homocoupling with Spectator Cu Centers
2024 · Journal of the American Chemical Society
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