Dr Uta Wille

Position

Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.

Qualifications
•    Visiting Fellow (2000) in the School of Chemistry, the University of Melbourne.
•    Habilitation (1993-1999) at the Institut für Organische Chemie of the CAU.
•    Postdoctoral fellowship (1997-1998) at Institut für Organische Chemie of the Universität Basel, Switzerlandwith Professor Bernd Giese.
•    PhD (1993) in Atmospheric Chemistry at the Institut für Physikalische Chemie of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (CAU), Germany.

Expertise
•    Free radicals and other reactive intermediates using atmospheric and organic chemistry.

Key Areas of Research

•    Insights into the mechanism of self-terminating radical reactions using radical traps.
•    Multi-orbital interactions in radical chemistry.
•    Mass spectrometric investigation of the mechanism of oxidative repair of cyclobutane dimers.
•    Self-terminating radical reactions with O-, S-, N- and C-centred radicals.
•    Experimental and theoretical studies of multiorbital interactions in radial chemistry.
•    Free-radicals as catalysts in the oxidation of alkynes.
•    Exploring the role of the night-time atmospheric free-radical oxidant NO3. in the oxidative damage of biological molecules.

Selected Publications

Tan, KJ; Wille, U, Activation of Molecular Oxygen by S-Radicals: Experimental and Computational Studies on a Novel Oxidation of Alkynes to α-Diketones, Chem. Commun. 2008, 6239-6241.