Mentor: Lauren Rossi, Roger Williams University

Project Location

Roger Williams University

Project Description

The assessment of nutrient and pollutant ions within aqueous solutions is an important goal aimed toward determining the health of freshwater/ marine environments and impacted communities of the Narragansett Bay ecosystem. Various Schiff base proligands have been synthesized and reacted with metal salts, to form organometallic complexes. Based upon these earlier results, it is the intention of this project to: 1) apply/ extend the synthesis to other substituted amines or nitrogen-based ligands, 2) modify scaffold to provide greater water solubility of the metal complexes, and 3) assess the ability and detection of metal-complexes toward highly oxygenated ions (nitrate and/or phosphate) within aqueous media.