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Professor George Koutsantonis is a Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He is a synthetic chemist with an interest in functional materials that contain metals. A graduate of the University of Adelaide, he obtained his BSc(Hons) and PhD, the latter under the supervision of Michael Bruce, studying the coordination properties and reactions of alkynes. He undertook a postdoctoral position at the University of Kentucky investigating metathesis reactions with metalloalkynes, followed by an inaugural ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Griffith University in 1991 working on Main Group hydrides of Group 13. Appointed to the staff at the University of Western Australia in 1995 as a Lecturer, he progressed to Senior Lecturer (2002-2008), Associate Professor (2009-2010), and Professor (2010-present). He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and Chartered Chemist (CChem).
His research encompasses organometallic and inorganic chemistry, molecular electronics, chemistry of materials, nanoscale chemistry, synthetic chemistry, and precursor technology for chemical vapour deposition. Current projects include tuning redox active metal complexes for molecular rectification, redox-active metallomicelles, and studies of host-guest supramolecular systems. He has produced 143 articles, 7 conference papers, 4 book chapters, and 4 editorials, including recent works such as 'Efficient Nickel Precatalysts for Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling of Aryl Chlorides and Arylboronic Acids Under Mild Conditions' (2025), 'NHC/Phosphite Nickel(II) Precatalysts for the C-N Cross-Coupling of (Hetero)Aryl Chlorides under Mild Conditions' (2025), 'An Orthogonal Conductance Pathway in Spiropyrans for Well-Defined Electrosteric Switching Single-Molecule Junctions' (2024), and earlier publications like 'Synthesis and Structure of [{Ru(CO)2(Cp)}2(μ-C=C)]: An Ethynediyl Complex Formed during Tungsten-Catalyzed Alkyne Metathesis' (1991). Recognized with the joint RACI Organometallic Chemistry Prize (2004) and Leighton Memorial Medal (2022), he has garnered over 3,800 citations and an h-index of 30. Since June 2016, he has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Chemistry.
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