Anders Thapper
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory; Synthetic Molecular Chemistry
- E-mail:
- anders.thapper@kemi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmslaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- Box 523
751 20 Uppsala
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Short presentation
Anders Thapper's scientific activities lies in the field of bioinorganic and biomimetic chemistry, studying metal complexes that are structural and/or functional models of metal containing enzymes.
The research within artificial photosynthesis is focused on using transition metal complexes as catalysts for the oxidation of water to oxygen. The overall goal is to link these catalysts to photosensitisers to perform water oxidation driven by energy from the sun.
Biography
Anders Thapper did his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at Lund University, Sweden in 2001. After a first postdoctoral stay at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal with Professor José Moura he returned to Sweden during 2005 for a second postdoctoral stay at Uppsala University. In Uppsala he started out by studying Photosystem II together with Professor Stenbjörn Styring but over time got more involved in artificial photosynthesis and manganese and cobalt based catalyst for water oxidation. Since May 2007 he is employed as a researcher at the Department Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory in the Molecular Biomimetics program.

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 8638-8640, 2013
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 5130-5139, 2013
Part of Green, p. 43-57, 2013
Atomic structure of cobalt-oxide nanoparticles activein light-driven catalysis of water oxidation
Part of International journal of hydrogen energy, p. 8878-8888, 2012
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 2332-2337, 2012
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 3425-3430, 2011
Photochemical water oxidation with visible light using a cobalt containing catalyst
Part of Energy and Environmental Science, p. 1284-1287, 2011
Synthesis and characterisation of low valent Mn-complexes as models for Mn-catalases
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 11035-11044, 2010
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 10044-10054, 2009
Part of Energy & Environmental Science, p. 668-676, 2008
Recent publications
Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 11074-11081, 2025
Part of Advanced Science, 2025
- DOI for Unassisted Switchable Dual-Photoelectrode Devices Utilizing p-n Carbon Quantum Dots as "Semiconductor Electrolytes": Optimization Between H2O2 and Solar Electricity Production
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A Sm(II)-based catalyst for the reduction of dinitrogen, nitrite, and nitrate to ammonia or urea
Part of Chem, 2025
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Photocatalytic product-selective reduction of CO2, CO and carbonates.
Part of Chem, 2025
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Carboxylate and coordination influence on the formation of an active RuV Oxo species
Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 11074-11081, 2025
Part of Advanced Science, 2025
- DOI for Unassisted Switchable Dual-Photoelectrode Devices Utilizing p-n Carbon Quantum Dots as "Semiconductor Electrolytes": Optimization Between H2O2 and Solar Electricity Production
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A Sm(II)-based catalyst for the reduction of dinitrogen, nitrite, and nitrate to ammonia or urea
Part of Chem, 2025
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Photocatalytic product-selective reduction of CO2, CO and carbonates.
Part of Chem, 2025
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Carboxylate and coordination influence on the formation of an active RuV Oxo species
Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
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Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 594-605, 2025
- DOI for Divalent intermediates in lanthanide-based photocatalysts: spectroscopic characterization and reactivity
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Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024
- DOI for Expanding the Landscape of Phosphorous‐Based Open Shell Species: Stable Mono‐, Di‐, and Trianionic Radicals Based on a Contorted Triphosphaalkene
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Photocatalyst for Visible-Light-Driven Sm(II)-Mediated Reductions
Part of Organic Letters, p. 10752-10756, 2024
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Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024
- DOI for Introducing Phosphorus into the Overcrowded Thiele's hydrocarbon Family: Unveiling Contorted Main Group Diradicaloids with Dynamic Redox Behavior
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Photocatalytic Generation of Divalent Lanthanide Reducing Agents
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 22555-22562, 2023
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Gold nanoparticle-based supramolecular approach for dye-sensitized H-2-evolving photocathodes
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 15716-15724, 2022
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Two routes to hydrogen evolution for a Co-polypyridyl complex with two open sites
Part of Electronic Structure, 2022
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Water Oxidation by Pentapyridyl Base Metal Complexes?: A Case Study
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 9104-9118, 2022
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Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 660-674, 2021
- DOI for Electronic and geometric structure effects on one-electron oxidation of first-row transition metals in the same ligand framework
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Using Surface Amide Couplings to Assemble Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Production Applications
Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 4501-4509, 2020
Spin transition in a ferrous chloride complex supported by a pentapyridine ligand
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 2703-2706, 2020
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Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 31372-31381, 2020
- DOI for Understanding the Performance of NiO Photocathodes with Alkyl-Derivatized Cobalt Catalysts and a Push-Pull Dye
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Part of Inorganica Chimica Acta, p. 254-260, 2019
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 3576-3582, 2019
Formation of persistent organic diradicals from N,N'-diphenyl-3,7- diazacyclooctanes
Part of Monatshefte fuer Chemie, p. 77-84, 2019
Part of ChemSusChem, p. 4616-4623, 2017
Part of Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2017
Water oxidation catalyzed by mononuclear iron and cobalt polypyridine complexes
Part of Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2017
Ligand modification to stabilize the cobalt complexes for water oxidation
Part of International journal of hydrogen energy, p. 29716-29724, 2017
Part of ChemSusChem, p. 1178-1186, 2016
Mononuclear Iron Complexes with Tetraazadentate Ligands as Water Oxidation Catalysts
Part of European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 3262-3268, 2016
A nickel (II) PY5 complex as an electrocatalyst for water oxidation
Part of Journal of Catalysis, p. 72-78, 2016
Structural transformation of Bi1-x/3V1-xMoxO4 solid solutions for light-driven water oxidationt
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 3895-3904, 2016
Part of ChemSusChem, p. 2957-2966, 2016
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 13074-13077, 2015
Part of Polyhedron, p. 81-89, 2015
First turnover analysis of water-oxidation catalyzed by Co-oxide nanoparticles
Part of Energy & Environmental Science, p. 2492-2503, 2015
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Part of Analytical Methods, p. 8513-8518, 2014
Part of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, p. 3661-3669, 2014
Water Oxidation Catalyzed by a Dinuclear Cobalt–Polypyridine Complex
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, p. 14499-14502, 2014
Part of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, p. 11965-11975, 2014
Photo-Induced Water Oxidation Based on a Mononuclear Cobalt(II) Complex
Part of Chinese journal of chemistry, p. 467-473, 2014
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 8638-8640, 2013
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 5130-5139, 2013
Copper-substituted forms of the wild type and C42A variant of rubredoxin
Part of Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, p. 232-237, 2013
Part of Green, p. 43-57, 2013
Atomic structure of cobalt-oxide nanoparticles activein light-driven catalysis of water oxidation
Part of International journal of hydrogen energy, p. 8878-8888, 2012
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 2332-2337, 2012
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 3425-3430, 2011
Photochemical water oxidation with visible light using a cobalt containing catalyst
Part of Energy and Environmental Science, p. 1284-1287, 2011
Synthesis and characterisation of low valent Mn-complexes as models for Mn-catalases
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 11035-11044, 2010
Analysis of current and alternative phenol based RNA extraction methodologies for cyanobacteria
Part of BMC Molecular Biology, p. 79, 2009
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 10044-10054, 2009
Defining the Far-Red Limit of Photosystem II in Spinach
Part of The Plant Cell, p. 2391-2401, 2009
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 7990-7998, 2009
Part of Energy & Environmental Science, p. 668-676, 2008
Part of Biochemistry, p. 5542-5551, 2007
Part of Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, p. 353-366, 2007
Articles, review/survey
Part of Sustainable Energy & Fuels, p. 2159-2175, 2019
A Luz ao Serviço da Humanidade – A produção de combustíveis solares
Part of Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, p. 23-29, 2015
Chapters in book
Part of Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry, p. 107-114, Springer, 2014
Oxygen Evolving Reactions by Synthetic Manganese Complexes
Part of Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun, Springer, Netherlands, 2008
Conference papers
IR-induced photochemistry in photosystem II
p. 521-524, 2008