Craig A. Grapperhaus
Professor and Vice Chair of Chemistry
Craig Grapperhaus received his Ph.D. in 1998 from Texas A&M University under the direction of Marcetta Darensbourg. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Grapperhaus was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry with Karl Wieghardt in Mülheim, Germany. He joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Louisville in 2000. He is currently the Vice Chair of the Chemistry Department. Professor Grapperhaus' research focuses on coordination chemistry with an emphasis on transition metal-thiolate complexes. Specific areas of interests include synthetic model complexes of the metalloenzyme Nitrile Hydratase and the reactivity of metal-coordinated thiyl radicals.
