Dr Rebecca Musgrave is a Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Kings College London Department of Chemistry. She obtained her undergraduate MChem degree from the University of Oxford (2012). Under the supervision of Professor Ian Manners at the University of Bristol, she carried out her Ph.D. on metallocene-based polymers (2016). After a short postdoc in Bristol, she then worked as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow (2017-2020) at Harvard University (Professor Ted Betley) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Dr Rodolphe Clérac) on transition metal clusters. She joined the Department of Chemistry at King's as a Lecturer in July 2020 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2024.

Research interests

• Metallopolymers
• Metal-metal bonding

Teaching

• Inorganic Chemistry 1
• Catalysis
• UG Research Methods Literature Review
• MSci Research Project & Dissertation
• MRes Research Project in Interdisciplinary Chemistry 

Research profile

For more information on Dr Musgrave's research please see her Research Portal page

The Musgrave Group

Research Associates

• Rajeev Nishad

Postgraduate Researchers

• Gabriel Bohorquez
• Nadia Stephaniuk
• Benedict Thompson

The Musgrave Group are focused on:

Metallopolymers: Polymers which contain metallic elements (i.e. metallopolymers) combine the functionality of metal centres with the processing advantages of macromolecules. We are investigating novel routes to main-chain metallopolymers.

Metal-metal bonding: Metals which typically exhibit one-electron reactivity can be paired with a second metal to promote multielectron redox processes. We are interested in bimetallic species for multielectron transformations with substrates such as carbon dioxide and dinitrogen.

Visit the Musgrave Group website to find out more.