In my fourth year, I completed a Directed Studies course and worked under Dr. Dipesh Prema as a Student Research Assistant. The aim of this research project was to synthesize a new, catalytically active transition metal complex using iminophosphine ligands, with the intent of activating N-H bonds by oxidative addition. This project focused on producing an effective catalyst that is affordable and environmentally sustainable by using a first-row transition metal rather than the typical metals used in catalysis, such as palladium, platinum, rhodium, and iridium. I spent 150+ hours working on this project over the fall semester and self-funded presenting the results of my research at the Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference at the University of Calgary in May of 2022. This experience taught me how to conduct self-guided research and allowed for an aspect of environmentalism that is often not thought of: green chemistry.