While an undergraduate student, he worked under Gregory L. Hillhouse on synthetic methods in inorganic chemistry, specifically with regard to the stabilization of reactive species including diazene and nitroxyl.
There, he studied physical inorganic chemistry including the photochemical generation and detection of short-lived transient organometallic species by rapid time-resolved infrared spectroscopy.
[7] After graduating, Peters conducted postdoctoral studies as a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, under the guidance of T. Don Tilley.
In Tilley's group, he concentrated on the synthesis and employment of novel phosphine and silane ligands relevant to late metal Si-C, Si-H, C-H, and C-C bond breaking and forming processes.
[9] Peters' laboratory focuses on the synthesis of new inorganic and organometallic species with interesting electronic structure, bonding, and reactivity properties.