This talk overviews my early-career research encompassing an array of projects. Kicking off with some applied inorganic (mostly) chemistry with the development of sugar appended charge neutral rhenium complexes for cell imaging. Then overviewing a gamut of near-tangential post-doctoral side-quests in applied biomaterials research. And lastly highlighting the future research directions of my group, which amongst other projects is currently focused on the organofluoride centric phytochemistry of Gastrolobium, a genus of toxic native peas, with significant impacts to native ecology and land management practices in Australia. This talk may also contain traces of MOFs, to tip the balance back toward the inorganic.