| Inorganic chemistry is a discipline that spans areas ranging from materials chemistry to organic synthesis and on to biochemistry. The Inorganic Division at the University of North Carolina ranks among the top ten nationally and has been a major strength of the Chemistry Department for many decades. Organometallic chemistry is a particularly prominent research area with ongoing activities involving the synthesis and development of metal-centered polymer catalysts, the design of chiral cavities for enantio-selective molecular | imprinting, and the exploitation of transition metal redox chemistry for applications in biotechnology. Other research activities include the design of novel materials using multi-nuclear transition metal complexes as building blocks. Graduate students in the Inorganic Division are exposed to an exciting research environment, and a breadth of synthetic methods and characterization techniques, which together provide an excellent foundation for future careers in industry and academia. |
| RESEARCH PROJECT | GROUP |
| Mechanistic Investigations of the (a-Diimine)Ni(II)- and Pd(II)-Catalyzed Polymerization of Olefins | Brookhart |
| New Catalytic Transformations Based on C-H Bond Activation by Rh Complexes | |
| Development of Highly Selective Noble Metal Catalysts using Molecular Imprinting | Gagne |
| Nanoscale Functional Materials, Homogeneous Catalysis, and New Contrast Agents for Medical Imaging | Lin |
| Crystal Engineering of Polar and Chiral Materials for Nonlinear Optics, Separations, and Heterogeneous Catalysis | |
| Development of Synthetic Methods for Rational Design of New Materials via Transition Metal Cluster Chemistry | Schauer |
| Organometallic Transformations of Tungstene Carbenes and Carbynes | Templeton |
| DNA Sequence Analysis via Electrocatalytic Guanine Oxidation | Thorp |
| Electrochemical Studies of Liquid DNA |
(1)"An Ionic Liquid Form of DNA: Redox-Active Molten Salts of Nucleic Acids" A. M. Leone, S. C. Weatherly, M. E. Williams, R. W. Murray*, H. H. Thorp* J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2001, 123, 218-222.
(2) "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Duplex DNA: Driving Force Dependence and Isotope Effects on Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Guanine", Weatherly, S. C.; Yang, I. V.; Thorp, H. H.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2001; 123(6); 1236-1237.
(3) "Transition Metal h2-Vinyl Complexes", D. S. Frohnapfel and J. L. Templeton, Coord. Chem. Rev.; 2000; 206-207, 199-235.
4)"Deprotonation and Oxidation of the WCCH2-W Bridge to Form a C2-Biscarbyne WC-CW Bridge", B. E. Woodworth, P. S. White, and J. L. Templeton, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1998; 120, 9028-9033.
(5)"Density Functional Theory Study of Redox Pairs: 2. Influence of Solvation and Ion-Pair Formation on the Redox Behavior of Cyclooctatetraene and Nitrobenzene", M-H. Baik, C. K. Schauer, T. Ziegler, J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2002, 124 (37), 11167 -11181.
(6) "A Homochiral Porous Metal-Organic Framework for Highly Enantioselective Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis.” Wu, C.-D.; Hu, A.; Zhang, L.; Lin, W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8940-8941..
(7) "Magnetically Recoverable Chiral Catalysts Immobilized on Magnetite Nanoparticles for Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Aromatic Ketones.” Hu, A.; Yee, G.T.; Lin, W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12486-12487
(8) "Effect of Chiral Cavities Associated with Molecularly Imprinted Platinum Centers on the Selectivity of Ligand Exchange Reactions at Platinum" N. M. Brunkan, M. R. Gagné, J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2000, 122, 6217-6225.
(9) "Asymmetric Catalysis with the Normally Unresolvable, Conformationally Dynamic 1,1’- bis(diphenylphosphino)biphenyl (Biphep)” J. J. Becker, P. S. White, M. R. Gagné, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 9476-9477.
(10) "Late Metal Catalysts for Ethylene Homo- and Copolymerization”; Johnson, L. K.; Ittel, S. D.; Brookhart, M.; Chemical Reviews; 2000; 100; 1169-1203.
(11) “Mechanistic Studies of Pd(II) Diimine Catalyzed Olefin Polymerizations”; Tempel, D. J.; Johnson, L. K.; Huff, R. L.; White, P. S.; Brookhart, M. , J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2000; 122; 6686-6700.
(12) "Highly Interpenetrated Metal-Organic Frameworks for Hydrogen Storage.” Kesanli, B.; Cui, Y.; Smith, M.; Bittner, E.; Bockrath, B.; Lin, W. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 72-75
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