ACS PRF Annual Report 2018 - Panel 3

Inorganic Chemistry: Coordination and organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, small soluble clusters, new ligands, main group, transition metal, and lanthanide and actinide metal chemistry.

• 55989-DNI3: A Structural Diphosphine Model to Predict Metal-Phosphorus Covalency Variations in Transition Metal Complexes, Scott R. Daly, Ph.D. , University of Iowa
• 56081-DNI3: Isolation and Studies of Oxoheme Complexes in Metal-Organic Frameworks, T. David Harris, Ph.D. , Northwestern University
• 56083-DNI3: Mononuclear Iron Mercaptoimidazolyl Complexes for the Reductive Coupling of Isonitriles, Jessica  Hoover, Ph.D. , West Virginia University
• 56562-DNI3: Metal-Free Nucleophilic Borylation Chemistry Using Boron Cluster Reagents, Alexander M. Spokoyny, Ph.D. , University of California, Los Angeles
• 56568-DNI3: Nickel-Mediated Bimolecular Bond Formation and the Applications in the Conversion of Petroleum Products, Tianning  Diao, Ph.D. , New York University
• 57058-DNI3: Non-Innocent Heterobimetallic Scaffolds for Carbon Dioxide Reduction, Caroline T. Saouma, Ph.D. , University of Utah
• 57132-DNI3: A Versatile Early-Metal Platform for the Activation and Dehydrogenation of C-H Bonds, Skye  Fortier, Ph.D. , The University of Texas at El Paso
• 57257-DNI3: Developing Ruthenium-Boryl Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis, Caleb D. Martin, Ph.D. , Baylor University
• 57314-DNI3: Redox-Active Boranes as Ligands and Reaction Centers for the Multi-Electron Activation of Small Molecules, W. Hill Harman, Ph.D. , University of California, Riverside
• 57346-DNI3: Electronically Flexible Ligands for Realizing the Cluster-Surface Analogy, Neil  Tomson, Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania
• 57668-DNI3: Low-Valent Dilanthanide Complexes for Alkane Activation, Gael  Ung, Ph.D. , University of Connecticut
• 57849-DNI3: Converting Methane to Higher Alkanes via Boron Homologation with Metal Methylidenes, Sharon R. Neufeldt, Ph.D. , Montana State University
• 57861-DNI3: Photodehydrogenative Coupling of Aromatic Hydrocarbons with a Manganese Catalyst, David C. Lacy, Ph.D. , University at Buffalo, State University of New York

• 56027-ND3: Highly Active Organometallic Complexes Obtained through Mechanochemical Synthesis, Timothy P. Hanusa, Ph.D. , Vanderbilt University
• 56126-ND3: Secondary Coordination Sphere meets Secondary Bonding: Novel Ligand Design and Catalysis, John D. Protasiewicz, Ph.D. , Case Western Reserve University
• 56128-ND3: Cheap and Efficient Cerium Photosensitizers: Toward Excited State Metalloradicals for New Reactivity, Eric J. Schelter, Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania
• 56558-ND3: Models for Heterogeneous Single Atom and Small Cluster Catalysts on Graphene:  A Novel Gas Phase Approach, Scott  Gronert, Ph.D. , Virginia Commonwealth University
• 56705-ND3: Development of the Synthesis of Mixed Oxysulfidometalates and of a New, General Methodology for the Preparation of Terminal Disulfide Complexes, James P. Donahue, Ph.D. , Tulane University
• 56871-ND3: Activation of Carbon Dioxide with Antimony Lewis Acids, Francois P. Gabbai, Ph.D. , Texas A&M University
• 57188-ND3: A Modular, Coordination Chemistry Approach to the Isolation of Metallo-Carbohedrenes (Ti8C12, V8C12) in Solid Form, Alan L. Balch, Ph.D. , University of California, Davis
• 57192-ND3: Lanthanide-Supported Nickel and Cobalt Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation, Connie C. Lu, Ph.D. , University of Minnesota
• 57667-ND3: Sulfur and Selenium Monoxide Transfer Reagents, Nicholas E. Leadbeater, Ph.D. , University of Connecticut
• 57670-ND3: Iron-Based Catalysts for Asymmetric Hydrogenations Containing Planar Chirality, Aaron L. Odom, Ph.D. , Michigan State University
• 57690-ND3: Nickel and Cobalt Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts Supported by Novel Macrocyclic Phosphine Ligands, Christopher C. Cummins, Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 57757-ND3: Mapping Mechanically Activated Pathways of Metal Coordination Complexes, Katherine J. Franz, Ph.D. , Duke University

• 56090-UNI3: Towards Transition Metal Catalyzed Oxidative Functionalization of Alkanes by Molecular Oxygen, Jason M. Keith, Ph.D. , Colgate University
• 56702-UNI3: Bisguanidine Complexes of Pd(0) and Ni(0) Towards Catalytic Removal of Aryl-heteroatoms From Heavy Crudes, Brian M. Barry, Ph.D. , University of Wisconsin-Platteville
• 57689-UNI3: Systems for CO2 Conversion to Value-Added Products with NADH Mimics, Michael R. Norris, Ph.D. , University of Richmond
• 57860-UNI3: New Chelating Guanidine Ligands for Late First-row Transition Metals and Their Use in Oxidative Transformations of Organic Substrates, Nicholas A. Piro, Ph.D. , Albright College

• 54825-UR3: Phosphine-Directed C-H Borylation of Arenes: Facile Access to Ambiphilic Phosphine Boronate Esters, Timothy B. Clark, Ph.D. , University of San Diego
• 55304-UR3: Stoichiometric and Catalytic Nitrene-Group-Transfer Reactions from Late-Metal Silylamides, Matthew T. Whited, Ph.D. , Carleton College
• 55441-UR3: Synthesis, Structural, and Spectroscopic Studies of Porphyrin Based Model Asphaltene Lanthanide and Group 11 Bimetallic Complexes: Intra- and Inter-Molecular Excimers and Exciplexes Studies in Solution and Solid State, Zerihun  Assefa, Ph.D. , North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
• 56549-UR3: Development and Catalytic Evaluation of Palladium Complexes Bearing Modified Amine Bis(phenolate) Ligands, Bradley M. Wile, Ph.D. , Ohio Northern University
• 56706-UR3: Neutral Dinuclear Iron Complexes Supported by N-amido-Metal Bonds, Radu F. Semeniuc, Ph.D. , Eastern Illinois University