News in and around the lab
- July 2011- our X-ray paper has been submitted for publication in Acta Cryst. Much hard work on the part of our Argentine collaborators!
- June 2011 - our Review on Nitroxyl Chemistry has been accepted for publication in CCR!! (and I thought I 'll never see that day!!)
- May 2011- Anna finally completed the synthesis of the hepta-dentate ligand in Imperial College. Took a bit longer than expected, but it is done...
- February 2011- Anna has joined Professor George Britovsek laboratory at Imperial College (London UK) as visiting scientist
- January 2011- Anna has started teaching in London Ithaca College Center
- December 2010- Anna coauthored a manuscript on Nitroxyl chemistry for Coordination Chemistry review journal - joint effort spearheaded by Professor Fabio Doctorovich at UBA.
- November 2010: The structure for the crystal of alkyl-pyridinium perchlorinated salt (on of Shawns!) has been solved on the X-ray facility of UBA (Argentina). We are working on the paper for Acta Crystallographica journal on that. Bushra Amreen - many thanx for quickly organizing the transfer of the sample!
- Fall 2010: Shawn Eady started his Ph.D. studies in University of Michigan
- August 2010: Anna started the Fulbright fellowship work at University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina with Professor Fabio Doctorovich
- April '10: Shawn Eady presented an oral research report at the ACS National meeting in San Francisco in the Symposium "Frontiers of Undergraduate Research in Inorganic Chemistry". The presentation went very well.
- March '10: our paper "Hexakis(acetonitrile-[kappa]N)ruthenium(II) bis(hexabromocarbadodecaborate) acetonitrile solvate" is published in Acta crystallographica!! The credit goes to Shawn Eady for pushing this publication through all teh technical hurdles and to Dr. Ilia Guzei ,our collaborator in U of Wisconsin, for helping us out at the final stages. Also, congratulations to former IC student coauthors, Jason Diaz and Josh Masland.
- December'09: John Dymon has graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry and is working full time in Novomer , Inc. in the position of research associate. (update as of May 2010: John is starting the graduate program in Biomedical Engineering in the University of Utah this summer. Good luck!)
- July '09: Just got another crystal structure solved for us: bis-alkylated orthcarborane anion salt crystals grown by Shawn Eady. Good one for the paper!
- June '09: an upgrade for the solvent purification system has been installed. We have dry dichloromethane "on tap" now (in addition to four other solvents).
- May '09: John Dymon was offered a full time summer position with Novomer, Inc. (Geoff Coates polymer company across the street from us). Congratulations! ***However, we still have to finish a couple of papers, John!***
- April '09: Shawn Eady has been awarded a Cornell Section ACS summer scholarship to support his research at IC. Very nice!
- March '09: Shawn Eady presented a poster on the low melting ionics with derivatized carborane and ortho-carborane anions at the ACS National Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. John Dymon brought our poster to the National Council for Undergradiuate Research in LaCross, WI. Apparently going to the scientific conferences can be a lot of fun.
- February '09: Anna got invited to give a talk at ZING Conference on Weakly Coordinating anions.
- Jan '09: Our Can. J. Chem. paper appeared in print.
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Our activities and plans (as of July'09):
Working on the paper with John Dymon and Shawn Eady: lets get those derivatized orthocarborane anion salt structures reported along with all the great electrochemisry John did in Australia last summer.
Shawn and Anna are working on submitting another structure to Acta Crystallographica... what a pain dealing with all those errors... (update: we got it done!!!)
Working on permethylating and per-ethylating the carborane and orthocarborane cages and making salts with those.
Earlier news:
In August '08, after returning from the student exchange trip to Japan, Jason Diaz presented a poster on our organometallics project at the 236 National ACS meeting in Philadelphia (very conveniently it was not too far from home for Jason)
July '08: Anna participated in the International Congress on Coordination Chemistry in July 2008 with a poster presentation. great conference. Way too hot in Jerusalem in July!
Our recently published paper on orthocarborane-based ionic liquids coauthored by Jesse Kleingardner('07), Ryan Wibby('08) , John Dymon ('10) and Anna Larsen (with collaborators from Queen's University, Vassar College and University of Wisconsin-Madison) made it to the top ten list of the most accessed papers for the month of May 2008 in Dalton Transactions, the leading European journal for inorganic and organometallic chemistry: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/dt/top10.asp
The full citation: Dalton Trans., 2008, 2999 - 3006, DOI: 10.1039/b802374c
June 23-2008: Differential Scanning Calorimetery and Thermal Gravimetric Analysis instruments are here and working. Shawn Eady ('10) is busy running our samples on both!
july-10-2008: John Dymon is in Australia apparently having great time in and out of the lab. He is learning Electrochemistry of Ionic Melts with our collaborator Maria Forsyth research group in Monash University. We will be sending more samples of the low-melting salts to John shortly.
April'08: The revised Pt manuscript was accepted for publication in Canadian Journal of Chemistry.
April '08: John Dymon has received IC Dana summer internship to support his trip to Australia! Way to go visit kangaroos and do some electrochemistry in the spare time.
Anna gave an invited lecture at the SUNY-Albany chemistry Department on April 15th. Very useful feedback was an extra-bonus of the trip.
We just heard that Ithaca college will fund the purchase of our own Differential Scanning Calorimeter and Thermogravimetric Analyzer (~40K). No more trips (and no more paying!) to Cornell U for that.
Congratulations to Cole Lechlieter ('10) who was awarded special ACS PRF summer scholarship for research on our organometallics project.
In spite of serious case of senioritus, Phil Byers ('08) is still planning to graduate this spring!! (and off to grad school in Florida State....)
