Yinka Olatunji-Ojo receives a Travel Award from the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the ACS
Yinka Olatunji-Ojo, a graduate student conducting research with Dr. Thomas Cundari, has been awarded a Travel Award from the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, to help with costs to the Fall 2011 ACS meeting.
Teen Finding Ways to Cut Energy Costs
Kurtis Carsch, a TAMS student working with Dr. Tom Cundari, had his research profiled on the NBC 5 news on March 28, 2011. You can read the article and see the news clip here.
One of the ten most-accessed articles from Organometallics in 2010: Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Activation/C-N Bond Formation Reactions: DFT Study of Reaction Mechanisms and Reactive Intermediates
An article by Zhuofeng Ke and Thomas R. Cundari is one of the ten most-accessed articles from Organometallics in 2010.
C&E News: Two's A Charm For Nickel Complex
Dr. Cundari's paper, "A Two-Coordinate Nickel Imido Complex That Effects C−H Amination," is featured in an article by Chemical & Engineering News, titled: "Two's A Charm For Nickel Complex."
Publication Chosen as Hot Paper: Catalytic C-H Amination with Unactivated Amines through Copper(II) Amides
Dr. Cundari recently published "Catalytic C-H Amination with Unactivated Amines through Copper(II) Amides" in "Angewandte Chemie International Edition." This paper was chosen as a Hot Paper, a paper chosen by the editors for its importance.
A quote from the abstract:
Two equivalents of the three-coordinate copper(II) amide [(Cl2NN)Cu]-NHAd participate in stoichiometric C--H amination by a H-atom abstraction/radical capture sequence. This active species may be generated through a copper(II) tert-butoxide intermediate to allow for the unprecedented catalytic amination of sp3-C--H bonds with unactivated alkylamines. This method greatly expands the range of amines for catalytic C--H amination since most protocols require N-based electron-withdrawing groups.
You can view the article here.
New Publication: Computational Study of Methane C-H Activation by First-Row Late Transition Metal LnM=E (M: Fe, Co, Ni) Complexes
Aaron Pierpont and Dr. Tom Cundari recently published their Computational Study of Methane C-H Activation by First-Row Late Transition Metal LnM=E (M: Fe, Co, Ni) Complexes in the ACS journal: Inorganic Chemistry. It is featured as the cover article for the journal.
A quote from the abstract:
Methane functionalization via LnM═E active species (Ln = β-diketiminate, dihydrophosphinoethane; M = Fe−Ni, E = NCF3, NCH3, O) through a hydrogen atom abstraction (HAA)/radical rebound (RR) mechanism is calculated to be thermodynamically and kinetically feasible. The enthalpies of each reaction decrease in the order Fe > Co > Ni and with the proximity of CF3 supporting ligand substituents ("fluorination") to the metal center. You can find the article here.
Dr. Mike Drummond featured in the New York Times
Dr. Michael Drummond's latest article, "Toward Greener Carbon Capture Technologies: A Pharmacophore-Based Approach to Predict CO2 Binding Sites in Proteins," is featured in the ClimateWire section of the New York Times. Check it out at nytimes.com.
"Toward Greener Carbon Capture Technologies: A Pharmacophore-Based Approach to Predict CO2 Binding Sites in Proteins" - by Drs. Drummond, Wilson, and Cundari.
Dr. Michael Drummond, along with Drs. Angela Wilson and Thomas Cundari, published a new article on December 30, 2009. This publication is featured in the ACS News Service Weekly PressPac: February 03, 2010, which states: "Carbon dioxide from industrial smokestacks could be captured with eco-friendly proteins developed with a technique long used to discover new medicines."
A quote from the abstract:
"Successful sequestration of emitted carbon dioxide is a crucial ingredient in addressing rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations, but current CO2 capture technologies are often corrosive and can generate hazardous waste. Inspiration for more environmentally friendly sequestration is sought in Nature by searching for common patterns by which proteins bind CO2. Specifically, three-dimensional functional group patterns responsible for binding CO2 are extracted from the few protein-CO2 complexes that have been characterized by X-ray Crystallography."