Group News

New paper in Inorg. Chem.

May 2015

Congratulations to a longstanding group of students who put together an excellent story on an unusual complex where a diazoalkane is coordinated to cobalt. This work was started by Nicole Wedgwood and Jon Goldberg, undergraduate coworkers in the lab. After further study by sabbatical visitor Andy Eklund, it was wrapped up and filled out with expert computations through the work of postdoc Simon Bonyhady. And now, you can read about it!

New paper on [2Fe-2S] clusters

May 2015

Congratulations to our team of homophonic students, Meghan Rodriguez and Megan Reesbeck, whose study of new 2Fe-2S clusters was just accepted at the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. This was the result of a lot of work by both, as well as a number of spectroscopic collaborators and “checking duty” by Richard Lewis. Thanks to all!

Congraduations to Bechir and Emma

May 2015

Congratulations to Bechir-Auguste Pierre and Emma Brennan-Wydra, our two undergraduate coworkers, who graduated today from Yale College. We appreciate their hard work, and wish them the best in all their future endeavors.

Pat elected as Fellow of AAAS

November 2014

Pat Holland was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is an honor bestowed by peer scientists in recognition of contributions to advancing science. Pat was recognized for contributions to coordination chemistry, focusing on low-coordinate iron complexes.

Kasia's paper on alkali metal changes in JACS

November 2014

Congratulations to Kasia on the publication of her JACS paper on alkali metal control over Fe-based N-N cleavage. This paper involved the synthesis and isolation of many extremely sensitive compounds, and gave important insight into how multi-iron sites can break N2. Great job!

Welcome to Bechir

September 2014

A warm welcome to our newest group member, Bechir-Auguste Pierre. Bechir is joining us for his senior thesis research. We’re looking forward to working with you!

Chem. Commun. paper

August 2014

A new paper from Richard and Cory reports the two-electron reduction of a bridging pyridine. Great work from Team Pyridine!

Guest researcher Prof. Meisu Zhou

August 2014

We are happy to welcome Prof. Meisu Zhou, a professor from Shanxi University, who will be staying in our labs for three months doing organometallic research.

New paper in JACS

July 2014

Congratulation to Cory, whose Communication recently appeared in J. Am. Chem. Soc. This paper describes the surprising finding that after our reduced iron species cleave the N-N bond of N2, they can rapidly reform the bond to produce N2 again. These results demonstrate that our multiiron complexes lower the activation barriers to both the cleavage and formation of N-N triple bonds. Great job, Cory!

Summer researchers

July 2014

We’re happy to have several guest researchers in our lab this summer. We’ve been joined by Yale undergraduate students Billal Mourtada and David Minoli, who have each successfully prepared interesting group ligand syntheses. Incoming graduate student Gannon Connor has jumped into the thick of a new pincer ligand in the group. Finally, we hosted Elitsour Rozen, a Ph.D. student from the lab of our collaborator Prof. Chaim Sukenik (Bar-Ilan University, Israel).

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