Group News

Danny's new papers

April 2018

Congratulations to Danny Broere, whose trifecta of excellent papers on iron-formazanate ligands will be coming out in Inorganic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie, and Chemistry - A European Journal. Danny also wrote a Perspective on main-group complexes for N2 activation, which appeared in Science magazine. Danny will be starting a faculty position at the University of Utrecht this coming summer. Great job, Danny!

Welcome to new group members!

December 2017

Welcome to a number of chemists who have joined the research group this fall. Kaz Skubi has joined us as a postdoctoral fellow, and aims to synthesize and study new nitrogen-fixing molecules using molecular design skills gained during his Ph.D. with Tehshik Yoon at U. Wisconsin. In addition, we have had three new graduate students join the group. Allie Nagelski has joined our iron-sulfur cluster project, Jeremy Weber has joined our nitrogen activation project, and Conner Wilson has joined our organometallic catalysis project. We are looking forward to great research and camaraderie from these outstanding additions to our team!

Gannon's paper is out!

October 2017

Gannon, the first joint student in the Holland/Mayer labs, has had his first research paper published in Dalton Transactions. It describes protonation experiments with a series of Rh and Ir dinitrogen complexes from Alan Goldman’s lab. Congratulations Gannon, and we look forward to many more!

Sean wins poster award  

July 2017

Congratulations to Sean McWilliams on winning a poster award for his presentation on nitrogen fixation at the EuCheMS International Organometallic Conference in Amsterdam, Holland! (Everyone is familiar with the Holland group there.) Our resident Dutch postdoc Danny Broere was also chosen to give an oral presentation at the conference, and both Sean and Danny were excellent representatives of Yale. We note that any scientific discoveries about combustion chemistry in Amsterdam are not condoned by Yale.

Hydride-sulfide paper is published

July 2017

Nick’s full paper on his groundbreaking first sulfide-hydride complexes of iron has now come out in Inorganic Chemistry. It describes the synthesis of these complexes, and also detailed mechanistic studies into the C-S bond cleaving reaction that leads to these complexes. Congratulations to Nick, and thanks to Brandon, Sean and Dan for important contributions that made it into a great paper.

Amy wins NIH fellowship

May 2017

Congratulations to Amy Speelman, who is receiving a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. This is a result of her strong background, her exciting planned work on iron-N2 chemistry with new sulfur-based ligands, and her outstanding proposal describing the approach to the new research. Great work, Amy!

Sean is the Alpha and Omega

May 2017

Sean’s extensive computational paper that re-evaluates the correlation between DFT and experimental Mössbauer parameters (with coefficient α) has been accepted into ACS Omega. This paper is very important for our group, because the combination of computations and spectroscopy are essential for the thorough characterization of our compounds. Great work Sean!

Danny's paper in IC

March 2017

Danny’s paper on the THF content in the very useful starting material Fe(NTMS2)2 has appeared in the journal Inorganic Chemistry. Congratulations to Danny, and to Ilija and Anna who started us along this road of better characterization!

Sean to speak at GRS

March 2017

Congratulations to Sean on being chosen to be a speaker at the first Gordon Research Seminar on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms. He will regale a select group of graduate students and postdocs with his ongoing work on N2 activation at the conference in Galveston, Texas. Quite an honor!!

DK on collaborative JACS paper

February 2017

Congratulations to DK, who did mechanistic work that was included in a gargantuan paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc. by Phil Baran’s group at the Scripps Research Institute. DK did excellent work that helped to elucidate the iron species present in an important catalytic reaction, and his studies have led to a more active catalyst. Great work by DK, and great work by Julian Lo and Phil Baran at Scripps.

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