Featured News
Chemistry Department graduate students receive University Excellence Awards
Alumus Jared DeCoste named Maryland Chemist of the Year by the American Chemical Society.
Eriks Rozners' group received an NIGMS award for their longstanding research on amide-modified
RNA and on sequence selective recognition of RNA via triplex forming peptide nucleic
acids.
A big thank you goes out to biological chemistry major Justin Lok for his volunteerism
with the Chemistry Outreach Program.
James Fang has received a DOE EFRC grant to increase the understanding of electrocatalysis
in alkaline media.
Stan Whittingham has been awarded the 2018 David Turnbull Lectureship by the Materials
Research Society.
James Fang awarded a major NSF grant to support his work exploring the fundamental
understandings of the lattice strain formation and solutions of catalytic improvement
of some emergent electrochemical reactions in energy conversion and environmental
protection.
Postdoctoral Associate from the Rozners Group Receives Best Poster Award!
Graduate students from the Vetticatt group received awards at the American Chemical
Society's 2018 Reaction Mechanisms Conference!
Susan Bane's Group received a major NCI grant to develop a new bioorthongonal chemical
reaction discovered in her lab.
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Highlighted Publication
Panetier Group
The Panetier group, in collaboration with researchers from Texas A&M University and DePaul University, reported a joint experimental and computational study on the use of imidazolium-functionalized manganese tricarbonyl bipyridine complexes for CO2 reduction. This study, which was published in JACS, suggests that imidazolium groups in the secondary coordination sphere promote the formation of a local hydration shell that facilitates the protonation of CO2 reduction intermediates.
S. Sung, X. Li, L.M. Wolf, J.R. Meeder, N.S. Bhuvanesh, K.A. Grice, J.A. Panetier, and M. Nippe, Synergistic Effects of Imidazolium-Functionalization on fac-Mn(CO)3 Bipyridine Catalyst Platforms for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 6569-6582.
Read more at: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b13657
Previously highlighted publications can be viewed at this link.