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Scantland Graduates with MS

7/31/2021

Congratulations to Jacob Scantland who completed his master's degree. Jacob came to UA from Tennessee Tech. His research focused on the synthesis of unsymmetric chelating ligands with phosphine oxide coordinating groups. Jacob has accepted a position with Greenlight Biosciences in the Boston Area.

Collaborative Boron Cluster Paper Published

7/9/2021

A collaborative paper involving the Piotr Kaszyński group at the Center for Marcomolecular and Molecular Chemistry, Łódź, Poland, Prof. Michael Sponssler at Syracuse, and the Shaughnessy group was recently published in Organometallics. The paper is entitled, "Decaborate [closo-B10H10]2– as an efficient conduit of electronic effects: Comparative studies of Fe…Fe communication in [{(η5-Cp)(dppe)Fe}2{μ2-(NC-X-CN)}]n+ (n =0,2)." A portion of the experimental work on this project was completed during Kevin Shaughnessy's Fulbright stay in Łódź in spring 2020.

Denham joins group

6/14/2021

Tattum Denham joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Tattum is a Health Professions major from Piedmont, AL. She is working on the synthesis of new ligands for metal-ligand cooperative catalysis.

Congratulations Graduates

5/3/2021

Group members Maddie Plunkett and Brendan Rosamond earned BS degrees in chemistry this past weekend. Congratulations and best of luck in the future.

UA Undergraduate Research Conference

4/2/2021

Maddie Plunkett presented a poster on her research at the UA Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference. Maddie's poster was entitled, "Evaluation of the Ligand Effects for the Cross-Dimerization of Terminal Aryl Acetylenes with Terminal Propargyl Alcohols and Amides Utilizing Triakylphosphine Derived Palladacycle Catalysts."

New students join the lab

1/18/2021

Brendan Rosamond and Jacques VanZyl joined the Shaughnessy group as undergraduate researchers for the spring 2021 semester. Brendan is a senior chemistry major and Jacques is a sophomore biology major.

Heterogeneous Catalyst Paper Published

11/20/2020

A collaborative paper between the Shaughnessy, Martin Bakker, and Yuping Bao groups at UA has been published in the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. The paper describes the one-pot synthesis of heirarchically porous carbon containing nickel nanoparticles by incorporation of nickel-salen complexes in the carbon sol-gel synthesis. The resulting nickel-containing materials were effective catalysts for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol.

Arylpalladium precatalyst paper published

10/9/2020

A paper by Ethan Hu, Corrie Burlas, Sabrina Curley, Tomasz Gruchala and Fengrui Qu entitled, "Effect of Aryl Ligand Identity on Catalytic Performance of Trineopentylphosphine Arylpalladium Complexes in N-Arylation Reactions," has been published in Organometallics. The paper describes the role of steric effects of aryl ligands on the performance of palladium catalysts in C-N cross-coupling reactions.

Macoon accepts job at the FDA

9/30/2020

Dr. Russell Macoon (BS 2016) has accepted a position as a biomedical engineer with the FDA in Washington, DC. Dr. Macoon earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Florida in 2019.

Congratulations to Ashley and Matthew on graduating

5/2/2020

Ashley Gilliam and Matthew Delahay earned their MS degrees this week. Unfortunately, due to COVID restrictions their graduate ceremony will have to be delayed. Both Ashley and Matthew have accepted positions with Avanti Polar Lipids in Birmingham.