Check out our recent collaborative work with Buck Taylor’s (University of Portland) lab on a combined experimental and computational approach to understanding unusual competitive mechanisms in alkene hydrogenation by Rh catalysts! This paper describes work by Kate DeMeulenaere ’18 and Mike Trenerry ’18. Congrats to all involved on this well-deserved recognition of some excellent work!
Carleton just launched a $400M comprehensive campaign to increase funding for student financial aid, support innovative learning and teaching (including through a new integrated science facility that we will inhabit starting Fall 2019!), provide new opportunities for students to explore life after Carleton, and grow the annual fund.
Check out the launch video below (briefly featuring members of the Whited lab) and this press release, and thanks to our dedicated alumni, parents, and friends for supporting these areas that are so important for the future of all Carls!
In this OM offering, the Ozerov and Whited research groups collaborate to report the first example of a base-free cobalt silylene. Check it out: https://t.co/D4MrtOcrjm pic.twitter.com/Tn0mLVUwr6
— Organometallics (@Orgmet_ACS) October 13, 2018
We have just reported our collaborative work with the Ozerov group (Texas A&M) preparing the first example of a base-free cobalt silylene (cobalt-silicon double bond) in Organometallics. Congrats to Jim for his excellent work on this project and thanks to all our wonderful collaborators who contributed to the work.
Matt’s Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar video has been posted online. Check it out to hear about our work to break some of the world’s strongest chemical bonds!
Research from the Whited Lab was recently featured in a special ACS Select Virtual Issue of Organometallics: “Undergraduate Research: Contributions to Organometallic Chemistry”
Matt and co-PI Gordana Dukovic (University of Colorado – Boulder) organized the 2018 NSF-CHE Early Career Investigator workshop in Alexandria, VA. The workshop brought together 100 junior faculty from a broad range of institutions and sub-fields of research with established investigators and numerous NSF staff to discuss strategies for crafting research ideas, planning educational and outreach activities, and assessing and evaluating project aims. Materials generated at the workshop are shared at go.carleton.edu/nsf2018/materials. Thanks to our speakers and all of NSF for supporting this important effort!
Several representatives from the Whited group will showcase recent results at the Spring 2018 ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. Check out their awesome work if you are in town for the meeting!
Matt has published a new paper in Polyhedron with collaborators from USC addressing the role of isomerism in luminescent properties of cyclometalated iridium complexes relevant to organic LEDs.
Matt has received a grant from NSF ($70k) with co-PI Gordana Dukovic (CU-Boulder) to organize the 2018 NSF CHE Early Career Investigator Workshop in Alexandria, VA. Please pass along the word to early-career chemists who could benefit from a workshop on proposal preparation. Further details can be found at the workshop website.
