VIPEr user and supporter Melanie Sanford has a recent review article entitled "High-valent organometallic copper and palladium in catalysis." The article reviews the use of high-valent Cu and Pd catalysts for improving the activity, selectivity, and scope of chemical processes. Coauthor Amanda Hickman is my former student (insert paternal pride here).
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7393/full/nature11008.html
Congratulations Melanie and Amanda!
This screencast is a brief introduction to some of the features of VIPEr.
We are in the process of rolling out some new features on VIPEr, and I would like to announce them here.
First: it is now possible for users with faculty status to post file attachments to comments in forum threads (stand alone forums, or the forum attached to an LO). This is an easy way to show a minor update to a LO without creating an entirely new LO. If you want to create a more substantial derivative LO, and have it link forwards and backwards to the original, feel free to contact a member of the LC for assistance.
File this one under "if it's too good to be true, its probably too good to be true."
I got a conference invitation to present my work at the 3rd "world congress of Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis" in Beijing this spring. I was intrigued and excited to present, but I have to admit, even from the first email, red flags were going up. The very first email I got from them said something like they hadn't heard from me after their initial email a few days ago. I put together an abstract and got on the program and was happily planning my trip to China.
Melanie Sanford, organometallic chemistry at the University of Michigan and all-around wonderful person, was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow!
The MacArthur web site describes the award as follows:
The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.
e-Seminar – Searching Inorganic Substances in SciFinder: Diverse Compounds, Diverse Strategies
Thursday, September 22, 2:00 p.m. ET
Rebroadcast: Tuesday, September 27, 6:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. ET
This e-Seminar explains how to use the SciFinder substance search options to locate inorganic compounds and related information. Presenter Ben Wagner (University at Buffalo) not only covers the basics of name, molecular formula and structure searching but also explores advanced search techniques such as precision analysis that can help researchers find answers for this diverse and complex class of compounds.
The attached lecture provides a brief overview to computational methods and introduces their application to inorganic systems. Two specific literature examples are included. I have given this lecture in a senior level advanced inorganic chemistry class for the past 3 years.
This is a lab experiment designed to cover an array of techniques, including metal complex synthesis, spectroscopy and electrochemistry. Overall, the goal is to synthesize the metal complex Ru(bpy)32+, exchange the counter ion to demonstrate changes in solubility, absorbance and emission properties (including excited state quenching through energy and electron transfer, and ground state oxidation), as well as cyclic voltammetry of the complex.