Award Address (ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, sponsored by Dow Chemical Company Foundation). Organometallic chemistry across the Periodic Table: From an investigation of the interaction of X–H bonds with transition metals to a functional model for mercury detoxification

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Gerard Parkin, parkin@columbia.edu, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, Mail Code 3115, New York, NY 10027
A combined experimental and computational approach has been undertaken to investigate a variety of topics in organometallic chemistry, for which several vignettes will be presented. The subjects selected will include: (i) kinetic and equilibrium isotope effects pertaining to the interaction of C-H and H-H bonds with transition metal centers, (ii) development of the coordination chemistry of molybdenum relevant to hydrodesulfurization and hydrodenitrogenation, and (iii) the use of the tris(2-mercapto-1-t-butylimidazolyl)hydroborato ligand to synthesize mercury alkyl compounds that provide a functional model for mercury detoxification by the enzyme MerB.
 

ACS Awards to Inorganic Chemists
8:10 AM-12:50 PM, Monday, April 7, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- La Louisiane, Blrm. C, Oral

Division of Inorganic Chemistry

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008