2021
- July 27, 2021: Bufan passed her Ph.D candidacy exam. Congratulations Bufan!
- July 26, 2021: "Dilithium Amides as a Modular Bis-Anionic Ligand Platform for Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling" was published in Organic Letters.
- July 26, 2021: Jeff successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Sears!
- July 23, 2021: Shilpa passed her Ph.D candidacy exam. Congratulations Shilpa!
- July 13, 2021: "NHC Effects on Reduction Dynamics in Iron-catalyzed Organic Transformations" was published in Chemistry — A European Journal.
- Jun 29, 2021: "Additive and Counterion Effects in Iron-Catalyzed Reactions Relevant to C–C Bond Formation" was published in ACS Catalysis.
- Jun 17, 2021: "Experimental and computational studies of the mechanism of iron-catalysed C–H activation/functionalisation with allyl electrophiles" was published in Chemical Science.
- Jun 14, 2021: Josh has been awarded the the Elon Huntington Hooker fellowship. Congratulations Josh!
- May 27, 2021: "[2Fe–2S] Cluster Supported by Redox-Active o-Phenylenediamide Ligands and Its Application toward Dinitrogen Reduction" was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
- April 6, 2021: Nikki W. gave a talk "Homoleptic aryl complexes of uranium (IV)" in the symposium Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry at ACS Spring 2021.
- April 1, 2021: "Near-infrared C-term MCD spectroscopy of octahedral uranium(v) complexes" was published in Dalton Transactions.
- March 29, 2021: Maria has been awarded the Donald M. and Janet C. Barnard Fellowship. Congratulations Maria!
- March 8, 2021: Our group joined Twitter!
- February 19, 2021: "Forged in iron" was published in Nature Reviews Chemistry.
- January 26, 2021: Maria, Shilpa and Joshua received Chemistry Department fellowships. Congratulations all!
2020
- December 22, 2020: A collaborative paper with the Piers's group "Activation of ammonia and hydrazine by electron rich Fe(II) complexes supported by a dianionic pentadentate ligand platform through a common terminal Fe(III) amido intermediate" was published in Chemical Science.
- December 20, 2020: Nathalia, Magali, and Chayan joined the group! Welcome all!
- December 14, 2020: "C-Term magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy in paramagnetic transition metal and f-element organometallic chemistry" was published in Dalton Transactions.
- October 30, 2020: "Open Shell Iron Catalysis: Mechanistic Challenges, Approaches and Pitfalls" chapter in book "Catalysis with Earth-abundant Elements" was published.
- September 24, 2020: "Ligand effects on electronic structure and bonding in U(iii) coordination complexes: a combined MCD, EPR and computational study" was published in Dalton Transactions.
- August 17, 2020: A collaborative paper with the Song's group "Syntheses and characterizations of iron complexes of bulky o-phenylenediamide ligand" was published in Dalton Transactions.
- August 16, 2020: A collaborative paper with the Porosoff's group "Identifying correlations in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and CO2 hydrogenation over Fe-based ZSM-5 catalysts" was published in Journal of CO2 Utilization.
- July, 2020: Nikki B. passed her Ph.D candidacy exam. Congratulations Nikki!
- July, 2020: Maria passed her Ph.D candidacy exam. Congratulations Maria!
- June 22, 2020: Nikki W. receives GWIS travel and conference award. Congratulations Nikki!
- June 15, 2020: "TMEDA in iron-catalyzed hydromagnesiation: Iron(II)-alkyl species for controlled reduction to alkene-stabilized iron(0)" was published in Angewandte Chemie - International Edition.
- May 11, 2020: "The Exceptional Diversity of Homoleptic Uranium-Methyl Complexes" was published in Angewandte Chemie - International Edition.
2019
- December 25, 2019: Shilpa joined the group. Welcome Shilpa!
- September 9, 2019: "Isolation and Characterization of a Homoleptic Tetramethylcobalt(III) Distorted Square-Planar Complex" was published in Organometallics.
- August 16, 2019: "Insight into the Electronic Structure of Formal Lanthanide(II) Complexes using Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy" was published in Organometallics.
- July 29, 2019 : Theresa successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Boddie!
- July 29, 2019: A collaborative paper with the Cárdenas group, "Atom-Economical Ni-Catalyzed Diborylative Cyclization of Enynes: Preparation of Unsymmetrical Diboronates" was published in Organic Letters.
- July 25, 2019: Josh passed his Ph.D candidacy exam. Congratulations Josh!
- July 23, 2019 : Stephanie successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Carpenter!
- July 7-12, 2019: Jeff, Pete, and Mike presented research at the Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference in Newport, RI.
- June 16-28, 2019: Nikki W. attended the 21st National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering at Oak Ridge National Labratory and Argonne National Labratory.
- July 14, 2019: Theresa's paper “Identification and Reactivity of Cyclometalated Iron(II) Intermediates in Triazole-Directed Iron-Catalyzed C-H Activation“ was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- June 8, 2019: Jeff won the poster prize at the Western New York Inorganic Symposium (WYNIS). Congratulations Jeff!
- July, 2019: The National Institute of Health grant for iron-catalyzed carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond forming reactions was renewed!
- June 2019: Bufan joined the group. Welcome Bufan!
- May 31, 2019: Pete's paper "Mechanism of the Bis(imino)pyridine-Iron-Catalyzed Hydromagnesiation of Styrene Derivatives" was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- May 22, 2019: Nikki W.'s paper “Homoleptic aryl complexes of uranium (IV)" was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
- May 2019: Nikki W. was awarded the Donald M. and Janet C. Barnard Fellowship. Congratulations Nikki!
- April 2019: Jeff S. and Nikki W. were awarded Elon Huntington Hooker fellowships. Congratulations Jeff and Nikki!
- March 2019: Visiting high school student Patience Girigiri was awarded best poster in the Technical Innovation Competition at the PreCollege Initative Awards Banquet at the 45th Annual NSBE Convention for her poster outlining her work conducted in the Neidig group over the summer/fall 2018. Congratulations Patience!
- March 15, 2019: A collaborative paper with the Figueroa group "Terminal coordination of diatomic boron monofluoride to iron" was published in Science.
- March 9-15, 2019: Jeff and Pete presented their work at the 2019 the Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Gordon Research Conference in Galveston TX.
- February 1, 2019: Visiting high school student Patience Girigiri's paper "Crystal structure of bromido-penta-kis-(tetra-hydro-furan-κO)magnesium bis-[1,2-bis-(di-phenyl-phosphan-yl)benzene-κ2 P,P']cobaltate(-1) tetra-hydro-furan disolvate" was published in Acta Crystallographica Section E.
- January 17, 2019: "The Effect of β-Hydrogen Atoms on Iron Speciation in Cross-Couplings with Simple Iron Salts and Alkyl Grignard Reagents" was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
- January 15, 2019: "Synthesis and characterization of a sterically encumbered homoleptic tetraalkyliron(III) ferrate complex" was published in Polyhedron.
- January 2019: Nikki B., Maria, and Aleksa joined the group! Welcome all!
2018
- December 28, 2018: The groups review "Development and Evolution of Mechanistic Understanding in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling" was published in Accounts of Chemical Research.
- November 2018: Jeff was awarded a departmental travel award. Congratulations Jeff!
- November 9-11, 2018: Nikki W. was awarded the 1st place poster prize at the 51st annual IDW. Congratulations Nikki!
- November 9-11, 2018: Theresa, Stephanie, Jeff, and Nikki W. presented their work at the 51st annual Inorganic Discussion Weekend.
- September 18, 2018: Jeff and Pete's paper "Intermediates and Mechanism in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling" was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- September 6, 2018: Sal and Val's paper "Combined Effects of Backbone and N-Substituents on Structure, Bonding, and Reactivity of Alkylated Iron(II)-NHCs" was published in Organometallics.
- August 24, 2018: Stephanie's paper "Multinuclear iron-phenyl species in reactions of simple iron salts with PhMgBr: identification of Fe4(μ-Ph)6(THF)4 as a key reactive species for cross-coupling catalysis" was published in Chemical Science.
- August 14, 2018: Val successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Fleischauer!
- July 26, 2018: Tessa successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Baker!
- July 24, 2018: A collaborative paper with the Tonzetich Group "Backbone Dehydrogenation in Pyrrole-Based Pincer Ligands" was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
- July 5, 2018: A collaborative paper "A Pseudotetrahedral Uranium(V) Complex" was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
- July 2, 2018: A collaborative paper with the Matson Group "Nitric oxide activation facilitated by cooperative multimetallic electron transfer within an iron-functionalized polyoxovanadate-alkoxide cluster" was published in Chemical Science.
- July 2018: Jeff presented his research at the American Crystallographic Assocation National Meeting in Toronto, Canada.
- July 2018: Nikki W. and Dan passed their Ph.D Candidacy Exams. Congratulations Nikki and Dan!
- June 2018: Sal left to the group to persue his new career in Colorado. Congratulations Sal!
- June 2018: High school students, mentored by Jared, published the paper “Crystal structures of two new six-coordinate iron(III) complexes with 1,2-bis-(diphenylphosphane) ligands” was published in Acta Crystallographica Section E.
- May 2018: Nikki W. and Dan received their Master's of Science degrees. Congratulations Nikki and Dan!
- April 6, 2018: Sal's and Stephanie D's paper “The N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP) Effect in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling with Simple Ferric Salts and MeMgBr” was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
- April 2018: Theresa was awarded the Elon Huntington Hooker fellowship. Congratulations Theresa!
- March 18-22 2018: Theresa and Stephanie presented their research at the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans.
- January 2018: Joshua DeMuth joined the group. Welcome Joshua!
- January 8, 2018: Val's paper “NHC and nucleophile chelation effects on reactive iron(II) species in alkyl-alkyl cross-coupling” was published in Chemical Science.
2017
- November 2017: Stephanie was awarded a departmental travel award. Congratulations Stephanie!
- November 7, 2017: Stephanie D. and Theresa's collaborative paper with Tom Baker “Iron(II) Complexes of a Hemilabile SNS Amido Ligand: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity” was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
- November 3-5, 2017: Tessa, Val, Stephanie, Jeff, and Pete presented their research at the 50th Inorganic Discussion Weekend.
- August 24, 2017: Stephanie's review “A Physical-Inorganic Approach for the Elucidation of ActiveIron Species and Mechanism in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling” was published in Israel Journal of Chemistry.
- August 20, 2017: Jeff, Sal, Theresa, Stephanie, Val, Tessa, and Mike present work from our group at the ACS National Meeting in Washington, D.C.
- July 25, 2017: Theresa's paper “Magnetic circular dichroism and density functional theory studies of electronic strucutre and bonding in cobalt(II)-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes” was published in Dalton Transactions.
- July 21, 2017: Jared successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Kneebone!
- July 17, 2017: Jared and Stephanie's paper “A Combined Probe-Molecule, Mössbauer, Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy, and Density Functional Theory Approach for Evaluation of Potential Iron Active Sites in a Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyst” was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
- July 15, 2017: Stephanie was awarded a Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award. Congratulations Stephanie!
- June 23, 2017: Val's collaborative paper with Jochen Autschbach “Magnetic circular dichroism of UCl6- in the ligand-to-metal charge-transfer spectral region” was published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
- May 30, 2017: Val and Tessa were awarded Graduate Women in Science Travel Awards. Congratulations Val and Tessa!
- May 26, 2017: Stephanie's collaborative paper with Ellen Matson “Polyoxovanadate-Alkoxide Clusters as a Redox Reservoir for Iron” was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
- May 2017: Val and Stephanie were awarded Elon Huntington Hooker fellowships. Congratulations Val and Stephanie!
- May 21, 2017: Jeff received his Master's of Science degree. Congratulations Jeff!
- May 11, 2017: Stephanie was a finalist in the Three Minute Thesis Competion. Congratulations Stephanie!
- April 26, 2017: Jared's paper “Intermediates and Reactivity in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings of Alkynyl Grignards with Alkyl Halides” was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- March 10, 2017: Peter Neate joined the group. Welcome Pete!
- March 2017: Tessa and Valerie were awarded departmental travel awards. Congratulations Tessa and Val!
- February 6, 2017: Stephanie D. and Theresa's collaborative paper with Tom Baker “Transition-Metal-Free Formation of C-E Bonds (E = C, N, O, S) and Formation of C-M Bonds (M = Mn, Mo) from N-Heterocyclic Carbene Mediated Fluoroalkene C-F Bond Activation” was published in Organometallics.
2016
- December 2016: Dan Curran and Nikki Wolford joined the group. Welcome Dan and Nikki!
- November 17, 2016: Val won the inaugural Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congratulations Val!
- November 12, 2016: Val, Tessa, and Stephanie present their work at the 49th Inorganic Discussion Weekend.
- October 25, 2016: Tessa's collaborative paper with Jeff Byers “Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Density Functional Theory Studies of Iron(II)-Pincer Complexes: Insight into Electronic Structure and Bonding Effects of Pincer N-Heterocyclic Carbene Moieties” was published in Organometallics.
- October 11, 2016: Tessa's collaborative paper with Elizabeth Nolan “Magnetic circular dichroism studies of iron(II) binding to human calprotectin” was published in Chemical Science.
- September 1, 2016: Val's collaborative paper with Richard Eisenberg “Catalytic Light-Driven Generation of Hydrogen from Water by Iron Dithiolene Complexes” was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- August 21, 2016: Jared, Stephanie C., Sal, and Mike present work from our group at the ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia.
- August 16, 2016: Stephanie D. successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Daifuku!
- August 12, 2016: Our collaborative paper with Paras Prasad “Manipulating Magneto-Optic Properties of a Chiral Polymer by Doping with Stable Organic Biradicals” was published in Nano Letters.
- July 21, 2016: Stephanie D.'S paper “Resident holes and electrons at organic/conductor and organic/organic interfaces: An electron paramagnetic resonance investigation” was published in Organic Electronics.
- June 2016: Jared was awarded a Elon Huntington Hooker fellowship. Congratulations Jared!
- May 28, 2016: Our collaborative paper with Warren Piers and Laurent Maron “Facile Hydrogen Atom Transfer to Iron(III) Imido Radical Complexes Supported by a Dianionic Pentadentate Ligand” was published in Chemical Science.
- May 26, 2016: Sal's paper, “Isolation, Characterization, and Reactivity of Fe8Me12-: Kochi's S = 1/2 Species in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling with MeMgBr and Ferric Salts” was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- May 14, 2016: Fulei receives a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. Stephanie C. and Theresa receive Master's of Science degrees.
- May 4, 2016: Tessa and Theresa were awarded a poster prize at the CIRC poster session. Congratulations Tessa and Theresa!
- May 3, 2016: Professor Neidig receives a Department of Energy Early Career award for research on electronic structure, bonding, and reactivity in f-element chemistry.
- May 3, 2016: Professor Neidig was appointed as Wilmot Assistant Professor.
- April 9, 2016: Tessa was awarded a poster prize at the Cornell-Rochester Inorganic Chemistry Symposium. Congratulations Tessa!
- January 8, 2016: Val was awarded a poster prize at the SYCAM retreat. Congratulations Val!
- January 7, 2016: Our collaborative paper with Tom Baker “Mononuclear, Dinuclear, and Trinuclear Iron Complexes Featuring a New Monoanionic SNS Thiolate Ligand” was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
2015
- December 14, 2015: Jared, Val, and Stephanie D.'s paper, “Electronic Structure and Bonding in Iron(II) and Iron(I) Complexes Bearing Bisphosphine Ligands of Relevance to Iron-Catalyzed C-C Cross-Coupling” was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
- December 6, 2015: Jeff Sears joined the group. Welcome Jeff!
- November 16, 2015: Tessa's data report, “Crystal structure of a third polymorph of tris(acetylacetonato-?2O,O')Iron(III)” was published in Acta Crystallographica Section E.
- November 8, 2015: Tessa was awarded a poster prize at the 48th IDW meeting in Kingston. Congratulations Tessa!
- November 6, 2015: Tessa and Stephanie C. presented posters at the 48th IDW meeting in Kingston.
- October 16, 2015: Our collaborative paper with George Rodriguez “Possible Demonstration of a Polaronic Bose-Einstein(-Mott) Condensate in UO2(+x) by Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy and Microwave Dissipation” was published in Scientific Reports.
- August 26, 2015: Stephanie D. and Jared's paper, “Iron(II) Active Species in Iron-Bisphosphine Catalyzed Kumada and Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Couplings of Phenyl Nucleophiles and Secondary Alkyl Halides,” was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- August 16, 2015: Jared, Stephanie D., Val, Tessa, and Mike present work from our group at the ACS National Meeting in Boston.
- August 14, 2015: Jared's collaborative study with the Deng group on iron(I)-NHC complexes was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
- July 16, 2015: Stephanie D. presents her work on iron-SciOPP catalyzed cross-couplings with phenyl nucleophiles at the Organometallic Chemistry GRC.
- June 1, 2015: Salvador Muñoz joined the group. Welcome Sal!
- May 17, 2015: Joe and Ari receive Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry. Val and Tessa receive Master's of Science degrees.
- April 28, 2015: Our collaborative paper with David Milstein “How Innocent are Potentially Redox Non-Innocent Ligands? Electronic Structure and Metal Oxidation States in Iron-PNN Complexes as a Representative Case Study” was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
- March 30, 2015: Tessa is awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Tessa!
- March 2015: Jared and Stephanie D. were awarded departmental travel awards. Congratulations Jared and Stephanie D.!
- February 23, 2015: Professor Neidig is awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in chemistry.
- February 2015: Professor Neidig receives a National Science Foundation CAREER award for research on iron- and cobalt-catalyzed direct C-H functionalization.
2014
- December 2014: Theresa Iannuzzi and Stephanie Carpenter joined the group. Welcome Theresa and Stephanie!
- November 2014: Jared and Malik gave oral presentations at the 47th IDW meeting in Montreal.
- November 10, 2014: “A Combined Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Density Functional Theory Approach for the Elucidation of Electronic Structure and Bonding in Three- and Four-coordinate Iron(II)-N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes” was published in Chemical Science.
- October 21, 2014: “Isolation and Characterization of a Tetramethyliron(III) Ferrate: An Intermediate in the Reduction Pathway of Ferric Salts with MeMgBr” was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- September 2, 2014: The National Institutes of Health awarded Professor Neidig a grant to study iron catalyzed cross-coupling.
- August 2014: Stephanie and Katy presented posters at the 248th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco.
- July 2014: Jared, Malik, and Katy presented posters at the 19th ISHC conference in Ottawa.
- May 30, 2014: “Flexible Binding of PNP Pincer Ligands to Monomeric Iron Complexes” was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
- May 29, 2014: “A Combined Mössbauer, Magnetic Circular Dichroism, and Density Functional Theory Approach for Iron Cross-Coupling Catalysis: Electronic Structure, In Situ Formation, and Reactivity of Iron-Mesityl-Bisphosphines” was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- May 13, 2014: Katy Fillman and Jeff Kehl receive Master's of Science degrees.
2013
- December 2013: Tessa Woodruff and Valerie Fleischauer joined the group. Welcome Tessa and Val!