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Anna LarsenAssociate ProfessorChemistry |
July '09: Just got another crystal structure solved for us: bis-alkylated orthcarborane anion salt crystals grown by Shawn Eady. Good one for the paper!
June '09: an upgrade for the solvent purification system has been installed. We have dry dichloromethane "on tap" now (in addition to four other solvents).
May '09: John Dymon was offered a full time summer position with Novomer, Inc. (Geoff Coates polymer company across the street from us). Congratulations! ***However, we still have to finish a couple of papers, John!***
April '09: Shawn Eady has been awarded a Cornell Section ACS summer scholarship to support his research at IC. Very nice!
March '09: Shawn Eady presented a poster on the low melting ionics with derivatized carborane and ortho-carborane anions at the ACS National Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. John Dymon brought our poster to the National Council for Undergradiuate Research in LaCross, WI. Apparently going to the scientific conferences can be a lot of fun.
February '09: Anna got invited to give a talk at ZING Conference on Weakly Coordinating anions.
Jan '09: Our Can. J. Chem. paper appeared in print.
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Working on the paper with John Dymon and Shawn Eady: lets get those derivatized orthocarborane anion salt structures reported along with all the great electrochemisry John did in Australia last summer.
Shawn and Anna are working on submitting another structure to Acta Crystallographica... what a pain dealing with all those errors...
Working on permethylating and pre-ethylating the carborane and orthocarborane cages and making salts with those.
Earlier news:
In August '08, after returning from the student exchange trip to Japan, Jason Diaz presented a poster on our organometallics project at the 236 National ACS meeting in Philadelphia (very conveniently it was not too far from home for Jason)
July '08: Anna participated in the International Congress on Coordination Chemistry in July 2008 with a poster presentation. great conference. Way too hot in Jerusalem in July!
Our recently published paper on orthocarborane-based ionic liquids coauthored by Jesse Kleingardner('07), Ryan Wibby('08) , John Dymon ('10) and Anna Larsen (with collaborators from Queen's University, Vassar College and University of Wisconsin-Madison) made it to the top ten list of the most accessed papers for the month of May 2008 in Dalton Transactions, the leading European journal for inorganic and organometallic chemistry: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/dt/top10.asp
The full citation: Dalton Trans., 2008, 2999 - 3006, DOI: 10.1039/b802374c
June 23-2008: Differential Scanning Calorimetery and Thermal Gravimetric Analysis instruments are here and working. Shawn Eady ('10) is busy running our samples on both!
july-10-2008: John Dymon is in Australia apparently having great time in and out of the lab. He is learning Electrochemistry of Ionic Melts with our collaborator Maria Forsyth research group in Monash University. We will be sending more samples of the low-melting salts to John shortly.
April'08: The revised Pt manuscript was accepted for publication in Canadian Journal of Chemistry.
April '08: John Dymon has received IC Dana summer internship to support his trip to Australia! Way to go visit kangaroos and do some electrochemistry in the spare time.
Anna gave an invited lecture at the SUNY-Albany chemistry Department on April 15th. Very useful feedback was an extra-bonus of the trip.
We just heard that Ithaca college will fund the purchase of our own Differential Scanning Calorimeter and Thermogravimetric Analyzer (~40K). No more trips (and no more paying!) to Cornell U for that.
Congratulations to Cole Lechlieter ('10) who was awarded special ACS PRF summer scholarship for research on our organometallics project.
In spite of serious case of senioritus, Phil Byers ('08) is still planning to graduate this spring!! (and off to grad school in Florida State....)
