News in and around the lab

Our recently published paper on ionic liquids coauthored by Jesse Kleingardner, Ryan Wibby , John Dymon 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

Designing ionic liquids with boron cluster anions: alkylpyridinium and imidazolium [nido-C2B9H11] and [closo-CB11H12] carborane salts John Dymon, Ryan Wibby, Jesse Kleingardner, Joseph M. Tanski, Ilia A. Guzei, John D. Holbrey and Anna S. Larsen

** 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. We will be sending more samples of the low-melting salts to John shortly.

Our activities and plans (as of May '08):

John Dymon is going to Australia this summer to learn Electrochemistry of Ionic Melts with our collaborator Maria Forsyth research group in Monash University.

Shawn Eady, Cole Lechleiter and Anna Larsen are getting ready for an exciting summer of research here at IC: carborane derivatization and low-melting ionics for Sean and Ru-chemistry for Cole!

Anna is planning to participate in the International Congress on Coordination Chemistry in July 2008.

Jason Diaz (currently on student exchange program in Japan) is planning to present at the 236 National ACS meeting in August 2008.

Other news:

The revised Pt manuscript was accepted for publication in Canadian Journal of Chemistry! Hurray!

John Dymon has received IC Dana summer internship to support his trip to Australia!! Way to go visit kangaroos (see the picture to the right) 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 who was awarded special ACS PRF summer scholarship.

In spite of serious case of senioritus, Phil Byers is still planning to graduate this spring!! (Which grad school will it be, Phil?....)

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