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Yongjun
Tang, PhD
phone: 505 822 4540
e-mail:
tangyj@unm.edu
currently: The University of New Mexico, USA
Research Assistant Professor
October 2001- present
Postdoctoral research stay at the University of California
@ San Diego, CA.
September
2000 - October 2001
Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow with Prof. Wolfgang Herrmann
at the University of Technology in Munich, Germany.
August
1999 - August 2000
Postdoctoral research associate in the group of Prof.
Kenneth M. Nicholas at the University of Oklahoma.
September
1996 - July 1999
Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Jiabi Chen's laboratory
of Organometallic Chemistry at the Shanghai Institute
of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
September
1993 - July 1996
Graduate student at the Institute of Elemento - Organic
Chemistry, Nankai University, China.
October
2001: organometallic actinide
chemistry
The
objective of my research will focus on the synthesize
a series of chelating imidazol-2-ylidene compounds and
to use them as polydentate carbene ligands at low-valent,
catalytically active uranium centers. The novel ligand
systems are designed to explore new transformations
relevant to binding, activating, and functionalizing
small molecules at uranium centers. This approach will
allow exploration of new modes of uranium reactivity
and their potential application to catalysis. Based
on a solid foundation of experimental results of actinide
coordination chemistry we will coax synthesis and computational
methods. We will demonstrate that modern computational
tools are capable of calculating electronic structures
and optimize geometries, thus, enhancing ligand design,
inorganic synthesis, and catalyst development.
Sept.
2000 - October 2001
Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship
1999
Weihua Science & Technology, Award of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences.
1999
Excellent PhD Prize, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1998
Excellent PhD Prize, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1996
Excellent Graduate Student Prize, Nankai University,
China.
1993
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Prize, Southwest Normal
University, China.
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