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Dr. Cliff Kubiak from the University of California, San Diego campus will be visiting us from Friday, May 4th until Friday, May 24th. He will be giving a seminar entitled "Inorganic Mixed Valency at the Delocalized/Localized Borderline: Ultrafast, Non-Arrhenius, and Solvent-Coupled Electron Transfers" on Thursday, May 15th, and a second lecture on Tuesday, May 20th entitled "The Catalytic Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide Conversion".

Also joining us in May are Dr. Peter Wolczanski from Cornell Univeristy, and Dr. Sandro Gambarotta from the University of Ottawa.

Guests Cliff Kubiak (left) and Peter Wolczanski (2nd from left) with past visitors Christopher Cummins (3rd from right) and Paul Chirik (2nd from right).

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University of California, San Diego professor Dr. Michael Sailor will be joining us from Wednesday, March 18th to Friday, March 21st.

Guest Michael Sailor (right) with Christopher Cummins and Dick Schrock (left)

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Congratulations to PhD student Oanh Lam on her first primary-author publication entitled "Charge-Separation in Uranium Diazomethane Complexes Leading to C-H Activation and Chemical Transformation". The JACS paper summarizes her work on C─H activation of diphenyldiazomethane using a low-valent U(III) complex. Read the full paper. It is also being highlighted in the online technology journal Ars Technica.

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We would like to welcome our newest international group member, PhD candidate Xinjiao Wang. Xinjiao recieved her undergraduate degree in China, and M.S. in Singapore. She will be working on catalytic applications of nickel complexes.

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Congratulations to PhD student Carola Vogel on her first publication entitled "An Iron Nitride Complex". This Angewandte Chemie paper summarizes her work on the synthesis of discrete iron nitride complexes stabilized by N-anchored tris(carbene) ligands. Read the full paper. A discussion of the paper was published in Science Editor's Choice (here).

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Michigan State University professor Dr. Mitch Smith will be joining us on Friday, November 9th. He will be giving a seminar on Monday the 12th at 4 pm entitled "Iridium Boryl Complexes: Versatile Tools for Functionalizing CH Bonds".

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The solar energy workshop was a resounding success! Students from across Germany and Professors from around the world were in attendance for the first Erlangen workshop on "Chemical Solar Energy Conversion via Redox-Active Metal Centers".

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Where are they now? Well, it is with great pleasure to note that the founding members of the Meyer group, Ingrid and Xile, continue their academic endeavors. After their postdoctoral research stays at the University of California, Berkley, and the California Institute of Technology, Ingrid and Xile started their independent careers at the California Maritime Academy and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. We wish them all the very best and success!

	Prof. Ingrid Castro Rodríguez, PhD Associate Professor of Chemistry California Maritime Academy	Prof. Xile Hu, PhD Assistant Professor of Chemistry Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

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This year, we are glad to announce the newly established workshop “Chemical Solar Energy Conversion via Redox-Active Metal Centers“ at our university (Sept. 24-27, 2007) sponsored by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The main objective of this first workshop is an introduction to the field of solar energy conversion via electron transfer reactions.  The emphasis is placed on the activation and, ultimately, cleavage of water to oxygen and hydrogen, utilizing sunlight as clean, renewable, and abundant source of energy.  We are proud to have two speakers that are leaders in the field of homogeneous and heterogeneous approaches to water splitting. Professors A. Kudo and D. G. Nocera will be presenting current challenges, advances, and perspectives in chemical solar energy conversion.

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Prof. Jeffrey Long (University of California, Berkeley) is visiting us October 4 – 7. Jeff will present a seminar, titled "Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Coordination Solids with Exposed Metal Sites", on Friday, October 5, at 11:15 AM (Lecture Room H2). Everyone is welcome to join!

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Prof. Timothy Warren is coming to visit the Meyer Group for his sabbatical leave from Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA). Tim and his family will arrive on August 29. He will be joined by two students who will focus on spectroscopic and computational experiments. Tim will present his research in a number of seminars throughout his stay (tba). We are looking forward to having Tim!

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Dr. David L. Clark (Director G.T. Seaborg Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA) is coming to visit the Meyer laboratories on August 29. Dave will give a seminar on "Research at a US National Laboratory: Current Topics in Actinide Research" at 5 PM.

Our group @ fau erlangen-nuremberg in summer 2006.

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Our first five laboratories have been fully renovated! New power, cooling water, central regeneration and inert gas lines have been installed as well as new lab furniture and state of the art inert gas glove boxes.

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A brand new solvent purification system (Glasscontour by George & Allison Meyer, Irvine, CA) for 10 solvents has been installed! This system provides bone-dry and pristine solvents. Standard hydrocarbon solvents such as C5, C6, benzene and toluene as well as more problematic solvents like Et2O, THF, CH2Cl2, CHCl3, CH3CN and pyridine can be obtained dry and oxygen-free.

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Congratulations to Suzanne! Suzanne has been awarded the prestigeous Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship for her postdoctoral studies concerning the coordination chemistry of reactive uranium complexes.

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Dr. Suzanne Doucette (here with her husband Jarrod) has joined our group for her postdoctoral research. Suzanne comes from Paul Chirik's group @ Cornell University. She will study the coordination, activation, and functionalization of alkanes and CO2 at reactive, electron-rich uranium complexes in molecularly-engineered ligand environments.

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Please welcome our first co-workers! Thomas Wagner (left) and Carola Vogel (right) have joined our group for her diploma studies (...and more).

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Our laboratory has moved to germany (see coordinates below)! The US DOE funded actinide group will partly remain @ ucsd and co-advised with prof. joe o'connor:

meyer lab
professor of chemistry
institute of inorganic & general chemistry (chair)
friedrich-alexander university erlangen - nuremberg
egerlandstrasse 1
erlangen, bavaria 91080

germany

email: kmeyer@chemie.uni-erlangen.de
office: +49 (0)9131 8527361 (asst)
office: +49 (0)9131 8527360
fax: +49 (0)9131 8527367

Our group @ ucsd in spring 2002

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On August First Twothousendandfive Ingrid Castro-Rodriguez defended her PhD thesis. The heartiest congratulations to Dr. Ingrid Castro-Rodriguez! Ingrid graduated in a little less than five years with more than 14 publications! For her very impressive research accomplishments, Ingrid has received multiple awards and recognitions such as UCSD's Teddy Trailor Award, the Gordon Research Conference's Carl Storm Fellowship, and a Bavarian Science Foundation Research Fellowship that brought her to the Technical University of Munich (Germany). Also, a Glenn T. Seaborg Summer Fellowship allowed Ingrid to conduct research at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. Ingrid will be continuing to do postdoctoral research with Prof. Kenneth Raymond at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. For her research proposal at Cal, Ingrid has been awarded the prestigious Glenn T. Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellowship. Awesome, Ingrid!!! All the very best & good luck for the future!

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Congratulations to Patrick Feng! Patrick has been awarded a prestigious NSF graduate research fellowship!!!

NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees. NSF Fellows are expected to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering.

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Ingrid, Oanh and Patrick went to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) to collect our first XANES and XAFS data on our uranium complexes. This study is carried out in collaboration with Dr. Steve Conradson and Dr. Dave Clark from the Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) and funded through the UCSD/LANL CARE Program (CARE).

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Please welcome our new team members!!!

Oanh did her undergraduate research with Prof. Jim Mayer at the University of Washington, Seattle. She will continue her synthetic chemistry in our uranium laboratory. Carmen has studied in the laboratories of Prof. Raphael Raptis at the University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras Campus) and is currently synthesizing new NHC chelators for our transition metal chemistry. Patrick, who did his undergraduate work with Prof. Peter Dorhout at Colorado State University, will also work on our uranium chemistry.

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Guess who is writing her thesis and threatening the PI with a banana?

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We finally had to say "Good-Bye" to Xile. Xile started working in the laboratories of Prof. Jonas Peters at Caltech. His new email address is xhu@caltech.edu

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Ingrid is back from Munich! She sends hugs & kisses to the Tamm group and everybody else, who treated her like a princess! Ingrid says: "I love Germany, German food, and the Germans." Well...one can clearly see.

- veni, vidi, vici

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The first meyer-group student defended his PhD on November Eighteenth Twothousendandfour. The heartiest congratulations to Dr. Xile Hu. Xile...sorry, Dr. Hu graduated in four years with 10 publications. Xile will be continuing to do postdoctoral research with Prof. Jonas Peters at the California Institute of technology. All the best & good luck for the future!

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Congratulations to Ingrid! Ingrid has received a research fellowship from the Bavarian Science Foundation. Ingrid is currently working in the laboratories of Prof. Matthias Tamm at the Technical University Munich (TUM) in Germany. Ingrid will stay in Bavaria during the holidays. We wish her all the best...and may be some snow (which Ingrid has never seen before;=) Come back soon!

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Congratulations to Ingrid! Ingrid has received UCSD's Teddy G. Traylor Award for the Chemical Sciences.