Peter T. Wolczanski

Infobox Scientist


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name=Peter T. Wolczanski
|field=Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
birth_date=August 28, 1954
birth_place=Utica, NY
alma_mater=Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CaliforniaInstitute of Technology
work_institution=Cornell University
doctoral_advisor=John E. Bercaw
known_for=Low-valent three-coordinate transition metal complexes
Small moleculeactivation (most notably complete CO scission)

Peter Thomas Wolczanski is the George W. and Grace L. Todd professor of
Chemistry at Cornell University.

Education

Wolczanski obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 while doing research under the direction of Mark Wrighton. He entered graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, working under John Bercaw on various chemistries of permethylzirconocene hydrides.

Awards

*Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)

*Casimir Funk Natural Science Award, Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (1998)

*Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1987-1989)

*J. S. Fluor Fellow (1980)

elected Publications

*"Carbon Monoxide Cleavage by (silox)₃Ta (silox = ^tBu₃SiO-): Physical, Theoretical and Mechanistic Investigations." Neithamer, D.R.; LaPointe, R.E.; Wheeler, R.A.; Richeson, D.S.; Van Duyne, G.D.; Wolczanski, P.T. "J. Am. Chem. Soc." 1989, "111", 9056-9072.

*"Symmetry and Geometry Considerations of Atom Transfer: Deoxygenation of (silox)₃WNO and R₃PO (R = Me, Ph, ^tBu) by (silox)₃M (M = V, NbL (L = PMe₃, 4-picoline), Ta; silox = ^tBu₃SiO)." Veige, A. S.; Slaughter, L. M.; Lobkovsky, E. B.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Matsunaga, N.; Decker, S. A.; Cundari, T. R. "Inorg. Chem." 2003, "42", 6204-6224.

*"Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Mechanism of (silox)₃M(olefin) to (silox)₃M(alkylidene) Rearrangements (silox = ^tBu₃SiO; M = Nb, Ta)." Hirsekorn, K. F.; Veige, A. S.; Marshak, M. P.; Koldobskaya, Y.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Cundari, T. R.; Lobkovsky, E. B. "J. Am. Chem. Soc." 2005, "127", 4809-4830.

*"3-Center-4-Electron Bonding in [(silox)₂Mo=NR] ₂(µ-Hg) Controls Reactivity while Frontier Orbitals Permit a Dimolybdenum π-Bond Energy Estimate." Rosenfeld, D. C.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Barakat, K. A.; Buda, C.; Cundari, T. R. "J. Am. Chem. Soc." 2005, "127", 8262-8263.

*"PC Bond Cleavage of (silox)₃NbPMe₃ (silox = ^tBu₃SiO) under Dihydrogen Leads to (silox)₃Nb=CH₂, (silox)₃Nb=PH or (silox)₃NbP(H)Nb(silox)₃, and CH₄." Hirsekorn, K. F.; Veige, A. S.; Wolczanski, P. T. "J. Am. Chem. Soc." 2006, "128", 2192-2193.

External links

* [http://www.chem.cornell.edu/ptw2/ Wolczanski Group Website]