Gerard Parkin

Gerard "Ged" Parkin is a professor at the Columbia University.

Biography

Gerard Parkin worked under Malcolm Green during both his undergraduate and graduate studies, at Queens College of Oxford University. His work involved exploring the chemistry of tungsten phosphine derivatives. He obtained a post-doctoral position at the California Institute of Technology working with Professor John Bercaw on tungstenocene reactivity. In 1988, Ged joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he currently investigates a myriad of problems in main group and transition metal chemistry, including:

* Calixarene complexes
* Retrodative bonding, especially related to boratranes
* Group 6 reactivity relating to X-H (X=H, C, O) bond activation, hydrodesulfurization and hydrodenitrogenation
* The Tris(mercaptoimidizole) borate ligand
* Terminal chalcogen metal bonding
* Zinc complexes as models for biological systems
* Antimony alkoxides and aryloxides

Ged is a magician, and performs annually at the Columbia Chemistry Department “Winter Show,”.

External links

* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/parkin/faculty.html Parkin homepage]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/groups/parkin/index.html The Parkin Website]