个人简介

BS Carnegie-Mellon University, 1974 PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978 Research Chemist, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, 1978 Senior Research Chemist, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, 1982 Staff Chemist, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, 1985 Assistant Professor - Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, 1987-1991 Associate Professor - Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, 1991-1995 Full Professor - Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, 1995-present Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Tech, 1998-2001 Acting Dean of the Graduate School, Virginia Tech, 2001-2002 Senior Administrative Fellow in Charge of University Restructuring, Virginia Tech, 2002-2003 Chair, Department of Chemistry, 2004-2010

研究领域

Organometallic

The study of organometallic chemistry, an area that bridges inorganic and organic disciplines, has found remarkable utility in many diverse applications. Organometallic compounds themselves, which consist of metals bonded to organic groups, can teach us a great deal about fundamental bonding properties. The effect that binding an organic group to a metal has on that organic fragment's reactivity can be exploited in developing new catalysts for organic reactions. When it is difficult to study the reaction of a molecule on a metal surface in a heterogeneous catalyst system, it may be possible to infer how the reaction is taking place by studying suitably designed organometallic compounds as models. In our group, we try to take advantage of many of these properties of organometallic systems to study fundamental reaction chemistry, to design novel catalyst systems, and to use organometallic compounds as precursors to more complex materials.

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Berg, Michael A.G., Ritchie, Melissa K., Merola, Joseph S. Synthesis and Crystal Structures of 3-alkyl-2,4-pentanedionates and 3-phenyl-2,4-pentanedionate of palladium. Polyhedron, 2012, 38(1), 126-130. DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2012.02.024 Grieb, Arthur L.; Merola, Joseph S. Reactions of [Ir(COD)(PMe3)3]Cl with heteroaromatic compounds: Formation of an iridathiacycle, an iridaselenacycle and iridaazathiacycles. J Organomet Chem, 2012, 713, 163-168. DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2012.05.003 Merola, Joseph S.; Husebo, Trang Le; Matthews, Kelly E. Aqueous Organometallic Chemistry of mer-Ir(H)2(PMe3)3X Complexes. Organometallics, 2012, 31(10), 3920-3929. DOI: 10.1021/om300140f Merola, Joseph S.; Husebo, Trang Le; Selnau, Henry E. Dinuclear Iridium Complexes with Unsupported Ir-Cl-Ir Bridges.Inorg. Chim. Acta. 2012, 390, 33-36. Merola, Joseph S.; Franks, Marion A. The Basicity of [tris-(trimethylphosphine)(cyclooctadiene)iridium(I)]. J. Organomet. Chem. 723, 2013, 49. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2012.09.020.