个人简介

Organometallics Young Invcestigator Fellowship (2014) ChemCOMM Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award (2013) Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2012) NSF CAREER Award (2011) Appointed to faculty, UC Davis (2009) Postdoctoral Fellow, CalTech and MIT (2006-2009) Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2005) B.Sc. (Hon) University of New South Wales (2000)

研究领域

Analytical Chemistry/Environmental Chemistry/Inorganic Chemistry

All of our research centers around the synthesis and characterization of new inorganic molecules. Our choice of synthetic target is directed by a desire to investigate the activation of small molecules via chemical or electrochemical techniques, or interesting electronic states. Three main projects under investigation in our lab focus on: Multielectron CO2 reduction chemistry with multimetallic clusters Redox chemistry of main group elements; Al(III), Ga(III), and Si(IV) Synthesis of Low-Coordinate Complexes using Bulky Acetylide Ligands

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Ligand Cooperation in the Reduction of N2 to NH3 by a Molecular Aluminum Complex Thompson, E. J.; Sherbow, T. J.; Berben, L. A.: 2015, submitted. Non-Innocent Ligands Berben, L. A.; de Bruin, B.; Heyduk, A. F.: Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 1553-1554. Guest Editorial for Themed Issue Mixed Interlayers at the Interface Between PEDOT:PSS and Conjugated Polymers Provide Charge Transport Control Moule, A. J.; Jung, M.-C.; Rochester, C. W.; Tress, W.; LaGrange, D.; Jacobs, I. E.; Li, J.; Mauger, S. A.; Rail, M. D.; Lin, O.; Bilsky, D.; Allard, S.; Qi, Y.; Stroeve, P.; Reide, M.; Berben, L. A. Scherf, U.: J. Mater. Chem. C. 2015, 3, Advance Article. Catalysis by Aluminum(III) Complexes of Non-Innocent Ligands Berben, L. A.: Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 21, 2734-2742. Invited Concept Article Synthesis of Square Planar Aluminum(III) Complexes Thompson, E. J.; Myers, T. W.; Berben, L. A.: Angew. Chem. 2014, 53, 14132-14134. Metal-Mediated Transformations of Small Molecules Berben, L. A.; Love, J. B.: Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 7221-7222. Guest Editorial for Themed Issue One-Electron Oxidation Chemistry and Subsequent Reactivity of Diiron-Imido Complexes Kuppuswamy, S.; Powers, T. M.; Johnson, B. M.; Brozek, C. K.; Krogman, J. P.; Bezpalko, M. W.; Berben, L. A.; Keith, J. M.; Foxman, B. M.; Thomas, C. M.: Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 5429-5437. Aluminum-Ligand Cooperation Promotes Selective Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid to H2 and CO2 Myers, T. W.; Berben, L. A.: Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 2771-2777. High Work-Function Hole Transport Layers by Self-Assembly Using a Fluorinated Additive Mauger, S. A.; Li, J.; Ozmen, O. T.; Yang, A. Y.; Friedrich, S.; Rail, M. D.; Berben, L. A.; Moule, A. J.: J. Mater. Chem. C. 2014, 2, 115-123. Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water by a Series of Iron Carbonyl Clusters Nguyen, A. D.;+ Rail, M. D.;+ Shanmugam, M.; Fettinger, J. C.; Berben, L. A.: Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 12847-12854. +equal contribution. Aluminum-Amido Mediated Heterolytic Addition of Water Affords an Alumoxane Myers, T. W.; Berben, L. A.: Organometallics 2013, 32, 6647-6649. Special Issue on Applications of Electrophilic Main Group Molecules Aluminum-Ligand Cooperative N-H Bond Activation and an Example of Dehydrogenative Coupling Myers, T. W.; Berben, L. A.: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 9988-9990. Redox Induced Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation Using Non-Innocent Ligands Myers, T. W.; Yee, G. M.; Berben, L. A.: Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 3831-3835. Cluster Issue on Small Molecule Activation by Reactive Metal Complexes Redox Active Aluminum(III) Complexes Convert CO2 into MgCO3 or CaCO3 in a Synthetic Cycle Using Mg or Ca Metal Myers, T. W.; Berben, L. A.: Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 4175-4177. Emerging Investigators 2013 Issue Metal-Metal Interactions in C3-Symmetric Diiron Imido Complexes Linked by Phosphinoamide Ligands Subramaniam, K.; Powers, T.; Johnson, B. M.; Bezpalko, M.; Brozek, C.; Foxman, B.; Berben, L. A.; Thomas, C. M.: Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 4802-4811. (IP)2GaIII Complexes Facilitate Net Two-Electron Redox Transformations (IP = a-Iminopyridine) Cates, C. D.; Myers, T. W.; Berben, L. A.: Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 11891-11897. Redox Routes to Substitution of Aluminum(III): Synthesis and Characterization of (IP-)2AlX (IP = a-Iminopyridine, X = Cl, Me, SMe, S2CNMe2, CCPh, N3, SPh, NHPh) Myers, T. W.; Holmes, A. L.; Berben, L. A.: Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 8997-9004. Mild Reduction Route to a Redox-Active Silicon Complex: Structure and Properties of (IP2-)2Si and (IP-)2Mg(THF) (IP = a-Iminopyridine) Summerscales, O. T.; Myers, T. W.; Berben, L. A.: Organometallics 2012, 31, 3463-3465. A Redox Series of Gallium(III) Complexes: Two-Electron Oxidation Affords a Gallium-thiolate Complex Kowolik, K.; Shanmugam, M.; Myers, T. W.; Cates, C. D.; Berben, L. A.: Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 7969-7976. New Talent North America Issue A Sterically Demanding Iminopyridine Ligand Affords Redox-Active Complexes of Aluminum(III) and Gallium(III) Myers, T. W.; Berben, L. A.: Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 1480-1488.