个人简介

Ph. D., University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2002 Post-doctorate, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2002-2007

研究领域

Metal Cluster Chemistry, Organometallic Synthesis, Catalysis, X-ray Crystallography

We are interested in designing and exploring the chemistry of transition metal complexes containing sterically encumbered ligands derived from main group elements. The transition metals of interest are those belonging to the Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu triads. Our work will make available new unsaturated heteronuclear complexes for the purpose of hydrogen and small molecule activation, and homogeneous catalysis. Transition metal complexes have and always will play the crucial part in the chemistry of hydrogen, and catalytic hydrogenations. Our work will also shed light on the mechanistic pathways of hydrogen/small molecule addition and elimination. We are also interested in using our metal cluster complexes as molecular precursors to heterogeneous catalysts and potential industrial catalysts. Students will learn synthetic organometallic chemistry, and will use various methods such as single crystal X-ray crystallography, fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and electron microscopy.

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Saha, Sumit; Captain, Burjor. “Synthesis and structural characterization of ruthenium carbonyl cluster complexes containing platinum with a bulky N-heterocyclic carbene ligand.” Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 53, 1210-1216. Saha, Sumit; Isrow, Derek; Captain, Burjor. “Build-up of a Ru6 octahedral cluster core stabilized by tert-butyl germyl ligands” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry2014, 751, 815-820. Majumdar, Subhojit; Captain, Burjor; Cazin, Catherine; Nolan, Steven; Hoff, Carl D. “Enthalpies of ligand substitution for [Mo(η5C5H5)(CO)2(NO)]—the role of π-bonding effects in metal-ligand bond strengths” Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 2013, online. Temprado, Manuel; Majumdar, Subhojit; Cai, Xiaochen; Captain, Burjor; Hoff, Carl D. “Synthesis, structure, and thermochemistry of adduct formation between N-heterocyclic carbenes and isocyanates or mesitylnitrile oxide. Structural Chemistry 2013, 24, 2059-2068. Palluccio, Taryn D.; Rybak-Akimova, Elena V.; Majumdar, Subhojit; Cai, Xiaochen; Temprado, Manuel; Silvia, Jared S.; Cozzolino, Anthony F.; Tofan, Daniel; Cummins, Christopher C.; Captain, Burjor; Hoff, Carl D. “Thermodynamic and kinetic study of cleavage of the N-O bond of N-oxides by a vanadium(III) complex: Enhanced oxygen atom transfer reaction rates for adducts of nitrous oxide and mesityl nitrile oxide.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013,135, 11357-11372. Isrow, Derek; DeYonker, Nathan J.; Koppaka, Anjaneyulu; Pellechia, Perry J.; Webster, Charles Edwin; Captain, Burjor “Metal - Ligand synergistic effects in the complex Ni(h2-TEMPO)2. Synthesis, structures, and reactivity.” Inorganic Chemistry 2013, 52, 13882-13893. Wang, Wei; Xu, Dongmei; Gesua, Daniel; Captain, Burjor; Kaifer, Angel E. “Bisaminoferrocenyl triazine derivatives: effects of the third substituent on the extent of interaction between the metal centers.” Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 2013, 17, 3063-3066. Shaban Ragab, Sherif; Swaminathan, Subramani; Deniz, Erhan; Captain, Burjor; Raymo, Françisco. “Fluorescence photoactivation by ligand exchange around the boron center of a BODIPY chromophore.” Organic Letters 2013, 15, 3154-3157. Saha, Sumit; Zhu, Lei; Captain, Burjor. “Bimetallic octahedral ruthenium-nickel carbido cluster complexes. Synthesis and structural characterization.” Inorganic Chemistry 2013, 52, 2526–2532. Cozzolino, Anthony F.; Tofan, Daniel; Cummins, Christopher C.; Temprado, Manuel; Palluccio, Taryn D.; Rybak-Akimova, Elena V.; Majumdar, Subhojit; Cai, Xiaochen; Captain, Burjor; Hoff, Carl D. “Two-step binding of O2 to a vanadium(III) trisanilide complex to form a non-vanadyl vanadium(V) peroxo complex.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134, 18249–18252. Narcis, Maurice J.; Sprague, Daniel J.; Captain, Burjor; Takenaka, Norito. “Enantio- and periselective nitroalkene Diels-Alder reaction” Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2012, 10, 9134 – 9136. Yi, Song; Brega, Valentina; Captain, Burjor; Kaifer, Angel. “Sulfate-templated self-assembly of new M4L6 tetrahedral metal organic cages” Chemical Communications2012, 48, 10295 - 10297. Adjaye-Mensah, Edward; Gonzalez, Walter G.; Bussé, David R.; Captain, Burjor; Miksovska, Jaroslava; Wilson, James N. “Emission switching of 4,6-diphenylpyrimidones: Solvent and solid state effects.” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2012, 116, 8671-8677. Zhu, Lei; Yempally, Veeranna; Isrow, Derek; Pellechia, Perry J.; Captain, Burjor. “Radical exchanges and structural transformations on the iron carbonyl-bulky tin cluster complex, Fe2(m-SnBut2)2(CO)8 by solvents toluene, xylenes and ethylbenzene.” Journal of Cluster Science, 2012, 23, 627 – 648. Manzoli, Maela; Shetti, Vasudev N.; Blaine, JonathanA. L.; Zhu, Lei; Isrow, Derek; Yempally, Veeranna; Captain, Burjor; Coluccia, Salvatore; Raja, Robert; Gianotti, Enrica. “RuxPtySnz cluster-derived nanoparticles catalysts: spectroscopic investigation into the nature of active multinuclear single sites.” Daltan Transactions 2012, 41, 982-989. Uffalussy, Karen J.; Captain, Burjor K.; Adams, Richard D.; Hungria, Ana B.; Monnier, John. R.; Amiridis, Michael .D. “Synthesis and characterization of cluster-derived PtRu5Sn catalysts.” ACS Catalysis, 2011, 1, 1710-1718. Cai, Xiaochen; Majumdar, Subhojit; Fortman, George C.; Frutos, Luis M.; Temprado, Manuel; Clough, Christopher R.; Cummins, Christopher C.; Germain, Meaghan E.; Palluccio, Taryn; Rybak-Akimova, Elena V.; Captain, Burjor; Hoff, Carl, D. “Thermodynamic, kinetic, and mechanistic study of oxygen atom transfer from mesityl nitrile oxide to phosphines and to a terminal metal phosphido complex.” Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50, 9620-9630. Gujrati, Maneesh D.; Kumar, N. S. Saleesh; Brown, Adrienne S.; Captain, Burjor; Wilson James N. “Luminescent charge transfer complexes: Tuning emission in binary fluorophore mixtures.” Langmuir 2011, 27, 6554-6558. Isrow, Derek; Captain, Burjor. “Synthesis and reactivity of a transition metal complex containing exclusively TEMPO ligands: Ni(h2-TEMPO)2.” Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50, 5864-5866. Yi, Song; Captain, Burjor; Kaifer, Angel. “The importance of methylation in the binding of (ferrocenylmethyl)- tempammonium guests by cucurbit[n]uril (n = 7, 8) hosts.” Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 5500-5502.