Current Undergraduate Researchers

Mason Kilker

Mason 		Project

Synthesis of metal complexes supported by redox-active ligands for hydrogen atom abstraction reactions

Awards

2023 Hill Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UI College of Science
2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), UI Office of Undergraduate Research
2023 Dennis Reece Chemistry Scholarship, Department of Chemistry, UI College of Science

Research Presentations

Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Zinc Complexes with N,S Donor Ligands, 2023, Idaho Conference on Undergraduate Research, Poster presentation

Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Cu and Zn Complexes with N,S Donor Ligands, 2024, OUR Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium, Poster presentation

Tori Lansing

Tori 		Project

Investigation of polynuclear metal clusters

Awards

Research Presentations

Former Undergraduate Researchers

Emilia Carrillo

Emilia 		Project

Electronic structure of Co(II) complexes and magnetic bistability in dynamic molecular crystals

Awards

2020 Hill Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UI College of Science
2021 Summer Research Scholarship, UI Department of Chemistry

Research Presentations

1D Iron and Cobalt Coordination Polymers with Magnetic Ordering, 2021, UI CoS Students Research Exposition, Poster Presentation

1D Iron and Cobalt Coordination Polymers with Magnetic Ordering, 2022, UI CoS Hill Fellowship Meeting, Oral Presentation

Duncan Lester

2020-2021 Duncan 		Project

Synthetic control of the Fe-salen complexes' nuclearity

Awards

2020 Summer Research Scholarship, UI Department of Chemistry

Andrew Johnson

2019-2021 Andy 		Project

Spin frustration in trinuclear metallic clusters

Research Presentations

Metal complexes featuring oxime-bearing ligands , 2019, UI CoS Students Research Exposition, Poster Presentation

Yazeed Alasmari

Spring 2021

Alex Roseborough

2018-2020 Alex 		Current Position

Graduate student at Oregon State University

Project

Metal-controlled cyclization of tris-hydroxyimino ligands

Awards

2018 Summer Research Scholarship, UI Department of Chemistry

Publications

Roseborough A, Wheeler KA, Hołyńska M, Stoian SA, Synthesis and Electronic Structure of a Mononuclear Copper(II) Complex Supported by Tris(2-hydroxyliminopropyl)amine , Polyhedron, 2020, 177, 114306

Premuzic D, Hołyńska M, Ozarowski A, Pietzonka C, Roseborough A, Stoian SA, Model Dimeric Manganese(IV) Complexes Featuring Terminal Tris-Hydroxotetraazaadamantane and Various Bridging Ligands, Inorg. Chem., 2020, 59, 10768-10784

Research Presentations

Investigation of the metal-controlled cyclization of tris-hydroxyimino ligands and their coordinating properties , 2018, UI CoS Students Research Exposition, Poster Presentation

Metal complexes featuring oxime-bearing ligands , 2019, UI CoS Students Research Exposition, Poster Presentation

Ronald Wright

2019-2020 		Project

Electrochemistry and magnetism of CoII(bpte)X2 complexes

Kyle Luchte

2018 - 2019 		A computational investigation of high-spin, square-planar FeII complexes , 2018 , UI CoS SRE, Poster Awards

2019 UI Summer Research Scholarship

Malachi Dunn

2018