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Assistant Professor, Eddie Merino
Prof. Merino was selected to receive support from the University Research Council Faculty Research Grant program
Asst. Professor Hairong Guan and Asst. Prof. George Stan receive NSF CAREER Awards
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William B. Connick
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Associate Professor, Chemistry
BA, Williams College, 1988
MA, University of Cambridge, 1990
PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1997
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BiographyBill Connick is a physical-inorganic chemist with research interests in inorganic photochemistry, catalysis, and chemical sensing. After earning his undergraduate degree from Williams College in 1988, he studied for two years at the University of Cambridge where he obtained a M.A. degree in chemistry. He began his work in inorganic chemistry investigating the spectroscopy, photophysics, and photochemistry of platinum(II) diimine complexes with Professor Harry Gray at the California Institute of Technology. After earning his Ph.D. in 1997, he took a postdoctoral appointment in the laboratory of Professor Rich Eisenberg at the University of Rochester, where he synthesized and characterized metal complexes for studies of photoinduced electron-transfer reactions. In 1998, he joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati. He studies light-to-chemical energy conversion and the mechanisms of vapochromic response in new materials. He has received a Beckman Young Investigator Award (2001-2004) from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2002-2007) for his research focused on engineering metal complexes for photoinduced two-electron transfer.
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Research: Inorganic PhotochemistryOur research is focused on understanding and learning to control the spectroscopic, photochemical and redox properties of molecules and materials. We are using insights from these studies to develop new strategies for chemical sensing and the conversion of sunlight energy to chemical energy. To achieve our objectives, we make use of organic and inorganic synthetic methods, as well as a variety of analytical and theoretical tools. |
| Because the most attractive molecules (e.g., H2O) for activation with light are multi-electron substrates, we are designing chromophores capable of releasing multiple electrons when excited by a single photon. In one approach, we have prepared ligand scaffolds that can support both the square planar geometry of Pt(II) and the octahedral geometry of Pt(IV). Using this approach, we have synthesized the first examples of platinum complexes that undergo outer-sphere cooperative reversible two-electron transfer. |
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Our chemical sensing work deals with molecular recognition using single molecules and materials. For example, we recently have discovered a new class of vapochromic sensing materials that undergo distinct and reversible changes in color when exposed to vapors of potentially harmful volatile organic compounds.
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Contact Information
432 Rieveschl
P.O. Box 210172
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
phone: 513-556-0148
fax: 513-556-9239
Bill.Connick@uc.edu
http://www.che.uc.edu/connick_group/website/index.htm |
Last updated Friday, September 15, 2006
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