Peter T. Wolczanski

Peter T. Wolczanski

Born	August 28, 1954 Utica, NY
Fields	Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
Institutions	Cornell University
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	John E. Bercaw
Known for	Low-valent three-coordinate transition metal complexes Small molecule activation (most notably complete CO scission)

Peter Thomas Wolczanski is the George W. and Grace L. Todd professor of Chemistry at Cornell University.

[edit] Education

Wolczanski obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 while doing research under the direction of Mark Wrighton. He entered graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, working under John Bercaw on various chemistries of permethylzirconocene hydrides.

Casimir Funk Natural Science Award, Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (1998)

"Carbon Monoxide Cleavage by (silox)₃Ta (silox = ^tBu₃SiO-): Physical, Theoretical and Mechanistic Investigations." Neithamer, D.R.; LaPointe, R.E.; Wheeler, R.A.; Richeson, D.S.; Van Duyne, G.D.; Wolczanski, P.T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 9056-9072.

"Symmetry and Geometry Considerations of Atom Transfer: Deoxygenation of (silox)₃WNO and R₃PO (R = Me, Ph, ^tBu) by (silox)₃M (M = V, NbL (L = PMe₃, 4-picoline), Ta; silox = ^tBu₃SiO)." Veige, A. S.; Slaughter, L. M.; Lobkovsky, E. B.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Matsunaga, N.; Decker, S. A.; Cundari, T. R. Inorg. Chem. 2003, 42, 6204-6224.

"Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Mechanism of (silox)₃M(olefin) to (silox)₃M(alkylidene) Rearrangements (silox = ^tBu₃SiO; M = Nb, Ta)." Hirsekorn, K. F.; Veige, A. S.; Marshak, M. P.; Koldobskaya, Y.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Cundari, T. R.; Lobkovsky, E. B. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 4809-4830.

"3-Center-4-Electron Bonding in [(silox)₂Mo=NR]₂(µ-Hg) Controls Reactivity while Frontier Orbitals Permit a Dimolybdenum π-Bond Energy Estimate." Rosenfeld, D. C.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Barakat, K. A.; Buda, C.; Cundari, T. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8262-8263.

"PC Bond Cleavage of (silox)₃NbPMe₃ (silox = ^tBu₃SiO) under Dihydrogen Leads to (silox)₃Nb=CH₂, (silox)₃Nb=PH or (silox)₃NbP(H)Nb(silox)₃, and CH₄." Hirsekorn, K. F.; Veige, A. S.; Wolczanski, P. T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 2192-2193.