Thesis Title/Director: Prof. Philip P. Power

Bachelor's Degree:

Discipline: Chemistry

Institution/Year: University of California, Davis/ 1995

Positions since highest degree earned:

Assistant Professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame

Grants:

Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Fund, 2006
The American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, 2004
CSUDH Sally Casanova Memorial RSCAAP Minigrant, 2003
 
Publications:

1 Fortner, K. C.; Laitar, D. S.; Muldoon, J.; Pu, L.; Braun-Sand, S. B.; Wiest, O.; Brown, S. N. " Ultrafast and Ultraslow Oxygen Atom Transfer Reactions between Late Metal Centers J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 588-600

2 Fischer, R. C.; Pu, L; Fettinger, J. C.; Brynda, M. A.; Power, P. P. " Very Large Change in Bond Length and Bond Angle in a Heavy Group 14 Element Alkyne Analogue by Modification of a Remote Ligand Substituent" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 11366.

3 McPherson, L. D.; BeReau, V. M.; Abu-Omar, M. M.; Ugrinova, V.; Pu, L.; Taylor, S. D.;
Brown, S. N. "Organometallic and coordination complexes. Oxorhenium(V) oxazoline complexes for oxygen atom transfer" Inorganic Syntheses, 2004, 34, 54.

4 Pu, L.; Philips, A. D.; Richards, A. F.; Stender, M.; Simons, R. S.; Olmstead, M. M.; Power, P.P. "Germanium and Tin Analogues of Alkynes and Their Reduction Products" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 11625.

5 Grant, B. R.; Laitar, D. S.; Pu, L.; Wargocki, M. S.; DiPasquale, A.; Schuck, S. M.; Brown, S. N. "Stoichiometric and Catalytic Oxygen Activation by Trimesityliridium(III) " Inorg. Chem. 2002, 41, 4815.

6 Pu, L.; Hardman, N. J.; Power, P. P. "Attempted Isolation of Heavier Group 14 Element Ketone Analogues: Effect of O-H...-Ar Hydrogen Bonding on Geometry" Organometallics, 2001, 24, 5105.

Presentations:

America Chemical Society, San Francisco