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The Gary E. Keck Endowed Graduate Fellowship CATALYST DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Science. At Its Source. Biannual Newsletter | Fall 2014 | 7 The Gary E. Keck Endowed Graduate Fellowship ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Meet Our Research Spotlight: Recognizing Newest Janis Louie is Adding 11 Friends of 3 Faculty 4 to Chemistry’s Toolbox Chemistry Letter from the Chair 2015 Distinguished Alumni Announced The Fourth Annual Distinguished Alumni of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, State Dear Chemistry Friends and Family, Awards will be presented at a banquet on April 20, University of New York See all those red books behind me? They are the 2015. The Department is pleased to announce that Diane Parry, PhD ‘89, Associate Director, PhD dissertations of generations of U students who four alumni will be honored at next year’s awards. Household Care R&D, The Procter & Gamble Co. provide the foundation of our Department’s strong Please congratulate our Distinguished Alumni. Don Reese, BS ‘73, Physician reputation. The very first Ph.D. given at the University Joseph Gardella, Postdoc ‘81, Distinguished Kirk Ririe, BS ‘05, President & CEO, BioFire of Utah was in chemistry, to Dr. James M. Sugihara in Professor and John and Frances Larkin Professor Diagnostics 1947. Since then, we have awarded doctorate degrees to more than 1,100 students. Today, the Department of Chemistry is the largest PhD-granting department Get to Know Our New Faculty Members on campus. The history of the Department and the tradition of excellence our students and faculty have built over the past 67 years is truly impressive. I am happy you are a part of that history and tradition. In an effort to continue strengthening the Department, we are currently raising money for two Additionally, our wonderful donors from November new endowed funds in the Department. The Robert 2013 to November 2014 are recognized on the last W. Parry Lectureship in Chemistry is in memory of page of the Catalyst. This year’s holiday gifts will be Professor Bob Parry, a faculty member from 1969 to acknowledged in next fall’s newsletter. 1997. This lectureship will invite prominent inorganic Much of the research, education, and outreach chemists to speak on campus at an annual lecture. that we do would not be possible without your The Gary E. Keck Endowed Graduate Fellowship support. Thank you for your continuing generosity. recognizes Professor Keck’s distinguished career Happy Holidays! and dedication to mentorship at the U. The Keck Sincerely, Luisa Whittaker-Brooks Michael Grünwald Fellowship will be awarded to one graduate student each year. Both of these funds will benefit generations Luisa hails from Panama. She received her PhD Michael received his PhD in Computational of future students at the U. I hope you will consider in Materials Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, Physics from the University of Vienna, Austria, giving your support to one or both of them. Cynthia J. Burrows State University of New York, where she was also a working with Christoph Dellago in 2009. With In addition to educating and training so many Distinguished Professor and Chair Fulbright Fellow. After completing her PhD, Luisa support of an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship of the successful PhD students, our undergraduate scholars Thatcher Presidential Endowed became a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Austrian Science Fund, he joined the lab of Phillip are also integral to the Department. The Curie Club Chair of Biological Chemistry Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Geissler at UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher. recently held a chemistry career at Princeton. Prior to starting his position at the University of panel to guide more students toward Her research interests are driven by two of the Utah, he was a senior postdoctoral scientist at the declaring the “central science” as their greatest challenges of our time – energy resources University of Vienna. major, whether they go on to become beyond fossil fuels, and environmentally-friendly Michael’s research is focused on understanding scientists, engineers, medical doctors, low cost electronics for daily use applications. the dynamic processes that shape the structure and pharmacists, or entrepreneurs. She plans to embark in these new endeavors by function of nano-materials. synthesizing well-defined and high-quality materials As the holidays and the end of the • How can the atomistic structure and for applications in solar energy conversion, year approach, I would like to extend composition of nanocrystals be manipulated to thermoelectrics, batteries, and electronics. She my deepest thanks to everyone who obtain a desired property? will also test and develop new hybrid concepts in has supported the Department of • What types of nanoparticle interactions and terms of integrating several technologies that can Chemistry in 2014. We received over experimental protocols lead to the reliable self- simultaneously perform multiple tasks. For example, $362,000 in support from our alumni assembly of a desired target structure? and friends this year. The chart to she envisions fabricating a multimodal energy the right shows the Department’s device that can scavenge different kinds of energies Research in the Grünwald lab aims to answer these fundraising initiatives in more detail. for driving micro/nanosystems thus increasing the questions with the help of computer simulation and power conversion efficiency of energy devices. statistical mechanics. 2 3 Creating New Tools for a Chemist’s Toolbox Research Spotlight: Professor Janis Louie Not surprisingly, these abundant metals often environmental problems. But if you think from a behave differently than precious metals. Louie’s group synthetic point of view, carbon dioxide would be Professor Janis Louie always knew that tries to develop catalysts that can completely replace the ideal C1 starting material,” Louie explained. “It’s research was for her, before she knew what a precious metal catalysts. safe, nontoxic, dirt cheap, career in research even meant. However, sometimes they and readily available (in fact, “I had some idealistic notion that research have orthogonal reactivity. Wouldn’t it be better to it’s a waste product). Maybe and development would be just so cool,” Louie That’s okay too. “ use rust as your catalyst, we won’t use it on enough remembers. “I had absolutely no idea what “For a synthetic chemist, scale that we change the research and development meant, zero. I don’t a builder if you will, that’s rather than using your amount of carbon dioxide know where that idea came from – no one in actually good, because you precious wedding ring? in the atmosphere, but it’s my family does research – but somehow it just want many tools that do ” a great resource we can tap seemed like a good idea. Luckily for me, I didn’t totally different things,” into.” choose wrong.” Louie said. She describes it as a two-pronged This idea led to the development of a nickel In high school, chemistry was the first class approach: either we’ve made a better hammer catalyst that could utilize carbon dioxide as a C1 that really challenged Louie. She recalls studying that will replace all the really expensive hammers source. As Louie’s group continued to push the and studying for a midterm, only to throw up her out there, or we’ve made a mallet, and it’s kind of catalyst, it turned out that the nickel catalyst could hands, get a good night’s sleep, then ace the test. hammer-like, but it’s different. be used to make a wide variety of heterocycles. After that, chemistry really clicked with her, and “It’s a perfect opportunity to find new tools, She still has a project examining the interaction she started seeing it everywhere. whether to replace ones that we have or to expand between nickel and carbon dioxide and what it can “Of all the sciences, it’s the best,” she said. “One the existing toolbox.” do, as well as a project using iron as a catalyst to of my pet peeves is when I hear ‘Oh, I love biology The foundation of this research was a desire to make heterocycles. or I love physics or I love math, and I HATE do something better for the environment. One of The synthetic chemists using Louie’s earth chemistry.’ Chemistry is the whole reason all of Louie’s first projects centered on finding a catalyst abundant catalysts must be happy that she never this works! I find it so frustrating that chemistry that could utilize carbon dioxide as a substrate. swayed from her desire to do fundamental research. has a bad rap because everything around us is “Carbon dioxide is responsible for all sorts of She’s adding new tools to the toolbox of chemistry. chemistry. If you can touch it, then it’s chemistry.” Louie took her love of chemistry with her to her undergraduate studies at UCLA. When Professor Janis Louie creates new catalysts based on earth abundant she took organic chemistry, her decision was metals such as iron and nickel for use in synthetic chemistry. solidified. “If my favorite class is the class that everybody These heterocycles have uses in pharmaceutical, hates, then clearly this is for me,” Louie remembers agricultural, and even electronic industries. thinking. Typically, the catalysts that are used most After also enjoying inorganic chemistry, Louie in industry are based on precious metals like decided to combine the two and study catalysis. palladium, platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, or She did her graduate work at Yale with Professor iridium. Although these precious metals are John F. Hartwig (now at UC Berkeley), followed very expensive, they work very efficiently and as by a NIH postdoctoral fellowship with Professor such, constitute almost all catalysts used in fine Robert H. Grubbs at Caltech. chemical syntheses. Now as a faculty member, Louie’s research “My group has taken the approach of trying to group develops new transition metal catalysts coax the more abundant metals, such as iron and that are based on earth abundant metals such nickel, to do more,” Louie explained.
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