The Kubiak Research Group
November 2020 - Investigation of Immobilization Effects on Ni(P2N2)2 Electrocatalysts. Brunner, F.M.; Neville, M.L.; Kubiak, C.P. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 23, 16872-16881.
October 2020 - Approaches to Controlling Homogeneous Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. Barrett, J.A.; Brunner, F.M.; Cheung, P.L.; Kubiak, C.P.; Lee, G.L.; Miller, C.J.; Waldie, K.M.; Zhanaidarova, A. Carbon Dioxide Electrochemistry: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, 2020, 1-66.
August 2020 - Full Conformational Analyses of the Ultrafast Isomerization in Penta-coordinated Ru(S2C2(CF3)2)(CO)(PPh3)2: One Compound, Two Crystal Structures, Three CO Frequencies, 24 Stereoisomers, and 48 Transition States. Tang, H.; Porter, T.M.; Kubiak, C.P.; Hall, M.B. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 16, 11757-11796.
July 2020 - Electronic Structural Studies of the Ru3(III,II,II) Mixed-Valent State of Oxo-Centered Triruthenium Clusters. Palasz, J.M.; Porter, T.M.; Kubiak, C.P. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 15, 10532-10539.
January 2020 - Felix receives the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Spring Quarter, 2020. Congratulations, Felix!
January 2020 - Kubiak group welcomes its newest PhD students: Emily and Colin
November 2019 - Daphne defends her thesis on November 14th entitled "Photochemical and Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide" Congratulations to Po Ling (Daphne) Cheung, PhD!
October 2019 - Re(tBu-bpy)(CO)3Cl Supported on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Selectively Reduces CO2 in Water . Zhanaidarova, A.; Jones, S.C.; Despagnet-Ayoub, E.; Pimentel, B.R.; Kubiak, C.P.J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, ASAP.
October 2019 - Photooxidative Generation of Dodecaborate-Based Weakly Coordinating Anions . Axtell, J.C.; Messina, M.S.; Liu, J.Y.; Galaktionova, D.; Schwan, J.; Porter, T.M.; Savage, M.D.; Wixtrom, A.I.; Rheingold, A.L.; Kubiak, C.P.; Winkler, J.R.; Gray, H.B.; Kral, P.; Alexandrova, A.N.; Spokoyny, A.M. Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58 10516-10526.
September 2019 - Thermodynamic Targeting of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction: Advantages, Limitations, and Insights for Catalyst Design. Ostericher, A.L.; Porter, T.M.; Reineke, M.H.; Kubiak, C.P. Dalton Trans., 2019, Accepted Manuscript.
September 2019 - Improving Photocatalysis for the Reduction of CO2 through non-Covalent Supramolecular Assembly. Cheung, P.L.; Kapper, S.C.; Zeng, T.; Thompson, M.E.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, Accepted Manuscript.
August 2019 - Andy defends his thesis on August 9th entitled "Thermodynamic Strategies of Electrocatalyst Design for CO2 Reduction" Congratulations to Andrew Ostericher, PhD!
August 2019 - Kubiak group welcomes its newest Postdoc: Jacob.
July 2019 - Steric and Electronic Control of an Ultrafast Isomerization. Porter, T.M.; Ostericher, A.L.; Kubiak, C.P. Chemical Science 2019, 10, 7907-7912.
June 2019 - Alma defends her thesis on June 7th entitled "Electrodes modified with molecular catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO" Congratulations to Alma Zhanaidarova, PhD!
May 2019 - Heterogenized Molecular Catalysts: Vibrational Sum-Frequency Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, and Theoretical Investigations. Ge. A.; Rudshteyn, B.; Videla, P.E.; Miller, C.J.; Kubiak, C.P.; Batista, V.S.; Lian, T. Accounts of Chemical Research 2019, 52, 1289-1300.
April 2019 - Daphne competes in the finals of the GradSlam Competition at UCSD. Congrats Daphne!
March 2019 - Tyler defends his thesis on March 22nd entitled "From Electron Transfer to Isomerization: Chemical Dynamics on the Ultrafast Timescale" Congratulations to Tyler Porter, PhD!
February 2019 - Facile Solvent-Free Synthesis of Thin Iron Porphyrin COFs on Carbon Cloth Electrodes for CO2 Reduction. Cheung, P.L.; Lee, S.K.; Kubiak, C.P. Chem. Mater. 2019, 31, 1908-1919
February 2019 - Cliff wins the 2018 Richard C. Tolman Medal presented by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society. Congrats Cliff!
January 2019 - Kubiak group welcomes its newest PhD students: Nicole and Thomas.
December 2018 - CO2 Reduction Catalysts on Gold Electrode Surfaces Influenced by Large Electric Fields. Clark, M.L.; Ge, A.; Videla, P.E.; Rudshteyn, B.; Miller, C.J.; Song, J.; Batista, V.S.; Lian, T.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, Article ASAP.
November 2018 - Tyler and Cliff's paper is highlighted in Chemistry World! Congratulations Cliff and Tyler!
November 2018 - Daphne receives the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Winter Quarter, 2019. Congratulations, Daphne!
October 2018 - Selective Reduction of CO2 to CO by a Molecular Re(ethynyl-bpy)(CO)3Cl Catalyst and Attachment to Carbon Electrode Surfaces. Zhanaidarova, A.; Ostericher A.L.; Miller, C.J.; Jones, S.C.; Kubiak, C.P. Organometallics 2018, Article ASAP.
October 2018 - Direct observation of the intermediate in an ultrafast isomerization. Porter, T.M.; Wang J.; Li, Y.; Xiang, B.; Salsman, C.; Miller, J.S.; Xiong, W.; Kubiak, C.P. Chem. Sci. 2018, Advance Article.
September 2018 - Stable Mixed-Valent Complexes Fromed by Electron Delocalization Across Hydrogen Bonds of Pyrimidinone-Linked Metal Clusters. Porter, T.M.; Heim, G.P.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 12756-12759
September 2018 - Utilization of Thermodynamic Scaling Relationships in Hydricity To Develop Nickel Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts with Weak Acids and Low Overpotentials. Ostericher, A.L.; Waldie, K.M.; Kubiak, C.P. ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 9596-9603.
August 2018 - Melissa receives the 2017-2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Congratulations, Melissa!
March 2018 - Covalent attachment of [Ni(alkynyl-cyclam)]2+ catalysts to glassy carbon electrodes. Zhanaidarova, A.; Moore, C.E.; Gembicky, M.; Kubiak, C.P. Chem. Comm. 2018, 54, 4116-4119.
March 2018 - Transition Metal Hydride Catalysts for Sustainable Interconversion of CO2 and Formate: Thermodynamic and Mechanistic Considerations. Waldie, K.M.; Brunner, F.M.; Kubiak, C.P. ACS Stustainable Chem. Eng. 2018, 6, 6841-6848.
January 2018 - Tyler receives the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Winter Quarter, 2018. Congratulations, Tyler!
January 2018 - Kinetic and Mechanistic Effects of Bipyridine (bpy) Substituent, Labile Ligand, and Brønsted Acid on Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction by Re(bpy) Complexes. Clark, M.L.; Cheung, P.L.; Lessio, M.; Carter, E.A.; Kubiak, C.P. ACS Catal. 2018 8 2021-2029.
January 2018 - Synthesis and Characterization of Heteroleptic Ni(II) Bipyridine Complexes Bearing Bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) Ligands. Reineke M.H.; Porter, T.M. Ostericher, A.L.; Kubiak, C.P. Organometallics 2018 37(3) 448-453.
January 2018 - Kubiak group welcomes its newest PhD student: Joe.
December 2017 - Hydricity of transition metal hydrides: thermodynamic considerations for CO2 reduction. Waldie, K.M.; Ostericher, A.L.; Reineke, M.; Sasayama, A.F.; Kubiak, C.P. ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 1313-1324.
October 2017 - Effects of Electron Transfer on the Stability of Hydrogen Bonds. Porter, T.M.; Heim, G.P.; Kubiak, C.P. Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 7324-7329 has been selected as a HOT article by the Chemical Science blog! Congrats Tyler, Gavin, and Cliff!
August 2017 - Effects of Electron Transfer on the Stability of Hydrogen Bonds. Porter, T.M.; Heim, G.P.; Kubiak, C.P. Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 7324-7329.
August 2017 - Cliff is named the recipient of the 2018 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry. Congratulations, Cliff!
August 2017 - Chelated [Zn(cyclam)]2+ Lewis Acid Improves the Reactivity of the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 by Mn Catalysts with Bulky Bipyridine Ligands. Zhanaidarova, A.; Steger, H.; Reineke, M.H.; Kubiak, C.P. Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 12413-12416.
August 2017 - Interfacial Structure and Electric Field Probed by in Situ Electrochemical Vibrational Stark Effect Spectroscopy and Computational Modeling. Ge, A.; Videla, P.E.; Lee, G.L.; Rudshteyn, B.; Song, J.; Kubiak, C.P.; Batista, V.S.; Lian, T. J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121, 18674–18682.
June 2017 - Electrode-Ligand Interactions Dramatically Enhance CO2 Conversion to CO by the [Ni(cyclam)](PF6)2 Catalyst. Wu, Y.; Rudshteyn, B.; Zhanaidarova, A.; Froehlich, J.D.; Ding, W.; Kubiak, C.P.; Batista, V.S. ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 5282-5288.
June 2017 - Melissa defends her thesis on June 23rd entitled "Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction by bipyridine based complexes and their derivatives." Congratulations to Melissa Helm, PhD!
May 2017 - Concerted One-Electron Two-Proton Transfer Processes in Models Inspired by the Tyr-His Couple of Photosystem II Huynh, M.T.; Mora, S.J.; Villalba, M.; Tejeda-Ferrari, M.E.; Liddell, P.A.; Cherry, B.R.; Teillout, A.-L.; Machan, C.W.; Kubiak, C.P.; Gust, D.; Moore, T.A.; Hammes-Schiffer, S.; Moore, A.L. ACS. Cent. Sci., 2017 3 372-380.
May 2017 - Charged Macromolecular Rhenium Bipyridine Catalysts with Tunable CO2 Reduction Potentials Sahu, S.; Cheung, P.L.; Machan, C.W.; Chabolla, S.A.; Kubiak, C.P.; Gianneschi, N.C. Chem. Eur. J., 2017 23 8619-8622.
April 2017 - Mark defends his thesis on April 12th entitled "Nickel bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) complexes: rational design strategies and new structural motifs." Congratulations to Mark Reineke, PhD!
April 2017 - Bio-inspired CO2 reduction by a rhenium tricarbonyl bipyridine-based catalyst appended to amino acids and peptidic platforms: incorporating proton relays and hydrogen-bonding functional groups Chabolla, S.A.; Machan, C.W.; Yin, J.; Dellamary, E.A.; Sahu, S.; Gianneschi, N.C.; Gilson, M.K.; Tezcan, F. A.; Kubiak, C.P. Faraday Discuss., 2017 198 279-300.
February 2017 - Hydrophobic Nanoparticles Reduce the β-sheet content of SEVI Amyloid Fibrils and Inhibit SEVI-Enhanced HIV Infectivity Sheik, D.A.; Chamberlain, J.M.; Brooks, L.R.; Clark, M.L.; Kim, Y. H.; Leriche, G.; Kubiak, C.P.; Dewhurst, S.; Yang, J. Langmuir, 2016 33 (10) 2595-2602
January 2017 - Steven defends his thesis on January 25th entitled "Harnessing Hydrogen-Bonding in Bio-Inspired Electrochemical CO2 Reduction." Congratulations to Steven Chabolla, PhD!
January 2017 - Kubiak group welcomes its newest PhD student: Chris.
December 2016 - Melissa receives the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Winter Quarter, 2017. Congratulations, Melissa!
November 2016 - Alissa defends her thesis on November 22nd. Congratulations to Alissa Sasayama, PhD!
November 2016 - Electrochemical Properties and CO2-Reduction Ability of m-Terphenyl Isocyanide Supported Manganese Tricarbonyl Complexes. Agnew, D.W.; Sampson, M.D.; Moore, C.E.; Rheingold, A.L.; Kubiak, C.P.; Figueroa, J.S. Inorg. Chem., 2016 55 (23) 12400-12408.
November 2016 - Paired Electrolysis in the Simultaneous Production of Synthetic Intermediates and Substrates. Llorente, M.J.; Nguyen, B.H.; Kubiak, C.P.; Moeller, K.D. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016 138(46) 15110-15113.
October 2016 - Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide with Mn(terpyridine) carbonyl complexes. Machan, C.W.; Kubiak, C.P. Dalton Trans., 2016 45 17179-17186.
August 2016 - Tuning Electron Delocalization and Transfer Rates in Mixed-Valent Ru3O Complexes Through ‘Push-Pull’ Effects. Porter, T.M.; Canzi, G.C.; Chabolla, S.A.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2016 120(32) 6309-6316.
July 2016 - Melissa, Mark, and Cliff attend the Organometallics Gordon Research Conference in Newport, RI.
July 2016 - Interrogating heterobimetallic co-catalytic responses for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 using supramolecular assembly. Machan, C.W.; Kubiak, C.P. Dalton Trans. 2016 45 15942-15950.
June 2016 - A Series of Diamagnetic Pyridine Monoimine Rhenium Complexes with Different Degrees of Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer: Correlating 13C NMR Chemical Shifts with Bond Lengths in Redox-Active Ligands. Sieh, D.; Kubiak, C.P. Chem. Eur. J. 2016 22(30) 10638-10650.
June 2016 - Improving the Efficiency and Activity of Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of CO2 Through Supramolecular Assembly with Amino Acid-Modified Ligands. Machan, C.W.; Yin, J.; Chabolla, S.A.; Gilson, M.K.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016 138(26) 8184-8193.
May 2016 - Mark receives the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Distinguished Graduate Student Award. Congratulations, Mark!
March 2016 - Kubiak group welcomes a new post-doc, Kate Waldie, who recently completed her PhD work at Stanford University.
March 2016 - Re(I) NHC Complexes for Electrocatalytic Conversion of CO2. Stanton, C.J.; Machan, C.W.; Vandezande, J.E.; Jin, T.; Majetich, G.F.; Schaefer, H.F.; Kubiak, C.P.; Li, G.; Agarwal, J. Inorg. Chem., 2016 55 (6) 3136-3144.
March 2016 - The Kubiak group attends the 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in San Diego.
March 2016 - Rapid synthesis of redox-active dodecaborane B12(OR)12 clusters under ambient conditions. Wixtrom, A.I.; Shao, Y.; Jung, D.; Machan, C.W.; Kevork, S.N.; Qian, E.A.; Axtell, J.C.; Khan, S.I.; Kubiak, C.P.; Spokoyny, A.M. Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016 3 711-717.
March 2016 - Alissa and Melissa receive the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Graduate Diversity and Outreach Award. Congratulations!
March 2016 - Characterizing interstate vibrational coherent dynamics of surface adsorbed catalysts by fourth-order 3D SFG spectroscopy. Li, Y.; Wang, J.; Clark, M.L.; Kubiak, C.P.; Xiong, W. Chem. Phys. Lett., 2016 650, 1-6.
March 2016 - Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to CO and HCO2H Using fac-Mn(CN)(bpy)(CO)3. Cheung, P.L.; Machan, C.W.; Malkhasian, A.Y.; Agarwal, J.; Kubiak, C.P. Inorg. Chem., 2016, 55 (6) 3192-3198.
February 2016 - "Basolo Medal to Clifford Kubiak" is written up in the Awards section of C&EN magazine.
January 2016 - Nitrite reduction on a multimetallic porphyrin/polyoxotungstate layer-by-layer modified electrodes. Garcia, M.; Honores, J.; Quezada, D.; Diaz, C.; Dreyse, P.; Celis, F.; Kubiak, C.P.; Canzi, G.; Guzman, F.; Aguirre, M.J.; Isaacs, M. Electrochim. Acta, 2016, 192, 61-71.
January 2016 - Electronic effects on the catalytic disproportionation of formic acid to methanol by [Cp*IrIII(R-bpy)Cl]Cl complexes. Sasayama, A.F.; Moore, C.E.; Kubiak, C.P. Dalton Trans., 2016, 45 2436-2439.
January 2016 - Manganese Electrocatalysts with Bulky Bipyridine Ligands: Utilizing Lewis Acids to Promote Carbon Dioxide Reduction at Low Overpotentials. Sampson, M.D.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138(4) 1386-1393.
January 2016 - Kubiak group welcomes its newest PhD students: Andrew, Felix, Nicole, and Han.
January 2016 - Competing Ferro- and Antiferromagnetic Interactions in a Hexagonal Bipyramidal Nickel Thiolate Cluster. Hamaguchi, T.; Doud, M.D.; Hilgar, J.; Rinehart, J.D.; Kubiak, C.P. Daton Trans., 2016, 45 2374-2377.
January 2016 - Orientation of Cyano-Substituted Bipyridine Re(I) fac-Tricarbonyl Electrocatalysts Bound to Conducting Au Surfaces. Clark, M.L.; Rudshteyn, B.; Ge, A.; Chabolla, S.A.; Machan, C.W.; Psciuk, B.T.; Song, J.; Canzi, G.; Lian, T.; Batista, V.S.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120 (3) 1657-16657.
December 2015 - Matt defends his thesis entitled "Rhenium and manganese bipyridine tricarbonyl catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide" Congratulations to Matthew Sampson, PhD!
December 2015 - Mike defends his thesis entitled "Synthetic Advances for P2N2 Molecular Electrocatalysts with Pendant Bases in the Second-coordination Sphere" Congratulations to Michael Doud, PhD!
November 2015 - Mark defends his thesis entitled "Electrochemical Methods Towards Sustainable Chemistry" Congratulations to Mark Llorente, PhD!
October 2015 - Short-range catalyst-surface interactions revealed by heterodyne two-dimensional sum frequency generation. Wang, J.; Clark, M.L.; Li, Y.; Kaslan, C.L.; Kubiak, C.P.; Xiong, W. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2015, 6, 4204-4209.
September 2015 - Fe-Porphyrin Based MOF Films as High-Surface-Concentration, Heterogeneous Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2. Hod, I.; Sampson, M.D.; Deria, P.; Kubiak, C.P.; Farha, O.K.; Hupp, J.T. ACS Catal., 2015, 5, 6302-6309.
September 2015 - A porous proton-relaying metal-organic framework material that accelerates electrochemical hydrogen evolution. Hod, I.; Deria, P.; Bury, W.; Mondloch, J.E.; Kung, C-W.; So, M.; Sampson, M.D.; Peters, A.W.; Kubiak, C.P.; Farha, O.K.; Hupp, J.T. Nature Commun., 2015, 6, 8304.
September 2015 - Kubiak Group attends the Southern California Inorganic Photophysics (SCIP) Conference on Catalina Island. Ten group members gave talks.
August 2015 - Jesse defends his thesis entitled "The Homogeneous Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide by Ni(cyclam)" Congratulations to Jesse Froehlich, PhD!
August 2015 - Alyssia defends her thesis entitled "Studies of Carbon Dioxide Reduction by Metal P2N2 Complexes." Congratulations to Alyssia Lilio, PhD!
August 2015 - Cliff, Melissa, and Charlie participate in the 250th ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA.
August 2015 - Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by Mn(CN)(2,2′-bipyridine)(CO)3: CN Coordination Alters Mechanism. Machan, C.W.; Stanton III, C.J.; Vandazande, J.E.; Majetich, G.F.; Schaefer, H.F.; Kubiak, C.P.; Agarwal, J. Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54(17), 8849-8856.
July 2015 - Cliff, Matt, Mark R. and Charlie participate the Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference in Newport, RI.
July 2015 - Reductive Disproportionation of Carbon Dioxide by an Alkyl-Functionalized Pyridine Monoimine Re(I) fac-Tricarbonyl Electrocatalyst. Machan, C.W.; Chabolla, S.A.; Kubiak, C.P. Organometallics, 2015, 34(19) 4678-4683.
July 2015 - Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Formate Using a Mn(I) Molecular Catalyst in a Robust Metal–Organic Framework. Fei, H.; Sampson, M.D.; Lee, Y.; Kubiak, C.P.; Cohen, S.M. Inorg Chem., 2015, 54 (14), 6821-6828.
June 2015 - Electrocatalytic Dihydrogen Production by an Earth-Abundant Manganese Bipyridine Catalyst. Sampson, M.D.; Kubiak, C.P. Inorg Chem., 2015, 54 (14) 6674-6676.
June 2015 - A Molecular Ruthenium Electrocatalyst for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to CO and Formate. Machan, C.W.; Sampson, M.D.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137 (26) 8564-8571.
June 2015 - Incorporation of Pendant Bases into Rh(diphosphine)2 Complexes: Synthesis, Thermodynamic Studies, And Catalytic CO2 Hydrogenation Activity of [Rh(P2N2)2]+ Complexes. Lilio, A.M.; Reineke, M.H.; Moore, C.E.; Rheingold, A.L.; Takase, M.K.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137 (25) 8251-8260.
May 2015 - Melissa attends Cyclic Voltammetry International School (CVIS) at University Paris Diderot, a five-day CV training course in Paris, France.
April 2015 - Jane defends her thesis entitled "Photoinduced mixed-valency and delocalization dynamics in strongly coupled multinuclear ruthenium complexes." Congratulations to Jane Henderson, PhD!
April 2015 - Reduction of CO2 by Pyridine Monoimine Molybdenum Carbonyl Complexes: Cooperative Metal–Ligand Binding of CO2. Sieh, D.; Lacy, D.C.; Peters, J.C.; Kubiak, C.P.; Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21 (23), 8497-8503.
March 2015 - Melissa receives the inaugural 'Area Safety Coordinator-Excellence in Safety Award', a jointly sponsored award by campus Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) and the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. The award is in recognition of Melissa’s outstanding contributions towards improving the culture of laboratory safety within the Kubiak Group and on a broader scale throughout the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.
March 2015 - Synthesis and Structural Studies of Nickel(0) Tetracarbene Complexes with the Introduction of a New Four-Coordinate Geometric Index, τδ. Reineke, M.H.; Sampson, M.D.; Rheingold, A.L.; Kubiak, C.P.; Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54 (7) 3211-3217.
March 2015 - The Homogeneous Reduction of CO2 by [Ni(cyclam)]+: Increased Catalytic Rates with the Addition of a CO Scavenger. Froehlich, J.D.; Kubiak, C.P.; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137 (10), 3565-3573.
February 2015 - Cliff is named the recipient of the 2015 Basolo Medal for Outstanding Research in Inorganic Chemistry. The medal will be presented on October 30th at Northwestern University.
February 2015 - Improved PeT Molecules for Optically Sensing Voltage in Neurons. Woodford C.R., Frady, P.E., Smith R.S., Morey B., Canzi G., Palida S.F., Araneda R.C., Kristan, W.B., Jr., Kubiak C.P., Miller E.W., and Tsien, R.Y. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (5), 1817-1824.
January 20th, 2015 - Kubiak Group hosts the 2014 AFOSR MURI Annual Review. See the Meeting Agenda and Poster Session Program
January 2015 - Matt receives the Teddy Traylor Award from the Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, a merit-based award recognizing past work and facilitating future work at the time when graduate students are immersed in research for their dissertation. Congratulations Matt!
December 2014 - Electron-Transfer Reactions of Electronically Excited Zinc Tetraphenylporphyrin with Multinuclear Ruthenium Complexes. Henderson, J.; Glover, S.D.; Lear, B.J.; Walker, D.; Winkler, J.R.; Gray, H.B.; Kubiak, C.P.; J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119 (24) 7473-7479.
December 2014 - Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Electrochemistry of (α-Diimine)M(CO)3Br, M = Mn, Re, Complexes: Ligands Isoelectronic to Bipyridyl Show Differences in CO2 Reduction. Vollmer, M.W.; Machan, C.W.; Clark, M.L.; Antholine, W.E.; Agarwal, J.; Schaefer III, H.F.; Kubiak, C.P.; Walensky, J.R.; Organomet., 2015, 34 (1) 3-12.
December 2014 - Kubiak Group welcomes its newest lab members: Gwen Merlen, Tyler Porter, and Po Ling Cheung (Daphne).
November 2014 - Mechanistic Contrasts between Manganese and Rhenium Bipyridine Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. Riplinger, C.; Sampson, M.D.; Ritzmann, A.M.; Kubiak, C.P.; Carter, E.A. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136(46) 16285-16298.
September 2014 - Kubiak Group goes to Catalina Island for the Southern California Inorganic Photochemistry Conference (SCIP) September 26-28, where 11 group members gave talks.
September 2014 - Photoinduced Mixed Valency in Zinc Porphyrin Dimer of Triruthenium Cluster Dyads. Henderson, J.; Kubiak, C.P. Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53(20) 11298-11306.
September 2014 - Supramolecular Assembly Promotes the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by Re(I) Bipyridine Catalysts at a Lower Overpotential. Machan, C.W.; Chabolla, S.A.; Yin, J.; Gilson, M.K.; Tezcan, F.A.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136(41) 14598-14607.
September 2014 - Kubiak Group welcomes Professor Tomohiko Hamaguchi of Fukuoka University who will be on sabbatical with us for one year.
August 2014 - Kubiak Group welcomes Gwen Merlen, a summer rotation graduate student.
August 2014 - The Kubiak Group attends the 248th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco.
August 2014 - Cliff and Jane attend the Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions Gordon Research Conference in Newport, RI.
July 2014 - Combined steric and electronic effects of positional substitution on dimethyl-bipyridine rhenium(I)tricarbonyl electrocatalysts for the reduction of CO2. Chabolla, S.A.; Dellamary, E.A.; Machan, C.W.; Tezcan, F.A.; Kubiak; C.P.; Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2014, 422(1) 109-113.
July 2014 - Cliff, John, and Charlie attend the Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference in Newport, RI.
July 2014 - Kubiak Group welcomes Tyler Porter, a summer rotation graduate student. He is a recent graduate from Arizona State University.
June 2014 - Group member Gabriele Canzi receives his Ph.D. in Chemistry. He will be starting as R&D Engineer at PTD Intel, Portland in August.
June 2014 - Group member David Ung receives his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. He is starting graduate school in the fall at the University of Washington.
May 2014 - Kubiak Group welcomes Dr. John Walzer, a Senior Research Scientist at Exxon-Mobil who will be on sabbatical with us through September.
April 2014 - Developing a Mechanistic Understanding of Molecular Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction using Infrared Spectroelectrochemistry. Machan, C.W.; Sampson, M.D.; Chabolla, S.A.; Dang, T.; Kubiak, C.P. Organomet., 2014, Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/om500044a.
April 2014 - Cliff is elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 2014 - Manganese Catalysts with Bulky Bipyridine Ligands for the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide: Eliminating Dimerization and Altering Catalysis. Sampson, M.D.; Nguyen, A.D.; Grice, K.A.; Moore, C.E.; Rheingold, A.L.; Kubiak, C.P. J. Am. Chem. Sci., 2014, 136(14), 5460-5471.
April 2014 - Electrocatalytic CO2 by M(bpy-R)(CO)4 (M = Mo, W; R = H, tBu) complexes. Electrochemical, spectroscopic, and computational studies and comparison with group 7 catalysts. Clark, M.L.; Grice, K.A.; Moore, C.E.; Rheingold, A.L.; Kubiak, C.P. Chem. Sci., 2014, 5, 1894-1900.
March 2014 - Cliff goes on sabbatical for one month with Jean-Michel Savéant at Paris Diderot University in Paris, France.
February 2014 - Kubiak Group members Matt, Mark R., and Melissa went to JCAP South at Caltech to perform Stopped-Flow UV-Vis experiments.
January 2014 - On the Observation of Intervalence Charge Transfer Bands in Hydrogen-Bonded Mixed-Valence Complexes. Canzi, G.; Goeltz, J.C.; Henderson, J.S.; Park, R.E.; Maruggi, C.; Kubiak, C.P.; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136(5), 1710-1713.
January 2014 - Chapter Five – Recent Studies of Rhenium and Manganese Bipyridine Carbonyl Catalysts for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2. Grice, K.A.; Kubiak, C.P.; Adv. Inorg. Chem., 2014, 66, 163-188.
January 2014 - Electro and photoelectrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on multimetallic porphyrins/polyoxotungstate modified electrodes. Garcia, M.; Aguirre, M.J.; Canzi, G.; Kubiak, C.P.; Ohlbaum, M.; Isaacs, M. Electrochim. Acta., 2014, 115, 146-154.
December 9, 2013 - The Kubiak Group hosted the 2013 AFOSR MURI Annual Review. Meeting Agenda
November 2013 - Direct Observation of the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by Rhenium Bipyridine Catalysts. Sampson, M.D.; Froehlich, J.D.; Smieja, J.M.; Benson, E.E.; Sharp, I.D.; Kubiak, C.P. Energ. Environ. Sci., 2013, 6, 3748-3755.
November 2013 - Masters student Ricardo Javier GonzálezIrias joins the Kubiak Group.
October 25, 2013 - Cliff participates in the Oesper Symposium in Cincinnati, OH
October 23, 2013 - Elucidation of the Selectivity of Proton-Dependent Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction by fac-Re(bpy)(CO)3Cl. Keith, J.A.; Grice, K.A.; Kubiak, C.P.; Carter, E.A.; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (42), 15823-15829.
October 23, 2013 - Elucidation of the Selectivity of Proton-Dependent Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction by fac-Re(bpy)(CO)3Cl. Keith, J.A.; Grice, K.A.; Kubiak, C.P.; Carter, E.A.; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (42), 15823-15829.
October 5, 2013 - Cliff participates in the Pauling Medal Symposium in Portland, OR.
September 4-6, 2013 - The Kubiak Group attended the Southern California Inorganic Photochemistry Conference (SCIP) on Santa Catalina Island. Fifteen group members gave talks on their research.
August 2013 - Almagul Zhanaidarova joins the Kubiak Group from the Materials Science and Engineering Department.
June 2013 - Group member Candace Seu receives her Ph.D. in Chemistry. She will be starting as a postdoctoral scholar at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
June 2013 - Group member Tim Pullock receives his B.S. in Chemistry. He is attending graduate school at the University of Washington.
June 2013 - Postdoctural scholar Dr. Kyle Grice leaves the group to start his position as Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at DePaul University, Chicago, IL.