Overview
In the
Hanusa group, we have extensively used rational ligand design to control the
reactivity of main-group and transition metal organometallic and coordination
complexes, investigated steric effects on the reactivity and
magnetic/electrochemical properties of metal complexes, and synthesized
precursors to materials with desired electronic/optical properties. In
particular, we are developing new syntheses for molecular complexes and
nanoparticles that use mechanochemical methods, in which the reagents are ground
or milled together, rather than being dissolved in a solvent. This can not only
provide compounds that are more highly reactive than those formed in solution,
but it offers a “greener”, more environmentally conscious route to synthetic
nanochemistry than is usually the case.
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Awards
-Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring
-Fellow, American Institute of Chemists
-Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Selected Publications
Synthesis without Solvent: Consequences for Mechanochemical Reactivity. Wenger LE, Hanusa TP, Chem Commun, 59, 14210-14222, (2023) View Abstract
Heteroleptic Aluminum Allyls as Initiators for Lactide Polymerization. Wenger LE, Shawver NM, Brennessel WW, Long BK, Hanusa TP, Organometallics, 41, 3718-3723, (2022) View Abstract
Mechanochemical Formation, Solution Rearrangements, and Catalytic Behavior of a Polymorphic Ca/K Allyl Complex. Koby RJ, Doerr AM, Rightmire NR, Schley ND, Brennessel WW, Long BK, Hanusa TP, Chem – Eur. J., 27, 8195-8202, (2021) View Abstract
Solvate-assisted grinding: metal solvates as solvent sources in mechanochemically driven organometallic reactions. DeGroot HP, Hanusa TP, Organometallics, 40, 3516-3525, (2021) View Abstract
Disappearing Polymorphs in Metal–Organic Framework Chemistry: Unexpected Stabilization of a Layered Polymorph over an Interpenetrated Three-Dimensional Structure in Mercury Imidazolate. Speight IR, Huskic I, Arhangelskis M, Titi HM, Stein RS, Hanusa TP, Friscic T, Chem – Eur. J., 26, 1811-1816, (2020) View Abstract
Education
Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, Indiana University, 1983A.B., Chemistry, Cornell College, 1978