Professor Philip P Power
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Exploratory Inorganic Synthesis: Low-coordinate Transition Metal Complexes; Multiply Bonded Heavier Main Group Compounds: Metal-Metal multiple bonds in transition metal complexes, Low-valent Main Group Metal Hydrides; Clusters of Group 14 Elements: Isomerism in Main-Group Compounds.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Postdoctoral, Stanford University with R. H. Holm on the synthesis and characterization of molybdenum and tungsten iron sulfur clusters as models for the active site in the nitrogenase enzyme. Graduate Study, University of Sussex with M.F. Lappert involved the synthesis and stabilization of low oxidation state and coordination numbers in organometallic compounds of phosphorus.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Associate Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Has been, or is currently, a member of twelve editorial advisory boards. Bulletin de la Societé Chimique de France, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Chemtracts - Inorganic Chemistry, Heteroatom Chem., Dalton Trans., European Journal of Inorganic and Solid State Chemistry, J. Organomet. Chem., Inorganic Chemistry, Inorganic Syntheses, Main Group Chemistry, Organometallics, Polyhedron.
AWARDS:
A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow 1985-89. Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1992. Faculty Research Lecturer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, May 1993. Visiting Professor, University of Auckland, June-August 1993. Reilly Lectureship, University of Notre Dame, February 1995. Werner Lectureship, University of Dublin, April 1997. Karcher Lectureship, University of Oklahoma, 2001. Closs Lecturer, University of Chicago, 2003. Ludwig Mond Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2004. Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Texas A&M University, 2004. F.A. Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry 2005. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 2005. Fischer Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, 2007. MurrayLecturer, University of Missouri, St. Louis 2008 Baker Symposium Lecturer, Cornell University, 20008.
Publications:
The P.I. has been author or coauthor of more than 400 refereed articles.
