Associate Editor, Inorganic Chemistry (2006-Present)Advisory Editorial Board: Inorganic Chemistry Communications (2004-Present)Editorial Advisory Board: Journal of Cluster Science (1999-2006)International Advisory Editorial Board: Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions (1998-2004)Metallobiochemistry Study Section NIH (1990-1994)Chair (1992-1994)Editorial Advisory Board: Inorganic Chemistry (1989-1991)Reiley Lecturer, Norte Dame UniversityNSF Award for Special Creativity (1989)Appointed to faculty, UC Davis (1970)Appointed to faculty, UC Los Angeles (1966)M.A.; Ph.D. Harvard University (1965; 1967)NSF Predoctoral Fellow (1962-1963)Phi Beta KappaB.A. Cornell University (1962)

Bioinorganic Chemistry/Inorganic Chemistry

ENDOHEDRAL FULLERENES AND EMPTY CAGE FULLERENES. The ability to place several lanthanide metal ions with their attendant magnetic and luminescent properties inside a relatively inert cage of 80 or so carbon atoms provides a new set of molecules for development as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents, as novel lumophores, and as hosts for radioactive nuclei. We are leaders the study of fullerene structure and reactivity. Recent work has demonstrated that the metal ions inside endohedral fullerenes influence the reactivity of the outside of the carbon cage. Moreover external supramolecular organization of endohedral fullerenes influences the positioning of the metal ions inside the cages. We have also demonstrated that the isolated pentagon rule (IPR), a basic tenant of empty cage fullerene structure, is frequently violated in endohedral fullerenes. For example Tb3N@Cs(51365)-C84 (Cs is the point group symmetry of the cage alone and 51365 designates which of the 51568 non-IPR cages this endohedral fullerene uses) has a peculiar egg-shaped structure due to the presence of two adjacent pentagons.POLYMORPHS AND CHEMICAL BONDING. Polymorphs are isomers at the single crystal level. They can display significant structural differences in the interactions between molecules and these differences can lead to significant spectroscopic variations between the different crystalline forms of the same molecule. We are concerned with understanding the diversity of intermolecular interactions, particularly those that involve weak metal-metal bonding, that are found in various polymorphs.LUMINESCENCE IN d8 (PtII, PdII, IrI and RhI) AND d10 (AuI, AgI, CuI, and HgII) TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES. We are exploring the structural factors that lead to the formation of highly luminescent transition metal complexes that can be utilized as environmental sensors. CRYSTALLIZATION OF UNSTABLE MOLECULES. We are developing methods to form crystals that contain relatively unstable molecules. This goal may be achieved by trapping the reactive molecule as a transition metal complex that forms during crystallization. In particular coordination polymers form likely hosts for the trapping of molecules of limited stability. The interstices between molecules can also provide the appropriate environment to trap reactive molecules. Crystallographic and spectroscopic studies of the trapped molecules will be performed and the chemical reactivity of these novel crystals will be studied.