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Philip P. Power
Professor

Email: power@chem.ucdavis.edu
Phone:(530) 752-6913

B.A., University of Dublin, 1974.
Ph.D., University of Sussex, 1977 – M.F. Lappert.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 1978-1980 – R.H. Holm.
Appointed to faculty, UC Davis, 1981-present.
Alexander von Humboldt Award, 1992.
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1993.
Membership of Editorial Advisory Board of 14 journals including Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Heteroatom Chemistry, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Polyhedron, Chemistry.
Mond Medal Royal Society of Chemistry, 2004.
Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1985-1989.
F. A. Cotlon Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2005.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2005.

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Principal Research Interests
Synthesis, structure, and physical and chemical properties of inorganic and organometallic compounds.
Low coordinate main group and transition metal complexes.
Multiply bonded compounds of the heavier main group and transition metal elements.
Stable Free Radicals.
Stable Bi-radicaloids.
Synthesis of Clusters of Silicon, Germanium, and Tin.
Development of new sterically crowded ligands to stabilize unusual bonding and geometries.
Representative Publications

Munoz-Harnandez, Miguel-Angel; Montiel-Palma, Virginia; Huitron-Rattinger, Estefania; Cortes-Llamas, Sara; Tempos-Flores, Norma; Grevy, Jean-Michel; Silvestru, Cristian; Power, P. P., Dichloro and Alkylchloro Gallium Derivatives of Dichalcogenoimidodiphosphinate ligands: Isolation of a Spirogallium Cation. Dalton Trans, 2005,193-199.

Hino, S., Olmstead, M. M., Fettinger, J.C., Power, P. P. Synthesis and Structure of Two Lithium Terphenyls and a “Halide Rich” Terphenyl Lithium Species. Journal Organometallic Chemistry, 2005,690, 1638-1644.

Wright, R. J., Phillips, A. D., Hino, S., Power, P. P. Synthesis and Reactivity of Dimeric Ar'TlTlAr' and Trimeric (Ar''Tl)3 (Ar', Ar'' = Bulky Terphenyl Group) Thallium (I) Derivatives: Tl(I)-Tl(I) Bonding in Species Ligated by Monodentate Ligands. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 4794-4799.

Stanciu, C., Hino, S., Stender, M., Richards, A. F., Olmstead, M. M., Power, P. P. Synthesis and Characterization of Ge(II), Sn(II) and Pb(II) Monoamides With Unsubstituted –NH2 Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, 44, 2774-2780.

Razus, A.C., Nitu, C., Pavel, C., Cuiculescu, L-A., Gimfearu, V., Stancui, C., Power, P.P., Can. J. Chem. 2005, 83, 244-250.

Power, P.P. Synthesis and Some Reactivity Studies of Germanium, Tin and Lead Analogues of Alkynes. Applied Organometalic Chemistry, 2005, 19, 488-493.

Wright, R. J., Power, P. P. A Monomeric Thallium(I) Amide in the Solid State: Synthesis and Structure of TIN(Me)Ar Mes2 (ArMes2 = C6H3-2,6-Mes2). Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 3368-3370.

Richards, A.F., Eichler, B. E., Brynda, M., Olmstead, M. M., Power, P. P. Metal Rich Neutral Cationic Organotic Clusters. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. Engl, 2005, 44, 2546-2549.

Phillips, A.D. Power, P.P., A main-group donor acception adduct: 1,2,4,5-tetramethylimidazol-2-ylidene-tris (pentafluorophenyl) borane, Acta. Crystalogr., 2005, C61, o291-o293.

Carter, R.S., Harley, S.J., Power, P.P., Augustine, M.P., Use of NMR Spectroscopy in the Syntehsis and characterization of Air- and Water-stable silicon nanoparticles from Porous Silicon Chemistry of Materials, 2005, 17, 2932-2939.

Nguyen, T., Panda, A., Olmstead, M. M., Richards, A. F., Stender, M., Brynda, M., Power, P. P. Synthesis and Characterization of Quasi-Two Coordinate Transition Metal Dithiolates M(SAr*)2 (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn; Ar* = C6H3-2,6(C6H2-2,4,6-Pri3)2. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 8545-8552.

Koetzle, T.F., Schultz, A.J., Herring, R., Albinate, A., Klooster, W.T., Eichler, B.E., Power, P.P., Neutron Diffraction Analysis of the first stable Hydride Derivatives of a Divalent Group 14 Metal, Comptes. Rendu., 2005, 8, 1487-1490.

Zhu, H., Chai, J., Jancik, V., Roesky, H.W., Merrill, W.A., Power, P.P., The Selective Preparation of an Aluminum Oxide and its Isomeric C-H Activated Hydroxide, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 10170-10171.

Zhu, H., Chai, J., Fan, H., Roesky, H.W., He, C., Janck, V., Schmidt, H-G., Noltemeyer, M., Merrill, W.A., Power, P.P., A Stable Aluminacyclopropene LAl(?2-C2H2) and its End-On Azide Insertion to a Aluminaazcyclobutene, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 5090.

Spikes, G.H., Fettinger, J.C., Power, P.P., Facile Activation of Dihydrogen by an Unsaturated Heavier Main Group Compound, 2005, 127, 12232-12233.