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Marilyn Olmstead
Professor

Email: olmstead@chem.ucdavis.edu
Phone:(530) 752-6668

B.A., Reed College, 1965.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1969.
Lecturer in Chemistry, University of California, Davis, 1969-1975.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis, 1971-1986.
Staff Research Associate (X-ray Crystallography), 1986-1997.
Visiting Researcher, summer 1996, University of Bern, Switzerland. Specialist, 1997-2003.
University of California, Davis, Appointed to faculty, 2003.
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Principal Research Interests
With small molecule X-ray crystallography as the focus, our current program ranges from fullerene chemistry to coordination compounds and bioinorganic chemistry. A central goal is the crystal structure determination of interesting compounds and materials, and, in addition, examination of intermolecular interactions as they are revealed in the solid state. Tools of modern instrumentation are employed such as CCD detectors and ultra low (He cryostat, ~ 10K) temperatures in order to extract the maximum amount of information from the diffraction experiment.
Representative Publications2006 Olmstead, M. M. and D. J. Nurco. Fluorinated Tetraphenylporphyrins as Cocrystallizing Agents for C60 and C70. Crystal Growth & Design 6:109-113.
2006 Stork, J. R., M. M. Olmstead, J. C.Fettinger, A. L. Balch. Metal-Metal Interactions in Thallium(I)/Platinum(II) Compounds Involving a Chelating Dicarbene and Various Auxiliary Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry 45:849-857.
2006 Beavers, C. M., T. Zuo, J. C. Duchamp, K. Harich, H. C. Dorn, M. M. Olmstead, A. L. Balch, A.L. Tb3N@C84: An Improbable, Egg-Shaped Endohedral Fullerene that Violates the Isolated Pentagon Rule. Journal of the American Chemical Society 128: 11352-11353.
2007 Pham, D., J. Ceron-Bertran, M. M. Olmstead, M. Mascal, A. L. Balch. Ordered Crystals of Fullerenes Produced by Co-crystallization with Halogenated Azatriuinacenes. Crystal Growth and Design 7:75-82.
2007 Zuo, T., C. M. Beavers, J. C. Duchamp, A. Campbell, H. C. Dorn, M. M. Olmstead, A. L. Balch. Isolation and Structural Characterization of a Family of Endohedral Fullerenes Including the Large, Chiral Cages Fullerenes Tb3N@C88, and Tb3N@C86 as well as the Ih and D5h Isomers of Tb3N@C80. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129:2035-2043.
2007 Tran, N.T., J. R.Stork; D. Pham; C. J.Chancellor; M. M. Olmstead; J. C. Fettinger; A. L. Balch. Adventures in Crystallization. Crystalline Salts Containing One, Two, or Even Three Chemically Distinct Cations Obtained from Solutions of [(Cyclohexyl Isocyanide)4RhI]+. Inorganic Chemistry 129: 7998-8007.
2007 Franco, J. U.; M. M. Olmstead; Hammons, J. C. Tetra-?2-acetato-?8O:O'-bis{[1-(1-adamantyliminiomethyl)-2-naptholato-?O]rhodium(II)}. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online E63:m2606-m2607.