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Ingersoll Hall and Ingersoll Extension house the science departments within the college.

One of the more popular areas on the campus, the koi pond, in front of the entrance to Ingersoll Extension.

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Thank you for your interest in the Ph.D. Chemistry or Biochemistry program of the City University of New York. Although most classes are taken at the Graduate Center, 545 Fifth Av-enue, Manhattan, the research laboratories are located at various senior college campuses. I am writing to introduce you to opportunities available for study in the Department of Chemistry of Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Currently, the Department of Chemistry at Brooklyn College consists of 13 faculty mem-bers actively engaged in research in newly renovated laboratories spanning the fi elds of ana-lytical, inorganic, organic, physical, theoretical chemistry and biochemistry. We have state of the art equipment including multiple NMR spectrometers, EPR, CD, CW and pulsed laser spectrometers, new HPLC and GC/MS instruments, stopped-fl ow optical and chemical freez-equench instruments for kinetics, an Isothermal Titration Calorimeter, capabilities for bacterial cell culture and molecular biology work, PC clusters for computational chemistry, and access to other high power computing facilities. The campus has a very well stocked, newly construct-ed library providing access to all major scientifi c journals both in hard copy and electronically.

I am including for your consideration some information about the research groups within the department. If you fi nd one or more groups of particular interest please do not hesitate to directly contact the professor for further information. Our e-mail addresses are given at the back of this brochure.

Alternatively, you may write to me indicating the faculty members whose work interests you and I will insure that you receive more information. I sincerely hope that our graduate pro-gram interests you.

You might be interested to know that Brooklyn College is located on the southwestern end of Long Island in a residential neighborhood. The attractions of Manhattan are only a short ride away on public transportation. Reasonably priced housing may be found nearby. All of our Ph.D. graduate students are supported with tuition reimbursement and a competitive stipend.

Please visit our website (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/chem/index.htm) and contact me with any questions you may have.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Best wishes,

James HowellChair of the Department

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Research Opportunities

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005

Research Interests: Research in this group focuses on organic synthesis. We are interested in developing new reaction catalysts that are not metal-based, new organic reactions using non metal-based catalysts, and in the synthesis of small natural products that have medicinal properties.

Grant Support: NIH SCORE, $225,000

Stacey Brenner, Organic

Representative PublicationsMitchell, C.E.T.; Brenner, S.E.; Garcia-Fortanet, J.; Ley, S.V. “An Effi cient, Asymmetric Organocatalyst-mediated Conjugate Addition of Nitroalkanes to Unsaturated Cyclic and Acyclic Ketones.” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2006, 4, 2039-2049.

Mitchell, C.E.T.; Brenner, S.E.; Ley, S.V. “A Versatile Organo-catalyst for the Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Nitroalkanes to Enones.” Chem. Commun. 2005, 5346-5348.

Wender, P.A.; Baryza, J.L.; Bennett, C.E.; Bi, F.C.; Brenner, S.E.; Clarke, M.O.; Horan, J.C.; Kan, C.; Lacôte, E.; Lippa, B.; Nell, P.G.; Turner, T.M. “The Practical Synthesis of a Novel and Highly Potent Analogue of Bryostatin.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 13648-13649.

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Research OpportunitiesMalgorzata Ciszkowska, Analytical, Electrochemistry

Representative PublicationsE. A. Kazimierska, M. Ciszkowska, Electroanalysis 2005, 17, 1384-1395. “Thermoresponsive Poly-N-iso-propylacrylamide Gels Modifi ed with Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles for Electroanalytical Applications. 1. Preparation and Characterization”.W. Hyk, M. Masiak, Z Stojek, M. Ciszkowska J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 4425-4430. “Diffusion of Un-charged Probe Reveals Structural Changes in Polyacids Initiated by Their Neutralization: Poly(Acrylic Acids)”.A. M. Nowicka, Z. Stojek, M. Ciszkowska, Anal. Lett. 2004, 37, 979-994.“Voltammetric and Spectroscopic Studies of Charged and Uncharged Diferrocene Derivatives at Regular and Low Ionic Strength Solutions”.Hyk, M. Karbar, Z. Stojek, M. Ciszkowska, J. Phys. Chem. B. 2004, 108, 864-868.“Effi ciency of a Solute Release from Thermoresponsive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Gels: Electrochemical Studies”.W. Zhang, I. Gaberman, M. Ciszkowska, Electroanalysis 2003, 15, 409-413. “Effect of the Volume Phase Transition on Diffusion and Concentration of Molecular Species in Temperature-Responsive Gels: Electro-analytical Studies”.

Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 1992

Research Interests: utilization of electroanalytical and electrochemical methods for characterization and appli-cations of polymeric gels, biopolymeric materials, and polymeric electrolytes for new power sources, sensors, and environmentally important methodologies. Research projects include voltammetry and anodic stripping voltam-metry at mercury fi lm microelectrodes, analytical appli-cations of microelectrodes in the absence of supporting electrolyte, application of microelectrodes at very large concentration of depolarizers, stripping analysis of organic and inorganic compounds, trace analysis, pulse voltam-metric techniques in electroanalysis, voltammetric and

NMR studies of counterion transport in polyelectrolyte solutions, transport properties of simple ions in solu-tions without supporting electrolyte, conformational transitions of ionic polymers studied by electroanalytical techniques, electrochemistry in polymeric gels, transport of ions in polymeric gels, and biopolymeric gels as sorbents for heavy metals ions.

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Research OpportunitiesMaria Contel, Inorganic, Organometallic

Ph.D., Public University of Navarra, Spain, 1996

Research Interests: Homoge-neous catalysis, Bioinorganic, Green Chemistry. Design of new recoverable and recycla-ble transition metal catalysts for reactions with potential industrial applications

Use of organogold compounds as novel catalysts for several reactions and as anticancer agents.

Representative Publications‘Homogeneous Gold-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Aldehydes’. D. Lantos, M. Contel, S. Sanz, A. Bodor and I.T. Horvárth. J. Organomet. Chem. 2007, 692, 1799.

‘Fluorous Phosphine Assisted Recycling of Gold Catalysts for Hydrosilylation of Aldehydes’. D. Lantos, M. Contel, A. Larrea, D. Szabó, and I.T. Horváth. QSAR Comb. Sci. 2006, 25, 719.

´Fluorocarbon Soluble Copper(II) Carboxylate Complexes with Non-Fluoroponytailed Ligands as Precatalysts for the Oxidation of Alkenols and Alcohols Under Fluorous Biphasic or Thermomorphic Modes: Structural and Mechanistic Aspects´. M. Contel, P.R. Villuendas, J. Fernández-Gallardo, P.J. Alonso, J.-M. Vincent and R.H. Fish. Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 9971.

´Organometallic Gold(III) and Gold(I) Complexes as Catalysts for the 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition to Nitrones: Synthesis of Novel Gold-Nitrone Derivatives´. A. Adé, E. Cerrada, M. Contel, M. Laguna, P. Merino and T. Tejero. J. Organomet. Chem., 2004, 689, 1788.

´Organometallic Gold(III) Compunds as catalysts for the Addition of Water and Methanol to Terminal Alkynes´. R. Casado, M. Contel, M. Laguna, P. Romero and S. Sanz. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 11925.

´Fluorous Biphasic Catalysis: Synthesis and Characterization of Copper (I) and Copper (II) Fluoroponytailed 1,4,7-Rf-TACN and 2,2´-Bipyridine Complexes, and Demonstration of their Catalytic Activity in the Oxidation of Hydrocarbons, Olefi ns, and Alcohols, Including Mechanistic Implications´. M. Contel, C. Izuel, R.H. Fish, M. Laguna, P.R. Villuendas and P.J. Alonso. Chem. A. Eur. J., 2003, 9, 4168.

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Research OpportunitiesLesley Davenport, Biochemistry, Biophysics

Ph.D.,University of Salford (UK), 1981

Research Interests Our laboratory is interested in the conformation, dynamics and interactions of impor-tant biomolecules and assemblies using state-of the art fl uorescence methods. Currently we are studying the dynamics of telomeric DNA found at the end of chromosomes and which is a target for the interaction of potential chemotherapeutics.

Grant Support: NIH SCORE, $636,000

Representative PublicationsDavenport, L. ‘Fluorescence Probes for Studying Membrane Heterogeneity’, Methods in Enzymology, 1997, 278, 487-512, (eds. L. Brand and M. Johnson), Academic Press.

Targowski, P., and Davenport, L., ‘Pressure Effects on Submicrosecond Phospholipid Dynamics Using a Long-Lived Fluorescence Probe’, J. Fluorescence, 1998, 8, 121-128.

Targowski, P., and Davenport, L., ‘A Simple and Direct Method for the Correction of Pressure Induced Scram-bling of Polarized Fluorescence Intensities.’ Anal. Biochem., 1999, 274, 249-263.

Rosen, M.J., and Mathias, J.M., and Davenport, L. ‘Aberrant Aggregation Behavior in Cationic Gemini Sur-factants Investigated by Surface Tension, Interfacial Tension and Fluorescence Methods.’ Langmuir, 1999, 15, 7340-7346.

Davenport, L., Shen, B., Joseph, T.W., and Straher, M.P. , ‘A Novel Fluorescent Coronenyl-Phospholipid Ana-logue for Investigations of Submicrosecond Lipid Fluctuations’, Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 2001, 109, 145-156.

Ding, F-X, Lee, B.K., Hauser, M., Davenport, L., Becker, J.M., and Naider, F., ‘Probing the Binding Domain of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-Mating Factor Receptor with Fluorescent Ligands.’ Biochemistry, 2001, 40, 1102-1108.

Mathias, J.M., Rosen, M.J., and Davenport, L., ‘A Fluorescence Study of Premiceller Aggregation in Cationic Surfactants.’ Langmuir, 2001, 17, 6148-6154.

Jamison, J.L., Davenport, L., and Williams, B. ‘Solvatochromic in the Aromatic Ketone Benzo(b)Fluorenone.’, Chem. Phys. Letts., 2006,422, 30-35

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Research OpportunitiesTerry Dowd, Analytical, Biochemistry

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1986

Research Interests: My research investigates the molecular mechanism of Pb2+ toxicity through struc-tural and functional studies of the bone protein osteo-calcin. High resolution structures of Pb2+-osteocalcin are compared to those of Ca2+ and Mg2+- osteocalcin using NMR spectroscopy. Mice are exposed to lead to determine whether lead alters the mineral binding properties of osteocalcin in-vivo and mineral proper-ties are investigated using Fourier Transform Infrared Microscopy and MicroCT. Biomechanical properties are measured to observe functional abnormalities.

A second project investigates structural and func-tional properties of N-terminal peptides from the gap junction protein Connexin. High resolution NMR structures are determined for N-terminal peptides and mutants of Connexin and compared to functional data to determine the mechanism of gating in gap junction channels.

Grant Support: NIH: $953,847; subcontract: $191,634

Representative PublicationsPurnick, P.E., Benjamin, D.C., Verselis, V.K., Bargiello, T.A. and Dowd, T.L., “ Structure of the amino termi-

nus of a gap junction protein.” Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 2000, 381: 181-190. Dowd, T.L., Rosen, J.F., Mints, L. and Gundberg, C.M., “ The effects of Pb2+ on the structure and hydroxyapa-

tite binding properties of osteocalcin.” Biochim. Biophys. Acta.,2001, 1535: 153 - 163. Dowd, T.L., Rosen, J.F., Li, L. and Gundberg, C.M. (2003) “ The three dimensional structure of bovine calcium

ion-bound osteocalcin using 1H NMR spectroscopy.” Biochemistry 42:7769-7779. Li, L., Gundberg, C. M., and Dowd, T.L. “The three dimensional 1H NMR structure of bovine lead ion-bound

osteocalcin and implications for Pb2+ toxicity.”, 2007 (submitted).

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Research Opportunities

Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1994

Research Interests: Our laboratory is interested in understanding how proteins fold, incorporate metal ions and perform catalysis. Our research approach uses detailed thermodynamic analy-sis of metal-peptide and metal-protein interac-tions to understand fundamental metalloprotein structure-function relationships. Currently, we are studying the role of Zn(II) in protein fold-ing and the role of porphyrin structure on heme biochemistry. Grant Support: American Heart Association, $198,000

Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1994

Brian Gibney, Bioinorganic Chemistry

Representative PublicationsReedy, C.J.; Elvekrog, M.M.; Gibney, B.R. Development of a Heme Protein Structure-Electrochemical Function Database, Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, 36, D307-D313

Reddi, A.R.; Guzman, T.R.; Breece, R.M.; Tierney, D.L.; Gibney, B.R. Deducing the Energetic Cost of Protein Folding in Zinc Finger Proteins Using Designed Metallopeptides, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 12815-12827.

Zhuang, J.; Reddi, A.R.; Wang, Z.; Khodaverdian, B.; Hegg, E.L.; Gibney, B.R. Evaluating the Roles of the Heme a Sidechains in Cytochrome c Oxidase Using Designed Heme Proteins, Biochemistry, 2006, 45, 12530-12538

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Research OpportunitiesAlexander Greer, Organic

Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1996

Research Interests: Antitumor / antifungal com-pounds; organic chemistry and synthesis; molecular mechanism of toxicity; chemistry of natural products; photo-chemistry; natural dyes; chemical evolution. We are involved in research of singlet molecular oxygen and other reactive and cytotoxic agents. Other mol-ecules used in our studies (polysulfanes) have unique properties that must have taken eons to evolve to serve as defense chemicals in a marine invertebrate. Uncov-ering cell responses or the modulation of specifi c cell sensitivity is also of interest.

Grant Support: NIH SCORE, $480,000

Representative PublicationsN. Sawwan; A. Greer “The Generation of Mono- and Bis-dioxiranes from 2,3-Butanedione” J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 5796-5799

N. Sawwan; E. M. Brzostowska; A. Greer “Substituent Effects on the Reactivity of Benzo-1,2-Dithiolan-3-one 1-Oxides and Its Possible Application to the Synthesis of DNA-Targeting Drugs” J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 6968-6971

E. M. Brzostowska; A. Greer “Polysulfane Antitumor Agents from o-Benzyne. An Odd-Even Alternation Found in the Stability of Products, o-C6H4Sx (x = 1 to 8)” J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 5483-5485

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Research OpportunitiesAndrzej Jarzecki, Theoretical

Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 1997

Research Interests: Quantum-mechani-cal estimate of a molecular wave function. Wide application of electronic structure calculations to predict structure, reactivity and spectroscopic properties of molecules. Special focus on recent developments in biological inorganic chemistry: structure and function of various metalloproteins and mechanisms of poisoning by heavy metals such as lead and mercury.

Grant Support: NIH SCORE, $200,000

Representative PublicationsA.A. Jarzecki, T.G. Spiro (2005), “Porphyrin distortion from resonance Raman intensities of out-of-plane modes: Computation and modeling of N-methylmesoporphyrin, a ferrochelatase transition state analog”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109: 421-430.

F. De Angelis, A.A. Jarzecki, R. Car, T.G. Spiro (2005), ” Quantum chemical evaluation of protein over heme ligation: CO/O2 discrimination in myoglobin”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109: 3065-3070.

V. Guallar, A.A. Jarzecki, R.A. Friesner, and T.G. Spiro (2006), “Modeling of ligation-induced helix/loop dis-placements in myoglobin: Toward an understanding of hemoglobin allostery”, Journal of the American Chemi-cal Society, 128: 5427-5435.

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Research Opportunities

Laura Juszczak, Biophysical

Ph,D., New York University, 1992

Research Interests: The process of pathological protein aggregation, molecular characterization and environ-mental factors affecting the process.

Drug development for pathological protein aggregation diseases

The aggregation of proteins at metal surfaces.

The nanotechnology of metal surfaces for characterizing protein surface adsorption.

Methods: primarily spectroscopic: UV resonance Ra-man, surface-enhanced Raman, IR, steady-state fl uores-cence, absorbance and circular dichroism.

Representative PublicationsL. J. Juszczak. “Comparative Vibrational Spectroscopy of Intracellular Tau and Extracellular Collagen I Reveals Parallels of Gelation and Fibrillar Structure.” J Biol Chem, 279 (2004) 7395 – 7404 and 18098.

Z. Maliga, J. Xing, H. Cheung, L.J. Juszczak, J.M. Friedman, S.S. Rosenfeld. “A Pathway of Structural Changes Produced by Monastrol Binding to Eg5.” J Biol Chem 281 (2006) 7977-7982.

L.J. Juszczak, J.M. Friedman, M. Guertin. “UVRR Spectroscopic Results for Wild-Type M. tuberculosis HbO and Aromatic Mutants Reveal Distal Cavity Structure.” (2007), Manuscript in preparation.

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Research OpportunitiesMark Kobrak, Physical

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1997

Research Interests: Theoretical physical chemistry, specializing in quantum and clas-sical dynamics in the condensed phase. Pro-fessor Kobrak’s current interest is in studying room-temperature ionic liquids, a class of molten salts relevant to green chemistry and of great technological interest.

Grant Support: PRF, $35,000

Representative Publications“Electrostatic Interactions of a Neutral Dipolar Solute with a Fused Salt: A New Model for Solvation in Ionic Liquids”, M.N. Kobrak, J. Phys. Chem. B, in press.

“Characterization of the Solvation Dynamics of an Ionic Liquid via Molecular Dynamics Simulation”, M.N. Kobrak, J. Chem. Phys. 125 064502 (2006).

“A Molecular Dynamics Study of Polarity in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids”. V. Znamenskiy and M.N. Ko-brak, J. Phys. Chem. B 108 1072 (2004).

“Solvation Dynamics of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Evidence for Collective Motion on sub-Picosecond Timescales”, M.N. Kobrak and V. Znamenskiy, Chem. Phys. Lett. 395 127 (2004).

“Error Estimation in Histogram-Based Free Energy Calculations”, M.N. Kobrak, J. Comp. Chem. 24 1437 (2003).

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Research Opportunities

Ph.D., City University of New York, 1981

Research Interests: The research in my lab is currently devoted to exploring the origins of resistance to the antibiotic pro-drug isoniazid. We use spectroscopic and kinetics methods to study the structure and function of the heme enzyme catalase-peroxidase from M. tubercu-losis, to learn why mutant enzymes are inac-tive for activation of isoniazid. This project is funded by the NIAID/NIH.

Grant Support: NIH/NIAID, $1,700,000

Richard Magliozzo, Biochemistry

Representative PublicationsKalina Ranguelova, Stefania Girotto, Gary J. Gerfen, Shengwei Yu, Javier Suarez, Leonid Metlitsky, and Rich-ard S. Magliozzo, “Radical Sites in Mycobacterium tuberculosis KatG Identifi ed Using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, the Three-dimensional Crystal Structure, and Electron Transfer Couplings” (2007) J. Biol. Chem., 282: 6255 – 6264

Zhao X., Yu, H., Yu, S., Wang, F., Sacchettini, J.C., Magliozzo, R.S. (2006), “Hydrogen Peroxide-Mediated Isoniazid, Activation Catalyzed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Catalase-Peroxidase (KatG) and Its S315T Mu-tant.” Biochemistry. 45(13):4131-4140

Zhao, X.; Yu, S.; Magliozzo, R. S. (2007). “Characterization of the Binding of Isoniazid and Analogues to My-cobacterium tuberculosis Catalase-Peroxidase” Biochemistry; 46(11); 3161-3170.

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Research Opportunities

Ph.D., University of London, Imperial Col-lege of Science and Technmology, 1976

Research Interests: Synthesis and characterization of new inorganic/organometallic compounds and materials and possible applications in: (i) the devel-opment of new catalysts for reactions related to the production of cleaner fossil fuels including the study of reaction mechanisms; (ii) the discovery of novel metal-based drugs against malaria and cancer and the study of their mechanisms of biological action.

Grant Support: NIH SCORE, $733,000; PRF: $100,000

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Representative PublicationsR. A. Sánchez-Delgado, A. Anzellotti and L. Suárez, “Metal complexes as chemotherapeu-tic agents against tropical diseases: malaria, leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis” in “Metal Ions and their Complexes in Medication” Vol. 41, Metal Ions in Biological Systems, Eds.

H. Siegel and A. Siegel, Marcel Dekker: NY, 2004.M. Strasberg-Rieber, A. Anzellotti, R. A. Sánchez-Delgado and M. Rieber, “Apoptosis induced by Ruthenium(II) ketoconazole irrespective of p53 status is enhanced in non-susceptible carcinoma by monoclonal antibody to EGF receptor.” Int. J. Cancer, 2004, 112, 376-384.M. Navarro, F. Vásquez, R. A. Sánchez-Delgado, H. Pérez, V. Sinou, J. Schrevel, “Toward a Novel Metal-Based Chemotherapy against Tropical Diseases. 8. Synthesis and in vitro antimalarial activity of new gold-chloroquine complexes”, J. Med. Chem., 2004, 47, 5204-5209.M. Rosales, T. González, R. Atencio and R. A. Sánchez-Delgado, “Synthesis and reactivity of iridium complexes with pyridine and piperidine ligands: Models for hydrodenitrogenation Dalton Transactions”, 2004, 2952-2956.P. J. Baricelli, E. Lujano, M. Modroño, A. C. Marrero, Y. M. García, A. Fuentes and R. A. Sánchez-Delgado, “Rhodi-um-catalyzed hydroformylation of C6 alkenes and alkene mixtures. A comparative study in homogeneous and aque-ous biphasic media using PPh3, TPPTS and TPPMS ligands”, J. Organomet. Chem., 2004, 689, 3782-3792.M. Rosales, A. González, B. González, C. Moratinos, H. Pérez, J. Urdaneta and R. A. Sánchez-Delgado. “Hydro-formylation of alkenes with paraformaldehyde catalyzed by rhodium-phosphine complexes”, J. Organomet. Chem., 2005, 690, 3095-3098.V. Landaeta, B. K. Muñoz, M. Peruzzini, V. Herrera, C. Bianchini, and R. A. Sánchez-Delgado. “Imine hydrogena-tion by tribenzylphosphine rhodium and iridium complexes”. Organometallics 2006, 25, 403-409. R. A. Sánchez-Delgado. “Hydrodesulfurization and Hydrodenitrogenation”. In Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III, R. H. Crabtree and D. M. P. Mingos, Eds. Elsevier: Oxford (2006). ISBN: 008044590X. Vol. 1, Ch. 1.27, pp. 759-800.R. A. Sánchez-Delgado. “Homogeneous Hydrogenation by Defi ned Metal Clusters”. Invited Chapter in “Handbook of Homogenoeus Hydrogenation”, K. Elsevier and J. G. de Vries, Eds. Wiley-VCH: Weinheim (2007). Vol. 1, Ch. 8, pp. 199-215.R. A. Sánchez-Delgado, N. Machalaba and N. Ng-a-qui. “Hydrogenation of Quinoline by Ruthenium Nanoparticles immobilized on poly(4-vinylpyridine)”. Catal. Commun. Accepted for publication 2007

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Faculty e-Mail AddressesBrenner, Stacey E. [email protected], Malgorzata [email protected], Maria [email protected], Lesley [email protected], Terry l. [email protected], Alexander [email protected], James M. [email protected], Andrzej A [email protected], Laura [email protected], Mark [email protected], Ira N. [email protected], Richard [email protected], Roberto [email protected]

Department of ChemistryBrooklyn College, CUNY

Bedford Avenue and Avenue HBrooklyn, NY 11210

718 951 5458


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