Please join Yale Chemistry for an Inorganic Chemistry Silliman Seminar with Shiyu Zhang, Associate Professor, from Ohio State University.
Abstract: Bimetallic active sites are common among metalloproteins. The individual metal ions in a binuclear active site, however, may play distinct roles in the overall functions. Our group designed small-molecule coordination complexes to reproduce the ubiquitous unsymmetric features of bimetallic active sites in nature, e.g., (i) inequivalent primary coordination sphere, (ii) inequivalent secondary coordination sphere, and (iii) unsymmetric metal binding (heterobimetallic center). These coordination complexes are used to elucidate the influence of an inequivalent coordination environment on the reactivity of bimetallic centers. Our study reveals the correlation between unsymmetric features and electronic structures and rationalizes reactivity profiles of unsymmetric bimetallic complexes.
For more information on Prof. Zhang’s research: https://research.cbc.osu.edu/zhang.8941/research/
Faculty Host: Prof. Pat Holland
This seminar can be viewed online here: Panopto
This seminar is generously sponsored by the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Fund.
Graduate Student Research Talks: SCL 111, 3pm
Sam Newman-Stonebraker, Holland Lab
2nd speaker TBA