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Associate Professor, Organometallic Chemistry
E-mail: pdeck@vt.edu
Office: 2101 Hahn Hall
Phone: 540-231-3493
Lab Phone: 540-231-8246
Fax: 540-231-3255
Group Web Pages: http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-dept/deck/pdeck.html
Education, Honors and Awards
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1987 Hope College
Ph.D. 1993 University of Minnesota
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1992-1995 Northwestern University
Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award 1998
NSF CAREER Award 1998
Research Interests
Organometallic chemistry is the study of metal-carbon bonds and is therefore an "interdisciplinary" blend of organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry. Organometallic compounds have important applications in catalysis and in materials chemistry. We are interested in the development of metallocenes and related complexes derived from the cyclopentadienyl (C5H5 or "Cp") ligand. We design new versions of the Cp ligand that change the way the coordinated metal fragments react and enable the complexes to be used in novel applications. Current projects include:
- The design of electron-withdrawing cyclopentadienyl ligands.
- The development of metallocene catalysts for olefin polymerization.
- The synthesis of functionalized metallocenes as precursors to heterogenized olefin polymerization catalysts.
- The use of fluorine-19 NMR spectroscopy to study organometallic reaction mechanisms.
Selected Publications
- "Synthesis and Structure of Piano Stool Complexes Derived from the Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)cyclopentadienyl Ligand." M. P. Thornberry, C. Slebodnick, P. A. Deck, and F. R. Fronczek. Organometallics 2001, 20, 920-926.
- "Step-Growth Polymers Derived from Indene and Decafluorobiphenyl. A New Polymerization Mode for Indene." P. A. Deck and C. R. Maiorana." Macromolecules 2001, 34, 9-13.
- "Structural and Electronic Effects of Pentafluorophenyl Substituents on Cyclopentadienyl Complexes of Fe, Co, Mn, and Re." M. P. Thornberry, C. Slebodnick, P. A. Deck, and F. R. Fronczek. Organometallics 2000, 19, 5352-5369.
- "Influence of the Departing Group on the Electrophilic Cleavage of Silicon-Carbon Bonds Adjacent to Zirconocene Dichloride. Preparation of Electrophile-Functionalized Zirconocene Dibromides." Organometallics 2000, 19, 5404-5409.
- "Selective Tin-Carbon Bond Cleavage Reactions of Trimethylstannylzirconocene Dichloride with Electrophiles." X. Cheng, C. Slebodnick, P. A. Deck, D. R. Billodeaux and F. R. Fronczek. Inorganic Chemistry 2000,
39, 4921-4926.
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