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Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair
E-mail: jmerola@vt.edu
Office: 107 Davidson Hall
Phone: 540-231-4510
Fax: 540-231-3255
Group Web Pages: http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-dept/merola/merola-group.html
Research Video Clip http://www.chem.vt.edu/faculty/videos/Merola.wmv
Education
Ph.D. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978
B.S. - Carnegie-Mellon University, 1974
Full Professor - Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, 1995
Research Interests
The study of organometallic chemistry, an area that bridges inorganic and
organic disciplines, has found remarkable utility in many diverse
applications. Organometallic compounds themselves, which consist of metals
bonded to organic groups, can teach us a great deal about fundamental
bonding properties. The effect that binding an organic group to a metal has
on that organic fragment's reactivity can be exploited in developing new
catalysts for organic reactions. When it is difficult to study the reaction
of a molecule on a metal surface in a heterogeneous catalyst system, it may
be possible to infer how the reaction is taking place by studying suitably
designed organometallic compounds as models. In our group, we try to take
advantage of many of these properties of organometallic systems to study
fundamental reaction chemistry, to design novel catalyst systems, and to
use organometallic compounds as precursors to more complex materials.
Selected Publications
- Intramolecular Diel-Alder Reactions of the Furan Diene (IMDAF); Rapid Construction of Highly Functionalized Isoquinoline Skeletons. Hudlicky, T.; Butora, G.; Fearnley, S.; Gum, A.; Persichini, P.J.; Stabile, M.; Merola, J.S. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1995, 2393-8.
- Additions of Carbanions to tris-(trimethylphosphine)(cyclooctadiene)iridium(I) Chloride: Three Different Modes of Reaction Depending on Nature of the Carbanion. Frazier, J. F.; Anderson, F. E.; Clark, R.; Merola, J.S. Inorg. Chim. Acta 1994, 222, 135-143 (this was an invited paper for a special volume).
- Microbial Oxidation of Aromatics in Enantiocontrolled synthesis. Part 1. Expedient and General Asymmetric Synthesis of Ionositols and Carbohydrates via an Unusual Oxidation of a Polarized Diene with Potassium Permanganate. Hudlicky, T.; Mandel, M.; Roude, J.; Lee, R. S.; Bachmann, B.; Dudding, T.; Yost, K. J.; Merola, J. S. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 1, 1994, 1553-67.
- Pentamethylcyclopentadienylrhodium bis-carboxylates: monohapto carboxylate coordination, dihapto carboxylate coordination and water coordination to CpRh. Boyer, P. M.; Roy, C. P.; Bielski, J. M.; Merola, J. S. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 1996, 245, 7-15.
- Synthesis and Properties of Cholesteryl Esters Bearing 32- and 16-Membered Crown Ethers. Nagvekar, D. S.; Delaviz, Y.; Prasad, A.; Merola, J. S.; Marand, H.; Gibson, H. W. J. Org. Chem., 1996, 61, 1211-1218.
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