
Office
5008 Percival Stern Hall
Education & Affiliations
Biography
Areas of current interest:
- The synthesis of multiply-bonded silicon compounds, to study the effects of silicon p-conjugation related to the concepts of aromaticity and anti- aromaticity.
- Mechanistic investigations of transition-metal silicon chemistry, as it pertains to catalysis and materials synthesis.
- The study of organosilicon photochemistry and reactive intermediates, in fluid solution, inert matrices, and in molecular beams.
- The synthesis of novel precursors to technologically important ceramic fibers and thin films.
Discipline
Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
Dr. Fink's research interest in this area focuses primarily in the synthetic and mechanistic chemistry of silicon, boron and related elements.
Selected Publications
Hallmann, Steffen; Fink, Mark J.; Mitchell, Brian S.Mechanochemical synthesis of functionalized silicon nanoparticles with terminal chlorine groups, J Mat. Res. (2011) 26(8) 1052-1060.
Pichaandi, Kothanda Rama; Mague, Joel T.; Fink, Mark J., Synthesis of a tert-butyl substituted bis(silirane) and comparison with its methyl and phenyl analogs, J.Organmet. Chem., (2011) 696(10) 1957-1963.
Heintz, A.S.; Fink, M.J.; Mitchell, B.S. "Silicon Nanoparticles with Chemically Tailored Surfaces", Applied Organometallic Chemistry, Appl. Organometal. Chem. 2010, 24, 236–240
Hallman, S.; Fink, M. J.; Mitchell, B.S., "Wetting Properties of Silicon Films from Alkyl-Passivated Particles Produced by Mechanochemical Synthesis", Journal of Colloid & Interface Science2010, 348, 634–641
Heintz, A.S.; Gonzalez, J.E.; Fink, M.J.; Mitchell, B.S. "Catalyzed Self-AldolReaction of Valeraldehyde via a MechanochemicalMethod", J. Mol. Catalysis A, 2009, 304,117-120
Medina-Ramıirez, Iliana E.; Fink, Mark J. ; Donahue, James P., "Tetrakis(l-triisopropylsilanethiolato)-1:2κ4S:S;2:3 κ4S:S-bis(triisopropylsilanethiolato)-1κS,3κS-trizinc(II) ", ActaCryst. , 2009, C65, m475–m477