Group Goals
The Schmehl group is dedicated to the investigation of the synthesis and photoreactivity of transition metal complexes, especially as they pertain to the overarching objective of employing sunlight to make fuels as a means of storing solar energy.
Group News
2023
- 9/1 /2023 Congratulations to Fengqi for successfully defending her Ph.D. Dissertation
- 2/15/2023 JACS publication on Kristina's Excited State PCET chemistry appears. Hooray !!
2022
- 6/2022 New $ 1.4 M DOE grant proposal, in collaboration with Jim Donahue and Alex McSkimming, is funded !!!
2021
- 4/2021 Congratulations to Kristina for completing her Ph.D. and heading off to Brookhaven National Labs.
2020
- 4/2020 Congratulations Kristina on being awarded an internship at Albemarle Corporation
- 4/1/2020 Fengqi Zhang got it done with her departmental seminar by ZOOM entitled "Particulate Photocatalysts for Light-Driven Water Splitting"
2019
- 12/15/2019 Thanks to Jim Donahue, our collaborative work on hydrogen production with molybdenum complex clusters is published. Way to go Pat and Bing especially, as well as our collaborators Nathan Hammer at the University of Mississippi and Ed Webster at Mississippi State. Sometimes you have to wait for good things to happen. The title and citation are "Photocatalytic H-2-Evolution by Homogeneous Molybdenum Sulfide Clusters Supported by Dithiocarbamate Ligands", Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58 (24), 16458-16474.
- 11/2019 It is a pleasure to welcome Qingxin Chen and Shuangjie Zhao to the group. Also Atahar Rabby will split his time between the Donahue and Schmehl groups. Best of luck to all of you. Do you know how old your mentor is?
- 7/1/2019 The boss is sentenced to two years as chairman of the department. ..... bad moon rising.
- 5/2019 Joint NSF proposal with Jared Paul (Villanova) is funded. What wonderful news....hooray !!
- 2/7/2019 After a monumental effort, our first publication with our Villanova collaborators (Jared Paul and his students Kaitlyn Benson and Jacqueline Stash) made it to print. Kristina, you really slayed the dragon on this one: great work. The title and citation are "Direct Observation of Sequential Electron and Proton Transfer in Excited-State ET/PT Reactions" J. Phys. Chem. C., 2019, 123 (5), 2728-2735.
- 1/21/2019 Thanks to our collaborator Jonah Jurss at the University of Mississippi for including us on his group's recent paper on carbon dioxide photoreduction with mononuclear Re chromophore/catalyst systems. It was fun looking at the photophysics; good work Steve and Rebecca. The title and citation are "Photochemical CO2 reduction with mononuclear and dinuclear rhenium catalysts bearing a pendant anthracene chromophore" Chemical Communications, 2019, 55 (7), 993-996.
2018
- 12/5/18 Rebecca Dupre defends her Ph.D. successfully!
- 7/24/18 Patricia Fontenot defends her Ph.D. successfully!
- 4/20/18 Aditya Kulkarni defends his Ph.D. successfully!
2015
- 11/2/15 Rebecca, Aditya, Pat and the old guy give presentations at SE/SW Regional ACS meeting in Memphis
- 10/27/15 "Homoleptic Tris-Diphosphine Re(I) and Re(II) Complexes and Re(II) Photophysics and Photochemistry" is accepted for publication in Inorganic Chemistry. Yay Amelia! The work is joint with Jeremy Adams and Dean Roddick at the University of Wyoming and honors our friend Pat Sullivan who passed away a few years ago
- 7/10/15 Tod is awarded National Research Council Fellowship to work with Tom Cooper at Wright Patterson AFB. Way to go Tod!
- 7/2015 Schmehl group partners with researchers in Mississippi and Alabama to obtain support from the NSF EPSCoR program. Wind behind the sails!
- 6/2015 Bing Shan defends her Ph.D. successfully!
- 5/2015 Tingting Feng accepts Bioanalytical job in Boston.
- 4/2015 "Host-Guest Interactions Derived Multilayer Perylene Diimide Thin Film Constructed on scaffolding Porphyrin Monolayer" published in Langmuir thanks to the efforts of Mengyuan Zhu and Janan Jayawickramarajah and our small contribution.
- 4/2015 Bing Shan receives postdoctoral appointment at UNC EFRC. Go Bing!!
- 2/2015 "Electron Transfer Rate Modulation in a Compact Re(I) Donor-Acceptor Complex" is recognized in Physics Today's Search and Discovery section. Kudos to Yuankai and Tod.
2014
- 12/2014 Tod Grusenmeyer defends his Ph.D. successfully!
- 12/2014 After mighty struggle "Electron Transfer Rate Modulation in a Compact Re(I) Donor-Acceptor Complex" is Accepted to Dalton Transactions. Congratulations to Tod and our collaborators Yuankai Yue, Igor Rubtsov and the Beratan group at Duke
- 11/2014 "Following oxygen consumption in singlet oxygen reactions via changes in sensitizer phosphorescence" was accepted for publication in Photochemistry and Photobiology, thanks to Tingting and Tod.
- 7/2014 "Sn(IV) Schiff Base Complexes: Triplet Photosensitizers for Photoredox Reactions" accepted for publication in Dalton Transactions. Congratulations Tod and our Ohio U. Collaborators Jeff Rack and Albert King
- 6/2014 "The influence of ligand localized excited states on the photophysics of second and third row transition metal terpyridyl complexes: recent examples and a case study." Accepted to Coordination Chemistry Reviews. Thanks Jing, Yong and collaborators at Emory, Tim Lian and Teddy Huang
- 6/2014 "Photochemical Generation of Strong One-Electron Reductants via Light Induced Electron Transfer with Reversible Donors Followed by Cross Reaction with Sacrificial Donors" accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. A. Congratulations Bing on this solo performance
- 6/2014 Jing and Yong have baby boy, Eli
- 5/2014 "Full-Electron Ligand-to-Ligand Charge Transfer in a Compact Re(I) Complex" accepted to J. Phys. Chem. A. Thanks to Tod and our collaborators Yuankai Yue, Igor Rubtsov and the Beratan group at Duke
- 5/2014 Russ and Igor Rubtsov and others are awarded an Enhancement Grant by the Louisiana Board of Regents to augment time resolved spectroscopic facilities.
- 3/2014 Gilbert and Freda have baby boy, Kich Kiptoo Kosgei
