Nominator's project description
| Professor Lu is known internationally for her work in the field of heterobimetallic chemistry. Her research has generated the first molecular examples of multiple metal-metal bonds between different first-row transition metals, which have advanced the understanding of their bonding, electronic structure, and properties. Professor Lu is also known for pioneering bimetallic active sites to use metal-metal interactions for tuning catalyst activity and selectivity. During her stay in Germany, Professor Lu will pursue new catalyst designs for functionalizing small molecules. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2008 | Connie C. Lu, Serena DeBeer George, Thomas Weyhermueller, Eckhard Bill, Eberhard Bothe, Karl Wieghardt: An Electron- Transfer Series of High-valent Chromium Complexes with Redox Non-innocent, Non-heme Ligands. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, 2008, 6384-6387 |
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| 2008 | Nicoleta Muresan, Connie C. Lu, Meenakshi Ghosh, Jonas C. Peters, Megumi Abe,
Lawrence M. Henling, Thomas Weyhermueller, Eckhard Bill, and Karl Wieghardt: Bis(α-diimine)iron Complexes: Electronic Structure Determination by Spectroscopy and Broken Symmetry Density Functional Theoretical Calculations. In: Inorganic Chemistry, 2008, 4579-4590 |
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| 2008 | Connie C. Lu, Eckhard Bill, Thomas Weyhermueller, Eberhard Bothe, and Karl Wieghardt: Neutral Bis(alpha-iminopyridine)metal Complexes of the First-Row Transition Ions (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn) and Their Monocationic Analogues: Mixed Valency Involving a Redox Noninnocent Ligand System. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 3181-3197 |
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| 2007 | Connie C. Lu, Eckhard Bill, Thomas Weyhermueller, Eberhard Bothe, and Karl Wieghardt: The Monoanionic pi-Radical Redox State of alpha-Iminoketones in Bis(ligand)metal Complexes of Nickel and Cobalt . In: Inorganic Chemistry, 2007, 7880-7889 |
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