Timothy Hanusa
Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Hanusa will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2025.
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Our general area of research interest includes synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry of the main group, transition metal, and rare earth elements. We put emphasis on mechanochemical synthesis (solvent-free grinding or milling) to generate otherwise unavailable or base-free compounds for both stoichiometric and catalytic reactions. We are also involved in ligand design, including the use of steric and dispersion effects and cation-π interactions, to control the structure and reactivity of main-group and transition metal organometallic and coordination complexes. Computational investigations (primarily with density functional theory methods) of bonding, structure, and dispersion effects in inorganic/organometallic systems play a substantial role in our investigations. |
Specializations
| Inorganic Organometallic Mechanochemistry |
Representative Publications
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https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-7935-5968 1. Koby RF, Schley ND, Hanusa TP. Di(indenyl)beryllium. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2021; 60(39):21174-21178. 2. Koby RF, Doerr AM, Rightmire NR, Schley ND, Long BK, Hanusa TP. An η³-Bound Allyl Ligand on Magnesium in a Mechanochemically Generated Mg/K Allyl Complex. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2020; 59(24):9542-9548. 3. Koby RF, Hanusa TP, Schley ND. Mechanochemically Driven Transformations in Organotin Chemistry: Stereochemical Rearrangement, Redox Behavior, and Dispersion-Stabilized Complexes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018; 140(46):15934-15942. 4. Rightmire NR, Bruns DL, Hanusa TP. Mechanochemical Influence on the Stereoselectivity of Halide Metathesis: Synthesis of Group 15 Tris(allyl) Complexes. Organometallics. 2016; 35(11):1698-1706. 5. Rightmire NR, Hanusa TP. Advances in organometallic synthesis with mechanochemical methods. Dalton Trans. 2016; 45(6):2352-62. |