Group Alumni

1.             Eddie W. Moody(MS: Fall 92 - Summer 94; Ph.D. Fall 94 - Spring 97)

                Ph. D. Dissertation: "Artificial Intelligence Applications in Inorganic Chemistry" (1997)

                M. S. Thesis: "Towards the Computer Aided Design of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents: A Molecular Mechanics Force Field for Gd Complexes" (1994)

2.             Yueping Li   (MS: Fall 92 - Summer 94)

                Project(s): Modeling of CVD Reactions

                M. S. Thesis:  Effective Core Potential Modeling of Group IVA-Group IVB Chemical Vapor Deposition (1994).

3.             Phil Raby(MS: Spring 94 - Summer 96)

                M. S. Thesis: An Effective Core Potential Study of Transition Metal-Chalcogenidos.  Vibrational Analysis (1996).

4.             Michael T. Benson(Ph.D.: Summer 93 - Summer 97)

                Ph. D. Dissertation: Computational Studies of Late Transition Metal Complexes and Experimental Studies of Lanthanide Coordination Complexes (1997).

5.             Akihiko Yoshikawa (Ph.D. Fall 94 - Summer 98)

                Ph. D. Dissertation: Methane Activation by Mercury Complexes (1998).

6.             Wentao Fu (Ph. D. Fall 95 - Summer 99)

                Ph.D. Dissertation: Computational Studies of Transition Metal Pharmaceuticals and Advanced Materials (1999)

7.             Tie Zhou  (Ph.D. Summer 96 - Spring 00)

                Ph.D. Dissertation: Modeling Nonlinear Optical Properties of Inorganic Complexes (2000).

8.             Jun Deng (Ph.D.: Summer 97 – Summer 2001)

                Ph.D. Dissertation: Development and Application of Traditional and Non-traditional Modeling Methods for Transition Metal Chemistry (2001).

9.             Tom Klinckman  (Ph.D.: Summer 97 – Spring 01)

                Ph.D. Dissertation: C-H Activation by High and Low Valent Transition Metal Complexes (2001).

10.           Yong Zhao  (Ph.D.: Summer 99 - present)

                Project(s): Transition Metal-Triel Complexes, Parallel LINUX Cluster Applications

11.           Steve Decker (NSERC Postdoc: Jan 2000 – June 2002)

                Project(s): ECP/DFT Studies of NO Scission and Aqueous-phase Hydroformylation

12.                Christopher Taylor  (MS: Van Vleet & Hackett Fellow, Summer 00 – Summer 02)

                Project(s): Olefin Insertion and Subsequent B-X Elimination from a Pentacoordinated Tantalum Complex.  A Density Functional Theory Study                    (2002).

13.           Karl Pittard (MS: Summer 00 – Summer 02)

                Project(s): A Synthetic and Computational Approach to Ligand Design and Electronic Studies of Fluorinated Phpospine Chelates (2002).