Anthony Chianese
Anthony Chianese, Ph.D. (born October 24, 1979; Bethlehem, Connecticut) is an assistant professor of Chemistry at Colgate University. Chianese primarily does research in organometallic chemistry, with emphasis on creating ligands using n-hetrocyclic carbenes.
Chianese received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Drew University in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in 2005 from Yale University (working under the guidance of Dr. Robert H. Crabtree). He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working with Professor Michel Gagné and Dr. Stephen Lee of the US Army Research Office.
Academic Positions
Chianese is an Assistant Professor at Colgate University (2007 - present). He has taught General Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. He is on sabbatical for the Spring 2010 semester.
Honors and Awards
Chianese won the Yale University Teaching Fellow Award in 2003, and NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateship from 2005-6.
Selected Publications
- Chianese, A. R.; Mo, A.; Datta, D. "Flexible, Bowl-Shaped N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Substrate Specificity in Iridium-Catalyzed Ketone Hydrosilylation." Organometallics, 2009, 28, 465-472.
- Voutchkova, A. M.; Appelhans, L. N.; Chianese, A. R.; Crabtree, R. H. "Dialkylimidazolium-2-Carboxylates as Efficient Precursors to N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Ru, Rh, Ir and Pd," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 17624-17625.
- Li, X. W.; Chianese, A. R.; Vogel, T.; Crabtree, R. H. "Stable Iridium Hydrides as Active Catalysts for Intramolecular Alkyne Hydroalkoxylation and Hydroamination," Organic Letters 2005, 7, 5437-5440.
- Appelhans, L. N.; Zuccaccia, D.; Kovacevic, A.; Chianese, A. R.; Miecznikowski, J. R.; Macchioni, A.; Clot, E.; Eisenstein, O; Crabtree, R. H. "An Anion-Dependent Switch in Selectivity Results from a Change of C-H Activation Mechanism in the Reaction of an Imidazolium Salt With IrH5 (PPh3) 2," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 16299-16311.
- Chianese, A. R.; Crabtree, R. H. "Axially Chiral Bidentate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands Derived from BINAM: Rhodium and Iridium Complexes in Asymmetric Ketone Hydrosilylation," Organometallics 2005, 24, 4432-4436.
- Chianese, A. R.; Crabtree, R. H. "Pincer and Chelate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Rh, Ir, and Pd: Synthetic Routes, Dynamics, Catalysis, Abnormal Binding, and Counterion Effects," In Activation and Functionalization of C-H Bonds; Goldberg, K. I., Goldman, A. S., Eds.; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2004; Vol. 885, pp 169-183.
- Chianese, A. R.; Zeglis, B. M.; Crabtree, R. H. "Unexpected Oxidative C-C Cleavage in the Metallation of 2-Substituted Imidazolium Salts to Give N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes," Chem. Commun. 2004, 2176-2177.
- Chianese, A. R.; Kovacevic, A.; Zeglis, B. M.; Faller, J. W.; Crabtree, R. H. "Abnormal C5-Bound N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Extremely Strong Electron Donor Ligands and their Iridium(I) and Iridium(III) Complexes," Organometallics 2004, 23, 2461-2468.
- Matt, J. A.; Chianese, A. R.; Miecznikowski, J. R.; Poyatos, M.; Peris, E.; Faller, J. W.; Crabtree, R. H. "Reactivity Differences in the Syntheses of Chelating N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Rhodium are Ascribed to Ligand Anisotropy," Organometallics 2004, 23, 1253-1263.
- Chianese, A. R.; Li, X. W.; Janzen, M. C.; Faller, J. W.; Crabtree, R. H. "Rhodium and Iridium Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes via Transmetalation: Structure and Dynamics," Organometallics 2003, 22, 1663-1667.
Notable undergraduate researchers
- Christina Wong
- Dibyadeep Datta
- Allen Mo
- Paul Bremer
- Rae Raynes
- Daniel Goldstein
- Phillip Wasicek
- Nicole Lampland
- Scott Rodgers
- Ray Swartz