The Department of Chemistry and Physics continues its Seminar series. Details for this week\u2019s talk are given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday, 11\/10\/2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3-4pm Eastern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Grote 411<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Trevor Latendresse, Ph.D.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n UTC Class of 2016 (CHEM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently NIH Post-doctoral Scholar at Harvard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Controlled Design of Molecular Clusters for Nanomagnets and Multi-Electron Chemical Transformations<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The interaction between two or more metal ions within polynuclear clusters can result in physical and chemical properties that are inaccessible for mononuclear compounds. To this end, the environment of the individual metal ions within a cluster and their proximity to one another should be finely tuned so that the M-M cooperation can be fully exploited. This talk outlines strategies for controlling the design of molecular clusters to enhance molecular functionality in areas of molecular magnetism and multi-electron redox chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) represent the smallest modifiable magnetic unit and are currently being pursued for the next generation of the data storage and processing devices. The first part of this talk describes how SMM performance can be improved using magnetic exchange coupling interactions between lanthanide ions within a single molecule. Here, a \u201cbuilding-block\u201d approach is used to control the relative positioning of the lanthanide ions to one another, thus maximizing the strength of the magnetic coupling between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n