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Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8

30 AM - 12:20 PM

Inorganic Chemistry

Dunn 206

Organizer/Presider

Mathew Maye

8:30 123 Covalently-Bridged Spin Ladders: Variable Exchange through Diazine Ligands. Mark M. Turnbull1, Robert T. Butcher1, Christopher P. Landee2, Joaquim Jornet3, Merce Deumal3 and Juan J. Novoa3, (1)Clark University, (2)Clark University, (3)Universitat de Barcelona

8:50 124 Synthesis, Structure, and Thermogravimetric Analysis of Alkaline Earth and Lanthanide Perfluoro-t-Butoxide Complexes. William D. Buchanan and Karin Ruhlandt-Senge, Syracuse University

9:10 125 Coordination Complexes Incorporating Pyrophosphate: Structural Overview and Exploration of Their Diverse Magnetic, Catalytic and Biological Properties. Nadia Marino and Robert P. Doyle, Syracuse University

9:30 126 Possible Involvement of a Super Acid in the Chemistry of Chlorophosphazenes. Claire A. Tessier, Zin-Min Tun, Matthew J. Panzner, Douglas Medvetz, Vincenzo Scionti, Chrys Wesdemiotis and Wiley J. Youngs, University of Akron

9:50 127 Preparation and Characterization of Calcium and Magnesium Phosphonates. Victoria N. K. Bampoh, Yuriko Takahashi and Karin Ruhlandt-Senge, Syracuse University

10:10 128 Effects of Coupled Homogeneous Chemical Reactions on the Response of Large Amplitude AC Voltammetry: Extraction of Kinetic and Mechanistic Information by Fourier Transform Analysis of Higher Harmonic Data. John P. Bullock1 and Alan M. Bond2, (1)Bennington College, (2)Monash University

10:30 Intermission

10:40 129 Synthesis of Alkaline Earth 2-Phenylphenolate Species: Structural Consequences of M-Cπ Interactions. William D. Buchanan, Maria F. Zuniga and Karin Ruhlandt-Senge, Syracuse University

11:00 130 Tuning the Metal-Insulator Phase Transition in VO2 Nanostructures. Luisa Whittaker1, Cherno Jaye2, Daniel Fischer2 and Sarbajit Banerjee1, (1)University at Buffalo, (2)National Institute of Standards and Technology

11:20 131 Non-Hydrolytic Synthesis, Characterization, and Electronic Structure of Colloidal Early Transition Metal Oxide Nanocrystals. Sean W. Depner, Kenneth R. Kort, Hengsong Zhang and Sarbajit Banerjee, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

11:40 132 Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and Phase Transition in MxV2O5 Nanostructures. Christopher J. Patridge and Sarbajit Banerjee, SUNY University at Buffalo

12:00 133 Thermal and Morphological Studies of Nanostructured Metal Coated Coaxial Polymer Fibers. Eliud K. Mushibe, Daniel P. Mahoney and Wayne E. Jones, State University of New York at Binghamton