Past Members of the DHF Group


Ph.D. Students:

Name Year Thesis
Claudia Babij 1998 - 2003 "Mechanistic and Quantitative Kinetic Studies of Some Ruthenium and Rhodium Carbonyl Clusters"
Kevin Bunten 1997 - 2002 "Systematic Kinetic Studies on Ruthenium and Rhodium Carbonyl Complexes"
Robert A. Burrow 1990 - 1996 "Structural Studies of Transition Metal Complexes and Clusters"
Daniel C. Frankel 1990 - 1993 "Late Transition Metal Coordination Chemistry and Reactivity of Bis(diphenylphosphino)alkylamine Ligands"
Ying Zheng 1989 - 1993 "Systematic Kinetic and Mechanistics of the Reactions of High Nuclearity Metal Carbonyl Clusters with Group VA Donor Nucleophiles"
C. Scott Browning 1987 - 1992 "Bonding, Structure and Reactivity in Bis(diphenylphosphino)amine Coordination Complexes of Platinum(II)"
Ravi R. Gukathasan 1982 - 1987 "Reactivity of Pt3(CO)3(PtBu2Ph)3"
Christiane Couture 1983 - 1986 "Synthesis, Reactivity and Characterization of High Nuclearity Osmium-Platinum Clusters Compounds"


M.Sc. Students:

Name Year Thesis
Nicole Rampersad 1999 - 2001 "New Indolyl Phosphines: Synthesis and Characterization of 2-Diphenylphosphine-3-methylindole and Di(1H-3-indolyl)methane-(2,12)-phenylphosphine"
Julie Sereda 1999 - 2001 "Synthesis, Characterization and Study of Pyrrolyl and Indolyl Phosphines"
Roberta Parkes 1999 - 2001 "Intrazeolites Organometallic Kinetics and Ligand Effects on the Structures of Rh6(CO)14LL Clusters"
Charles Patirana 1998 - 2000 "Ligand Effects on the Structures of Rh6(CO)15L Clusters and the Novel Coordination of a Bisthiophosphorus Ligand
to a Triosmium Carbonyl Cluster"
Daniel C. Frankel 1988 - 1990 "Phosphino-Phosphinous Amide Palladium Coordination Chemistry"
Robert A. Burrow 1985 - 1987 "Steric Effects in Triplatinum Clusters"
C. Scott Browning 1982 - 1987 "Ligand Reactivity in Dimeric Platinum Complexes"
John J. Irwin 1986 - 1987 "Quantifying Steric Effects in Organometallic Chemistry"
Julie A. Lunniss 1983 - 1985 "The Synthesis and Fluxional Behaviour of Polynuclear Clusters of the Iron Triad"
Stephen A. Morris 1982 - 1984 "Substitution Reactions of Pt3(CO)3(PtBu2Ph)3 and Studies on the Synthesis of Platinum Clusters and Tripod Ligands"


Postdoctoral Fellows and Technicians:

Name Year
Kevin Bunten Feb 2004 - Jun 2005
Igor Koshevoy June 2003 - Dec 2004
Xiangdong Jiao Jan 2002 - Apr 2003
Siegmar Pulst Nov 1997 - Oct 2001
Margaret Ma Jul 2000 - May 2001
Junquan Wang May 2000 - Apr 2001
Charles Patirana Sep 1999 - Apr 2001
Anthony Fernandez 1998 - 2000
Jianbin Hao 1997 - 1999
Pushpamma Lukose Jul 1997 - Oct 1997
Morteza Massoudi Pour Aug 1996 - Aug 1997
Changqing Wang Sep 1996 - Jul 1997
Anwar Chowdhury Mar 1997 - Apr 1997
Yangqiu Liu Mar 1997 - Apr 1997
Hameed A. Mirza Oct 1996 - Dec 1996
Zhongen Jin Feb 1996 - Aug 1996
Timothy E. Burrow Feb 1995 - Feb 1996
E. Lindsay 1994 - 1995
P. Enzel 1991 - 1993
R. Ramachandran 1991 - 1992
Julie A. Lunniss Jul 1988 - Sep 1989
C. Sampson 1984 - 1990
P. K. Sayal 1984 - 1985
Robert J. Goudsmit Jan 1983 - Dec 1983
R. Smith 1982 - 1984
M. Kucharska-Zon 1982 - 1983


Research Exchange Students:

Name Year
Igor Koshevoy (St. Petersburg, Russia) May 2000 - Aug 2000
Dec 1998 - Apr 1999


Undergraduate Students:

Name Year
Amina Mulani 2006
Trisha Ang 2004
Megan Oh 2003
Roxanne Kieltyka 2003
Agostino Pietrangelo 2002
Julie Sereda 1998
Sarah Smith 1998
I. Egle 1991
O. Mourad 1991
B. Huber 1988
R. H. E. Hudson 1986 and 1987
M. Maingi 1986


Visiting Research Professors:

Name Year
Anthony Fernandez (Merrimack College, Mass, USA) Summer 2002
Sergey Tunik (St. Petersburg University, Russia) 1994, 1996, 1998
Eduardo J.S. Vichi (State University of Saġ Paulo, Campinas, Brazil) Oct 1993 - Feb 1994
Dec 1995 - May 1996
Tatania Stromnova (Institute of Gen. & Inorg. Chem, Moscow) Apr 1993 - Oct 1993
Consuelo Marino (Autonomous University of Mardrid) 1991 - 1992
Hanwen Chen (Nanjing University, China) 1988 - 1990