Organovanadium compounds research featured on front cover of journal

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (03/21/2022)—Work on unprecedented organovanadium compounds discovered in the laboratory of Professor Emeritus John Ellis has been selected for the front cover of Acta Crystallographica C, Structural chemistry.

The paper, titled "Syntheses and crystal structures of new naphthalene– and anthracene–vanadate salts and an unprecedented dimetallabis(anthracene) sandwich complex: [Na(tetrahydrofuran)3][V2(anthracene)2]," was published in the March 2022 issue of the journal [doi.org/10.1107/S2053229622001255].

Ellis is now in his 50th year as a faculty member in the department. His coauthors on the paper are Benjamin Kucera, who originally carried out the challenging research, Victor Young, Jr., Director of the department’s X-ray facility and member of the Review Board of the journal, and William Brennessel, who played a critical role in the preparation of the manuscript. Brennessel received his PhD from the department and is now manager of the X-ray crystallography facility at the University of Rochester in New York.

The article is dedicated to the memory of a giant of chemistry, Malcolm Leslie Hodder Green FRS (1936–2020). Funding for the research was provided by the US National Science Foundation, donors of the Petroleum Research Foundation, administered by the American Chemical Society, and Research Gift Support, administered by the University of Minnesota Foundation.

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