Craig E. Barnes
Professor & Department Head
Inorganic Chemistry
Organometallic chemistry; transition metal-based catalysis
B.S., Harvey Mudd College (1977)
Ph.D., Stanford University (1982)
NATO Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
Research
Underlying themes of my research are (1) the design and synthesis of novel transition metal complexes which exhibit new reactivity toward organic substrates, and (2) the study of organometallic complexes immobilized on a variety of support materials in an attempt to develop new types of "hybrid" catalysts which exhibit the combined properties of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts.
Current research projects include: the synthesis and reactivity of cluster complexes of cobalt, rhodium and iridium; the preparation of glassy carbon materials doped with different transition metal clusters; and the characterization of rhodium and iridium species bound to the surfaces of different oxide support materials. In addition to becoming familiar with the foundations of organometallic chemistry, members of my group become experienced in the manipulation and characterization of air sensitive materials and make extensive use of both solid and solution state NMR spectroscopies, extended x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (EXAFS) and electrochemical methodologies.
Representative Publications
Mechanistic investigation of hydrolysis reactions of dithioacetal derivatives grafted on silica gels, Hee-Jung Im, Craig E. Barnes, Sheng Dai, and Ziling Xue, Tantala, 2004, 63, 259-64.
Bistable Photochromic Organometallics Based on Linkage Isomerization: Photochemistry of Dicarbonyl(h5-methylcyclopentadienyl)¬manganese(I) Derivatives with a Bifunctional, Nonchelating Ligand T. T. To; C. E. Barnes; T. J. Burkey, Organometallics 2004, 23, 2708-14.
Reactions of thioether carboxylic acids with mercury(II). Formation and X-ray crystal structure of mercury(II) mercaptoacetate J. M. Bramlett; H.-J. Im; X.-H. Yu; T. Chen; H. Cai; L. E. Roecker; C. E. Barnes; S. Dai; Z.-L. Xue, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2004, 357, 243-49.
Mesoporous Materials by Sheng Dai and Craig E. Barnes in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry, J. Atwood, J. Steed, eds., Elsevier, New York, 2003.
Ionic liquids: a new class of sensing materials for detection of organic vapors based on the use of a quartz crystal microbalance, Chengdu Liang, C.-Y. Yuan, R. J. Warmack, Craig E. Barnes, S. Dai, Anal. Chem. 2002, 74, 2172.
Stepwise assembly of surface imprint sites on MCM-41 for selective metal ion separations,M. C. Burleigh; S. Dai; E. W. Hagaman; C. E. Barnes; Z. L. Xue, ACS Symp. Ser. 2001, 778, 146.
EXAFS Study of Uranyl Nitrate Dimer at High and Low Temperature. Barnes, C. E.; Shin, Y.; Saengkerdsub, S.; Dai, S. Inorg. Chem. 2000, 39, 862.
Hierarchically Imprinted Sorbents for the Separation of Metal Ions. Dai, S.; Burleigh, M. C.; Ju, Y. H.; Gao, H. J.; Lin, J.-S.; Pennycook, S.; Barnes, C. E.; Xue, Z. L. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 192.
Preparation of Silica Aerogel Using Ionic Liquids and Solvents, S. Dai; Y. H. Ju; H. J. Gao; J. S. Lin; S. J. Pennycook; C. E. Barnes, Chem. Commun. 2000, 243
A New Methodology to Functionalize Surfaces of Ordered Mesoporous Materials Based on Ion Exchange Reactions. Dai, S.; Shin, Y.; Ju, Y.; Burleigh, M. C.; Lin, J.-S.; Barnes, C. E.; Xue, Z. Adv. Mater. 1999, 11, 1226.
Alkylidene dynamics in the cluster complexes Cp*Rh(CpCo)2(CO)2(μ-CH2): Observation of an intermediate containing a μ3-methylidene Ligand, C. E. Barnes, F. H. Försterling, Polyhedron, 1998, 17, 1045-54.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Barnes received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College in 1977; he earned a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Stanford University in 1982. He then undertook postdoctoral work in chemistry at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. In 1984, Dr. Barnes joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee.
Craig E. Barnes
552 Buehler Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-1600
Phone: (865) 974-3141
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