Craig E. Barnes

Professor
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

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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

The Targeted Synthesis of Single Site Vanadyl Species on the Surface and in the Framework of Silicate Building Block Materials, Ming-Yung Lee, Jian Jiao, Richard Mayes2, Edward Hagaman2 , Craig E. Barnes3*, 2010. (download the pdf file)
    1 Department of Chemical Engineering; University of California at Santa        Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
    2 Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; PO Box 2008        MS6201, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6201
    3 Department of Chemistry; University of Tennessee; Knoxville, TN 37996-1600        (corresponding author)
    Submitted to:  Catalysis Today
    Status:  accepted, in press

The Reaction of the Si₈O₂₀(SnMe₃)₈ Building Block with Silyl Chlorides: A New Synthetic Methodology for Preparing Nanostructured Building Block Solids,Jason C. Clark, Craig E. Barnes, Chem.. Mater., 2007, 19, 3212.(download the pdf file)

Synthesis and structure of functional spherosilicate building block molecules for materials synthesis, J. C. Clark; S. Saengkerdsub; G. T. Eldridge; C. Campana; C. E. Barnes, J. Organomet. Chem. 2006, 691, 3213-22. (download the pdf file)

Building block syntheses of site-isolated vanadyl group in silicate oxides, Narendra N. Ghosh, Jason C. Clark, Geoffrey T. Eldridge and Craig E. Barnes, Chem. Comm., 2004, 856-857. (download the pdf file)

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

Imprint coating: a novel synthesis of selective functionalized ordered mesoporous sorbents, S. Dai; M. C. Burleigh; Y. Shin; C. C. Morrow; C. E. Barnes; Z. Xue, Angew. Chem., Inter. Ed. 1999, 38, 1235-39. (download the pdf file)

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.

Temperature Dependent Rh···Rh EXAFS in Dinuclear and Adsorbed Rhodium Species, Barnes, C.E. ; Ralle, M.; Vierkötter, S. A., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 5861. (download the pdf file)

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

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