Gregory S. Girolami

Gregory S. Girolami[1] is a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Gregory Scott Girolami
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin, University of California at Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Notable studentsCheon Jinwoo
Websitehttp://www.chemistry.illinois.edu/faculty/Gregory_Girolami.html

Education and career

Girolami is currently the William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Scientific contributions

In 1989 Girolami and Morse showed that [Zr(CH
3)
6]2−
 was trigonal prismatic as indicated by X-ray crystallography.[2] They accurately predicted that other d0 ML6 species such as [Nb(CH
3)
6]−
, [Ta(CH
3)
6]−
, and W(CH3)6 would also prove to be trigonal prismatic.

Other Heads, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois
Head Years of Service Years
A. P. S. Stewart 1868–1874 6
Henry A. Weber 1874–1882 8
William McMurtrie 1882–1888 6
J. C. Jackson 1888 1
Arthur W. Palmer 1889–1904 15
Harry S. Grindley 1904–1907 3
William A. Noyes 1907–1926 19
Roger Adams 1926–1954 28
Herbert E. Carter 1954–1967 13
Herbert S. Gutowsky 1967–1983 16
Larry R. Faulkner 1984–1989 5
Gary B. Schuster 1989–1994 5
Paul W. Bohn 1995–1999 5
Steven C. Zimmerman 1999–2000 1
Gregory S. Girolami 2000–2005 5
Steven C. Zimmerman 2005-2013 8
Gregory S. Girolami 2013-2016 4
Martin Gruebele 2017-

References
  1. "Link to Dr. Girolami's webpage at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign".
  2. Morse, P. M.; Girolami, G. S. (1989). "Are d0 ML6 complexes always octahedral? The X-ray structure of trigonal-prismatic [Li(tmed)]2[ZrMe6]". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 111 (11): 4114. doi:10.1021/ja00193a061.


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