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 Michael
T. Pope
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Georgetown
University
37th
and O Streets NW
Washington,
DC 20057-1227
E-mail:
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| Lab web site |
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/popem/ |
Education /
Background |
B.A. 1954 Oxford University
M.A.,
D.Phil.
1957, Oxford University
Postdoctoral, 1957-59, Boston
University.
Laporte Chemicals Ltd., 1959-62.
Georgetown
Faculty 1962-present.
Visiting Professor: Technical
University of Vienna, 1970-71; Université Pierre
et Marie Curie, Paris, 1979; Free University of Berlin,
1979; Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 1985; University
of Umeå, 1989; University of Bielefeld, 1989-90.
Colloque Lecturer, Universities of Geneva and Lausanne,
1987; Department Chair, 1990-1996.
PRF International Award Fellow (1970-71), Senior U.S. Scientist Award,
Humboldt Foundation (1989), Hillebrand Prize, American Chemical Society -
Washington Section (1999) |
| Teaching |
General Chemistry I & II, Inorganic
Chemistry, Advanced Topics in Inorganic Chemistry,
Spectroscopic Methods
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| Research Interests |
Inorganic and Organometallic
Chemistry of transition metal-oxygen cluster
complexes (polyoxometalates). Fundamental principles
of structure and reactivity. Applications in
catalysis, separations, and the life sciences.
Polyoxometalates, which include the compounds historically
known as "heteropoly acids", have been investigated
for well over a century. Arguably no other class of
compounds, inorganic or organic, displays more versatility
with respect to electronic and molecular structures,
properties and applications. The field currently attracts
wide academic and industrial attention, especially
with respect to catalysis and medicine (antiviral and
anti-retroviral activity). Much pioneering work has
been carried out at Georgetown University, which is
one of the few centers of polyoxometalate research
in the U.S.
Some of our group's current interests include oxidation-reduction
chemistry and its relevance to environmentally benign
catalysis, nuclear waste remediation, and metalloprotein
reactivity; derivatization and synthesis of larger
assemblies of polyoxometalate structures for potential
host-guest chemistry; modeling of metal oxide surfaces
with respect to metal-metal cooperativity in substrate
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April 19, 2006 |
