B.S.: Chemistry in 2012

PH.D.: INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF Vermont WITH Rory waterman IN 2016

POST-DOC: Los alamos national laboratory WITH jaqueline kiplinger

Publications

• “A sulphur and uranium fiesta! Synthesis, structure, and characterization of neutral terminal uranium(VI) monosulphide, uranium(VI) η²-disulphide, and uranium(IV) phosphine sulphide complexes.” J.K. Pagano, D.S.J. Arney, B.L. Scott, D.E. Morris, J.L. Kiplinger and C.J. Burns, Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 50.
• “An inorganic chemistry laboratory course as research.” J.K. Pagano, L. Jaworski, D. Lopatto and R. Waterman, J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95, 1520.
• “Synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of the first uranium metallocene
  1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)acetylene complexes.” J.K. Pagano, B.L. Scott, D.E. Morris and J.L. Kiplinger, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2018, 482, 347.
• “Visible-light and thermal driven double hydrophosphination of terminal alkynes using a commercially available iron compound.” B.J. Ackley, J.K. Pagano and R. Waterman, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 2774.
• “Evidence for iron-catalyzed α-phosphinidene elimination with phenylphosphine.” J.K. Pagano, B.J. Ackley and R. Waterman, Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 2554.
• “Visible light photocatalysis using a commercially available iron compound.” J.K. Pagano, C.A. Bange, S.E. Farmiloe and R. Waterman, Orgnaometallics, 2017, 36, 3891.
• “Synthesis and characterization of a new and electronically unusual uranium metallacyclocumulene, (C₅Me₅)₂U(η⁴ -1,2,3,4-PhC₄Ph).” J.K. Pagano, K.A. Erickson, B.L. Scott, D.E. Morris, R. Waterman and J.L. Kiplinger, J. Organomet. Chem., 2017, 829, 79.
• “Expanding the Chemistry of Actinide Metallocene Bromides. Synthesis, Properties and Molecular Structures of the Tetravalent and Trivalent Uranium Bromide Complexes: (C₅Me₄R)₂UBr₂, (C₅Me₄R)₂U(O-2,6-iPr₂C₆H₃)(Br), and [K(THF)][(C₅Me₄R)₂UBr₂] (R = Me, Et).” A.G. Lichtscheidl, J.K. Pagano, B.L. Scott, A.T. Nelson and J.L. Kiplinger, Inorganics, 2016, 4, 1.
• “Tuning the oxidation state, nuclearity, and chemistry of uranium hydrides with phenylsilane and temperature: the case of the classic uranium(III) hydride complex [(C₅Me₅)​₂U(μ-​H)​]​₂.” J.K. Pagano, J.M. Dorhout, K.R. Czerwinski, D.E. Morris, B.L. Scott, R. Waterman,  and J.L. Kiplinger, Organometallics, 2016, 35, 617.
• “Phenylsilane as a safe, versatile alternative to hydrogen for the synthesis of actinide hydrides.” J.K. Pagano, J.M. Dorhout, R. Waterman, K.R. Czerwinski and J.L. Kiplinger, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 17379.
• “Cobalt-​catalyzed ammonia borane dehydrocoupling and transfer hydrogenation under aerobic conditions.” J.K Pagano, J.P.W. Stelmach and R. Waterman, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 12074.
• “A general synthesis of phosphaalkenes at zirconium with liberation of phosphaformamides.” A.J. Roering, L.T. Elrod, J.K. Pagano, S.L. Guillot, S.M. Chan, J.M. Tanski, and R. Waterman, Dalton Trans. 2013, 42, 1159.