Sylvester, Emily (Volpe)

B.S.: Chemistry at Georgetown in 2004

M.S., Ph.D.: Inorganic Chemistry at Cornell University with Pete Wolczanski in 2010

teaching assistant professor: Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA

Publications

  • “Aryl-Oxazoline Chelates of First-Row Transition Metals Structures of {κ-C,N-(o-C6H4)CMe2(COCH2CMe2N)}FeCl(py) and [(κ-C,N-(o-C6H4)CMe2(COCH2CMe2N)}Cr(µ-Cl)]2” E.C. Volpe, D.R. Manke, E.R. Bartholomew, P.T. Wolczanski and E.B. Lobkovsky, Organometallics 2010, 29, 6642.
  • “Aryl-Containing Pyridine-Imine and Azaallyl Chelates of Iron toward Strong Field Coordination Compounds” E.C. Volpe, P.T. Wolczanski and E.B. Lobkovsky, Organometallics 2010, 29, 364.
  • “Heterolytic CH-bond activation in the synthesis of Ni{(2-aryl-κ-C-2)pyridine-κ-N}2 and derivatives” E.C. Volpe, E.R. Chadeayne, P.T. Wolczanski and E.B. Lobkovsky, J. Organomet. Chem. 2007, 692, 4774.
  • “Chiral dihydropyranones via hetero Diels-Alder reaction of Danishefsky’s diene and alpha-ketoesters: a high-throughput screening approach.” C. Wolf, Z. Fadul, P.A. Hawes and E.C. Volpe, Tet. Assym. 2004, 15, 1987.
  • “A convenient method for the determination of the absolute configuration of chiral amines.” C. Wolf, L. Pranatharthiharan and E.C. Volpe, J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 3287.