Research University

Guangbin Wang

Address: *** ******** ******, **********, ** 24060

E-mail: ******@**.***, ******@*******.***, ********@**.***

Phone: 540-***-****

Immigration Status: Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card)

Specialties

Analytical Chemistry

Wet Chemistry and Electrochemistry

Polymer Characterization

SKILLS

. Experience with maintaining and operating various analytical

instruments.

. Spectroscopic techniques and method development: FT-IR, 1H and 13C NMR,

MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), Karl Fischer Titrator, pH instrument,

UV, steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence, emission and Raman

spectroscopy.

. Chromatographic techniques and method development: TLC, Flash column,

Sephadex LH-20 and HPLC, GC, GPC, LC-MS and GC-MS.

. Development, synthesis, formulation and scale-up: organic compounds.

More than 100 organic compounds and transition metal complexes have been

developed.

. Solid state analytical techniques: TGA-DSC, RD, ICP, AA, XRF, TEM and

SEM.

. Optical, magnetic and electrochemistry (Cyclic voltammetry) techniques.

. Separation techniques: extraction, crystallization and sublimation.

( Managing multiple projects and good laboratory practices (cGLP).

. Computer skills: Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, ChemDraw,

Scifinder.

. Supervisory experience and good laboratory practices (GLP)

EDUCATION

. 9/1997-8/1999, Polymer Materials, National Postdoctoral Fellowship,

Chinese Academy of Sciences

. 6/1997, Ph.D. Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University,

China

. 7/1988, M.S. Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Shaanixi Normal

University

(awarded the degree by Northwest University), China

WORKING HISTORY

1. 7/2009-6/2010, Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry, Boston

University

2. 3/2003-6/2009, Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry,

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

3. 9/2002-2/2003, Research Associate,

Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique et Mat riaux Mol culaires

(CIM2),

Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, France

4. 8/2001-8/2002, Research Associate, Institute of Physical Chemistry,

Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

5. 8/2000-7/2001, Research Associate fellowship, Molecular Opto-Electronics

Lab.,

Department of Chemistry, Korea University, South Korea

6. 11/1999-7/2000, Associate Professor (tenure track position),

Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, China

Accomplishments

. 64 Technical papers, 31 Presentations in national meetings,

. 16 Completed research projects,

. 100 and more organic, metal-organic complexes and polymers synthesized.

EXPERIENCE I: organic and analytical chemistry

1. 7/2009-6/2010, Research Scientist in organic chemistry and analytical

characterization, Dep. Chem., Boston University

? Designed, synthesized and analyzed triphenolate and trifuran organic

ligands, and their transition metal complexes of Cu(II), Ni(II) and

Mn(II), and investigated their reactivity with strong oxidizing agents.

? Designed and analyzed metal oxide nanoparticles (Fe and V) with

different surface coatings as in-bore nanosensors for oil field.

Hydrothermal synthesized NPs with hydrophilic and hydrophobic surface

coatings. NPs (V) with VxOy cores (x = 1, 2, 6, 10, 16), coating with

V=O, V-OH, CH3 and C2H5 groups. NPs (Fe) with Fe3O4, coating with

different length chains of polyethylene glycol (PEG).

2. 3/2003-6/2009, Research Scientist in organic chemistry and analytical

characterization, Dep. Chem., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State

University

? Organic compounds, methyl tricyanoethylenecarboxylate (MTCE) and ethyl

tricyanoethylenecarboxylate (ETCE) have been designed and analyzed as

one-electron acceptor building blocks for the synthesis of

decamethylmetallocene charge-transfer salts. Six compounds,

[MCp*2][MTCE], [MCp*2][ETCE], M = Cr, Mn and Fe were prepared and

structurally characterized as organic-based magnetic materials.

? Designed, synthesized, and analyzed organic radical ligands and

transition metal complexes as organic-based magnetic materials,

[MII(L)(TCNQ)n], [MII(L)(TCNE)n] (M = Mn, Fe, Ni and Co, L = organic

terminal ligands). 7,7',8,8'-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) and

tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) have been used as bridged ligands. Tris(2-

pyridylmethylamine) (TPA), tris(6-methyl-2-pyridylmethyl)amine (6-

Me3TPA), tris(pyrazol-1-ylmethyl)amine (amtp), 1,4,7-triazacyclonane

(tacn), N,N- bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-N-bis(2-pyridyl)methylamine (N4Py) and

1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane (cyclen) have been used as multidentate

blocking ligands.

? Designed, synthesized and analyzed trimetallic mixed-metal complexes as

photocatalysts, [{(bpy)2M(dpp)}2Ru(bpm)]- (PF6)6,

[{(Ph2phen)2Ru(dpp)}2Ru(bpm)](PF6)6 (M = Ru or Os, bpy = 2,2'-

bipyridine, dpp = 2,3-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine, bpm = 2,2'-bipyrimidine

and ph2phen = 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenantroline), and the tetrametallic

mixed-metal complexes, [{(bpy)2M(dpp)}2Ru(bpm)PtCl2](PF6)6, ph2phen =

4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenantroline) (M = Ru or Os), and developed their

redox, spectroscopic, and photophysical properties.

3. 9/2002-2/2003, Research Associate, Research field: organic chemistry and

analytical characterization, Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique et

Mat riaux Mol culaires, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, France.

? Designed, synthesized and analyzed optically active polymeric oxalate

based 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional transition metal complexes as

organic-based magnetic materials, ({[NBu4][Ni?Cr?(C2O4)3]}n and

[NBu4][Ni?Cr?(C2O4)3]}n), and developed their magneto-chiral dichroism,

and other optical and magnetic properties.

4. 9/1994-7/1997, Graduate Research Assistant, Research field: organic and

physical chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin,

China.

? Designed, synthesized and analyzed multidentate dipeptide ligands and

their complexes of Cu(II), Zn(II), Ni(II) and Co(II). The ligands have

been derived from pyridoxal, 2-hydroxynaphthaldehyde, salicylaldehyde, o-

vanillin and 2,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde with glycylglycine, glycyl-DL-

alanine, glycyl-DL-phenylalanine, glycyl-DL-norvaline and DL-alanyl-DL-

alanine. Developed conformational analysis and quantum chemistry using

SYBYL option implemented on SGI workstation.

EXPERIENCE II: polymer materials and analytical characterization

1. 8/2001-8/2002, Research Associate, Research field: polymer materials and

analytical characterization, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Darmstadt

University of Technology, Germany.

? Chiral side chain azo dye liquid crystalline polymers were designed

and developed as optical recording materials. The uniform thin films and

coatings were developed. Holographic grating recording was developed.

Effect of both polarization and intensity of the pump beam on the

diffraction efficiency was elucidated.

2. 87/2000-7/2001, Research Associate, Research field: organic nonlinear

optical compounds and analytical characterization of their films,

Molecular Opto-Electronics Lab., Department of Chemistry, Korea

University, Seoul, South Korea.

? Organic compounds of 1,3,5-trisubstituted benzene, 1,3,5-

trimethoxybenzene and 1,3,5-tricyanobenzene were designed, synthesized

and analyzed, and their films were prepared by sol-gel and spin-coating.

These films were as efficient nonlinear optical materials.

3. 11/1999-7/2000, Associate Professor (tenure track position), Research

field: inorganic chemistry and analytical characterization of optical

films, Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, China.

? Organic polymers and azo dye-doped polymers were designed and

analyzed as optical recording materials by coating and spin-coating.

4. 9/1997-8/1999, National Postdoctoral Fellow, Research field: organic

polymer optical films and analytical characterization, Shanghai

Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

Shanghai, China.

? Sol-gel, spin-coating and coating methods were used to make organic

azo polymer films and coatings. Different substrates were used, such as

polished single-crystal silicon, plastic and polished glass substrates.

The static optical recording properties were developed by a static

optical recording tester. These thin films can be as candidates for

short-wavelength optical recording materials. Developed the trans-cis

photoisomerization by time-resolved fluorescence spectra, using a Ti:

Sapphire laser.

Selected Publication (16)

Part I. Organic and Analytical Chemistry

1. Guangbin Wang, Carla Slebodnick, Ray J. Butcher, Gordon T. Yee,

"Synthesis, Structure and Magnetic Characterization of

Decamethylmetallocenium Ethyl Tricyanoethylenecarboxylate Charge-

Transfer Salts", Inorg. Chim. Acta, 362, 2423(2009).

2. Guangbin Wang, Carla Slebodnick and Gordon T. Yee, "Two Transition

Metal Coordination Polymers of 7,7',8,8'-Tetracyanoquinodimethane

Dianion (TCNQ2 Acta Cryst. C65, m28(2009).

3. Guangbin Wang, Carla Slebodnick, Gordon T. Yee, "Synthesis, Structure

and Magnetic Properties of a Geminal ?2-Tetracyanoethylene Radical

Anion Bridged Coordination Polymer", Inorg. Chim. Acta,

361(12-13), 3593(2008).

4. Guangbin Wang, Carla Slebodnick, Gordon T. Yee, "TCNE Dimer Dianion

Coordination Complexes, [Mn(TPA)(TCNE)]2[ 2-(TCNE)2] and

[Mn(TPA)( 4-C4(CN)8)0.5] ClO4, TPA = Tris(2-Pyridylmethyl)amine:

Synthesis, Structure and Magnetic Properties", Inorg. Chem., 46, 9641

(2007).

5. Guangbin Wang, Huifang Zhu, Jian Fan, Carla Slebodnick, Gordon T.

Yee, "Coordination Complexes with cis-TCNE Radical Anion Ligands.

Models of M[TCNE]2 Magnets", Inorg. Chem., 45, 1406(2006).

6. Guangbin Wang, Carla Slebodnick, Ray J. Butcher, Mary C. Tam, T.

Daniel Crawford, Gordon T. Yee, "A Family of Decamethylmetallocene

Charge-Transfer Salt Magnets Utilizing Methyl Tricyano-

ethylenecarboxylate as the Electron Acceptor", J. Am. Chem. Soc.,

26(51), 16890(2004).

7. Wayne Ouellette, Guangbin Wang, Hongxue liu, Gordon Yee, Charles

O'Connor, Jon Zubieta, "The Hydrothermal and Structural Chemistry of

Oxovanadium-Arylphosphonate Networks and Framework", Inorg. Chem.,

48, 953(2009).

8. Jeffrey A. Hoshiko, Guangbin Wang, Joseph W. Ziller, Gordon T. Yee

and Alan F. Heyduk, "Synthesis, Structure and Magnetism of a

{Mn[NNO]}10 Wheel", Dalton Trans., 5712( 2008).

9. Dongfeng Li, Sean Parkin, Guangbin Wang, Gordon T. Yee, Rodolphe

Cl rac, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, and Stephen M. Holmes, "An S = 6 Cyano-

bridged Octanuclear FeIII4NiII4 Complex that Exhibits Slow Relaxation

of the Magnetization", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 4214(2006).

10. Yanhui Shi, Gordon T. Yee, Guangbin Wang, Tong Ren, "A New Direction in

Carbon-Rich Organometallic Wires: Diruthenium Compounds Bridged by E-Hex-

3-ene-1, 5-diyn-diyl," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126(3), 10552(2004).

Part II. Polymer Materials

11. Mikhail Kozlovsky, Fedor Podgornov, Guangbin Wang, Wolfgang Hasse,

"Photoselection-Governed Holographic Grating Recording in a Chiral

Side Chain Azo Dye Liquid Crystalline Polymer," Phys. Status Solidi

A,198(1), 242(2003).

12. Guangbin Wang, Fuxi Gan, et al., "Spectroscopic Investigations of A

Novel Push-Pull Azo Compound Embedded in Rigid Polymer", J. Phys.

Chem. Solids, 63(3), 501(2002).

13. Guangbin Wang, Fuxi Gan, "Optical Parameter and Absorption Studies of

Azo Dye-Doped Polymer Thin Films on Silicon", Mater. Lett., 43,

6(2000).

14. Guangbin Wang, Lisong Hou, Fuxi Gan, "Thermal and Optical

Characterization of Push-Pull Azo Dye- Doped Poly(methylmethacrylate)

Thin Film as Short Wavelength Optical Recording Media", Mater. Sci.

Eng., B65, 75(1999).

15. Guangbin Wang, Lisong Hou, Fuxi Gan, "Optical Storage Properties of

Novel Azo Dye-Doped Polymer Thin Films", Phys. Status Solidi A, 174(2),

269(1999).

16. Fuxi Gan, Lisong Hou, Guangbin Wang, Huiyong Liu, Jing Li, "Optical and

Recording Properties of Short Wavelength Optical Storage Materials,"

Mater. Sci. Eng, B76, 63 (2000).

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