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Dr. Maren Pink
Director of the Molecular Structure Center
Senior Scientist in Chemistry
Research Crystallographer
Background
Activities
- Coordinator of the SCrAPS program (Service Crystallography at the Advanced Photon Source), a collaboration between researchers and service crystallographers at academic institutions to measure micro-crystals with synchrotron radiation
- Coordinator of the Reciprocal Net project
- Board member of the Women in Science Program of IU's Office for Women's Affairs
Interests
- Single crystal X-ray diffraction methods, twinning, phase transitions
- Crystallography and structural chemistry education
Recent Publications
- J.-Y. Chong, M. Pink: Bridging the Common Molecules Collection and the Science Classroom: Attractive and Inquiry-Stimulating Reciprocal Net Learning Modules. J. Chem. Educ. 2009, 86, 124; Spring CONFCHEM 2008, ACS Division of Chemical Education, Committee on Computers in Chemical Education.
- M. Miyasaka, M. Pink, S. Rajca, A. Rajca: Noncovalent Interactions in the Asymmetric Synthesis of Rigid, Conjugated Helical Structures. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 1-5
- W. Liu; M. Pink, D. Lee: Conjugated Polymer Sensors Built on π-Extended Borasiloxane Cages. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 47(20), 3769-3772.
- K.A. McNitt, K. Parimal, A.I. Share, A.C. Fahrenbach, E.H. Witlicki, M. Pink, D. Kwabena Bediako, C.L. Plaisier, N. Le, L. P. Heeringa, D.A. Vander Griend, A.H. Flood: Reduction of a Redox-Active Ligand Drives Switching in a Cu(I) Pseudorotaxane by a Bimolecular Mechanism. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 1305-1313.
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Indiana University Molecular Structure Center
