Maren Pink

Associate Scientist in Chemistry
Crystallographer

• Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (Prof. J. Sieler), Fakultät für Chemie und Mineralogie, Universität Leipzig, Germany, 1997
• Research fellow in the Photochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry Group (Prof. V. Balzani), Università di Bologna (Italy), European Project: "Ru-Mn Artificial Photosynthesis."
• Postdoctoral research associate in the X-ray Crystallographic Laboratory of the Chemistry Department of the University of Minnesota (V. Young, Jr., Ph.D.), Twin Cities.

• Coordinator of the SCrAPS program (Service Crystallography at Advanced Photon Sources), a collaboration between researchers and service crystallographers at academic institutions to measure micro-crystals with synchrotron radiation at National Laboratories
• Coordinator of the Reciprocal Net project

• Single crystal X-ray diffraction methods, twinning, phase transitions
• Crystallography and structural chemistry education

• M. Pink, J. Sieler: Diverse coordination modes in solvated alkali metal phenolates: The crystal structures of rubidium phenolate x 3 phenol and cesium phenolate x 2 phenol. Inorg. Chim. Acta. 2007, 360, 1221-1225.
• A. Rajca, S. Rajca, M. Pink, M. Miyasaka: Annelated, Chiral π-Conjugated Systems: Tetraphenylenes and Helical β-Oligothiophenes. Synlett 2007, 12, 1799-1822
• O.V. Ozerov, L.A. Watson, M. Pink, K. G. Caulton: Operationally Unsaturated Pincer/Rhenium Complexes Form Metal Carbenes from Cycloalkenes and Metal Carbynes from Alkanes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6003-6016.
• L.M. Bronstein, X. Huang, J. Retrum, A. Schmucker, M. Pink, B.D. Stein, B. Dragnea: Influence of Iron Oleate Complex Structure on Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Formation. Chem. Mater. 2007, 19, 3624-3632.

IU, Bloomington
Dept. of Chemistry
Chemistry Library