Connie C. Lu

Connie C. Lu
盧之瑜
Born
Connie Chih Lu
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology B.S. (2000)
California Institute of Technology Ph.D. (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsInorganic chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Catalysis
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota (2009-present)
Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry (2006-2009)
ThesisThe Chemistry of Tris(phosphino)borate Manganese and Iron Platforms (2006)
Doctoral advisorJonas C. Peters
Other academic advisorsKarl Wieghardt
Websitelu.chem.umn.edu

Connie C. Lu is a Taiwanese-American inorganic chemist and a professor of chemistry at the University of Bonn. She was previously a professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.[1] Lu's research focuses on the synthesis of novel bimetallic coordination complexes,[2] as well as metal-organic frameworks. These molecules and materials are investigated for the catalytic conversion of small molecules like as N2 and CO2 into value-added chemicals like ammonia and methanol. Lu is the recipient of multiple awards for her research, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award[3] and the Sloan Research Fellowship[4] in 2013, and an Early Career Award from the University of Minnesota's Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment in 2010.[5]

Early life and education

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Lu grew up in Miami, Florida, the daughter of immigrants from Taiwan.[6] She studied chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning her B.S. in 2000.[1] As an undergraduate, she conducted research under Prof. Vernon Ingram on peptides that ameliorate amyloid beta neurotoxicity.[7]

She then went on to graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, where she studied novel coordination chemistry and small molecule reactivity with Prof. Jonas C. Peters. Lu's doctoral work focused on the reactivity of zwitterionic palladium(II) complexes with CO, ethylene and amines,[8][9] as well as tetrahedral manganese complexes[10] and reductive cleavage of CO2 with an iron(I) complex.[11] She earned her Ph.D. in 2006, with a thesis entitled The Chemistry of Tris(phosphino)borate Manganese and Iron Platforms.[12]

Lu conducted postdoctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry from 2006 to 2009, under the mentorship of Prof. Karl Wieghardt. Under Wieghardt, Lu studied first-row transition metal complexes synthesized with redox non-innocent α-iminopyridine ligands.[13][14][15] Lu also reported the synthesis and characterization of a chromium iminyl radical complex, using the α-iminopyridine ligand system.[16]

Independent career

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A heterobimetallic coordination complex prepared by Lu and coworkers, bearing a quintuple metal-metal bond, with Mn-Cr bond distance of 1.8192(9) Å.[17]

In 2009, Lu began her independent career at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities as an assistant professor in the department of chemistry.[18] She was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2015, and full professor in 2020.[18] She moved her laboratory to the University of Bonn in 2022.

Her research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of bimetallic complexes, especially those that contain a metal-metal bond. The Lu group has developed a series of trianionic, tripodal ligands that can coordinate two metals at close proximity, allowing for the formation for a metal-metal bond in a coordination complex.[2] The metal-metal bond order can range from bond orders of less than one to a quintuple bond, as between manganese and chromium in a complex reported in 2013,[17] and between two chromium atoms in a complex reported in 2015.[19]

These coordination complexes are also active for catalytic reactions of small molecules, such as the silylation of nitrogen by a dicobalt complex,[20] and alkene hydrogenation by nickel-group 13 element complexes.[21]

Awards

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Lu was named an Outstanding Reviewer of the journal Chemical Society Reviews in 2018[22] and 2019,[23] featured in a 2018 JACS Young Investigators Virtual Issue,[24] and named a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow in 2013.[25] She has been honored with invited speaking engagements, as she gave a plenary lecture at a Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Conference in 2018,[26] and the Association for Cultural Diversity in Chemistry Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016.[27] In 2017, Lu was invited to be a speaker at the Indo-US Workshop on Organometallic Chemistry[28] and a Inorganic Chemistry Young Outstanding Upcoming speaker at Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry in Kolkata, India.[29]

Memberships

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Lu is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Royal Chemical Society,[18] and has served on the editorial advisory board of Chemical Society Reviews since 2016.[30] She also served on the Inorganic Chemistry editorial advisory board from 2016 to 2018.[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Connie C. Lu | Department of Chemistry | College of Science and Engineering". cse.umn.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  2. ^ a b Eisenhart, Reed J.; Clouston, Laura J.; Lu, Connie C. (2015-10-22). "Configuring Bonds between First-Row Transition Metals". Accounts of Chemical Research. 48 (11): 2885–2894. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00336. ISSN 0001-4842. PMID 26492331.
  3. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1254621 - CAREER: Configuring New Bonds Between First-row Transition Metals". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  4. ^ "Past Fellows | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation". sloan.org. Archived from the original on 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  5. ^ "Professors Lu and Massari awarded Early Career Grants from the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment". University of Minnesota Chemistry Department. May 5, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  6. ^ Pattison, Kermit. "Connie Lu: Changing times | College | College of Science and Engineering". cse.umn.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  7. ^ Blanchard, Barbara J.; Hiniker, Anne E.; Lu, Connie C.; Margolin, Yelena; Yu, Amy S.; Ingram, Vernon M. (2000-01-01). "Elimination of Amyloid β Neurotoxicity". Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 2 (2): 137–149. doi:10.3233/JAD-2000-2214. ISSN 1387-2877. PMID 12214104.
  8. ^ Lu, Connie C.; Peters, Jonas C. (2002). "Catalytic Copolymerization of CO and Ethylene with a Charge Neutral Palladium(II) Zwitterion". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124 (19): 5272–5273. doi:10.1021/ja017011s. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 11996560.
  9. ^ Lu, Connie C.; Peters, Jonas C. (2004). "Synthetic, Structural, and Mechanistic Aspects of an Amine Activation Process Mediated at a Zwitterionic Pd(II) Center". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126 (48): 15818–15832. doi:10.1021/ja046415s. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 15571407.
  10. ^ Lu, Connie C.; Peters, Jonas C. (2006). "Pseudotetrahedral Manganese Complexes Supported by the Anionic Tris(phosphino)borate Ligand [PhBPiPr3]". Inorganic Chemistry. 45 (21): 8597–8607. doi:10.1021/ic060735q. ISSN 0020-1669. PMC 2920598. PMID 17029370.
  11. ^ Lu, Connie C.; Saouma, Caroline T.; Day, Michael W.; Peters, Jonas C. (2006-12-16). "Fe(I)-Mediated Reductive Cleavage and Coupling of CO2: An FeII(μ-O,μ-CO)FeII Core". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129 (1): 4–5. doi:10.1021/ja065524z. ISSN 0002-7863. PMC 2888261. PMID 17199260.
  12. ^ Lu, Connie Chih (2006). The Chemistry of Tris(phosphino)borate Manganese and Iron Platforms (Ph.D. thesis). California Institute of Technology.
  13. ^ Lu, Connie C.; Bill, Eckhard; Weyhermüller, Thomas; Bothe, Eberhard; Wieghardt, Karl (2007-09-01). "The Monoanionic π-Radical Redox State of α-Iminoketones in Bis(ligand)metal Complexes of Nickel and Cobalt". Inorganic Chemistry. 46 (19): 7880–7889. doi:10.1021/ic7008094. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 17715916.
  14. ^ Lu, Connie C.; Bill, Eckhard; Weyhermüller, Thomas; Bothe, Eberhard; Wieghardt, Karl (2008). "Neutral Bis(α-iminopyridine)metal Complexes of the First-Row Transition Ions (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn) and Their Monocationic Analogues: Mixed Valency Involving a Redox Noninnocent Ligand System". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130 (10): 3181–3197. doi:10.1021/ja710663n. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 18284242.
  15. ^ Lu, Connie C.; Weyhermüller, Thomas; Bill, Eckhard; Wieghardt, Karl (2009-05-28). "Accessing the Different Redox States of α-Iminopyridines within Cobalt Complexes". Inorganic Chemistry. 48 (13): 6055–6064. doi:10.1021/ic9004328. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 20507103.
  16. ^ Lu, Connie C.; DeBeer George, Serena; Weyhermüller, Thomas; Bill, Eckhard; Bothe, Eberhard; Wieghardt, Karl (2008). "An Electron-Transfer Series of High-Valent Chromium Complexes with Redox Non-Innocent, Non-Heme Ligands". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47 (34): 6384–6387. doi:10.1002/anie.200800669. ISSN 1521-3773. PMID 18618881.
  17. ^ a b Clouston, Laura J.; Siedschlag, Randall B.; Rudd, P. Alex; Planas, Nora; Hu, Shuxian; Miller, Adam D.; Gagliardi, Laura; Lu, Connie C. (2013-08-23). "Systematic Variation of Metal–Metal Bond Order in Metal–Chromium Complexes". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135 (35): 13142–13148. doi:10.1021/ja406506m. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 23901938.
  18. ^ a b c d "Connie Lu promoted to professor | Department of Chemistry | College of Science and Engineering". cse.umn.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  19. ^ Eisenhart, Reed J.; Rudd, P. Alex; Planas, Nora; Boyce, David W.; Carlson, Rebecca K.; Tolman, William B.; Bill, Eckhard; Gagliardi, Laura; Lu, Connie C. (2015-07-13). "Pushing the Limits of Delta Bonding in Metal–Chromium Complexes with Redox Changes and Metal Swapping". Inorganic Chemistry. 54 (15): 7579–7592. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01163. ISSN 0020-1669. PMC 5960016. PMID 26168331.
  20. ^ Siedschlag, Randall B.; Bernales, Varinia; Vogiatzis, Konstantinos D.; Planas, Nora; Clouston, Laura J.; Bill, Eckhard; Gagliardi, Laura; Lu, Connie C. (2015-04-06). "Catalytic Silylation of Dinitrogen with a Dicobalt Complex". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (14): 4638–4641. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b01445. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 25799204.
  21. ^ Cammarota, Ryan C.; Lu, Connie C. (2015-09-24). "Tuning Nickel with Lewis Acidic Group 13 Metalloligands for Catalytic Olefin Hydrogenation". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (39): 12486–12489. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b08313. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 26378748.
  22. ^ "Outstanding Reviewers for Chemical Society Reviews in 2018". Chemical Society Reviews. 48 (8): 2273. 2019-04-15. doi:10.1039/C9CS90026H. ISSN 1460-4744. S2CID 96435297.
  23. ^ "Outstanding Reviewers for Chemical Society Reviews in 2019". Chemical Society Reviews. 49 (11): 3243. 2020-06-08. doi:10.1039/D0CS90047H. ISSN 1460-4744. S2CID 219173084.
  24. ^ "JACS Young Investigators Virtual Issue". pubs.acs.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  25. ^ "Connie Lu". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  26. ^ "Dalton 2018". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  27. ^ "ACDC Event Photos". acdc.chem.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  28. ^ "Virtual Issue: Celebrating Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Published by Authors in India". ACS Axial. 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  29. ^ "Speakers - Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry". January 7, 2017. Archived from the original on 2016-09-08.
  30. ^ "Chemical Society Reviews journal". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
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