Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Education:
B.S., State University of New York, College at Geneseo, 1998
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2004
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2004-2007

Research Areas:

• Design and Synthesis of Supramolecular Coordination Compounds
• Fundamentals of Electron Transfer in Inorganic Materials
• Electrochemistry and Spectroscopy of Inorganic Compounds
• Development of Redox Catalysts for Solar Fuel Formation
• Surface Functionalization and Modification Techniques

Selected Publications:
Collman, James. P.; Yan, Yi-Long; Lei, Jianping; Dinolfo, Peter H. “Active-Site Models of Bacterial Nitric Oxide Reductase Featuring Tris-Histidyl and Glutamic Acid Mimics: Influence of Carboxylate Ligand on FeB Binding and Heme Fe/FeB Redox Potentials,” Inorg. Chem, 2006, 45, 7581-7583.

Dinolfo, Peter H.; Coropceanu, Veaceslav; Brédas, Jean-Luc; Hupp, Joseph T. “A New Class of Mixed-Valence Systems with Orbitally Degenerate Organic Redox Centers. Examples Based on Hexa-Rhenium Triangular Molecular Prisms,” J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 12592-12593.

Collman, James. P.; Yan, Yi-Long; Lei, Jianping; Dinolfo, Peter H. “Efficient Synthesis of Trisimidazole and Glutaric Acid Bearing Porphyrins: Ligands for Active-Site Models of Bacterial Nitric Oxide Reductase,” Org. Lett., 2006, 8, 923-926.

Devaraj, Neal K.; Dinolfo, Peter H.; Chidsey, Christopher E. D.; Collman, James P. “ Selective Functionalization of Independently Addressed Microelectrodes by Electrochemical Activation and Deactivation of a Coupling Catalyst,” J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 1794-1795.

Editor's Choice Highlight for Chemistry in Science, Volume 311, Number 5762, Issue of February 10, 2006, page 744.

D’Alessandro, Deanna M.; Dinolfo, Peter H.; Davies, Murray S.; Hupp, Joseph T.; Keene, F. Richard. “The Underlying Spin-Orbit Coupling Structure of Intervalence Charge Transfer Bands in Dinuclear Polypyridyl Complexes of Ruthenium and Osmium,” Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 3261-3274.

D’Alessandro, Deanna M.; Dinolfo, Peter H.; Hupp, Joseph T.; Junk, Peter C.; Keene, F. R. “The Effective Electron Transfer Distance in Dinuclear Ruthenium Complexes Containing the Unsymmetrical Bridging Ligand 3,5-bis(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazolate,” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2006, 2006, 772 - 783.

Dinolfo, Peter H.; Benkstein, Kurt D.; Stern, Charlotte L.; Hupp, Joseph T. “C- and Z- Shaped Coordination Compounds. Synthesis, Structure and Electrochemical Examination of cis and trans [Re(CO)3(L)]2-2,2’-bisbenzimidizolate with L = 4-Phenylpyridine, 2,4’-Bipyridine, or Pyridine,” Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 8707-8714.

Dinolfo, Peter H.; Williams, Robert D.; Hupp, Joseph T. “Contrasting Electroabsorbance Behavior of Two Borderline Class II/Class III Mixed Valence Systems,” Chem. Phys. , 2005, 319, 28-38.

Dinolfo, Peter H.; Lee, Suk-Joong; Coropceanu, Veaceslav; Brédas, Jean-Luc.; Hupp, Joseph T. "Borderline Class II/III Ligand-Centered Mixed-Valency in a Porphyrinic Molecular Rectangle," Inorg. Chem. , 2005, 44, 5789-5797.

Dinolfo, Peter H.; Hupp, Joseph T. “Tetra-Rhenium Molecular Rectangles as Organizational Motifs for the Investigation of Ligand-Centered Mixed-Valency: Three Examples of Full Delocalization,” J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 16814 -16819.

Dinolfo, Peter H.; Williams, Mary Elizabeth; Stern, Charlotte L.; Hupp, Joseph T. “Rhenium Based Molecular Rectangles as Frameworks for Ligand-Centered Mixed Valency and Optical Electron Transfer,” J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 12989 -13001.

Dinolfo, Peter H.; Sun, Shih-Sheng; Hupp, Joseph T. “Molecular Squares, Boxes, and Cubes.” Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry, J. L. Atwood, J. W. Steed, Eds., Marcel Dekker, 2004, 909-916.

Williams, Mary Elizabeth; Benkstein, Kurt D.; Abel, Christina; Dinolfo, Peter H.; Hupp, Joseph T. "Shape-Selective Transport through Rectangle Based Molecular Materials: thin-Film Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Studies," Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Sci., 2002, 99, 5171-5177.

Dinolfo, Peter H.; Hupp, Joseph T. “Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry and Functional Microporous Molecular Materials,” Chem. Mater., 2001, 13, 3113-3125.