Radu Custelcean

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, .

E-mail: trimite un mesaj.

Pagina web a instituţiei: http://www.ornl.gov/

Nascut(a) in: 1972

Interese: chimie organica in faza solida, chimia materialelor, chimie supramoleculara, ingineria fazei cristaline

Details:
Education:
2000 Ph.D. Chemistry, Michigan State University, USA
1996 M.S. Organic Chemistry, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1995 B.S. Chemistry, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Research Experience:
2003-present Research Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: structural chemistry; organic crystallography; molecular and crystal host design for chemical separations
2002-2003 Researcher, Institute for Shock Physics, Washington State University: energetic materials; hydrogen-bonded materials under extreme pressures
2000-2002 Postdoctorate Associate, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota (Prof. Michael D. Ward): design, synthesis, and structural analysis of organic molecular crystals; design, synthesis, and study of hydrogen-bonded networks; organic crystallography
1996-2000 Research Assistant, Dept. of Chemistry, Michigan State University (Prof. Ned Jackson): self-assembly and supramolecular synthesis of molecular materials using hydrogen bonds; investigation of solid state reactivity and decomposition mechanisms in organic molecular crystals; organic crystallography, ab initio theoretical calculations
1993-1996 Undergraduate and Graduate Research at Babes-Bolyai University, Romania (Prof. Mircea Vlassa): synthesis and characterization of heterocyclic compounds

Publicații selectate:

* Radu Custelcean, Bruce A. Moyer and Benjamin P. Hay, A Coordinatively Saturated Sulfate Encapsulated in a Metal-Organic Framework Functionalized with Urea Hydrogen-Bonding Groups, Chemical Communications, 2005.

* Radu Custelcean and Maryna G. Gorbunova, A Metal-Organic Framework Functionalized with Free Carboxylic Acid Sites and its Selective Binding of a Cl(H2O)4 Cluster, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 2005.

* Custelcean, R.; Delmau, L. H.; Moyer, B. A.; Sessler, J. L.; Cho, W.-S.; Gross, D.; Bates, G., Calix[4]pyrrole: An Old yet New Ion-Pair Receptor, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44, 2005.

* Radu Custelcean and Zbigniew A. Dreger, Dihydrogen Bonding under High Pressure: A Raman Study of BH3NH3 Molecular Crystal, J. Phys. Chem. B, 107, 2003.

* Radu Custelcean, Michael D. Ward, Hydrogen-Bonded Helices In Crystals with Prescribed Organization, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 41, 2002.

* Radu Custelcean, James E. Jackson, Topochemical Control of Covalent Bond Formation by Dihydrogen Bonding, J Am Chem Soc, 120, 1998.

* Radu Custelcean, James E. Jackson, Tuning Dihydrogen Bonds: Enhanced Solid-State Reactivity in a Dihydrogen-Bonded System with Exceptionally Short H---H Distances, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 38, 1999.

* Radu Custelcean, Cerasela Afloroaei, Mircea Vlassa, Mihai Polverejan, Formation of Extended Tapes of Cyclic Water Hexamers in an Organic Molecular Crystal Host, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 39, 2000.

* Radu Custelcean, Mircea Vlassa, James E. Jackson, Toward Crystalline Covalent Solids: Crystal-to-Crystal Dihydrogen to Covalent Bonding Transformation in NaBH4-THEC, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 39, 2000.

* Radu Custelcean, James, E. Jackson, Topochemical Dihydrogen to Covalent Bonding Transformation in LiBH4-TEA: A Mechanistic Study, J Am Chem Soc, 122, 2000.

* Radu Custelcean, James E. Jackson, Dihydrogen Bonding: Structures, Energetics, and Dynamics, Chem. Rev., 101, 2001.

* Radu Custelcean, Mircea Vlassa, James E. Jackson, Supramolecular Synthesis through Dihydrogen Bonds: Self-Assembly of Controlled Architectures from NaBH4-Poly(2-hydroxyethyl)cyclen Building Blocks, Chem. Eur. J., 8, 2002.