Texas A&M University

Department of Chemistry

3255 TAMU

College Station, Texas 77843

Ph: 979-862-2070 (Office)

Email: francois@tamu.edu

Professional Preparation

Université de Bordeaux I, Chemistry, M.S.                                           1990

University of Texas at Austin, Inorganic Chemistry, Ph.D.                      1994

Postdoctoral Fellow, Technische Universität München                           1994-1996

Dr. Rer. Nat. Habil, Chemie, Technische Universität München               1999

Appointments

2006                   Professor, Texas A&M University

2003-2006          Associate Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University

1998-2003          Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University

1996-1998          Habilitand, Technische Universität München

1994-1996          Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Technische Universität München

1990-1994          Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin

Awards and Honors

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, TU München, (1994-1996)

Marie Curie European Commission Research Fellowship, TU. München (1996-1998)

NSF Career Award (2001)

Editorial Board Member of Heteroatom Chemistry starting in 2004

Editorial Board Member of Main Group Chemistry starting in 2006

Editorial Board Member of Organometallics starting in 2007

Editorial Board Member of Chemistry Central Journal starting in 2007

Membership

American Chemical Society

Marie Curie Fellowship Association

Committee work

University Level

2000-present       Academic coordinator - TransAtlantic Science Student Exchange

2001-present       Chair of the X-ray powder user’s group

2005-present       Member of the Service Courses Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

2005-present       Chair of the Inorganic Division

2005-2006          Member of the Department Head Selection Committee
2005-present       Member of the Department of Chemistry Executive Committee

2007-present       co-Chair of the Chair Search Committee

National Level

2008-present     Award Coordinator for the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry

Teaching experience

Freshman Chemistry
Undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry
Undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
Graduate Main Group Chemistry
Graduate Organometallic Chemistry
Graduate Supramolecular Chemistry

Current research group

Ching-Wen Chiu, graduate student

Christopher Dorsey, graduate student

Todd Hudnall, graduate student

Chammi Palehepitiya Gamage, postdoc

Bryan Carroll , undergraduate student

Sirinan Kulchat, undergraduate visiting scholar

Youngmin Kim, graduate student

Casey Wade, graduate student

Mieock Kim, postdoc

Takeshi Matsumoto, postdoc

Haiyan Zhao, graduate student

Tzu-Pin Lin, graduate student

Former Students

Dr. Martin Tschinkl, Researcher at Infineon Technologies, Dresden, Germany

Dr. James D. Hoefelmeyer, Assistant Prof. at The University of South Dakota

Dr. Julie B. King, Postdoc at Washington University Medical School

Dr. Mason Haneline, Postdoc at UC Irvine

Dr. Alexandre Picot, Lecturer, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France

Dr. Huadong Wang, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Münster, Germany

Dr. Charlotte Burress, Halliburton, Houston

Dr. Thomas Taylor, Postdoc at the University of Bristol

Former postdocs and visiting scholars

Dr. James Gardinier (Postdoc 1999-2001), Marquette University, Assistant Prof.

Dr. Marcus Schulte (Alexander von Humboldt fellow 2000-2001)
Dr. Quancai Liu (2002-2003), East China Normal University, Assistant Prof.
Dr. Stephane Sole (August 2002 to December 2003)
Dr. Ganesan Mani (July 2002 to July 2004)

Prof. Mitsukimi Tsunoda (Visiting Scholar) U. Sao Carlos, Brazil

Dr. Mingxing Qian (2005-2006)

Dr. Mohand Melaimi (2004-2006), Charge de Recherche with the CNRS at UC Riverside

Dr Min Hyung Lee (2006-2007), KAIST, Korea

Professional activities

Journal Referee for: Science; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Organometallics; Inorganic Chemistry; Organic Letters; Angewandte Chemie; Chemisrtry, a European Journal; European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry; Chemical Communication; Dalton Transactions; Australian Journal of Chemistry, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry Reviews; Polyhedron; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry.  Grant Reviewer for : NSF, DOE, PRF, Research Corporation, Royal Society (UK), Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria), NSERC (Canada).

Publications

http://www.chem.tamu.edu/rgroup/gabbai/Publications.html

Patents

• Gabbaï, Francois P.; Mani, Ganesan; Pope, David S.; Brown, Jimmy D.; Wharry, Donald L.; Hulburt, Paul K. “Catalyst composition, method of making same and its use in olefin oligomerization or polymerization” Eur. Pat. Appl.  (2004), 13 pp. CODEN: EPXXDW EP 1477492 A1 20041117 CAN 141:411402  AN 2004:984856.

Invited Lectures

• "Indium and Mercury-Based Polyfunctional Lewis Acids as Nucleophile Receptors and Building-Blocks in Self-Assembled Supramolecules", University College Galway, Galway, Ireland, Oct. 15, 1997.
• "Polyfunktionelle Lewis-Sauren mit Elementen der Gruppen 12 und 13 als elektrophile Zentren", Carl von Ossietzky Iniversität, Oldenburg, Germany, Dec. 8, 1997.
• "Bifunctional Lewis Acids as Nucleophile Receptors and Building-Blocks for Self-Assembled Supramolecules" Departmental Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Jan. 19, 1998.
• "Bifunctional Lewis Acids as Nucleophile Receptors and Building-Blocks for Self-Assembled Supramolecules" Departmental Seminar, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, Jan. 28, 1998.
• "Synthèse et Etude de Nouveaux Acides de Lewis Polyfonctionnels", Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, June. 12, 1998.
• "Supramolecular Chemistry of Bifunctional Lewis Acids ", NSF Inorganic Workshop, ACS Belmont Conference Center, June 5, 1999.
• "Acides de Lewis polyfonctionnels - Synthèse, reconnaissance moléculaires et formation de réseaux" Lecture at the Mini Symposium organized on the Occasion of Guy Bertrand's CNRS Silver Medal, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, Toulouse, France, Sept. 21, 1999.
• "Bifunctional Lewis Acids in Molecular Recognition and Self Assembly" Department Seminar, Department of Chemistry, College of Charleston, Nov. 4, 1999.
• "Bifunctional Lewis Acids in Molecular Recognition and Self Assembly" Department Seminar, Department of Chemistry, UNC Charlotte, Nov. 8, 1999.
• "Biomineralization" Probevorlesung, Technische Universität München, Chemie, Nov. 25, 1999.
• "Bidentate Lewis Acids in Microporous Solids, Molecular Receptors and Persistent Radicals" Department Seminar, Purdue, February 15, 2000.
• "Polyfunctional Lewis Acid Catalysts", Southwest Catalysis Society Fall Meeting, Houston, November 17, 2000.
• "Cooperative effects in the chemistry of polyfunctional Lewis acids - Material synthesis, molecular recognition and catalysis" Department Seminar, UT Dallas, December 6, 2000.
• "Polyfunctional Lewis Acids as Supramolecular Synthons" Crystal Engineering Symposium, Southeast/Southwest ACS Meeting, New Orleans, December 8, 2000.
• "Boron and gallium polydentate Lewis acids: Anion complexation and reduction chemistry" - Invited Speaker - Symposium on New Developments in the Chemistry of Group 13 - 221st National ACS Meeting - Abstract # Inorg. 304 - San Diego - April 5, 2001.
• "Nouvelles directions dans la chimie des acides de Lewis polyfonctionnels" Ecole Normale Supérieure - Lyon - France - May 15, 2001
• "Nouvelles directions dans la chimie des acides de Lewis polyfonctionnels" Department of Chemistry - Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse - France - May 16, 2001.
• "Group 12 and 13 polyfunctional Lewis acids - Host-guest chemistry, catalysis and one-electron -bonded complexes" - Invited Speaker - Multifunctional Lewis Acids Symposium - CSC Meeting - Montreal - May 28, 2001.
• "New directions in the chemistry of polyfunctional Lewis acids" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry - Queens University - Kingston - Canada – May 31, 2001.
• "New directions in the chemistry of polyfunctional Lewis acids" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry - University of Ottawa - Canada – June 1, 2001.
• "Recent development in the chemistry of polyfunctional Lewis acids" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry - Baylor University – August 24, 2001.
• "Reduction of polydentate boranes and supramolecular stacks containing trinuclear organomercurials" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry - UC Davis – December 6, 2001.
• "Reduction of polydentate boranes and supramolecular stacks containing trinuclear organomercurials" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry - UC Berkeley – December 7, 2001.
• "Reduction of polydentate boranes and supramolecular stacks containing trinuclear organomercurials" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry - University of Alberta - Edmonton - Canada – January 17, 2002.
• "Reduction of polydentate boranes and supramolecular stacks containing trinuclear organomercurials" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry - University of Calgary - Canada – January 18, 2002.
• “Polyfunctional Lewis acids in supramolecular assemblies” Invited Speaker - Symposium on Finite and Infinite Polygonal Assemblies– 223rd National ACS Meeting - Abstract # Inorg-218 - Orlando - April 9, 2002.
• "Reduction of polydentate boranes and supramolecular stacks containing trinuclear organomercurials" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry - University of Oklahoma – April 25, 2002.
• "Organometallic Polydentate Lewis Acids" Invited Speaker - 2002 Organometallic Gordon Conference - Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, July 23, 2002.
• "Boron and Mercury Polyfunctional Lewis Acids - Formation of Unusual Radicals and Supramolecules" Invited Speaker - 2002 Inorganic Gordon Conference - Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, July 30, 2002.
• "Polyfuctional Lewis Acids: from Materials to Catalysis" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry -University of Florida - September 16, 2002
• "Acides de Lewis Polyfonctionnels" Departmental Seminar – Ecole Polytechnique – Palaiseau -October 14, 2002
• "Polyfuctional Lewis Acids" Departmental Seminar - Technische Universität München, Chemie, October 16, 2002.
• "Acides de Lewis Polyfonctionnels" Departmental Seminar – Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, October 17, 2002.
• "Synthesis and Reduction of Polyfunctional Group 13 Lewis Acids" Invited Speaker - Symposium on Organometallic Main Group Chemistry:  Fundamental and Applied Aspects – 58th Southwest Regional ACS Meeting - Abstract # 161 - Austin – November 5, 2002.
• "Polyfunctional Lewis Acids as Supramolecular Synthons" Invited Speaker - Symposium on Self-Assembly, Molecular Recognition and Host-Guest Interactions in Organic Systems – 58th Southwest Regional ACS Meeting - Abstract # 289 - Austin – November 6, 2002.
• "Polyfunctional Main-Group Lewis Acids" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry -University of New Orleans - September 16, 2002.
• "Polyfunctional Main-Group Lewis Acids" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry –California Institute of Technology – March 3rd, 2003.
• "Polyfunctional Main-Group Lewis Acids" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry –UC Riverside – March 5th, 2003.
• "Formation of boron-boron one-electron sigma bonds" Invited talk – Symposium on Contemporary Aspects of Chemical Bonding - 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, September 11, 2003, ORGN-666.
• "Cooperative effects in the chemistry of polyfunctional Lewis acids" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry –University of North Texas – November 31, 2003.
• "Cooperative effects in polydentate Lewis acids" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry –University of Iowa – January 30, 2004.
• "Cooperative effects in the chemistry of polyfunctional Lewis acids" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry – Rutgers Newark – February 6, 2004.
• "1,8-Diboryl-naphtalenes and isoelectronic 1,8-dimethylium-naphtalenes as bidentate Lewis acids – Synthesis and anion complexation" Invited talk – Symposium on Modern Aspects of Main Group Chemistry - 227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 31, 2004, INOR-802.
• "Room temperature phosphorescent supramolecules containing [o-C6F4Hg]3 and arenes"Invited talk – Symposium on Optoelectronic Properties of Transition Metal Complexes in Honor of Professor John Fackler - 60th Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Fort Worth, TX, United States, Sept 30 , 2004.
• “Polyfunctional Lewis acidic molecules” Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry – Centre College – October 19, 2004.
• "Polyfunctional Lewis acidic molecules" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry –University of Colorado at Boulder – December 7, 2004.
•  “Polyfunctional Lewis acidic molecules” - Department of Chemistry – Oklahoma State – January 20, 2005.
• "Polyfunctional Lewis acidic molecules" Departmental Seminar - Department of Chemistry – Brandeis University – February 15, 2005.
• "Polyfunctional Lewis acidic molecules" Harvard/MIT Inorganic Seminar - Department of Chemistry – MIT/Harvard – February 16, 2005.
• "Heavy atom effects in the chemistry of [o-C6F4Hg]3" Symposium in the honor of Philip P. Power at the 229th National ACS meeting in San Diego, California - March 13-17, 2005.
• “Polyfunctional Lewis acids as fluoride receptors”, NSF Inorganic Workshop, Lansdowne Resort, Virginia, June 7-June 10, 2005.
• “1,8-Bis(methylium)naphthalenediyl dications” International Symposium on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 7-12, 2005.
• "Fluoride complexation by Polydentate Lewis acids" - Departmental Seminar - Texas State University - October 17, 2005.
• "Fluoride Complexation by Bidentate Lewis Acids" - Departmental Seminar - Texas A&M University – October 20, 2005.
• “Polyfunctional Lewis acidic boranes as fluoride receptors” – Pacifichem 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii – December 18, 2005.
• “Fluoride Complexation by Polydentate Lewis Acids containing Boron and Mercury” – Columbia University – January 19, 2006.
• “Fluoride Complexation by Polydentate Lewis Acids containing Boron and Mercury” – Michigan State University – February 6, 2006.
• “Fluoride Complexation by Polydentate Lewis Acids containing Boron and Mercury” – University of Victoria – February 27, 2006.
• “Fluoride Complexation by Polydentate Lewis Acids containing Boron and Mercury” – University of British Columbia – February 28, 2006.
• “Fluoride Complexation by Polydentate Lewis Acids Containing Boron and Mercury” – Simon Fraser University– February 29, 2006.
• “B/Hg Polydentate Lewis Acids: Anion Complexation and Electrochemistry” - 89th Canadian Chemistry Conference – Halifax – May 28, 2006.
• “Heavy Atom Effects in The Chemistry of Polyfunctional Lewis Acids Containing Mercury” – 11th International Symposium on Inorganic Ring Systems – Oulu – August 4, 2006.
• “Cooperative Effects in the Chemistry of Polyfunctional Lewis Acids Containing Mercury” - International COE Symposium for Young Scientists on Frontiers of Molecular Science – Tokyo University – August 25, 2006.
• “Polyfunctional and cationic boranes – Reduction Chemistry and Anion Complexation” – 2nd International Symposium of the Core-to-Core Program on Main Group Chemistry – Tokyo University – August 27, 2006.
• “B/Hg Polydentate Lewis Acids: Anion Complexation and Electrochemistry” – Symposium on Polyfunctional Boranes – 232nd National ACS meeting in San Francisco, California – September 10, 2006.
• “Polyfunctional and Cationic Boranes – Reduction Chemistry and Anion Complexation” – Indiana University – September 19, 2006.
• “Polyfunctional and Cationic Boranes – Reduction Chemistry and Anion Complexation” – Notre Dame – September 21, 2006.
• “Polyfunctional and Cationic Boranes – Reduction Chemistry and Anion Complexation” – The University of Texas at Austin – September 27, 2006.
• “Polyfunctional and Cationic Boranes – Reduction Chemistry and Anion Complexation” – Texas Lutheran University – October 27, 2006.
• “Polyfunctional and Cationic Boranes – Reduction Chemistry and Anion Complexation” – Texas Christian University – November 2, 2006.
• “Polyfunctional and Cationic Boranes – Reduction Chemistry and Anion Complexation” – The University of Texas at Arlington – November 3, 2006.
• “Neutral and cationic Lewis acids – Synthesis, reduction and anion complexation” – Cardiff University – December 15, 2006.
• “Cationic boranes. Synthesis, reduction chemistry and anion complexation. ” – International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry 8 – Riverside – August 14, 2007.
• “Neutral and cationic boranes as anion receptors” – 234th National ACS meeting in Boston, Massachusetts – August 21, 2007.
• “Cationic boranes - Anion complexation and reduction chemistry” – University of Oregon – November 16, 2007
• “Cationic boranes. Synthesis, reduction chemistry and anion complexation” – Bristol – December 5, 2007.
• “Cationic boranes. Synthesis, reduction chemistry and anion complexation” – Oxford – December 6, 2007.
• “Cationic boranes. Synthesis, reduction chemistry and anion complexation” – University College London – December 7, 2007.
• “Coordination of fluoride and cyanide ions to cationic boranes in aqueous solution” Zing Coordination Chemistry Conference – Cancun – March 6, 2008.
• Cationic boranes. Synthesis, reduction chemistry and anion complexation” – PennState – March 24, 2008.

• Cationic Dipyrromethene Boron Compounds for Anion Sensing – 91st Canadian Chemistry Conference – Edmonton – May 28, 2008.
• Dalton Discussion 11: The Renaissance of Main Group Chemistry – June 23-25, 2008.
• International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry – Las Vegas – July 13-18, 2008.
• ImeBoron XIII – Platja d’Aro, Spain – September 21-25, 2008.
• “42nd IUPAC Congress” Glasgow – August 3-7, 2009.