Former Ozerov Group Members

Rafael Huacuja

 

Rafael Huacuja graduated from Cornell University, and then joined the graduate program at Texas A&M in 2008 and the Ozerov group in October of that year. Rafael worked on mapping the chemistry of oxygenous ligands at Pd and Ni centers in the context of water oxidation. He successfully defended for his Ph.D. in July 2013, and left for a position at Dow Chemical in Freeport, TX in August 2013.

 

Rafael's publications in the Ozerov group:

(42) Huacuja, R.; Graham,^U D. J.; Fafard, C. M.; Chen, C.-H.; Foxman, B. M.; Herbert,^P D. E.; Alliger, G.; Thomas, C. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "Reactivity of a Pd(I)-Pd(I) Dimer with O₂: Monohapto Pd Superoxide and Dipalladium Peroxide in Equilibrium", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 3820.

(39)  Huacuja, R.; Herbert,^P D. E.; Fafard, C. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "A Terminal Palladium Fluoride Complex Supported by an Anionic PNP Pincer Ligand", J. Fluor. Chem. 2010, 131, 1257 (special issue in honor of R. P. Hughes).