Peter T. Wolczanski

Peter Thomas Wolczanski is the George W. and Grace L. Todd professor of
Chemistry at Cornell University.

Education

Wolczanski obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 while doing research under the direction of Mark Wrighton. He entered graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, working under John Bercaw on various chemistries of permethylzirconocene hydrides and was awarded a doctorate degree in 1981.

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Casimir Funk Natural Science Award, Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
J.S. Fluor Fellow
2011 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Casimir Funk Natural Science Award, Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America
Dow Chemical Co., Technical Advisory Boards, 2006–2007
Visiting Miller Research Professorship, Univ. California, Berkeley
Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Program
Chair, Organometallic Subdivision, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry
Executive Committee, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry

"Carbon Monoxide Cleavage by ₃Ta : Physical, Theoretical and Mechanistic Investigations." Neithamer, D.R.; LaPointe, R.E.; Wheeler, R.A.; Richeson, D.S.; Van Duyne, G.D.; Wolczanski, P.T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 9056–9072.
"Symmetry and Geometry Considerations of Atom Transfer: Deoxygenation of ₃WNO and R₃PO by ₃M." Veige, A.S.; Slaughter, L. M.; Lobkovsky, E.B.; Wolczanski, P.T.; Matsunaga, N.; Decker, S.A.; Cundari, T. R. Inorg. Chem. 2003, 42, 6204–6224.
"Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Mechanism of ₃M to ₃M Rearrangements." Hirsekorn, K.F.; Veige, A.S.; Marshak, M.P.; Koldobskaya, Y.; Wolczanski, P.T.; Cundari, T.R.; Lobkovsky, E.B. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 4809–4830.
"3-Center-4-Electron Bonding in ₂ Controls Reactivity while Frontier Orbitals Permit a Dimolybdenum π-Bond Energy Estimate." Rosenfeld, D.C.; Wolczanski, P.T.; Barakat, K.A.; Buda, C.; Cundari, T.R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8262–8263.
"PC Bond Cleavage of ₃NbPMe₃ under Dihydrogen Leads to ₃Nb=CH₂, ₃Nb=PH or ₃NbPNb₃, and CH₄." Hirsekorn, K.F.; Veige, A.S.; Wolczanski, P.T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 2192–2193.