CSU Faculty Profile Detail - Cleveland State University

Stan A Duraj

Education:
	Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 1981 M.S., Jagiellonian University, 1973

Brief Bio:
	Until the early 1960s, the important part of inorganic chemistry dealing with metals was based entirely on Werner's concept that a single metal ion was surrounded by a set of atoms or molecules commonly known as ligands. But the metals are now known to exhibit multicenter chemistry, the chemistry of compounds which possess more than one metal center with direct metal-to-metal chemical bonds. Research in our group is directed toward the preparation and structural characterization of cluster type inorganic and/or organometallic compounds of the main group and early transition metals, especially those of groups 4, 5, and 13. This area of synthetic and structural chemistry is relatively underdeveloped. However, due to the fact that the main group and transition metals may be considered as highly electroindeficient, the preparative chemistry involving these metals, e.g., Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Ga, In, etc., should furnish interesting and novel compounds of more than monomeric nature in which the electron deficiency is greatly compensated by metal-metal bond formation. New compounds themselves should exhibit novel and unusual types of reactivity. We utilize a variety of spectroscopic and structural techniques to characterize new products; these include: ir, Raman, multi-nuclear, nmr, epr, uv-vis, x-ray diffraction, and x-ray fluorescence.

Research Interests:
	Until the early 1960s, the important part of inorganic chemistry dealing with metals was based entirely on Werner's concept that a single metal ion was surrounded by a set of atoms or molecules commonly known as ligands. But the metals are now known to exhibit multicenter chemistry, the chemistry of compounds which possess more than one metal center with direct metal-to-metal chemical bonds. Research in our group is directed toward the preparation and structural characterization of cluster type inorganic and/or organometallic compounds of the main group and early transition metals, especially those of groups 4, 5, and 13. This area of synthetic and structural chemistry is relatively underdeveloped. However, due to the fact that the main group and transition metals may be considered as highly electroindeficient, the preparative chemistry involving these metals, e.g., Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Ga, In, etc., should furnish interesting and novel compounds of more than monomeric nature in which the electron deficiency is greatly compensated by metal-metal bond formation. New compounds themselves should exhibit novel and unusual types of reactivity. We utilize a variety of spectroscopic and structural techniques to characterize new products; these include: ir, Raman, multi-nuclear, nmr, epr, uv-vis, x-ray diffraction, and x-ray fluorescence.