Wayne W. Lukens, Jr.

Actinide Chemistry Group, Chemical Sciences Division, The Glenn T. Seaborg Center

Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MS 70A-1150, Berkeley, CA  94720

Email: WWLukens@lbl.gov

Phone: (510) 486-4305.  FAX: (510) 485-5596.

Education

California Institute of Technology, B.S. in Chemistry                               1988

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.  in Inorganic Chemistry 1995

University of California, Santa Barbara, Postdoctoral Associate               10/1995 - 1/1999

Professional Experience

1999-present                 Scientist, Chemical Sciences Division

                                    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Professional Activities and Honors

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, U. C. Santa Barbara          1996 - 1998

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, U. C. Berkeley                       1989 - 1992

Member, American Chemical Society                                                                 1988 - present

Research Background

Wayne Lukens is currently investigating the radiation chemistry of technetium.  His background is synthetic inorganic chemistry with an emphasis on physical techniques especially gas sorption, NMR and EPR spectroscopies, X-ray diffraction, and EXAFS spectroscopy.  He has extensive experience in the synthesis and electronic and structural characterization of air-sensitive inorganic complexes.  He has experience in the synthesis and pore size control of mesoporous inorganic materials.  He has extensive experience in the gas sorption studies of pore structure. 

Collaborators

Prof. Jean-Marie Basset, Laboratoire de Chimie Organoméllique de Surface

Dr. Carol J. Burns, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr. John G. Darab, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Prof. Thomas E. Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University

Prof. Galen D. Stucky, University of Californa, Santa Barbara, Postdoctoral Advisor

Prof. Richard A. Andersen, University of California, Berkeley, Ph, D. Thesis Advisor

Related Publications

“Synthesis of Mesocellular Silica Foams with Tunable Window and Cell Dimensions” Wayne W. Lukens, Jr., Peidong Yang, and Galen D. Stucky, Chem. Mater. in press (2001).

“Evaluating Pore Sizes in Mesoporous Materials: A Simplified Standard Adsorption Method and a Simplified Broekhoff-de Boer Method” Wayne W. Lukens, Jr., Patrick Schmidt-Winkel, Dongyuan Zhao, Jianglin Feng, and Galen D. Stucky, Langmuir 15, 5403 (1999).

“Preparation, Solution Behavior, and Solid States Structures of (1,3-R₂C₅H₃)₂UX₂ where R is CMe₃ or SiMe₃ and X is a One-Electron Ligand” Wayne W. Lukens Jr., Sharon M. Beshouri, Laura L. Blosch, Anthony L. Stuart, Richard A. Andersen Organometallics, 18, 1235 (1999).

“Structures of Substituted-Cyclopentadienyl Uranium(III) Dimers and Related Uranium Metallocenes Deduced by EXAFS” Wayne W. Lukens Jr., Patrick G. Allen, Jerome J. Bucher, Norman M. Edelstein, Eric A. Hudson, David K. Shuh, Tobias Reich, and Richard A. Andersen, Organometallics 18, 1253 (1999).

“Oxidative Elimination of H₂ from [Cp’₂U(m-OH)]₂ to form [Cp’₂U(m-O)]₂ where Cp’ is 1,3-(Me₃C)₂C₅H₃ or 1,3-(Me₃Si)₂C₅H₃” Wayne Lukens, Sharon Beshouri, Laura Blosh, Richard Andersen, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 901 (1996).

Other Publications

“Siliceous Mesofoams with Uniformly Sized Pores Synthesized by a Microemulsion Templating Route” Patrick Schmidt-Winkel, Wayne W. Lukens, Jr., Dongyuan Zhao, Peidong Yang, Bradley F. Chmelka, Galen D. Stucky J. Am. Chem. Soc 121, 254 (1999).

“A p-Donor Spectrochemical Series for X in (Me₅C₅)₂TiX, and b-Agostic Interactions in X = Et and N(Me)Ph” Wayne Lukens, Milton Smith III, Richard Andersen, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 1719 (1996).

“Synthesis, Structure and Reactions of (h⁵-C₅H₅)₃Zr” Wayne Lukens, Richard Andersen; Organometallics, 14, 3435 (1996).

“Dinuclear Titanium(III) Complexes: Exchange Coupling in (Cp₂Ti)₂(m-O)” Wayne Lukens, Richard Andersen, Inorg. Chem., 34, 3440 (1995).