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Mike Zaworotko

Mike Zaworotko

Mike Zaworotko
Professor

Contact

Office: SCA 409
Lab: SCA 405,407,412
Phone: 813/974-3451
Email:

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Education

B.S., ARCS, Imperial College, London, UK, 1977
Ph.D., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1982

Research

Crystal engineering, nanotechnology, supramolecular chemistry, x-ray crystallography.
Design, synthesis and application of network solids; molecular recognition; nanoporous adsorbents for environmental, pharmaceutical and materials applications; crystal structure analysis and prediction; drug design; supramolecular synthesis of solids; solid phase synthesis; coordination polymers; nanocomposite structures.

Current Funding

View our currently funded projects here.

Graduate Students

Stephen Burd, Naga Duggirala, Sameh Elsaidi, Mona Mohamed, Sreya Mukherjee, Patrick Nugent, Alexander Schoedel, Zhenjie Zhang, Zhuxiu Zhang

Current Courses

RefCourseSecCourse TitleCRDayTimeLocation
58969IDS 4914022Adv Undergrad Research Exp
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TBA 100
55390CHM 6938002Independent Study
Industrial Internship 		1-3


TBA 100

Recent Publications

Selected Publications: (H-index of 68, >310 publications, 49 papers with >100 citations, >2000 citations in 2012, 17 patents issued or pending)

Five significant publications:

  1. Wilkes, J.S.; Zaworotko, M.J. "Air and Water Stable 1-methyl-3-ethylimidazolium Based Ionic Liquids". J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Comm., 965, 1992.
  2. Subramanian, S.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Porous Solids by Design: [Zn(4,4’-dipyridyl)2(SiF6)]∞⋅x DMF, a Single Framework Octahedral Coordination Polymer with Large Square Channels " Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 34, 2127-29, 1995.
  3. Moulton, B.; Zaworotko, M.J. " From Molecules to Crystal Engineering: Supramolecular Isomerism and Polymorphism in Network Solids ", Chemical Reviews, 101, 1629-1658, 2001.
  4. Vishweshwar, P.; McMahon, J.A.; Bis, J.A.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Pharmaceutical Co-crystals. " J. Pharm. Sci., 95, 499-516, 2006.
  5. Perry, J.J.; Perman, J.A.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks using metal-organic polyhedra as supermolecular building blocks ", Chem. Soc. Rev., 38, 1400-1417, 2009.

Ten recent publications:

  1. Zheng, B.; Bai, J.; Duan, J.; Wojtas, L.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Enhanced CO2 binding affinity of a high-uptake rht type metal-organic framework decorated with acylamide groups ". Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133, 748-751, 2011.
  2. Ong, T.T.; Kavuru, P.; Nguyen, T.; Cantwell, R.; Wojtas, L.; Zaworotko, M.J. " 2:1 Cocrystals of Homochiral and Achiral Amino Acid Zwitterions with Li+ Salts: Water-Stable Zeolitic and Diamondoid Metal-Organic Materials. " Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133, 9224-9227, 2011.
  3. Schoedel, A.; Wojtas, L.; Kelley, S.P.; Rogers, R.D.; Eddaoudi, M.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Network Diversity via Decoration of Trigonal Prismatic Nodes: Two-Step Crystal Engineering of Cationic Metal-Organic Materials. " Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 50, 11421-11424, 2011.
  4. Zhang, Z.; Zhang, L. Wojtas, L.; Nugent, P.; Eddaoudi, M.; Zaworotko, M. J. " Templated synthesis, post-synthetic metal exchange and properties of a porphyrin encapsulating metal-organic material. " Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, 924-927, 2012.
  5. Zhang, Z.; Zhang, L.; Wojtas, L.; Eddaoudi, M.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Template-directed synthesis of nets based upon octahemioctahedral cages that encapsulate catalytically active metalloporphyrins. " Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, 928-933, 2012.
  6. Burd, S.D.; Ma, S.; Perman, J.A.; Sikora, B.J.; Snurr, R.Q.; Thallapally, P.K.; Tian, J.; Wojtas, L.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Highly Selective Carbon Dioxide Uptake by [Cu(bpy-n)2(SiF6)] (bpy-1 = 4,4’-bipyridine; bpy-2 = 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethene). " Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, 3663-3666, 2012.
  7. Zhang, Z.; Gao, W.-Y.; Wojtas, L.; Ma, S.; Eddaoudi, M.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Post-Synthetic Modification of Porphyrin-Encapsulating Metal-Organic Materials via Cooperative Addition of Inorganic Salts to Enhance CO2/CH4 Selectivity. " Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 51, 9330-9334, 2012.
  8. Mohamed, M.; Elsaidi, S.; Wojtas, L.; Pham, T.; Forrest, K.A.; Tudor, B..; Space, B.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Highly selective CO2 uptake in uninodal 6-connected “mmo” nets based upon MO42- (M = Cr, Mo) pillars. " Journal of the American Chemical Society, 19556-19559, 134, 2012.
  9. Schoedel, A.; Cairns, A.J.; Belmabkhout, Y.; Wojtas, L.; Mohamed, M.; Zhang, Z.; Proserpio, D.M.; Eddaoudi, M.; Zaworotko, M.J. " The robust, inexpensive and modular “asc” trinodal platform: systematic 2-step assembly of triangular, tetrahedral and trigonal prismatic molecular building blocks ". Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., published online 02/10/13, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201206042.
  10. Nugent, P.; Belmabkhout, Y.; Burd, S.D.; Cairns, A.J.; Luebke, R.; Forrest, K.; Pham, T.; Ma, S.; Space, B.; Wojtas, L.; Eddaoudi, M.; Zaworotko, M.J. " Porous materials with optimal adsorption thermodynamics and kinetics for CO2 separations ". Nature, in press, DOI: 10.1038/nature11893.

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Michael J. Zaworotko on Researcher ID