Anthony

Fernandez

Academic Title

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Interests
  • Coordination Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Organometallic Chemistry
Education
  • Ph.D., Chemistry, Boston University
  • B.A., Chemistry, Boston University
Areas of Expertise
  • Bond Activation
  • Catalysis
  • Kinetics
  • Linear Free Energy Relationships
  • Spectroscopy
Recent Publications

Fernandez, A.L. and Kirss, R.V. “Instructor’s Resource Manual for Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach” (2nd ed.) W.W. Norton, New York, 2017.

Fernandez, A.L.; Hao, J.; Parkes, R.L.; Poë, A.J.; Vichi, E.J.S. “Zeolite Activation of Organometallics: Revisiting Substitution Kinetics of [Mo(CO)6] with Chemisorbed PMe3 in Dehydrated Na56Y Zeolite,” J. Braz. Chem. Soc. 2008, 19, 862.

Fernandez, A.L.; Hao, J.; Parkes, R.L.; Poë, A.J.; Vichi, E.J.S. “Zeolite Activation of Organometallics: Anchoring and Decarbonylation Kinetics of Mo(CO)6 in the α-cages of Dehydrated Na56Y Zeolite Organometallics,” 2004, 23, 2715.

Giering, W.P.; Prock, A.; Fernandez, A.L. “Comments on the Electrostatic Minimum Potential (Vmin) as a Measure of the Electron Donating Power of PZ3 Inorganic Chemistry,” 2003, 42, 8033. Bunten, K.A.; Chen, L.; Fernandez, A.L.; Poë, A.J. Cone Angles: Tolman’s and Plato’s Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2002, 233-234, 41.