Kendric J. Nelson
Ph. D. Candidate (Current)-University of Utah B.S. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
nelson@chem.utah.edu
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Prussian Blue Magnets

Prussian blue analogues (PBA’s) synthesized from solvated salts of first row transition metals and hexacyanometallates form numerous magnetically ordered solids with ordering temperatures (Tc) as high as ~100 oC.1  The Tc’s of PBA’s can be increased by using early first row transition metal hexacyanometallates, e.g., VII and CrIII, and reacting them with other solvated first row transtion metal ion sources.2,3  The focus of my research is on using VIII and CrII cyanometallates as the primary building blocks to synthesize new PBA’s.   1 M. Verdaguer, G. Girolami, in Magnetism: Molecules to Materials V, J. S. Miller and M. Drillon, Eds. 2004, 5, 283. 2 Ø. Hatlevik, W. Buschmann, J. Zhang, J. Manson, J. S. Miller, Adv. Mater. 1999, 11, 914. 3 S. M. Holmes, G. S. Girolami, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 5593.

 Undergraduate Work

Performed research in Professor Robert W. McGaff’s research group whose focus is on the rational design and synthesis to extended solid-state compounds using transition metal building blocks and linking them together with multifunctional ligands, eg 1,4-dicyanobenzene.   Publications (Undergraduate):   K. J. Nelson, I. A. Guzei, G. S. Lund, R. W. McGaff, “Copper(II) methoxide: direct solventothermal synthesis and X-ray crystal structure” Polyhedron 2002, 21, 2017.   K. J. Nelson, R. W. McGaff, D. R. Powell, ”A tetranuclear dianion consisting of linked dirhenate units arranged in an infinite one-dimensional chain through ligand-ligand hydrogen bonding in the solid state” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2000, 304, 130.