Faculty

Mark Fink

Professor
Ph.D., 1983, Wisconsin

Office: 5008 Percival Stern Hall
Email: fink@tulane.edu
Phone: (504) 862-3568
Website: Professor Mark Fink's Group

Discipline

Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry

Dr. Fink's research interest in this area focuses primarily in the synthetic and mechanistic chemistry of silicon, boron and related elements.

Areas of current interest

The synthesis of multiply-bonded silicon compounds, to study the effects of silicon p-conjugation related to the concepts of aromaticity and anti- aromaticity.

Mechanistic investigations of transition-metal silicon chemistry, as it pertains to catalysis and materials synthesis.

The study of organosilicon photochemistry and reactive intermediates, in fluid solution, inert matrices, and in molecular beams.

The synthesis of novel precursors to technologically important ceramic fibers and thin films.

Selected Publications

Mague, J.T.; Linhardt, L.; Medina, I.; Sattler, D. J.; Fink, M.J. “Monoclinic Form of 1,2,4,5-tetracyclohexylbenzene”, Acta Cryst., 2008, E64, o375.

Mague, J.T.; Linhardt, L.; Medina, I.; Sattler, D. J.; Fink, M.J. “Triclinic Form of 1,2,4,5-tetracyclohexylbenzene”, Acta Cryst., 2008, E64, o376.

Mague, J.T.; Linhardt, L.; Medina, I.; Fink, M.J. “1-Bromo-2,4,6-tricyclohexylbenzene” Acta Cryst., 2008, E64, o335.

Mague, J.T.; Pool, D.H., Fink, M.J. “cis-Dichlorido[bis(dicyclohexylphosphine)methane-κ2 P,P′} palladium(II) dichloromethane solvate” Acta Cryst. , 2007, E63, m3083.

Heintz, A.S.; Fink, M.J.; Mitchell, B.S. “Mechanochemical Synthesis of Alkyl-Passivated Silicon Nanoparticles” Adv. Mater., , 2007, 19, 3984-3988.

Jacobsen,H.; Fink, M.J. “Decomposition Cascades of Dicoordinate Copper(I) Chalcogenides”, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2007, 33, 5294-5299.

Arumugam, K.; Bollinger, J.E.; Fink, M., Dohahue, J.P. “Preparation and Isolation of Dithiolene Thiophosphoryl Species as Stable, Protected Forms of Dithiolene Ligands” Inorg. Chem., , 2007, 46, 3283-3288

Medina, I.; Jacobsen, H., Mague, J.T.; Fink, M.J. “Dicoordinate Copper(I) Silanechalcogenates”, Inorg. Chem., 2006, 44, 8844.

Boyle, R.C.; Fink, M.J. “Evidence for Long Lived Si-H and Si-Si Sigma Complexes with Palladium”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 9054-9055.

Hua, Z.-Y., Mague, J.T.; Fink, M.J. "Synthesis and Solid State Structures of Tri-t-butyl-cyclopropenyl Derivatives of Main Group Elements: Cyp*MPh3 (M = Si, Ge, Sn)" J. Organomet. Chem. , 2006, 691, 419-424.

Jacobsen, H.; Fink, M.J. “Tuning the Palladium-Silicon Bond: Bonding in Bisphosphine Palladium Silicon Hydrides” Organometallics, 2006, 25, 1945-1952.

Medina, I.; Mague, J.T.; Fink, M.J. “Tri-t-butylphosphine Copper(I) Iodide Tetramer” Acta Cryst E, 2005, E61, m1550-m1552

Medina, I.; Mague, J.T.; Donahue, J.P.; Fink, M.J. “Bis(triphenylsilyl)selenide” Acta Cryst. E, 2005, E61, o2687-o2688.

Boyle, Robert C.; Mague, J.T., Fink, M.J. “X-Ray Crystal Structure of N,N,N’N’ Tetramethylethylenediamine Palladium(II) Chloride”, Acta Cryst. E, 2004, E60, m40-m41.

Boyle, Robert C.; Mague, J.T.; Fink, M.J. “(μ-1,2-Bis(dicyclohexylphosphino)ethane) κ2-P:P′-bis{[1,2-bis(di-cyclohexylphosphino)ethane)-κ2P:P′]-palladium(0)}”, Acta Cryst. E , 2004, E60, m625-m627.

Medina, I.; Fink, M.J. “Silylated Gallium-Sulfur Ring Systems as Single Source Precursors to Gallium Sulfide”, Materials Science and Engineering B (special edition), 2004, 16, 375-379.

Sulkes, M.; Fink, M. J. "Laser Ablation of Ring Strained Precursor Molecules: Selective Product Fragment Generation", J. Chem. Phys., 2003, 379, 60-66.

Boyle, Robert C.; Mague, J. T.; Fink, M. J. "A Dicoordinate Palladium(0) Complex with an Unusual Intramolecular h1-Arene Coorindation", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 7816-7817.

Boyle, Robert C.; Mague, J. T.; Fink, M. J. "The First Stable Mononuclear Silyl Palladium Hydrides", J.Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 3228-3229.

Sulkes, M.; Fink, M.J.; Gottschling, S.E. and Baines, K. M. “Laser Ablation of Hexamesityldigermane and Hexamesitylsiladigermerane in a Molecular Beam”, Organometallics, 2002, 21, 2438-2243.

Baldwin, L.C.; Fink, M.J. “Synthesis of 1,2-bis[(diorgano)phosphino]ethanes via Michaelis-Arbusov Type Rearrangements”, J. Organomet. Chem., 2002, 646, 230-238.

Reid, S.M.; Mague, J.T.; Fink, M.J. “Facile Reductive Elimination of Ethane from Dimethylpalladium(II) Complexes” , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 17, 4081-4082

Reid, S. M.; Fink, M.J. “Reductive Routes to Dinuclear d10-d10 Palladium(0) Complexes and Their Redistribution Equilibria in Solution” , Organometallics, 2001, 20, 2959-2961

Borthwick, I.; Baldwin, L.; Sulkes, M.; Fink, M.J. “Molecular Beam Photochemistry of Some Organopolysilanes and Organopolygermanes”, Organometallics , 2000, 19, 139-146

Sulkes, M.; Baldwin, L.C.; Fink, M.J. “Molecular Beam Study of Possible CVD Intermediates from Group 14 Organometallic Precursors”, Chem. Phys. Lett., 2000, 318, 4-5

Borthwick, I.; Sulkes, M.; Fink, M.J. “Gas Phase Production of Si2N from (CH3)3SiN3”, Main Group Metal Chemistry, 2000, 22 (3),203-206

Reid, S. M.; Mague, J.T.; Fink, M.J. “Synthesis, Structural, and Dynamic NMR Studies of (Bisphosphine)Palladium(0) Complexes of Dibenzylideneacetone”, J.Orgmet. Chem., 2000, 616(1-2), 10-18