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Melissa L. Golden, Ph.D.

Inorganic Chemistry

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Contact Info


Dept. of Chemistry
2555 E. San Ramon
MS SB/70
Fresno, CA
93740-8034

Ph: 559.278.2103
Fax: 559.278.4402

Melissa Golden, Ph.D.

Biographical Information:

  • B. S., University of Central Arkansas, Conway, May 1998,
  • Ph. D., Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 2004
  • Postdoctoral, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Fellow, Univ. of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 2004 – 2006,

Research Interests:

Use of coordination and organometallic chemistry to solve problems related to biologically and industrially relevant catalysts particularly those relating to sulfur containing transition metal complexes. Techniques used include NMR, UV-vis, IR, Crystallographic, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Mass Spectrometry, EPR, Magnetic Susceptibility, and Cyclic Voltammetry.

Publications

  1. “Characterization of Steric and Electronic Properties of NiN2S2 Complexes as S-donor Metallothiolate Ligands” M. V. Rampersad, S. P. Jeffery, M. L. Golden, J. Lee, J. H. Reibenspies, D. J. Darensbourg, and M. Y. Darensbourg, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 17323-17334.

  2. “Thiolate-Bridged Heterodinuclear Platinum-Zinc Chelates as Models for Ternary Platinum-DNA-Protein Complexes and Zinc Ejection from Zinc Fingers. Evidence from Studies Using ESI-Mass Spectrometry” Q. Liu, M. L. Golden, M. Y. Darensbourg, and N. Farrell.  Chem. Comm., 2005, 34, 4360-4362.

  3. “N2S2Ni Metallodithiolate Complexes as Ligands: Structural and Aqueous Solution Quantitative Studies of the Ability of Metal Ions to Form M-S-Ni Bridges to Mercapto Groups Coordinated to Nickel(II). Implications for Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthase” M. L. Golden, C. M. Whaley, M. V. Rampersad, J. H. Reibenspies, R. D. Hancock, M. Y. Darensbourg.  Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 875-883.

  4. “The Vapochromic Behavior, Desulfoxidation and Structural Characterization of the SO2 Adducts of Ni(BME-DACH) from Powder Data”  N. S. P. Bhuvanesh, J. H. Reibenspies, M. L. Golden, M. Y. Darensbourg.  Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic and Nano-Metal Chemistry, 2005, 35, 11-17.

  5. “Accommodation of the Irregular Coordination Geometry of Lead(II) by a Square Planar N2S2 Ligand and Its Preference for Zinc(II)” M. L. Golden, J. H. Reibenspies, M. Y. Darensbourg.  Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 5798-5800.

  6. “The Sensing of Sulfur Dioxide by Base Metal Thiolates: Structures and Properties of Molecular NiN2S2/SO2 Adducts” M. L. Golden, J. C. Yarbrough, J. H. Reibenspies, M. Y. Darensbourg.  Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 4702-4707.

  7. “The Construction of (N2S2)Ni-Pd Clusters: a Slant Chair, a Basket and a C4-Paddlewheel”  M. L. Golden, S. P. Jeffery, M. L. Miller, J. H. Reibenspies, M. Y. Darensbourg.  Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2004, 231-236.

  8. “Adamantane-like Cluster Complexes of Mixed-Valent Copper-Copper and Nickel-Copper Thiolates” M. L. Miller, S. A. Ibrahim, M. L. Golden, M. Y. Darensbourg.  Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 2999-3007.

  9. “Capture of NiII, CuI and ZnII by Thiolate Sulfurs of an N2S2Ni Complex: A Role for a Metallothiolate Ligand in the Acetyl-coenzymeA Synthase Active Site”  M. L. Golden, M. V. Rampersad, J. H. Reibenspies, M. Y. Darensbourg.  Chem. Comm., 2003, 15, 1824-1825.

  10. “Characteristics of Five Coordinate Nickel Cysteine Centers” P. J. Desrochers, R. W. Cutts, P. K. Rice, M. L. Golden, J. B. Graham, T. M. Barclay, A. W. Cordes.  Inorg. Chem., 1999, 38, 5690-5694.

  11.  “Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of N,N’-bis(mercaptoethyl)-1,5-diazacycloheptane, H2bme-dach, and Its Nickel Complex” M. L. Golden and M.Y. Darensbourg, Submitted and accepted to Inorganic Syntheses.