Currently Teaching the Following Courses

Fall 2007
Chemistry 103 - General Chemistry
Chemistry 105 - Accelerated General Chemistry
Chemistry 403 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

Spring 2007
Chemistry 104 - General Chemistry
Chemistry 490 - SYE: Senior Research

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Ph. D. Research Advisor: Prof. Vincent L. Pecoraro
Dissertation: "Properties and Reactivity of Model Manganese Complexes for the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II"

Selected Publications:

"A Multinuclear (¹H, ¹³C, ¹⁵N) NMR Study of cis-Nitrosylbis(dithiocarbamate)iron(II) halides: Effect of Replacement of S by Se", N. A. Law, W. Dietzsch, N. V. Duffy, Polyhedron, 2003, 22, 3423-3432.

"Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex and of Manganese Model Compounds", H.-A. Chu, W. Hillier, N. A. Law and G. T. Babcock, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2001, 1503, 69-82.

"Light-Induced FTIR Difference Spectroscopy of the S₂ to S₃ State Transition of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II", H.-A. Chu, W. Hillier, N. A. Law, H. Sackett, S. Haymond and G. T. Babcock, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2000, 1459, 528-532.

"A Magneto-Structural Correlation Between the Heisenberg Constant, J, and the Mn-O-Mn Angle in [Mn^IV(µ-O)]₂ Dimers", N. A. Law, J. W. Kampf and V. L. Pecoraro, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2000, 297, 252-264. (special volume in honor of Prof. Stephen J. Lippard).

"A Comparison of Mn and V in Peroxidases, Haloperoxidases, and Catalases", C. Slebodnick, N. A. Law, and V. L. Pecoraro, In Biomimetic Oxidations Catalyzed by Transition Metal Complexes; Meunier, B., Ed., Imperial College Press: London, 2000, pp. 215-267.

"Manganese Redox Enzymes and Model Systems: Properties, Structures and Reactivity", N. A. Law, M. T. Caudle, and V. L. Pecoraro, Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, 1999, 46, 305-440.

"Reactivity of [{Mn^IV(salpn)}₂(µ-O, µ-OCH₃)]⁺ and [{Mn^IV(salpn)}₂(µ-O, µ-OH)]⁺: Effects of Proton Lability and Hydrogen Bonding", M. J. Baldwin, N. A. Law, T. L. Stemmler; J. W. Kampf; J. E. Penner-Hahn and V. L. Pecoraro, Inorganic Chemistry, 1999, 38, 4801-4809.

"A Proposal for Water Oxidation in Photosystem II", V. L. Pecoraro, M. J. Baldwin, M. T. Caudle, W.-Y. Hsieh, and N. A. Law, Proceedings from the International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry, Yokohama, Japan, 1997, Pure and Applied Chemistry, 1998, 70, 925-929.

"Chlorine K-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy as a Probe of Chlorine-Manganese Bonding: Model Systems with Relevance to the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II", A. Rompel, J. C. Andrews, R. M. Cinco, M. W. Wemple, G. Christou, N. A. Law, V. L. Pecoraro, K. Sauer, V. K. Yachandra, and M. P. Klein, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1997, 119, 4465-4470.

"A Structurally Characterized Dichloro-manganese(IV) Complex Capable of Halogenating Alkenes", N. A. Law, T. E. Machonkin, J. P. McGorman, E. J. Larson, J. W. Kampf, and V. L. Pecoraro, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1995, 2015-2016.

"The Anomalous EPR Spectra of the Iron(III) Dichalcogenocarbamates", S. Yarish, N. V. Duffy, E. Gelerinter, W. Dietzsch, N. Law, and R. Kirmse, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 1994, 217, 101-107.

"Single Crystal Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study on the System Fe(NO)(Et₂dsc)₂/In(Et₂dsc)₃.
(Et₂dsc = diethyldiselenocarbamate.) Crystal and Molecular Structure of Tris(diethyldiselenocarbamato)Indium(III), In^III(Et₂dsc)3", S. Saluschke, M. Pink, W. Dietzsch, R. Kirmse and N. Law, Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, 1993, 619, 1862-1868.

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