Peter T. Wolczanski

Peter Thomas Wolczanski is the George W. and Grace L. Todd professor of Chemistry at Cornell University.

Wolczanski obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 while doing research under the direction of Mark Wrighton. He entered graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, working under John Bercaw on various chemistries of permethylzirconocene hydrides and was awarded a doctorate degree in 1981.

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)
• Casimir Funk Natural Science Award, Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (1998)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1987-1989)
• J. S. Fluor Fellow (1980)
• 2011 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)
• Casimir Funk Natural Science Award, Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (1998
• Dow Chemical Co., Technical Advisory Boards (1996-2003 (Synthesis), 2006-2007
• Visiting Miller Research Professorship, Univ. California, Berkeley (1995)
• Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1987-1989
• Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Program (1988
• Chair, Organometallic Subdivision, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (1994-1995)
• Executive Committee, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (1991-1993)

• "Carbon Monoxide Cleavage by (silox)₃Ta (silox = Bu₃SiO-): Physical, Theoretical and Mechanistic Investigations." Neithamer, D.R.; LaPointe, R.E.; Wheeler, R.A.; Richeson, D.S.; Van Duyne, G.D.; Wolczanski, P.T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 9056-9072.
• "Symmetry and Geometry Considerations of Atom Transfer:Deoxygenation of (silox)₃WNO and R₃PO (R = Me, Ph, Bu) by (silox)₃M (M = V, NbL (L = PMe₃, 4-picoline), Ta; silox = Bu₃SiO)."Veige, A. S.; Slaughter, L. M.; Lobkovsky, E. B.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Matsunaga, N.; Decker, S. A.; Cundari, T. R. Inorg. Chem. 2003, 42, 6204-6224.
• "Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Mechanism of (silox)₃M(olefin) to (silox)₃M(alkylidene) Rearrangements (silox = Bu₃SiO; M = Nb, Ta)."Hirsekorn, K. F.; Veige, A. S.; Marshak, M. P.; Koldobskaya, Y.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Cundari, T. R.; Lobkovsky, E. B. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 4809-4830.
• "3-Center-4-Electron Bonding in [(silox)₂Mo=NR]₂(µ-Hg) Controls Reactivity while Frontier Orbitals Permit a Dimolybdenum π-Bond Energy Estimate."Rosenfeld, D. C.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Barakat, K. A.; Buda, C.; Cundari, T. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8262-8263.
• "PC Bond Cleavage of (silox)₃NbPMe₃ (silox = Bu₃SiO) under Dihydrogen Leads to (silox)₃Nb=CH₂, (silox)₃Nb=PH or (silox)₃NbP(H)Nb(silox)₃, and CH₄." Hirsekorn, K. F.; Veige, A. S.; Wolczanski, P. T.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 2192-2193.