Cygan, Zuzanna

About this team member

Zuzanna Cygan graduated with a B. S. in chemistry from Louisiana State University in 1999.  She worked on the organometallic chemistry of palladium/germylene complexes and graduated with her PhD in 2003.  After a post-doc at NIST, she is now working at Arkema Group.

Publications

• Silylene- and Germylene-Mediated C-H Activation:  Reaction with Alkanes, Ethers, and Amines R. H. Walker, K. A. Miller, S. L. Scott, Z. T. Cygan, J. M. Bartolin, J. W. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl Organometallics 2009 28 2744
• Sequential Insertion of Formaldehyde and Carbon Monoxide into a Sulfide Bridged Pd-Ge Bond followed by Reductive Elimination to form a [1,3,2]oxathiagermolan-4-one. Z. Cygan, J. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl. Organometallics 2004 23 2370-237.
• Insertion of SO2 into a Sulfide-Bridged M-Ge Bond: Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of the O-germyl-S-sulfoxylate. Z. Cygan, J. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl. Inorg. Chem. 2004 43 2057-2063.
• Reactions of Palladium Germylene Complexes: Formation of Sulfide Bridges. Z. Cygan, J. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl. Inorg. Chem. 2003 42 7219-7226.
• Activation and Catalytic Partial Hydrogenation of Benzophenone. R. D. Sweeder, Z. T. Cygan, M. M. Banaszak Holl, Jeff W. Kampf. Organometallics 2003 22 4613-4615.
• Synthesis and Reactivity of a Novel Palladium Germylene System. Z. T. Cygan, J. E. Bender, K.E. Litz, J. W. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl. Organometallics 2002 21 5373-5381.