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Omar Yaghi, Ph.D.

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Omar Yaghi's Home Page.

Email Address:

yaghi@chem.ucla.edu

Work Email Address:

yaghi@chem.ucla.edu

Laboratory Address:

Laboratory
Mol Sci Bldg 1224

Work Address:

Office
Mol Sci Bldg 1505B

UNITED STATES

Lab Number:

1 (310) 825-4996

Work Phone Number:

1 (310) 206-0398
Christopher S. Foote Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Irving and Jean Stone Chair, Physical Sciences
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
Member
California NanoSystems Institute

A Short Biography:

Professor Yaghi received his B.S. degree in 1985 from the State University of New York, Albany, and his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Illinois, Urbana. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor in 1992. In 1999 he moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan and in 2004 became the Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry. In 2005 Dr. Yaghi joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA as the Christopher S. Foote Professor.

Awards and Honors:

AAAS AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize ; DOE Hydrogen Program R&D Award for Outstanding Achievements ; MRS Medal Recipient Materials Research Society ; UCLA Deans Recognition Award ; 15th most highly cited chemists; over 100 citations per paper (1997-2007) ; Popular Science magazine One of "10 Brilliant" scientists and engineers ; UCLA H. N. McCoy Award for the greatest discovery in chemical sciences ; UCLA Christopher S. Foote Professorship ; 22nd most highly cited chemist; over 100 citations per paper (1996-2006) ; ISI Thomson Top 3 most cited papers in chemical sciences for March 03 - April 05 ; 28th most highly cited chemist; over 100 citations per paper (1995-2005) ; Italian Chemical Society, Division of Inorganic Chemistry Sacconi Medal ; University of Michigan Robert W. Parry Collegiate Chair ; Among top 68 most highly cited chemists; over 100 citations per paper (1994-2004) ; University of Michigan Department of Chemistry Chair's Excellence in Research Award ; 3M Faculty Award ; Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Visiting Professor ; Graduate College Mentor Award ; American Chemical Society (Solid State Chem. Division) Exxon Award ; NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award ; Exxon Education Foundation Award ; University of Illinois-Urbana Elected to Sigma Chi Honor Society ; NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

Research Interest:

Omar Yaghi is the inventor of MOFs and the founder of the field of Reticular Chemistry. Research in his group has demonstrated the successful use of the building block approach to making new materials with ultrahigh surface area and well-defined structures. Most of the key properties of MOFs and COFs including gas adsorption, molecular recognition, hydrogen storage, methane storage, carbon dioxide capture, separations, and catalysis were first demonstrated in the Yaghi laboratories. The ongoing research projects in the Yaghi labs include I) the design and synthesis, structure characterization and porosity of MOFs, MOPs, ZIFs, and COFs; automated and high throughput methods for inorganic synthesis and for X-ray powder diffraction studies of porous crystals; II) the design and synthesis of electronically conducting porous frameworks for highly selective and sensitive sensing ; III) gas storage and transport: hydrogen storage for automobile fueling and mobile electronics; methane storage for automobile fueling and for transport of natural gas reserves; carbon dioxide separation and storage applications: power plants and automobile emissions; fuel cell applications including the separation of CO; IV) polymerization catalysis by MOFs for the production of polymers used as construction materials; V) biomedical applications including drug molecule storage separation, storage and release by MOFs.


Detailed Biography:

Omar M. Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan (1965). He received his B.S. in chemistry from the State University of New York-Albany (1985) and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Urbana (1990) with Professor Walter G. Klemperer. From 1990-92, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University with Professor Richard H. Holm. He joined the faculty at Arizona State University in 1992 and was awarded the ACS-Exxon Solid-State Chemistry Award in 1998. In June 1999, he moved to the University of Michigan as a Professor of Chemistry and was awarded the Robert W. Parry Collegiate Chair by the Chemistry Department at UM, and the Sacconi Medal by the Inorganic Division of the Italian Chemical Society in 2005. Since January 2006 he has been the Christopher S. Foote Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA and the Director of the Center for Reticular Chemistry at the California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA. Recently he has been named as one of Popular Science Magazine "Brilliant 10" scientists and engineers in the nation. He is one of the most highly cited chemists in the world with over 100 citations per paper for over 100 scientific papers. He has established several research programs dealing with the reticular synthesis of discrete polyhedra and extended frameworks from purely organic, inorganic, and metal-organic building blocks for their applications in clean energy, catalysis, gas storage and separation technologies.

Publications:

Sudik, A.C., Côté, A.P., Wong-Foy, A.G., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.   A metal-organic framework with a hierarchical system of pores and tetrahedral building blocks Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2006; 45(16): 2528-33.
Spencer, E., Howard, J.A.K., McIntyre, G., Rowsell, J., Yaghi, O.M.   Determination of the hydrogen absorption sites in Zn4O(1,4-benzenedicarboxylate) by single crystal neutron diffraction Chem Comm., 2006; (3): 278-280.
Wong-Foy, A.G., Matzger, A.J., Yaghi, O.M.   Exceptional H2 saturation uptake in microporous metal-organic frameworks J Am Chem Soc, 2006; 128: 3494-3495.
Stallmach, F., Groger, S., Kunzel, V., Karger, J., Yaghi, O.M., Hesse, M., Muller, U.   NMR studies on the diffusion of hydrocarbons on the metal-organic framework material MOF-5 Angew Chem Int Ed., 2006; 45: 2123-2126.
Grzesiak, A.L., Uribe-Romo, F.J., Ockwig, N.W., Yaghi, O.M., Matzger, A.J.   Polymer-Induced Heteronucleation for the Discovery of New Extended Solids Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2006; 45: 2553-2556.
Rowsell, J.L.C., Eckert, J., Yaghi, O.M.   Characterization of H2 binding sites in prototypical metal-organic frameworks by inelastic neutron scattering J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005; 127: 14904-14910.
Sudik, A., Ockwig, N., Millward, A., Côté, A.P., Yaghi, O.M.   Design, synthesis, structure, and gas (N2, Ar, CO2, CH4, and H2) sorption properties of porous metal-organic tetrahedral and heterocuboidal polyhedra J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005; 127: 7110.
Rowsell, J.L.C., Spencer, E., Eckert, J., Howard, J.A.K., Yaghi, O.M.   Gas adsorption sites in a large-pore metal-organic framework Science, 2005; 309: 1350.
Chen, B., Contreras, D.S., Ockwig, N., Yaghi, O.M.   High H2 adsorption in a microporous metal-organic framework with open metal sites Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2005; 44: 4745.
Sudik, A., Ockwig, N., Côté, A.P., Yaghi, O.M.   Metal-organic frameworks based on trigonal prismatic building blocks and the new "acs" topology Inorg. Chem., 2005; 44: 2998.
Millward, A.R., Yaghi, O.M.   Metal-organic frameworks with exceptionally high capacity for storage of carbon dioxide at room temperature J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005; 127: 17998-17999.
Ni, Z., Yassar, A., Antoun, T., Yaghi, O.M.   Porous metal-organic truncated octahedron constructed from paddle-wheel squares and terthiophene links J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005; 127: 12752.
Côté, A.P., Benin, A., Ockwig, A.N., Matzger, A.J., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.   Porous, crystalline, covalent organic frameworks Science, 2005; 310: 1166.
Ockwig, N., Friedrichs, O.D., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O. M.   Reticular chemistry: occurrence and taxonomy of nets and grammar for the design of frameworks Acc Chem Res, 2005; 38: 176.
Rosi, N., Kim, J., Chen, B., Eddaoudi, M., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.   Rod packings and metal-organic frameworks constructed from rod-shaped secondary building units J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005; 127: 1504.
Rowsell, J., Yaghi, O.M.   Strategies for hydrogen storage in metal--organic frameworks Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2005; 44: 4670.
Chen, B., Ockwig, N., Fronczek, F.R., Contreras, D.S., Yaghi, O.M.   Transformation of a metal-organic framework from the NbO to PtS net Inorg Chem, 2005; 44: 181.
Delgado-Friedrichs O., Foster M. D., Prosperio D. M., Treacy J.P., Yaghi O. M.   What do we know about three-periodic nets? , J. Solid State Chem., 2005; 178: 2533-2554.
Chae, H., Siberio-Perez, D.Y., Kim, J., Go, Y., Eddaoudi, M., Matzger, A., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.   A route to high surface area, porosity and inclusion of large molecules in crystals Nature, 2004; 427: 523.
Duren, T., Sarkisov, L., Yaghi, O.M., Snurr, R.Q.   Design of new materials for methane storage Langmuir, 2004; 20: 2683.
Roswell, J., Millward, A., Park, K., Yaghi, O.M.   Hydrogen sorption in functionalized metal-organic frameworks J Am Chem Soc, 2004; 126: 5666.
Rowsell, J., Yaghi, O.M.   Metal-Organic Frameworks: A New Class of Porous Materials, Micro- and Mesoporous Mater., 2004; 73: 3.
Wu, J., Melcer, N., Sharp, W., O'Keeffe, M., Spence, J.C.H., Yaghi, O.M.   Structural study of new hydrocarbon nano-crystals by energy-filtered electron diffraction Ultramicroscopy, 2004; 98: 145.
Bonneau, C., Friedrichs, O., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.   Three-periodic nets and tilings: minimal nets Acta Cryst., 2004; A60: 517.
Vodak, D.T., Kim, K., Iordanidis, L., Rasmussen, P., O'Keeffe, M., Matzger, A., Yaghi, O.M.   Computation of aromatic C3N4 networks and synthesis of the molecular precursor N(C3N3)3Cl6 Chem. Eur. J., 2003; 9: 4197.
Chae, H.K., Kim, J., Delgado-Friedrichs, O., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.   Design of frameworks with mixed triangular and octahedral building blocks exemplified by the structure of [Zn4O(TCA)2] having the pyrite topology Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2003; 42: 3907.
Plevert, J., Gentz, T., Groy, T.L., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi O.M.   Layered Structures Constructed from New Linkages of Ge7(O,OH,F)19 Clusters, Chem. Mater., 2003; 15: 714.
Rosi, N., Eddaoudi, M., Vodak, D., Eckert, J., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.   Metal-Organic Frameworks as New Materials for Hydrogen Storage, Science, 2003; 300: 1127.
Plevert, J., Smith, R.S., Gentz, T., Li, H., Groy, T. L., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.   Synthesis and characterization of zirconogermanates Inorg Chem, 2003; 42: 5954.
Friedrichs, O.D., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.   The CdSO4, Rutile, Cooperate and Quartz Dual Nets: Interpenetration and Catenation, Solid State Sciences, 2003; 5: 73.
Friedrichs, O., O'Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O. M.   Three-periodic nets and tilings: regular and quasiregular nets Acta Cryst., 2003; A59: 22.
Li, H., Kim, J., Yaghi, O.M.   [Cd16In64S134]44-: 35-Å tetrahedron with a large cavity Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2003; 42: 1819.
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