{"id":19,"date":"2020-04-17T15:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:38:48","slug":"research-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The lab congratulates Ramsey Ritter on passing his candidacy exam. Moving forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out our newest publication just out. This is a follow up on selective alkene isomerization and a dip of our toes into heterogeneous catalysis <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsomega.5c09607\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsomega.5c09607\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-10-at-10.11.25\u202fAM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-10-at-10.11.25\u202fAM-1024x674.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-10-at-10.11.25\u202fAM-1024x674.png 1024w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-10-at-10.11.25\u202fAM-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-10-at-10.11.25\u202fAM-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-10-at-10.11.25\u202fAM-1536x1011.png 1536w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-10-at-10.11.25\u202fAM.png 1914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Go check out our newest study on Grubbs catalyst activation and some fun reactivity towards selective alkene isomerization <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.organomet.5c00147\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.organomet.5c00147\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-at-9.22.32\u202fAM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-at-9.22.32\u202fAM-1024x764.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-at-9.22.32\u202fAM-1024x764.png 1024w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-at-9.22.32\u202fAM-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-at-9.22.32\u202fAM-768x573.png 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-at-9.22.32\u202fAM-1536x1146.png 1536w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-29-at-9.22.32\u202fAM.png 1924w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to our first PhD graduate Dr. Austin Medley. Good luck with the post doc up in the cold north of Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grad-1-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grad-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grad-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grad-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grad-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grad-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grad-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grard-2-1-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grard-2-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grard-2-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grard-2-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grard-2-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grard-2-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/08\/AWM-grard-2-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Take an early look at our new publication where we explore the synthesis of a new series of metalloligands designed around a triscatecholate motif <a href=\"https:\/\/chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/ejic.202500073\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/ejic.202500073\">here<\/a>. Stay tuned for some new exciting catalysis with these ligands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-10.14.13\u202fAM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-10.14.13\u202fAM-1024x534.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-10.14.13\u202fAM-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-10.14.13\u202fAM-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-10.14.13\u202fAM-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-10.14.13\u202fAM.png 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Ramsey Ritter who has received at DOD fellowship. This also included spending a summer in Mississippi at the DOD site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations Austin, Diya, and Calvin on their publication in <em>Organometallics<\/em>. Diya is an ODU undergraduate and Calvin was an ODU summer REI student who is now at William and Mary for his BS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-1.26.26\u202fPM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-1.26.26\u202fPM-1024x330.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-1.26.26\u202fPM-1024x330.png 1024w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-1.26.26\u202fPM-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-1.26.26\u202fPM-768x248.png 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-1.26.26\u202fPM-1536x495.png 1536w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-1.26.26\u202fPM.png 1606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Welcome to Paul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome Post Doc Dr. Paul Miller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lab setup is coming along\u2026 Vacuum Manifolds, Roto-Vaps, and Glovebox are looking good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2021\/05\/4C4C4F76-A6F6-4413-906E-28505543D790_1_105_c.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19261\/2021\/05\/4C4C4F76-A6F6-4413-906E-28505543D790_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" 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Moving forward. Check out our newest publication just out. This is a follow up on selective alkene isomerization and a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17072,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17072"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tbender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}