Kristi Engelman

Education

2010
Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thesis entitled  “Probing the Influence of the Tpʹ Ligand on Transformations of Platinum (II) and Platinum (IV)", Joseph L. Templeton

2005
B.S., Chemistry (cum laude) Furman University, Greenville SC, Thesis Title:  “Synthesis of Molybdenum and Platinum Complexes with 5-substituted Phenanthrolines”, Laura L. Wright.

Experience

2010-Present 
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, North Carolina State University, Elon Ison

2005-2010 
Research Assistant, UNC-Chapel Hill, Joseph L. Templeton

2005-2006 
TA, Inorganic Labs, UNC-Chapel Hill

2003-2005 
Research Assistant, Furman University, Laura L. Wright

Summer 2002, Summer 2005 
Processor in the Contracts Division, Space and Navel Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR), Charleston, SC

Affiliations/Activities

2009-2010
President Association of Chemistry Graduate Students (ACGS)

2009-2010
Energy Sustainability Chair - Graduate and Professional Student Federation Cabinet

2009-2010
Vice Chancellor’s Sustainability Advisory Committee

2005-present
American Chemical Society (Inorganic Division Member)

2006-2010
Chemical Advocates for Health and Safety (CASH) representative for the Templeton Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill

2008-2010
Green Labs Committee - UNC-Chapel Hill - Energy Conservation Subcommittee

2007- 2009
Chemistry Representative for the Graduate and Professional Student Federation (GPSF) Senate - UNC-Chapel Hill

2007-2009
Appropriations Committee (GPSF) - UNC-Chapel Hill

2007-2009
Vice-President Association of Chemistry Graduate Students (ACGS)

2008
Local organizing committee for 32nd Reaction Mechanisms Conference

Awards/Honors

2009
Frank Porter Graham Honor Society Inductee

2006-2007
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship

2005 - 2006
Francis P. Venable Fellowship

2005
Furman University’s recipient of the American Chemical Society’s Outstanding Chemistry Senior

2004
Furman Advantage Research Grant Recipient

2004
Analytical Chemistry Award – Furman University

2003
National Science Foundation Research Experience Undergraduate Grant Recipient

2003-2005
Vogel Chemistry Scholarship

2003-2005
Dreyfus Chemistry Scholarship

2001-2005
Dean’s List

2001-2005
Palmetto Fellow

2001-2005
Furman Scholar

Presentations and Papers

“Synthesis of Isonitrile, Iminoacyl, and Aminocarbene TpʹPt Complexes” Engelman, K.L.; White, P.S.; Templeton, J.L. Organometallics ASAP.

“Sequential Coordination and Oxidative Addition of Terminal Alkynes to the Tp'PtMe Fragment” Engelman, K.L.; White, P.S.; Templeton, J.L. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 362, (2009), 4461-4467.

Spring 2009
“Reactivity of Alkynes with the Tp′PtR Fragment:
 Linking Pt(II) to Pt(IV)”, UNC-CH seminar

Fall 2008
“Coordination and Oxidative Addition of Terminal Alkynes to the ‘Tp'PtR’ Fragment”, ACS Philadelphia, Poster in Organometallic Poster Session and Sci-Mix

Spring 2006
“Synthesis of Small Cycloalkynes Coordinated to Tungsten”, Symposium UNC-CH 

Fall 2003
“Synthesis of Molybdenum and Platinum Complexes with 5-substituted Phenanthrolines”, Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS), Inorganic Poster Session