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Jenny Y. Yang
Born
Jenny Yue-fon Yang

San Fernando Valley, California
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.S.) 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) 2007
AwardsPresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Sloan Research Fellowship
NSF Career Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
University of California, Irvine
ThesisDistal hydrogen-bonding effects and cofacial bimetallic salen architectures for oxygen activation chemistry
Doctoral advisorDaniel G. Nocera
Other academic advisorsJeffrey R. Long, Daniel L. DuBois
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese楊又芳
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYáng Yòufāng
Wade–GilesYang Yu-fang
Websiteyanggroup.weebly.com

Jenny Yue-fon Yang (Chinese: 楊又芳)[1] is an American chemist. She is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine where she leads a research group focused on inorganic chemistry, catalysis, and solar fuels.

Early life and education

Jenny Yue-fon Yang[2] was born in the San Fernando Valley and raised in Chatsworth, Los Angeles. She is a second-generation Taiwanese-American.[1] Yang studied Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked in the laboratory of Jeffrey R. Long. Yang synthesized novel Prussian blue analog materials and analyzed their magnetic properties.[3] She graduated in 2001 with a Bachelors in Science in Chemistry, and moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate studies in the laboratory of Daniel G. Nocera. Yang's work in the Nocera lab focused on the synthesis of novel salen complexes that mimic the activity of the catalase enzyme, and exhibit epoxidation activity towards olefins.[4][5][2] She graduated with her Ph.D. in 2007.[6]

Career

Yang moved to Washington to conduct postdoctoral research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where she worked with Daniel L. DuBois on mechanistic studies of H2 oxidation with nickel bis(diphosphine) complexes.[7][8][9] In 2009, she was hired as a senior staff scientist at PNNL. She then worked as a research scientist at the Molecular Catalysis group of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at the California Institute of Technology. In 2013, Yang joined the faculty at University of California, Irvine as an assistant professor of chemistry.

Yang's publishes in the area inorganic and organometallic chemistry, electrocatalysis, as well as materials science.[6][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Awards and honors

Yang has received several awards. These include a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award,[1] Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2017), the Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow (2017), Research Corporation Advanced Energy Materials Scialog Fellow (2017), and the 2016 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.[10] Yang was appointed to the 2018 class of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.[16] She has been selected as a member of the Global Young Academy[citation needed].

References

  1. ^ a b c 楊, 婷專 (January 13, 2017). "台裔學者獲美工程師最高榮譽". Sina Daily News (in Chinese). Sina Corp. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  2. ^ a b Yang, Jenny Yue-fon (2007). "Distal hydrogen-bonding effects and cofacial bimetallic salen architectures for oxygen activation chemistry". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/40873. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Yang, Jenny Y.; Shores, Matthew P.; Sokol, Jennifer J.; Long, Jeffrey R. (2003-03-01). "High-Nuclearity Metal−Cyanide Clusters:  Synthesis, Magnetic Properties, and Inclusion Behavior of Open-Cage Species Incorporating [(tach)M(CN)3] (M = Cr, Fe, Co) Complexes". Inorganic Chemistry. 42 (5): 1403–1419. doi:10.1021/ic026065f. ISSN 0020-1669.
  4. ^ "Manganese amido-imine bisphenol Hangman complexes". Tetrahedron Letters. 49 (32): 4796–4798. 2008-08-04. doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2008.05.111. ISSN 0040-4039.
  5. ^ Yang, Jenny Y.; Nocera, Daniel G. (2007-07-01). "Catalase and Epoxidation Activity of Manganese Salen Complexes Bearing Two Xanthene Scaffolds". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129 (26): 8192–8198. doi:10.1021/ja070358w. ISSN 0002-7863.
  6. ^ a b "Directory | UCI Department of Chemistry". www.chem.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  7. ^ Yang, Jenny Y.; Bullock, R. Morris; Shaw, Wendy J.; Twamley, Brendan; Fraze, Kendra; DuBois, M. Rakowski; DuBois, Daniel L. (2009-04-29). "Mechanistic Insights into Catalytic H2 Oxidation by Ni Complexes Containing a Diphosphine Ligand with a Positioned Amine Base". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131 (16): 5935–5945. doi:10.1021/ja900483x. ISSN 0002-7863.
  8. ^ Yang, Jenny Y.; Chen, Shentan; Dougherty, William G.; Kassel, W. Scott; Bullock, R. Morris; DuBois, Daniel L.; Raugei, Simone; Rousseau, Roger; Dupuis, Michel; DuBois, M. Rakowski (2010-11-09). "Hydrogen oxidation catalysis by a nickel diphosphine complex with pendant tert-butyl amines". Chemical Communications. 46 (45): 8618–8620. doi:10.1039/C0CC03246H. ISSN 1364-548X.
  9. ^ Yang, Jenny Y.; Smith, Stuart E.; Liu, Tianbiao; Dougherty, William G.; Hoffert, Wesley A.; Kassel, W. Scott; DuBois, M. Rakowski; DuBois, Daniel L.; Bullock, R. Morris (2013-07-03). "Two Pathways for Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Hydrogen by a Nickel Bis(diphosphine) Complex with Pendant Amines in the Second Coordination Sphere". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135 (26): 9700–9712. doi:10.1021/ja400705a. ISSN 0002-7863.
  10. ^ a b "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". www.faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  11. ^ Tsay, Charlene; Livesay, Brooke N.; Ruelas, Samantha; Yang, Jenny Y. (2015-11-02). "Solvation Effects on Transition Metal Hydricity". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (44): 14114–14121. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b07777. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 26466014.
  12. ^ Tsay, Charlene; Ceballos, Bianca M.; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018-10-08). "pH-Dependent Reactivity of a Water-Soluble Nickel Complex: Hydrogen Evolution vs Selective Electrochemical Hydride Generation". Organometallics. 38 (6): 1286–1291. doi:10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00558. ISSN 0276-7333.
  13. ^ Chantarojsiri, Teera; Reath, Alexander H.; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018-10-02). "Cationic Charges Leading to an Inverse Free-Energy Relationship for N−N Bond Formation by MnVI Nitrides". Angewandte Chemie. 130 (43): 14233–14238. doi:10.1002/ange.201805832. ISSN 0044-8249.
  14. ^ Thammavongsy, Zachary; Cunningham, Drew W.; Sutthirat, Natwara; Eisenhart, Reed J.; Ziller, Joseph W.; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018). "Adaptable ligand donor strength: tracking transannular bond interactions in tris(2-pyridylmethyl)-azaphosphatrane (TPAP)". Dalton Transactions. 47 (39): 14101–14110. doi:10.1039/c8dt03180k. ISSN 1477-9226. PMID 30252015.
  15. ^ Hanna, Caitlin M.; Sanborn, Christopher D.; Ardo, Shane; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018-04-06). "Interfacial Electron Transfer of Ferrocene Immobilized onto Indium Tin Oxide through Covalent and Noncovalent Interactions". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10 (15): 13211–13217. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b01219. ISSN 1944-8244. PMID 29624364.
  16. ^ "Announcing the 2018 Class of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars". CIFAR. September 6, 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
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