James
Camara
Clinical Associate Professor of Chemistry, Director of Pre-Health Advising
Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#1604
Pre-Health - Belfer Hall Room#531
Dr. James M. Camara earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University in 2009 where he studied the polymerization and transmetallation chemistry of zirconium and aluminum complexes. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he conducted synthetic and mechanistic studies into the active sites of hydrogenase enzymes. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at 麻豆区 and serves as the co-chair of the Inorganic/Organometallic Topical Group of the New York section of the American Chemical Society.
Dr. Camara鈥檚 expertise is in mechanistic and synthetic organometallic and inorganic chemistry. His research focuses on the organometallic catalysis of reactions important to alternative energy. His current work aiming to study and develop new transmetallation reactions relevant to energy technologies is supported by the Petroleum Research Fund.
Schilter, D.; Camara, J.M.; Hammes-Schifer, S.; Huynh, M.; Rauchfuss, T.B; 鈥淗ydrogenase Enzymes and Their Synthetic Models: The Role of Metal Hydrides鈥, Chemical Reviews, 2016, 8893-8749.
Lansing, J.L; Camara, J.M; Rauchfuss, T.B.; 鈥淗ydrogen Production Catalyzed by Bidirectional, Biomimetic Models of the [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Active Site鈥 Organometallics, 2014, 33, 5897.
Fabricant, P.D.; Camara, J.M.; Rozbruch, S. R. 鈥淔emoral Deformity Planning: Intentional Placement of the Apex of Deformity鈥 Orthopedics, 2013, 36, 533鈥537.
Camara, J.M; Rauchfuss, T.B.; 鈥淐ombining acid-base, redox, and substrate binding functionalities to give a complete model for the [FeFe]-hydrogenase鈥 Nature Chem. 2012, 4, 26-30.
Camara, J.M; Rauchfuss, T.B.; 鈥淢ild Redox Complementation Enables H2 Activation by [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Models鈥 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 8098-8101.
Camara, J.M.; Petros, R.A.; Norton, J.R; 鈥淶irconium-Catalyzed Carboalumination of alpha-Olefins and Chain Growth of Aluminum Alkyls: Kinetics and Mechanism鈥, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 5263-5273.
Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#1604
Pre-Health - Belfer Hall Room#531