Stanley Latesky

Main Research and Teaching Interests

Transition and lanthanide metal organometallic chemistry, analytical chemistry of drinking water, computational chemistry, spectroscopic analysis of materials

Expertise

Research focuses are environmental analysis and water quality in the USVI, synthesis and characterization of new and novel ligands for complexation and sequestration of lanthanide and actinide ions, determination of ligand binding constants using klaui type ligands, and use of a database of infrared spectra to characterize speciation in radioactive waste. Research topics are environmental, inorganic chemistry, organometallic, physical chemistry, nuclear, chemical synthesis, chemistry analysis, actinides, analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, lanthanides, and selective binding of ions.

Biography

1981 BS Saginaw Valley State College (now University) (George Eastland)
1986 PhD Purdue University (Inorganic Chemistry, Ian Rothwell)
1086-87 Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Kentucky (John Selegue)
I consider myself a generalist with interests ranging from computational chemistry (primarily small to medium molecules), spectroscopic analysis of those materials, analytical analysis of drinking water (processed and cistern), synthetic organometallic chemistry of transition and lanthanide elements, and designing organic ligands to be used in selective binding of mixtures of transition and lanthanide metals.