Anthony Moses
Ph.D. - Chemical Engineering

B.S.  Chemical Engineering 2002
University of Nebraska


ESB 3215H
University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080
moses@engineering.ucsb.edu

(805) 893-7403 (office)
(805) 893-8941 (lab)




Research Project
My current research focuses on rhenium-based olefin metathesis catalysts, with possible applications in feed stock conversion and chemical synthesis under ambient conditions.  We explore the catalyst structure and reaction mechanisms using various spectroscopy, including vibrational, magnetic resonance, and x-ray scattering and absorption, kinetic studies and theoretical modeling.
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Conference Proceedings / Posters Presented

Anthony W. Moses, Heather D. Leifeste, Christina Raab, Naseem A. Ramsahye, Swarup Chattopadhyay, Bradley F. Chmelka, Juergen Eckert and Susannah L. Scott "Support-substrate interactions which activate heterogeneous olefin metathesis catalysts". Contributed talk, 232nd ACS National Meeting: San Francisco, CA, USA, 2006.

 

Anthony W. Moses, Heather D. Leifeste, Christina Raab, Naseem A. Ramsahye, Bradley F. Chmelka, Juergen Eckert and Susannah L. Scott "Strategies for Preventing Deactivation of Heterogeneous Olefin Metathesis Catalysts". 4th Annual University of California Symposium on Surface Science and Its Applications: Berkeley, CA, USA, 2006.

 

Anthony W. Moses, Naseem A. Ramsahye, Heather D. Leifeste, Swarup Chattopadhay, Christina Raab, Bradley F. Chmelka, Juergen Eckert, Susannah L. Scott "Insight into the Activation of Heterogeneous Olefin Metathesis Catalysts". 3rd Annual University of California Symposium on Surface Science and Its Applications, Mar. 3-4, 2005.  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Berkeley, CA USA. 2nd Place - Poster Competition

 

Anthony W. Moses, Juergen Eckert, Susannah L. Scott "Interactions between Methyltrioxorhenium and Oxide Supports which Generate Active Sites for Heterogeneous Olefin Metathesis", AIChE 2004 National Meeting: Austin, TX, November 7-12th, 2004.

Publications

Moses, A. W.; Ramsahye, N. A.; Raab, C.; Leifeste, H. D.; Chattopadhyay, S.; Chmelka, B. F.; Eckert, J.; Scott, S.L."Methyltrioxorhenium Interactions with Lewis Acid Sites of an Amorphous Silica-Alumina". Organometallics 2006, 25(9) 2157-2165.


Anthony W. Moses, Christina Raab, Ryan C. Nelson, Heather D. Leifeste, Naseem A. Ramsahye, Swarup K. Chattopadhyay, Bradley F. Chmelka, Juergen Eckert and Susannah L. Scott, "On the Sites Present in Methyltrioxorhenium Grafted onto Silica and Silica-Alumina, and their Ability to Initiate Olefin Metathesis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, submitted.


Anthony W. Moses, Heather D. Leifeste, Naseem A. Ramsahye, Juergen Eckert, Susannah L. Scott, "Supported Re Catalysts for Metathesis of Functionalized Olefins", Catalysis of Organic Reactions 2006, CRC Press.