Brian Vicente

Graduate Student - Chemical Engineering

B.S. Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan

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

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

Research Project

I am investigating the activity and structure of supported metal catalysts for use in alkane metathesis, which is achieved by performing alkane dehydrogenation/hydrogenation and olefin metathesis in tandem. I am focused mainly on rhenium-based olefin metathesis catalysts to be used with an iridium-based dehydrogenation catalyst developed by collaboratorts at UNC Chapel Hill and Rutgers University.

Publications
B. Vicente, M. Nori, H. S. Fogler. Solutions to Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering. 2006. Ritu Ahuja, Sabuj Kundu, Alan S. Goldman, Maurice Brookhart, Brian C. Vicente, and Susannah L. Scott “Catalytic ring expansion, contraction, and metathesis-polymerization of cycloalkanes” ChemComm . 2008 , pp. 253-255.