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A/PROF CHARLES YOUNG



Contact Details

Organization: Chemistry
Position: READER
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Homepage: http://www.chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/people/young.php
Work: 83446515
Fax: 93475180
Room: 512
Level: 05
Building: Chemistry - Old
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
The structural, electronic and chemical behavior of transition metal systems relevant to enzymes and catalysts Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States University of New Mexico Research
United States University of Arizona Research
Canada University of Saskatchewan Research
United States University of California - Berkeley Research
United Kingdom University of Nottingham Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Honours 1) The Australian National University 24-Apr-1979
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 11-May-1983
Doctor of Science University of Melbourne 13-May-2008

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Royal Australian Chemical Institute Member 01-Jan-1990
Member American Chemical Scoiety Member 01-Jan-1989
Member Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry Member 01-Jan-1996

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI) 18-Nov-2001

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Federation of Asian Chemical Societies Distinguished Young Chemist Award 22-May-1995

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Synthetic Molybdenum Enzymes Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Synthetic molybdenum hydroxylases Chief Investigator AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Petroleum Research Fund 01/07/2002
MOLYBDENUM, COPPER & MERCURY IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Chief Investigator ANSTO Major Res Facilities 01/12/2004
Bioinorganic chemistry of molybdenum Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
MOLYBDENUM AND TUNGSSTEN DITHIOLENES IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Chief Investigator ANSTO Access to Major Facilities Program 14/02/2006
X-ray Molecular Structure Elucidation Facility (MSEF) Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2007
A NATIONAL BIOMEDICAL ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING CENTRE Chief Investigator MONASH UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007
New Frontiers in Molybdenum Chemistry: Electronic Structure and Molybdoenzyme Function Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
Enhanced Capacity in Ultra-Trace Level Detection and Speciation of Compounds of Environmental, Biological and Materials Science Interest Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A Mixed-Valence, Hexadecamolybdenum Cluster With an MoVI Cubane ?Jewel? in a ?Setting? of Five MolybdateVI-Linked Dinuclear MoV Units
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Chemistry - A European Journal
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 2805-2810
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  • A Novel Ligand Modification and Diamond-core Molybdenum(IV) 2,6-Bis(2,2-diphenyl-2-thioethyl)pyridinate(2?) Complex
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 11160-11170
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  • Electronic Structure Description of the cis-MoOS Unit in Models for Molybdenum Hydroxylases
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 130
    Page numbers: 55-65
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  • Toward Multifunctional Mo(VI?IV) Complexes: cis-Dioxomolybdenum(VI) Complexes Containing Hydrogen-Bond Acceptors or Donors
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 1044-1052
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A Density Functional Study of the Electronic Structure and Spin Hamiltonian Parameters of Mononuclear Thiomolybdenyl Complexes
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 2388-2397
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  • Facets of Early Transition Metal-Sulfur Chemistry: Metal-Sulfur Ligand Redox, Induced Internal Electron Transfer, and the Reactions of Metal-Sulfur Complexes with Alkynes
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
    Volume: 101
    Page numbers: 1562-1585
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  • Synthesis, Characterization, and Biomimetic Chemistry of cis-Oxosulfidomolybdenum(VI) Complexes Stabilized by an Intramolecular Mo(O)=S...S Interaction
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 939-948
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  • Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Multifrequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies of Mononuclear Thiomolybdenyl Complexes
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 2373-2387
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • π-Acid/π-Base Carbonyloxomolybdenum(IV) Complexes and Their Oxomolybdenum(VI/IV) Precursors
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 2209-2216
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  • π-Acid/π-base Carbonyloxo, Carbonysulfido, and Mixed-Valence Complexes of Tungsten
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 352-361
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  • Highly-oxidised, sulfur-rich, mixed-valence vanadium (IV/V) complexes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Issue: 40
    Page numbers: 4245-4246
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  • Mechanistic Investigation of the Oxygen-Atom-Transfer Reactivity of Dioxo-molybdenum(VI) complexes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Chemistry - A European Journal
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 7501-7509
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  • Models for the Molybdenum hydroxylases: Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of cis-Oxosulfido-Mo (VI) Complexes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 128
    Page numbers: 305-316
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  • Paramagnetic Active Site Models for the Molybdenum-Copper Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 128
    Page numbers: 2164-2165
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Formation of Mono(dithiolene)-Thiocarboxamido complexes in reactions of Thio(dithiocarbamato)-Mo/W complexes and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 114-121
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • High-resolution x-ray emission spectroscopy of molybdenum compounds
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 2579-2581
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Oxygen atom transfer in models for molybdenum enzymes: Isolation and structural, spectroscopic, and computational studies of intermediates in oxygen atom transfer from Molybdenum(VI) to Phosphorus(III)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Chemistry - A European Journal
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 3255-3267
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Weinheim)
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  • Synthesis and characterisation of second-generation metallodithiolene complexes of the type [Tp*ME(dithiolene)] (M = Mo, W; E = O, S) and a novel 'organoscorpionate' complex of tungsten
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions
    Volume: 2005
    Page numbers: 3552-3557
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • cis-Dioxomolybdenum(VI) and Oxo(phosphine oxide)molybdenum(IV) complexes: Steric and electronic fine-tuning of cis-{MoOS]2+ precursors
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 4506-4514
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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Major Reference Works

  • Molybdenum: MPT-containing enzymes:Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry 2
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Molybdenum: MPT-containing enzymes
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(Chichester)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Molybdenum
    Year: 2004
    Book: Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II
    Publisher: Elsevier(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Isolation and characterization of salts of the organometallic synthon [Tp*W(NCMe)(CO)3]+ and its propionitrile analogue
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Organometallics
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 4328-4331
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington)
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  • Sulfur atom transfer reactions of tungsten(VI) and tungsten(IV) chalcogenide complexes
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Polyhedron
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 385-394
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Tp*WIVO(S2CNEt2): the missing member of the series
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 57
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 269-271
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Product diversity in the reactions of Tp*W(S2CNEt2)(CO)2 with alkynes: Novel η2-alkyne and tungstathiaenone complexes
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Organometallics
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 4853-4860
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington)
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  • Redox interplay of oxo-thio-tungsten centers with sulfur-donor co-ligands
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 5909-5916
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Atom transfer chemistry and electrochemical behavior of Mo(VI) and Mo(V) trispyrazolylborate complexes: new mononuclear and dinuclear species
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Inorganica Chimica Acta
    Volume: 337
    Page numbers: 393-406
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Lausanne)
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  • Carbonyl halide tungsten(II) complexes of tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)hydroborate
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Inorganic Syntheses
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 218-227
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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  • Solution structural studies of molybdate-nucleotide polyanions
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
    Volume: 88
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 274-283
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Mononuclear thiomolybdenyl complexes - synthesis and structural and spectroscopic characterization
    Year: 2001
    Journal: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 2001
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 2227-2231
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Synthesis, characterization, and electrochemistry of cis-oxothio- and cis-bis(thio)tungsten(VI) complexes of hydrotris(3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl)borate
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 4563-4573
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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