Jeremy Andreatta

Jeremy Andreatta was born and raised 5 miles outside of the (very) small town of Santo, Texas. After high school, he attended Tarleton State University where he received a B.S. in chemistry and mathematics. He had the fortune of working with Dr. Donald J. Darensbourg (Texas A&M University) for his graduate degree where he focused on the use of Cr(III)salen complexes for the copolymerization of carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide with epoxides and thiaranes. Additionally, he studied the bonding between non-pi-basic transition metal carbonyl complexes with aromatic compounds using infrared spectroscopy (collaboration with Dr. Ashfaq Bengali, TAMU Qatar). After receiving his Ph. D., he worked in the lab for Dr. T. Brent Gunnoe (Univ. of Virginia) as a member of the Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization (DOE-CCHF). At UVa, he focused his studies on the synthesis and analysis of single site Pt(II) catalysts tethered to mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) for the hydroarylation of olefins. He is currently an assistant professor of chemistry at Worcester State University, where he is continuing the theme of synthesizing transition metal complexes towards the use carbon dioxide as a C1 feedstock, atom economic processes, and catalysis in water.