Nikola S. Lambic

5th Year
B.S. Chemistry, 2013
Southern Wesleyan University

Education

2013-Present
Chemistry Graduate Student, North Carolina State University

2009-2013
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Southern Wesleyan University

Professional Experience

2013-Present
Chemistry Graduate Student, NCSU, Elon A. Ison

Spring 2016
TA, CH 204 General Chemistry Laboratory II for Students in Chemical Sciences, NCSU

Fall 2015
TA, CH 442 Advanced Synthetic Techniques I, NCSU

2014-2015
TA, CH 104 General Chemistry Laboratory I for Students in Chemical Sciences, NCSU

2013-2014
TA, CH 104 General Chemistry Laboratory I for Students in Chemical Sciences, NCSU

Awards

2016-2017
Chemistry Graduate Scholars Research Fellowship (CGSRF)
Spring 2013
Outstanding Senior Chemistry Major, Western Carolina regional ACS meeting, Greenville, SC

Poster Presentations / Seminars

Spring 2016
Poster Presentation: “Carbon Monoxide Insertion into Metal Hydrides: An Experimental and Computational Study” NCSU Chemistry annual poster session, Raleigh NC

Spring 2016
Seminar: “Transition Metal Oxos as Frustrated Lewis pairs” ACS Spring Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.

Spring 2014
Poster Presentation: “Synthesis and Characterization of oxorhenium(V) hydride complexes bearing diamidoamine(DAAm) and diamidopyridine(DAP) ligands”, NCSU Symposium, Raleigh, NC

Spring 2013
Poster Presentation: “Synthesis and Characterization of New Chiral Aluminium Compounds as Catalyst Precursors for Stereoselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of rac-Lactide”.WCACS meeting, Greenville, SC.

Publications

  1. Lambic, N. S.; Sommer, R. D.; Ison, E. A. “Transition-Metal Oxos as the Lewis Basic Component of Frustrated Lewis Pairs.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 4832.
  2. Frasco, D. A.; Mukherjee, S.; Sommer, R. D.; Perry, C. M.; Lambic, N. S.; Abboud, K. A.; Jakubikova, E.; Ison, E. A. ” Nondirected C–H Activation of Arenes with Cp* Ir (III) Acetate Complexes: An Experimental and Computational Study.” Organometallics , 2016, 35, 2435–2445.
  3. Lambic, N. S.; Lilly, C. P.; Robbins, L. K.; Sommer, R. D.; Ison, E. A.” Reductive Carbonylation of Oxorhenium Hydrides Induced by Lewis Acids.” Organometallics 2016, 35, 2822-2829.
  4. Lambic, N. S.; Lilly, C. P.; Sommer, R. D.; Ison, E. A.” Mechanism for the Reaction of CO with Oxorhenium Hydrides: Migratory Insertion of CO into Rhenium Hydride and Formyl Bonds leads to Migration from Rhenium to the Oxo Ligand.” Organometallics 2016, 35, 3060-3068.
  5. Lambic, N. S.; Sommer, R. D.; Ison, E. A.” Tuning Catalytic Activity in the Hydrogenation of Unactivated Olefins with Transition-Metal Oxos as the Lewis Base Component of Frustrated Lewis Pairs.” ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 1170-1180.
  6. Lambic, N. S.; Brown, C. A.; Sommer, R. D. and Ison, E. A.” Dramatic Increase in the Rate of Olefin Insertion by Coordination of Lewis Acids to the Oxo Ligand in Oxorhenium(V) Hydrides.” Organometallics, 2017, 36, 2042–2051.
  7. Lambic, N. S.; Brown, C. A.; Sommer, R. D. and Ison, E. A. “High-valent nitridorhenium(V) complexes containing PNP ligands: implications of ligand flexibility.” Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 758-768.