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Evan Patrick is a member of the Molecular Catalysis group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) within the Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate. Working with Morris Bullock and Ba Tran, his research focuses on the development of next-generation copper hydride catalysts for the hydrogenation of unsaturated substrates, with a particular emphasis on mechanistic studies and kinetic modelling. 

Before joining PNNL, Evan earned his PhD in organometallic chemistry from the University of Calgary in 2021 under the mentorship of Prof. Warren Piers. His doctoral work focused on the design and synthesis of anionic borate-based ligands to stabilize highly sensitive terminal metal-element multiple bonds, and investigation of their reactivity for small-molecule activation. 

• Catalysis
• Cyclic voltammetry
• Hazardous chemicals
• Inorganic chemistry
• Kinetics
• Modelling chemical reaction networks (COPASI)
• Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
• Organic chemistry
• Organometallic chemistry
• Synthetic chemistry
• Ultraviolet-visible-near infrared spectroscopy
• X-ray crystallography

• PhD in inorganic chemistry, University of Calgary
• BS in inorganic chemistry, University of Calgary

• American Chemical Society

2024

• Patrick E.A., J.D. Erickson, R.M. Bullock, and B.L. Tran. 2024. "Synthesis and Structural Investigation of Rigid Naphthyridine-bis(carbene) for Trigonal Planar Coordination of Coinage Metals." Organometallics. PNNL-SA-203466. doi:10.1021/acs.organomet.4c00383

2023

• Patrick E.A., M.E. Bowden, J.D. Erickson, R.M. Bullock, and B.L. Tran. 2023. "Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Transformations: Stepwise CO₂ Insertions into Bridging Hydrides of [(NHC)CuH]₂ Complexes." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 62, no. 30:e202304648. PNNL-SA-185775. doi:10.1002/anie.202304648

2021

• Patrick E.A., Y. Yang, W.E. Piers, L. Maron, B.S. Gelfand. 2021. “A monoanionic pentadentate ligand platform for scandium–pnictogen multiple bonds.” Chem. Commun. 57, 8640-8643. doi:10.1039/D1CC03481B

2020

• Patrick E.A., W.E. Piers. 2020. “Twenty-five years of bis-pentafluorophenyl borane: a versatile reagent for catalyst and materials synthesis.” Chem. Commun. 56, 841-853. doi:10.1039/C9CC08338C

2017

• Morgan M.M., E.A. Patrick, J.M. Rautianinen, H.M. Tuononen, W.E. Piers, D.M. Spasyuk. 2017. “Zirconocene-Based Methods for the Preparation of BN-Indenes: Application to the Synthesis of 1,5-Dibora-4a,8a-diaza-1,2,3,5,6,7-hexaaryl-4,8-dimethyl-s-indacenes.” Organometallics 36, 14, 2541-2551. doi:10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00051