Chemistry Program Retired Faculty
Personal Summary
Edward Rosenberg came to UM in August of 1993 from California State University, Northridge. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1970 under the supervision of Professor J.J. Zuckerman. He carried out postdoctoral research under the directorship of Dr. E.W. Randall at Queen Mary College of the University of London and at the California Institute of Technology under the directorship of Professor J.D. Roberts. He has been Visiting Scientist at the University of Turin in Italy since 1974. Edward Rosenberg is an inorganic chemist with strong interests in organometallic compounds with biological activity and in the development of advanced materials for metal ion separations and recovery from acid mine leaches and drainages and industrial waste streams. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. He also teaches field oriented course entitled "Industrial Chemistry and its Impact on Society.
Education
B. S. City College of New York
Ph D Cornell University
Courses Taught
NEW: Chem 445 Industrial Chemistry and Its Impact on Society
Chem 403 Descrptive Inorganic Chemistry
Chem 455 Inorganic Chemistry Lab
Chem 553 Inorganic Chemistry Graduate Component
Chem 568 Organometallics
Teaching Experience
Dr Rosenberg has been teaching graduate and undergraduate chemistry courses in organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry for 37 years.
Research Interests
There are three current areas of research in the Rosenberg group. The first involves the design and development of new silica polyamine composite materials for applications in the mining industry and in metal ion remediation of industrial and acid mine drainage waste streams. This research involves synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and applications testing of new materials designed to be selective for a given metal or group of metal cations and anions. This new technology is currently the basis for a new company, Purity Systems Inc. The applications of these composite materials is constantly expanding into new environmental areas, viral capture and green chemical catalysis.Most recently we are utilizing these materials for uranium remediation in collaboration with the WItwatersrand University in South Africa. The company has recently been acquired by Johnson Matthey Ltd. a multinational company with the resources to take this technology to a higher level of development.
The same polyamine composites are being developed as surfaces for the immobilization of phophorescent complexes for applicationa in metal sensing and phorinduced electron transfer. In a related study we are immobilizing pincer complexes on these surfaces for use as heterogeneous analogs of this very useful and robust catlysts
Recently we have embarked on a new project involving the development of lifetime tunable metal based probes for studying the dynamics of biomacromolecules with time resolved, single molecule flourescence techniques. This work is being conducted in collaboration with Professor Ross of the UM Chemistry Department
Professor Rosenberg's research is currently supported by the National Science Foundation and by research contract from Porocel International, a Houston based catalyst regeneration company.
Field of Study
Chemistry
Organometallic Chemistry
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Materials Science
Catalysis
Selected Publications
Rosenberg, Edward; Miranda, Paul; Yuen Onn Wong “Oxine modified silica polyamine
composites for the separation of gallium from aluminum, ferric from nickel and copper from
nickel. U. S Patent Application No. 13/272662, patent allowed 10/2012
Jesse Allen, Edward Rosenberg, Eduard Karakhanov, Sergey V.Kardashev, Anton Maximov
Anna Zolotukhina” Catalytic Properties of Transition Metal Salts Immobilized on Nanoporous
Silica Polyamine Composites II: Hydrogenation,” Appl. Organometal. Chem (2011), 25(4),
245-25
Jesse Allen, Matthew Berlin, Mark Hughes, Erik Johnston, Varadharajan Kailasam, Edward
Rosenberg, Tova Sardot, Jessica Wood “Structural Design at the Polymer Surface Interface in
Nanoporous Silica Polyamine Composites,” Mat. Chem. Phys. 2011, 126, 973-982.
Matt Berlin, Jesse Allen, Varadharajan Kailasam, David Rosenberg≠ and Edward Rosenberg
“Nanoporous Silica Polyamine Composites for Metal ion Capture from Rice Hull Ash,” Appl.
Organometal. Chem 2011,25, 530.
Edward Rosenberg, Rakesh Kumar “New methods for functionalizing biologically important
molecules using triosmium metal clusters,” Dalton Transactions (2012), 41(3), 714-722
Karakhanov, Edward; Maximov, Anton; Kardashev, Sergey; Kardasheva, Yulia; Zolotukhina,
Anna; Rosenberg, Edward; Allen, Jesse ,”Nanostructured Macromolecular MetalContaining
Materials in Catalysis,” Macromolecular Symposia (2011), 304(Macromolecular Complexes),
55-64.
Jesse Allen, Erik Johnston, Edward Rosenberg, “Synthesis and Characterization of Silica
Polyamines via the Sol-Gel Route,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, (2012) 4, 1573
Edward Rosenberg, Carolyn Hart “ Mine Waste Clean-up with Novel Organic-Inorganic Hybrid
Materials,” Proceedings 72nd International Water Conference,” Nov. 13-17, 2011, Orlando FL,
IWC-10
Edward Rosenberg, * Joynal Abedin, Kenneth Hardcastle “Nucleophilic Attack on an
Electronically Unsaturated Triosmium Cluster Complex of 2-Methyl Benzoxazole: An Unusual
Oxidative Ring Opening” J. Cluster Sci. (2012) 23, 885.
Varadharajan Kailasam and Edward Rosenberg „Oxyanion Removal and Recovery using Silica
Polyamine Composites,” Hydrometallurgy 129-130 (2012) 97-104.
Edward Rosenberg and Rakesh Kumar “Relative Rates of Reaction of Pt(en)Cl (NH2R)+ with Guanosine Monophosphate as a Function of Amino Group Substituent: Toward Efficient Labeling of DNA for TEM Imaging,” J. Organometal. Chem (2013) 53-60 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2012.11.003.
Photophysical Studies of Bioconjugated Ruthenium Metal-Ligand Complexes Incorporated in Phospholipid Membrane Bilayers Sharmin, Ayesha; Salassa, Luca; Rosenberg, Edward; Ross, J. B. Alexander; Abbott, Geoffrey; Black, Labe; Terwilliger, Michelle; Brooks, Robert Inorganic Chemistry (2013), 52(19), 10835-10845.
Hydride Dynamics in Triosmium and Triruthenium Carbonyl Clusters: Synthesis, Reactivity and Dynamics of a Trihydrido Quinoline-4-Carboxaldehyde Triosmium Cluster Rosenberg, Edward; Kumar, Rakesh Journal of Cluster Science, Ahead of Print. (invited contribution)
Edward Rosenberg and Rakesh Kumar “Relative Rates of Reaction of Pt(en)Cl (NH2R)+ with Guanosine Monophosphate as a Function of Amino Group Substituent: Toward Efficient Labeling of DNA for TEM Imaging,” J. Organometal. Chem (2013) 53-60 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2012.11.003.
168. Photophysical Studies of Bioconjugated Ruthenium Metal-Ligand Complexes Incorporated in Phospholipid Membrane Bilayers Sharmin, Ayesha; Salassa, Luca; Rosenberg, Edward; Ross, J. B. Alexander; Abbott, Geoffrey; Black, Labe; Terwilliger, Michelle; Brooks, Robert Inorganic Chemistry (2013), 52(19), 10835-10845.
169 Hydride Dynamics in Triosmium and Triruthenium Carbonyl Clusters: Synthesis, Reactivity and Dynamics of a Trihydrido Quinoline-4-Carboxaldehyde Triosmium Cluster Rosenberg, Edward; Kumar, Rakesh Journal of Cluster Science, Ahead of Print. (invited contribution)
Affiliations
Member the American Chemical Society, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division , Separations Science Subdivision, Inorganic Division, Organometallic Subdivision.
Editorial Advisory Board for:
Journal of Cluster Science
Journal of Applied Organometallic Chemsitry
Professional Experience
35 years of University Teaching
Fellowships awarded by:
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Emory University
University of Turin, Italy
Recipient of grants from:
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy
Montana Board of Research and Commercialization Technology
Industrial Consultant to Johnson-matthey 1982-1984
Industrial Consultant to Purity Systems Inc 1991-present
Industrial Consultant to Halcyon Molecular 2008-2009
Hobbies
Cooking
Fishing
Tennis
Hiking