Guillaume B.Chabot, M.Sc
Graduate student, Karl Christe group
Aesthete, apologist and channel surfing enthusiast
Born
in October 1984 in Lévis, Québec, Canada.
Loker
Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry
University of Southern California
837 Bloom Walk
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661
Office : ACB 200
Lab: ACB 212
Phone : (213) 821-5975
E-mail
: gbelange@usc.edu
Current/general research
interests
Boron chemistry, nitrogen
oxides chemistry, high oxygen content compounds / Lewis adducts
chemistry, heteroaromatic compounds, Intramolecular antagonistic
ligand interactions, “exotic” bonding modes.
Training:
2004-2007 : B.Sc,
Chemistry Université Laval, Québec, Canada / Université
Blaise-Pascal, Clermont- Ferrand, France.
2007-2009 : M.Sc,
Organometallic Chemistry, Université Laval, Québec (under Prof.
Frédéric-Georges Fontaine). Download thesis in .pdf format
(French language).
2009- : PhD. Inorganic
Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
(in progress, under Prof. Karl O. Christe).
Relevant
research/professional experience
2004-2006 part-time job at
the CGPC in Université Laval. Hazardous waste management
technician.
2006 Part-time intership in
prof. El-Ghozzi’s group, Université Blaise-Pascal. X-ray
powder diffraction studies on terbium fluorides.
2006-2007 Part-time
internship in prof. Fontaine’s group, Université Laval.
Synthesis of metal tris(phosphino) tris amido complexes.
2007 Internship in prof.
Woo’s group, University of Ottawa. Theoretical calculations
training. Study of the energetics of various coordination modes
for a tris-amino tris-phosphino trimethylaluminum system.
2007-2009 Master degree under
prof. Fontaine, Université Laval. Synthesis of the novel
boratabenzene-phosphole ligand family; Study of the zirconium
(IV): boratabenzene: phospholyl system; Contributions to the
study of the platinum (0) –chloroboracyclohexadiene system;
DFT studies of ligand exchange in borabenzene adducts.
2010- Ph.D under prof. Karl
O. Christe, University of Southern California. Contributions to
the dinitrotriazolato-borate chemistry; Exploration of B-N
chemistry; boron- nitro compounds chemistry.
Publications
"Synthesis of a
1-boratabenzene-(2,3,4,5-tetramethylphosphole) : towards a
planar monophosphole" Chem. Commun.46, 6816 (2010) G.
Bélanger-Chabot, P. Rioux, L. Maron, F.-G. Fontaine.”
"[(Imes)2Pt(H)(ClBC5H4SiMe3)]: A
Borabenzene–Platinum Adduct With An Unusual Pt-Cl-B
Interaction" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, 6695 (2009), A.
Languérand, S. S. Barnes, G. Bélanger-Chabot, L. Maron, F.-G.
Fontaine.
"Reactivity of a functionalized trisamido ligand
with Zr(NMe2)4 and GaMe3"
J. Organomet. Chem. (2010) Available online
Awards/Prizes
2005 : Bourse
d’inscription de la Fondation Price (entry scholarship),
Univ. Laval
2005 : Hypercube price
2006 : Bourse de
recherche premier cycle en milieu universitaire NSERC (undergrad
research scholarship)
2006 : Silver medal of
the Canadian Chemical Society
2007: Society of Chemical
industry Merit Award
2007: Bourse de maîtrise,
FQRNT (Master degree scholarship)
2007 : Bourse BESC M,
NSERC (Master degree scholarship)
2010: Bourse de doctorat,
FQRNT (Ph.D scholarship)
2010: Governor General’s
Gold medal
