Jenny Y. Yang

Jenny Yue-fon Yang (Chinese: 楊又芳)[1] is an American chemist. She is a Professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine where she leads a research group focused on inorganic chemistry, catalysis, and solar fuels.

Jenny Y. Yang
Born
Jenny Yue-fon Yang

San Fernando Valley, California
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.S.) 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) 2007
AwardsPresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Sloan Research Fellowship
NSF Career Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
University of California, Irvine
ThesisDistal hydrogen-bonding effects and cofacial bimetallic salen architectures for oxygen activation chemistry
Doctoral advisorDaniel G. Nocera
Other academic advisorsJeffrey R. Long, Daniel L. DuBois
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese楊又芳
Websiteyanggroup.weebly.com

Early life and education

Jenny Yue-fon Yang[2] was born in the San Fernando Valley and raised in Chatsworth, Los Angeles. She is a second-generation Taiwanese-American.[1] Yang studied chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked in the laboratory of Jeffrey R. Long. Yang synthesized novel Prussian blue analog materials and analyzed their magnetic properties.[3] She graduated in 2001 with a bachelor's in science in chemistry, and moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate studies in the laboratory of Daniel G. Nocera. Yang's work in the Nocera lab focused on the synthesis of novel salen complexes that mimic the activity of the catalase enzyme, and exhibit epoxidation activity towards olefins.[4][5][2] She graduated with her Ph.D. in 2007.[6]

Career

Yang moved to Washington to conduct postdoctoral research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where she worked with Daniel L. DuBois on mechanistic studies of H2 oxidation with nickel bis(diphosphine) complexes.[7][8][9] In 2009, she was hired as a senior staff scientist at PNNL. She then worked as a research scientist at the Molecular Catalysis group of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at the California Institute of Technology. In 2013, Yang joined the faculty at University of California, Irvine as an assistant professor of chemistry.

Yang's publishes in the area inorganic and organometallic chemistry,[10][11][12] electrocatalysis,[13] as well as materials science.[14]

Awards and honors

Yang has received several awards. These include the DoE Early Career Research Award in 2014[1] and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2016. In 2017, she was honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellowship, and a Research Corporation Advanced Energy Materials Scialog Fellowship.[15] In 2018, she was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, and in 2019 she was named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar.[16] In 2015, Yang was selected as a member of the Global Young Academy[17] and in 2018, she was named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.[18]

References
  1. 楊, 婷專 (January 13, 2017). "台裔學者獲美工程師最高榮譽". Sina Daily News (in Chinese). Sina Corp. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  2. Yang, Jenny Yue-fon (2007). Distal hydrogen-bonding effects and cofacial bimetallic salen architectures for oxygen activation chemistry (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/40873.
  3. Yang, Jenny Y.; Shores, Matthew P.; Sokol, Jennifer J.; Long, Jeffrey R. (2003-03-01). "High-Nuclearity Metal−Cyanide Clusters: Synthesis, Magnetic Properties, and Inclusion Behavior of Open-Cage Species Incorporating [(tach)M(CN)3] (M = Cr, Fe, Co) Complexes". Inorganic Chemistry. 42 (5): 1403–1419. doi:10.1021/ic026065f. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 12611505.
  4. Yang, Jenny Y.; Nocera, Daniel G. (2008-08-04). "Manganese amido-imine bisphenol Hangman complexes". Tetrahedron Letters. 49 (32): 4796–4798. doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2008.05.111. ISSN 0040-4039.
  5. Yang, Jenny Y.; Nocera, Daniel G. (2007-07-01). "Catalase and Epoxidation Activity of Manganese Salen Complexes Bearing Two Xanthene Scaffolds". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129 (26): 8192–8198. doi:10.1021/ja070358w. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 17552520.
  6. "Directory | UCI Department of Chemistry". www.chem.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  7. Yang, Jenny Y.; Bullock, R. Morris; Shaw, Wendy J.; Twamley, Brendan; Fraze, Kendra; DuBois, M. Rakowski; DuBois, Daniel L. (2009-04-29). "Mechanistic Insights into Catalytic H2 Oxidation by Ni Complexes Containing a Diphosphine Ligand with a Positioned Amine Base". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131 (16): 5935–5945. doi:10.1021/ja900483x. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 19341269.
  8. Yang, Jenny Y.; Chen, Shentan; Dougherty, William G.; Kassel, W. Scott; Bullock, R. Morris; DuBois, Daniel L.; Raugei, Simone; Rousseau, Roger; Dupuis, Michel; DuBois, M. Rakowski (2010-11-09). "Hydrogen oxidation catalysis by a nickel diphosphine complex with pendant tert-butyl amines". Chemical Communications. 46 (45): 8618–8620. doi:10.1039/C0CC03246H. ISSN 1364-548X. PMID 20938535.
  9. Yang, Jenny Y.; Smith, Stuart E.; Liu, Tianbiao; Dougherty, William G.; Hoffert, Wesley A.; Kassel, W. Scott; DuBois, M. Rakowski; DuBois, Daniel L.; Bullock, R. Morris (2013-07-03). "Two Pathways for Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Hydrogen by a Nickel Bis(diphosphine) Complex with Pendant Amines in the Second Coordination Sphere". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135 (26): 9700–9712. doi:10.1021/ja400705a. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 23631473.
  10. Tsay, Charlene; Livesay, Brooke N.; Ruelas, Samantha; Yang, Jenny Y. (2015-11-02). "Solvation Effects on Transition Metal Hydricity". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (44): 14114–14121. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b07777. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 26466014.
  11. Chantarojsiri, Teera; Reath, Alexander H.; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018-10-02). "Cationic Charges Leading to an Inverse Free-Energy Relationship for N−N Bond Formation by MnVI Nitrides". Angewandte Chemie. 130 (43): 14233–14238. doi:10.1002/ange.201805832. ISSN 0044-8249.
  12. Thammavongsy, Zachary; Cunningham, Drew W.; Sutthirat, Natwara; Eisenhart, Reed J.; Ziller, Joseph W.; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018). "Adaptable ligand donor strength: tracking transannular bond interactions in tris(2-pyridylmethyl)-azaphosphatrane (TPAP)". Dalton Transactions. 47 (39): 14101–14110. doi:10.1039/c8dt03180k. ISSN 1477-9226. OSTI 1611734. PMID 30252015.
  13. Tsay, Charlene; Ceballos, Bianca M.; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018-10-08). "pH-Dependent Reactivity of a Water-Soluble Nickel Complex: Hydrogen Evolution vs Selective Electrochemical Hydride Generation". Organometallics. 38 (6): 1286–1291. doi:10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00558. ISSN 0276-7333. S2CID 53499439.
  14. Hanna, Caitlin M.; Sanborn, Christopher D.; Ardo, Shane; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018-04-06). "Interfacial Electron Transfer of Ferrocene Immobilized onto Indium Tin Oxide through Covalent and Noncovalent Interactions". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10 (15): 13211–13217. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b01219. ISSN 1944-8244. PMID 29624364.
  15. "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". www.faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  16. "2019 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards". Dreyfus Foundation. 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  17. "Jenny Yang". Global Young Academy. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  18. "Announcing the 2018 Class of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars". CIFAR. September 6, 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
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