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Linda Helen Doerrer

Assistant Professor

Inorganic Chemistry

Office: SCI 383
Phone: 617-358-4335
Fax: 617-353-6466
E-mail: doerrer@bu.edu

Office hours: Fall 2006: TW 3:30-5pm, R4-5pm

Degrees
  • B.A. in Chemistry (magna cum laude), Cornell University, 1991.
  • Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996.
  • NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University, 1996 - 1997.
  • Junior Research Fellow, Oxford University, 1997 - 1999.
Honors
  • Henry Dreyfus Fellow (2005)
  • Emily Gregory Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service, Barnard College, 2002
  • Goodwin Medal for Conspicuously Effective Teaching by an MIT Graduate Student (Finalist), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
  • Department of Chemistry Award for Excellence in Recitation Teaching by a Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992
  • The American Institute of Chemists Foundation Student Award, Cornell University, 1991
  • National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Honorable Mention, March 1991
Funding
  • National Science Foundation
  • American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund
  • Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
  • Research Corporation
Teaching
    CH631 - Inorganic Chemistry
Research/Activities
  • Synthetic inorganic and organometallic solution phase molecules
  • Perfluorinated aryl rings in weakly-coordinated anions
  • Metallophilic interactions with precious metal double-salts
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