Margaret Goodman, PhD

I was a non-traditional student and, in fact, did not start my undergraduate degree until I was 36. When I started an independent research project in Organic Chemistry in my sophomore year, I was hooked and decided to pursue my Ph.D. in chemistry.

• Ph.D, Organic Chemistry, SUNY Buffalo, 2006
• BS, Chemistry, SUNY Buffalo, 2002

• Faculty Member of the Year, Chemistry 2016
• Faculty Member of the Year, 2013
• Faculty Council Penelope Klein Research Fellowship, 2012

• Synthesis and reactivity of novel tris-pyrazolyl methanes/ethanes.

• Goodman, M.A.; Nazarenko, A.Y.; Goodman, M.S, “Synthesis and iron (II) complexes of the dimethylated tris(pyrazolyl)ethane ligands”, manuscript near completion.
• Goodman, M.A.; Nazarenko, A.Y.; Casavant, B.; Brennessel, W.; Goodman, M.S, “Tris(3-methylpyrazolyl)methane and its iron (II) complex”, manuscript in preparation.
• Goodman, M.A.; Goodman, M.S.; Nazarenko, A.Y.; Patel, E.N.; “Crystal structure of tris(3-methyl-1H¬-pyrazol-1-yl)methane”, Acta Cryst., 2015, E71, 816-823. [doi:10.1107/S2056989015017247]
• Goodman, M.A.;  DeMarco, M.J.; Tarasek, S.E.; Nazarenko, A.Y.; Brennessel, W.W.; Goodman, M.S. “Iron complexes of tris(pyrazolyl)ethane ligands methylated in the 3-, 4-, and 5-positions”, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2014, 423, 358-368.
• Goodman, M.A.; Nazarenko, A.Y.; Casavant, B.J.; Li, Z.; Brennessel, W.W.; DeMarco, M. J.; Long, G.; Goodman, M.S.;   "Tris(5-methylpyrazolyl)methane: Synthesis and Properties of its Iron(II) Complex", Inorganic Chemistry, 2012, 51(2), 1084-1093.