Current Position:

Currently Dr Rosenberg serves as the undergraduate advisor for incoming chemistry majors and for Chemistry Majors and Biochemistry Majors.

Dr Rosenberg is the Director of the "Hydrogen and the Environment ," project on the 2007-2010 NSF-EpSCoR Grant

He is also the co-director of the Center for Advanced Supramolecular and Nano-Science )(CASANS).

Currently, vice Chair of the Separation Science Subdivision, of the American Chemical Society

Description:

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.

Office Hours:

MWF 2-3 PM

Field Of Study:

Chemistry

Organometallic Chemistry

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Materials Science

Catalysis

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.

The second area of research involves the development of new synthetic methods for functionalizing biologically important molecules such as DNA and proteins using the unusual properties of  trinuclear metal clusters. This research involves organic and organometallic synthesis, extensive use of nuclear and electron magnetic resonance spectroscopies and the use of labeling experiments to understand reaction mechanism. The new organometallic Bio-Markers produced are screened for biological activity through collaborations with the industry. The aim of this research is to develop highly selective binding of metal clusters to bio macromolecules that can directly visualized by electron microscopy and used to gain phase information from X-ray diffraction experiments.   

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 and research groups in the Piedmont Region of Italy.

Professor Rosenberg's research is currently supported by Halcyon Molecular and the National Science Foundation.

Courses:

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

Hobbies:

Cooking

Fishing

Tennis

Hiking

Education:

B. S. City College of New York

Ph D Cornell University

Teaching Experience:

Dr Rosenberg has been teaching graduate and undergraduate chemistry courses in organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry for 35 years.

Affiliations:

Member the American Chemical Society, Industrial  & Engineering Chemistry Division , Separations Science Subdivision, Inorganic Division, Organometallic Subdivision.

Chair of the Separations Subdivision Chair

Editorial Advisory Board for:

Journal of Cluster Science

Journal of Applied Organometallic Chemsitry

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 

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

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 10/2102

 

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 72^nd 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.