Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Prof. Stork is a member of the department for the 2008-2009 academic year. His primary teaching responsibilities will be in Inorganic and General Chemistry.
He earned the B.A. (Chemistry) at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, where he conducted research on subphthalocyanine derivatives and related macrocycles. His Ph.D. is from the University of California, Davis, where he carried out crystallographic, spectroscopic, and synthetic studies of metallophilic interactions involving (mostly) organometallic platinum complexes. Prof. Stork comes to Lawrence from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where, as an NIH-NRSA postdoctoral fellow, he studied zinc metalloproteinase inhibitors, metal-organic frameworks, and metal complexes of bipyrrolic dipyrrin ligands. While a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD, he also taught General Chemistry for non-science majors.
Jay’s current research interests concern the synthesis, crystallography, and study of metal-organic frameworks with organometallic metalloligands as linking moieties, the chemistry of late transition metal dipyrrin complexes, and the general area of small-molecule X-ray crystallography. He also maintains a keen interest in the study of polypyrrolic macrocycles.