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Dr. Maren Pink
Dr. Maren Pink
Director of the Molecular Structure Center
Senior Scientist in Chemistry
Research Crystallographer
mpink@iu.edu
(812) 855-6821

Background Interests
  • Single crystal X-ray diffraction methods, twinning, phase transitions, polymorphism, weak interactions.
  • Time-resolved diffraction methods for solid state reactions.
  • Crystallography and structural chemistry education.
Activities
    Maren
  • Principal coordinator of the SCrAPS program (Synchrotron Crystallography at the Advanced Photon Source), a collaboration between researchers and service crystallographers at academic institutions to measure micro-crystals with synchrotron radiation
  • Principal coordinator of the Reciprocal Net project
Teaching
  • C631: Chemical Crystallography
  • Individual User Training
Recent Publications
  • C. Hu, M. Pink, J.M. Goicoechea:
    A Fresh Twist on the Phospha-(Aza)-Wittig Reaction.
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 12331–12337.
    DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c02865
  • S.E. Lindahl, E.M. Metzger, C-H. Chen, M. Pink, J.M. Zaleski:
    Pronounced electronic modulation of geometrically-regulated metalloenediyne cyclization.
    Chemical Science 2025, 16(1), 255–279
    DOI: 10.1039/d4sc05396f
  • J. Goicoechea, C. Hu, N. Rees, M. Pink:
    Isolation and characterization of a two-coordinate phosphinidene oxide.
    Nat. Chem. 2024 16(11), 1855–1860
    DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01586-x
  • Y. Chen, A. Kuvayskaya, M. Pink, A. Sellinger, A.H. Flood:
    A library of vinyl phosphonate anions dimerize with cyanostars, form supramolecular polymers and undergo statistical sorting.
    Chemical Science 2024, 15(1), 389–398
    DOI: 10.1039/d3sc03685e
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