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michal sabat

Michal Sabat
Head, X-Ray Diffraction Section
Nanoscale Materials Characterization Facility (NMCF)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
AND
Department of Chemistry

Ph.D. 1976 University of Wroclaw, Poland
M.S. 1970 University of Wroclaw, Poland

Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Virginia
PO Box 400745
395 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4745
Office: MSE Building Room 101
p: 434- 924-7862
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postdoctoral experience | professional experience | research interests | awards & honors | selected publications

Postdoctoral Experience

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1981-1983

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1980-1981

Professional Experience

Director, Molecular Structure Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1990-2010

Lecturer in Chemistry, Director of X-Ray Crystallography and Molecular Graphics, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston , IL , 1986-1989

Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Stereochemistry, National Research Council (CNR), Florence, Italy, 1983 -1986.

Research Interests

Soft Materials and Biomaterials
Applications of Crystal Engineering and Supramolecular Chemistry in Materials Science
Modern X-Ray Techniques in Materials Science and Nanotechnology
Structural Chemistry and X-Ray Crystallography

Awards and Honors

1999 David Harrison III Award for Undergraduate Advising

Selected Publications

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Coordination Polymers of copper (I) halides
PM Graham, RD Pike, M Sabat, RD Bailey, WT Pennington
Inorganic Chemistry 39 (22), 5121-5132183 2000


Manipulation of organolanthanide coordinative unsaturation. Synthesis, structures, structural dynamics, comparative reactivity, and comparative thermochemistry of dinuclear. mu.-hydrides and. mu.-alkyls with [. mu.-R2Si (Me4C5)(C5H4)] 2 supporting ligation
D Stern, M Sabat, TJ Marks
Journal of the American Chemical Society 112 (26), 9558-9575149 1990


Chiral Organolanthanides Designed for Asymmetric Catalysis. Synthesis, Characterization, and Configurational Interconversions of Chiral, C1-Symmetric Organolanthanide Halides, Amides, and Hydrocarbyls
MA Giardello, VP Conticello, L Brard, M Sabat, AL Rheingold, CL Stern, TJ Marks
Journal of the American Chemical Society 116 (22), 10212-10240146 1994

Interaction between the guanine-cytosine Watson-Crick DNA base pair and hydrated Group IIa (Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+) and group IIb (Zn2+, Cd2+, Hg2+) metal cations
J Šponer, JV Burda, M Sabat, J Leszczynski, P Hobza
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 102 (29), 5951-5957132  1998

Structurally rigid and optically active dendrimers
QS Hu, V Pugh, M Sabat, L Pu
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 64 (20), 7528-7536131 1999

Metallocene antitumor agents. Solution and solid-state molybdenocene coordination chemistry of DNA constituents
LY Kuo, MG Kanatzidis, M Sabat, AL Tipton, TJ Marks
Journal of the American Chemical Society 113 (24), 9027-9045129 1991

Chiral Organolanthanoid Complexes for Enantioselective Olefin Hydrogenation.
VP Conticello, L Brard, MA Giardello, Y Tsuji, M Sabat, CL Stern, TJ Marks
ChemInform 23 (31), no-no116 1992

The effect of metal binding to the N7 site of purine nucleotides on their structure, energy, and involvement in base pairing
J Šponer, M Sabat, L Gorb, J Leszczynski, B Lippert, P Hobza
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104 (31), 7535-7544102 2000

Metal-stabilized rare tautomers of nucleobases. 6. Imino tautomer of adenine in a mixed-nucleobase complex of mercury (II)
F Zamora, M Kunsman, M Sabat, B Lippert
Inorganic chemistry 36 (8), 1583-158793 1997

Models for organometallic molecule-support complexes. Synthesis and properties of cationic organoactinides
Z Lin, JF Le Marechal, M Sabat, TJ Marks
Journal of the American Chemical Society 109 (13), 4127-412981 1987

Trigonal mercuric complex of an aliphatic thiolate: A spectroscopic and structural model for the receptor site in the mercury (II) biosensor MerR
SP Watton, JG Wright, FM MacDonnell, JW Bryson, M Sabat, TV O'Halloran
Journal of the American Chemical Society 112 (7), 2824-282680 1990

Metal-modified nucleobase pairs: mixed adenine, thymine complexes of trans-a2platinum (II)(a= ammonia, methylamine) with Watson-Crick and Hoogsteen orientations of the bases
O Krizanovic, M Sabat, R Beyerle-Pfnuer, B Lippert
Journal of the American Chemical Society 115 (13), 5538-554876 1993

Model for a platinated DNA triplex: Watson-Crick and metal-modified Hoogsteen pairing
I Dieter-Wurm, M Sabat, B Lippert
Journal of the American Chemical Society 114 (1), 357-35968 1992

Polymorphism and Reversible Mechanochromic Luminescence for Solid-State Difluoroboron Avobenzone
G Zhang, J Lu, M Sabat, CL Fraser
Journal of the American Chemical Society 132 (7), 2160-216261 2010

Metal complexes of the antiinflammatory drug piroxicam
R Cini, G Giorgi, A Cinquantini, C Rossi, M Sabat
Inorganic Chemistry 29 (26), 5197-520057 1990

Macrocyclic bisbinaphthyl fluorophores and their acyclic analogues: signal amplification and chiral recognition
ZB Li, J Lin, HC Zhang, M Sabat, M Hyacinth, L Pu
The Journal of organic chemistry 69 (19), 6284-629351 2004

Tetraaquaorotatonickel (II) monohydrate
M Sabat, D Zglinska, B Jezowska-Trzebiatowska
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal ...511980

Metal ions in non-complementary DNA base pairs: an ab initio study of Cu (I), Ag (I), and Au (I) complexes with the cytosine-adenine base pair
J Šponer, M Sabat, JV Burda, J Leszczynski, P Hobza, B Lippert
Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 4 (5), 537-54549 1999

Interaction of the adenine-thymine Watson-Crick and adenine-adenine reverse-Hoogsteen DNA base pairs with hydrated group IIa (Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+) and IIb (Zn2+, Cd2+, Hg2+) metal cations: Absence of the base pair stabilization by metal-induced polarization effects
J Sponer, M Sabat, JV Burda, J Leszczynski, P Hobza
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103 (13), 2528-253449 1999

Ferromagnetic interactions in decamethylferrocenium salts of nickel bis (dichalcogenides)
WE Broderick, JA Thompson, MR Godfrey, M Sabat, EP Day, BM Hoffman
Journal of the American Chemical Society 111 (19), 7656-765749 1989

 

 
   

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