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Will E Lynch, Ph.D.

Will E Lynch, Ph.D.

Biochemistry, Chemistry & Physics

Home Campus: Statesboro and Savannah
wlynch@georgiasouthern.edu
912-344-3144

Research Areas

Coordination Polymers, Cocrystals, Materials Science, X-ray Crystallography, Bioinorganic, Coordination Chemistry

Education

  • Ph.D. – Wayne State University (Chemistry – Inorganic)
  • B.A. – Kalamazoo College (Chemistry and Mathematics)

Publications

  1. Callaway, W.; Elterman, Krasilnikov, N.; Roberts, G.; Rutan, D.; Spencer, T.; Padgett, C.W.; Lynch, W.E. Syntheses and crystal structures of three triphenylsulfonium salts of manganese (II), iron (III) and cobalt (II). Acta Cryst. E., 2025, 81(8), 770-775.
  2. Groneck, E.N.; Peek, N.; Lynch, W.E.; Padgett, C.W. Crystal structures of zinc(II) coordination complexes with isoquinoline N-oxide. Acta Cryst. E. 2025, 81(2), 132-139.
  3. Padgett, C.W.; Dean, R.; Cobb, A.; Miller, A.; Goetz, A.; Bailey, S.; Hillis, K.; McMillen, C.; Toney, S.; Guillet, G.L.; Lynch, W.E.; Pennington, W.T. Comparison of N…I and N…O halogen bonds in organoiodine cocrystals of heterocyclic aromatic diazine mono-N-oxides. Cryst. Growth and Des. 2024, 24(6), 2425-2438.
  4. Traver, J.; Chenard, E.; Zeller, Guillet, G.L.; Lynch, W.E.; Hillesheim, P. Directing cation-cation interactions in thiamine compounds: Analysis of a series of organic salts based on vitamin B1. J. of Mol. Struct. 2021, 1232,130046.
  5. Beasley, E.M.; Bazemore, J.G.; Petrillo, A.; Padgett, C.W.; Lynch, W.E.; Quillian, B. Preparation of 3-hydroxy-2,3-dialkoxy-2-phenylchroman-4-ones and 3,3-dihydroxy-2-alkoxy-2-phenylchroman-4-ones by oxidation of 3-hydroxyflavone with copper(II) bromide: Structure, reactivity and characterization. Inorg. Chim. Acta. 2020, 512, 119855.

Funding

Previous Grants

  1. National Science Foundation (0942047) Guiding General Chemistry Laboratory Toward a Green Revolution. $192,595.

Research Projects

Halogen / Hydrogen Bonding Optical Switches

Synthesis, characterization of dipyridal halogen and hydrogen bonded complexes that are light sensitive.  X-ray structural analysis and potential use as molecular optical switches. 

Coordination Polymers

Synthesis and computational analysis of hydrogen and halogen coordination polymers. This work studies both the solid state temperature dependent bonding in coordination and compliments this with computational analysis of these complexes.

News

  1. Jodi Hadden-Perilla, PhD. University of Delaware.  C. Eugene Bennett Early Career Chair of Chemistry  
    https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1064976#:~:text=Hadden%2DPerilla%20did%20more%20than,HBV%20utilized%20NCSA’s%20Delta%20supercomputer.
  2. Jarret Walsh, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine. 
  3. Clinton Brooks, PhD, US-Patent and Trademark Office. 

Research Group

Undergraduate Students

  • Kenadee Jones