UD researcher receives prestigious German fellowship

Patricia Panne

10:57 a.m., Sept. 15, 2005--Patricia Panne, a researcher in the University of Delaware Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded a highly competitive research fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft (DFG).

As the German equivalent of the National Science Foundation, the DFG serves as the central public funding organization responsible for promoting research in Germany.

Panne is working in the laboratory of Joseph M. Fox, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, where she is designing new catalysts for the synthesis of chiral cyclopropenes, molecules that the Fox research group has been developing as tools for the rapid construction of complex molecules.

The Fox group’s work has implications for research in applied settings such as the pharmaceutical industry.

Panne received a degree in chemistry from the University of Cologne, Germany, in 2001, under the guidance of Dieter Naumann. Afterward, she continued at the University of Cologne, working on the synthesis of new chiral phosphane ligands for asymmetric catalysis under Berthold Hoge. She obtained her doctorate in inorganic chemistry in December 2004.

Panne came to UD as a postdoctoral fellow in March 2005.

Article by Neil Thomas

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