Farewell Ignacio Chi.

Ignacio was admitted in the PhD Chemistry program at the University of Chicago late 2019, to begin studies in September 2020. Due to COVID, he followed the program remotely while still in Santiago and now he has finally travelled to Chicago to join his new group at the Department of Chemistry. We wish Ignacio a successfull and productive PhD experience.

Ignacio was hired as a research assistant in our group, after a dissapointing MSc experience in another school. With us he transitioned from wanting to quit science to make key scientific discoveries that ultimately helped him get admission offers from three top-10 graduate chemistry programs in the US.

Well done Ignacio!

Here is a list of Ignacio’s work with us:

• I. Chi-Durán, R. Fritz, V. Olaya, R. Urzua-Leiva, G. I. Cárdenas-Jirón, D.P. Singh, F. Herrera, Anisotropic Band-Edge Absorption of Millimeter-Size Zn(3-Ptz)2 Single Crystal Metal-Organic Frameworks, DOI:10.26434/chemrxiv.13370414.v1, 2020.
• J. García-Garfido, J. Enríquez, I. Chi-Durán, I. Jara, L. Vivas, F.J. Hernández, F. Herrera, D.P. Singh, Millimeter-sized metal-organic framework single crystals without inversion symmetry: controlled growth and self-assembly mechanism, DOI:10.26434/chemrxiv.13002950.v1, 2020.
• I. Chi-Durán, Z. Setifi, F. Setifi, C. Jelsch, B. Morgenstern, A. Vega, F. Herrera, D. Pratap Singh, K. Hegetschweiler and R. Boyaala Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of tris­(2,2′-bi­pyridine)­nickel(II) bis­(1,1,3,3-tetra­cyano-2-eth­oxy­propenide) dihydrate, Acta Cryst. E75, 867-871, 2019.
• J. Enríquez, I. Chi-Durán, C. Manquián, F. Herrera, D. P. Singh, Controlled growth of the non-centrosymmetric Zn(3-ptz)2 and Zn(OH)(3-ptz) metal-organic frameworks, ACS Omega 4, 7411–7419, 2019.
• I. Chi-Durán, J. Enríquez, C. Manquian, R. A. Fritz, D. Serafini, F. Herrera, D. P. Singh, Azide-based high-energy metal-organic framework with enhanced thermal stability, ACS Omega DOI:10.1021/acsomega.9b01127, 2019.
• I. Chi-Durán, J. Enríquez, A. Vega, F. Herrera, D. P. Singh, Hexa­aqua­zinc(II) dinitrate bis­(5-(pyridinium-3-yl)tetra­zol-1-ide), Acta Cryst. E74, 1231-1234, 2018.
• I. Chi-Durán, J. Enriquez, C. Manquian, W. Cañon-Mancisidor, D. Venegas-Yazigi, F. Herrera, D. P. Singh, pH-controlled assembly of 3D and 2D zinc-based metal-organic frameworks with tetrazole ligands, ACS Omega 3, 801, 2018.