Phone: (435) 797-0365
FAX: (435) 797-3390
E-mail: kasiarudzka@yahoo.com
Mailing Address:
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Utah State University
0300 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-0300
Current Activities
I am presently a 4th year graduate student in the
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
at Utah State University
pursuing a Ph.D. degree. I received my Masters degree from
The Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland.
Publications
K. Rudzka, A. M. Arif, and L. M. Berreau, "A Trinuclear Ni(II) Enediolate Complex: Synthesis, Characterization, and O2 Reactivity," Inorg. Chem. 2008, in press.
E. Szajna-Fuller, K. Rudzka, A. M. Arif, and L. M. Berreau, "Acireductone Dioxygenase (ARD)-type Reactivity of a Ni(II) Complex having Monoanionic Coordination of a Model Substrate: Product Identification and Comparisons to Unreactive Analogs," Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 5499-5507. (PDF)
R. A. Allred, S. A. Huefner, K. Rudzka, A. M. Arif, and L. M. Berreau, "A Cadmium Hydroxide Complex of a N3S-donor Ligand Containing Two Hydrogen Bond Donors: Synthesis, Characterization, and CO2 Reactivity," Dalton Transactions 2007, 351-357. (HTML)
K. Rudzka, A. M. Arif, and L. M. Berreau, "Glyoxalase I-type Hemithioacetal Isomerization Reactivity of a Mononuclear Ni(II) Deprotonated Amide Complex," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 17018-17023.(HTML/PDF)
K. Rudzka, A. M. Arif, and L. M. Berreau, "Chemistry of a Ni(II) Acetohydroxamic Acid Complex: Formation, Reactivity with Water, and Attempted Preparation of Zinc and Cobalt Analogs," Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 7234-7242. (PDF)
K. Rudzka, M. M. Makowska-Grzyska, E. Szajna, A. M. Arif, and L. M. Berreau, "Neutral Acetohydroxamic Acid Coordination to a Mononuclear Ni(II) Center Stabilized by a Intramolecular Hydrogen-bonding Interaction," Chem. Commun. 2005, 489-491. (HTML)
Presentations
K. Rudzka, A. M. Arif, L. M. Berreau, "Chemistry of a Ni(II) Acetohydroxamic Acid Complex: Formation, Reactivity with Water, and Attempted Preparation of Zinc and Cobalt Analogs," Graduate Research Seminar: Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ventura, CA, Feb. 2-5, 2006 (poster presentation).
K. Rudzka, A. M. Arif, L. M. Berreau, "Glyoxalase I-type Hemithioacetal Isomerization Reactivity of a Mononuclear Ni(II) Deprotonated Amide Complexes," 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 10-14, 2006 (poster presentation).