Rosalie Hocking

Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science Beamline Research Fellow BSc (Hons I) 2000, PhD 2004, The University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University USA, 2003-2006 CSIRO Land and Water, Adelaide, 2006-2007 Phone +61 (3) 9905 9543 Email:rosalie.hocking@sync.monash.edu.au

Research interests

• The development of Synchrotron Based Spectroscopies (particularly soft x-ray techniques for application to coordination chemistry)
• The coupling of synchrotron based experiments and theoretical models to understand catalytic reactions. Current focuses include:
  • Clean Energy Production
  • Environmental Chemistry
• Bioinorganic Chemistry and Biogeochemistry

Selected publications

A DFT Study of the Systematic Variations in Metal-Ligand Bond Lengths of Coordination Complexes: The Crucial Role of the Condensed Phase Rosalie K. Hocking, Robert J. Deeth, and Trevor W. Hambley Inorg. Chem. 2007 46(20) 8238-8244

Database Analysis of Transition-Metal Carbonyl Bond Lengths: Insight into the Periodicity of π Back-Bonding, σ Donation, and the Factors Affecting the Electronic Structure of the TM-CO Moiety Rosalie K. Hocking and Trevor W. Hambley Organometallics 2007 26(11) 2815-2823

Fe L-edge XAS of Low Spin Heme Relative to Non-heme Fe Complexes: Delocalization of Fe d electrons into the Porphyrin Ligand. Rosalie K. Hocking, Erik C. Wasinger, YiLong Yan, Frank deGroot, Ann Walker, Britt Hedman, Keith Hodgson and Edward I. Solomon J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007 129(1) 113-125

Fe L-edge XAS studies of K4[Fe(CN)6] and K3[Fe(CN)6]: a direct probe of back-bonding. Rosalie K. Hocking, Erik C. Wasinger, Frank deGroot, Keith O. Hodgson, Britt Hedman and Edward I. Solomon J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006 128(32) 10442-10451

XAS and DFT studies of (H3buea)FeIII-X (X=S2-, O2-, OH-): Comparison of bonding and H-bonding of oxo and sulfido complexes. Abhishek Dey, Rosalie K. Hocking, Peter Larson, Andrew Borovik, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson and Edward I. Solomon J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006 128(30) 9825-9833