Mark Nesbit

Summary

Mark grew up in Warrenville, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he received a B.S. in Chemistry with honors (2012) and performed undergraduate research with Prof. Gregory S. Girolami. He then attended graduate school at the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry under the advisement of Prof. Jonas C. Peters (2018). Mark moved on to a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Davis in the lab of Prof. R. David Britt and was awarded a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship to support his research (2018-2021). After a brief stint teaching general chemistry as an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, San Diego (2022), Mark joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno as an Assistant Professor in 2023.

Research interests

The Nesbit lab is broadly interested synthesis, catalysis, and mechanistic studies involving inorganic and organometallic small molecules. The first major area of interest under this umbrella is the development of synthetic catalysts systems inspired by metalloenzymes to expand substrate scope and study mechanism. The second is the use of transition metal catalysts to generate reduced organic molecules from carbon oxides.

Honors and awards

• NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018-2021)

Courses taught

• CHEM 631

Education

• NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis 2018-2021
• Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 2018
• B.S. in Chemistry with Honors, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  2012

Selected publications

• Caroff, C. M.; Bellott, B. J.; Daly, C. I.; Daly, S. R.; Dunbar, A. C.; Mallek, J. L.; Nesbit, M. A.; Girolami, G. S. Sodium Aminodiboranates Na(H3BNR2BH3): Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of Steric and Electronic Substituent Effects. Chem. 2022, 61, 18412–18423.
• Handford, R. C.; Nesbit, M. A.; Smith, P. W.; Britt, R. D.; Tilley, T. D. Versatile Fe–Sn Bonding Interactions in a Metallostannylene System: Multiple Bonding and C–H Bond Activation. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 144, 358–367.
• Joshi, S.; Fedoseyenko, D.; Sharma, V.; Nesbit, M. A.; Britt, R. D.; Begley, T. P. Menaquinone Biosynthesis: New Strategies to Trap Radical Intermediates in the MqnE-Catalyzed Reaction Biochemistry 2021, 60, 1642–1646.

Visit Mark Nesbit's ORCiD page for a full list of publications