Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)
Casimir Funk Natural Science Award, Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (1998
Dow Chemical Co., Technical Advisory Boards (1996-2003 (Synthesis), 2006-2007
Visiting Miller Research Professorship, Univ. California, Berkeley (1995)
Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1987-1989
Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Program (1988
Chair, Organometallic Subdivision, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (1994-1995)
Executive Committee, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (1991-1993)
Selected publications
"Carbon Monoxide Cleavage by (silox)3Ta (silox = tBu3SiO-): Physical, Theoretical and Mechanistic Investigations." Neithamer, D.R.; LaPointe, R.E.; Wheeler, R.A.; Richeson, D.S.; Van Duyne, G.D.; Wolczanski, P.T. J. Am. Chem. Soc.1989, 111, 9056-9072.
"Symmetry and Geometry Considerations of Atom Transfer: Deoxygenation of (silox)3WNO and R3PO (R = Me, Ph, tBu) by (silox)3M (M = V, NbL (L = PMe3, 4-picoline), Ta; silox = tBu3SiO)." Veige, A. S.; Slaughter, L. M.; Lobkovsky, E. B.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Matsunaga, N.; Decker, S. A.; Cundari, T. R. Inorg. Chem.2003, 42, 6204-6224.
"Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Mechanism of (silox)3M(olefin) to (silox)3M(alkylidene) Rearrangements (silox = tBu3SiO; M = Nb, Ta)." Hirsekorn, K. F.; Veige, A. S.; Marshak, M. P.; Koldobskaya, Y.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Cundari, T. R.; Lobkovsky, E. B. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2005, 127, 4809-4830.
"3-Center-4-Electron Bonding in [(silox)2Mo=NR]2(μ-Hg) Controls Reactivity while Frontier Orbitals Permit a Dimolybdenum π-Bond Energy Estimate." Rosenfeld, D. C.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Barakat, K. A.; Buda, C.; Cundari, T. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2005, 127, 8262-8263.
"PC Bond Cleavage of (silox)3NbPMe3 (silox = tBu3SiO) under Dihydrogen Leads to (silox)3Nb=CH2, (silox)3Nb=PH or (silox)3NbP(H)Nb(silox)3, and CH4." Hirsekorn, K. F.; Veige, A. S.; Wolczanski, P. T. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2006, 128, 2192-2193.