Connie C. Lu

[11] She earned her Ph.D. in 2006, with a thesis entitled The Chemistry of Tris(phosphino)borate Manganese and Iron Platforms.

[12] Lu conducted postdoctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry from 2006 to 2009, under the mentorship of Prof. Karl Wieghardt.

Under Wieghardt, Lu studied first-row transition metal complexes synthesized with redox non-innocent α-iminopyridine ligands.

[13][14][15] Lu also reported the synthesis and characterization of a chromium iminyl radical complex, using the α-iminopyridine ligand system.

[16] In 2009, Lu began her independent career at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities as an assistant professor in the department of chemistry.

A heterobimetallic coordination complex prepared by Lu and coworkers, bearing a quintuple metal-metal bond, with Mn-Cr bond distance of 1.8192(9) Å. [ 17 ]