Mary Rakowski DuBois

University of Colorado at Boulder (1976-2007) Mary Rakowski DuBois is an inorganic chemist, now retired from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

She made multiple contributions to inorganic and organometallic chemistry, focusing on synthetic and mechanistic studies.

[1] She joined the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1976, and was a professor there until 2007, where she moved to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

[5] Early in her independent career, while on the faculty at the University of Colorado, she discovered that organomolybdenum sulfides activated hydrogen.

This work provided a mechanistic connection between the Mo-S catalysts used in hydrodesulfurization and molecular organometallic chemistry.

Structure of Cp 2 Mo 2 (S 2 C 2 H 2 ) 2 , prepared by the Rakowski DuBois group by addition of acetylene to Cp 2 Mo 2 S 4 . [ 6 ]