• Director, X-Ray Crystallographic Facility, 1995 - present.
• Departmental Crystallographer, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, 1990 - 1995.
• Ph.D., 1985, Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University.
• B.A., 1978, Chemistry and Biology, Spring Arbor College.

Research interests:

Non-merohedral twinning is a phenomenon that seems to occur frequently in our laboratory. We have developed methods and software to deal with the problems associated with exactly and partially overlapped reflections. To date, we have refined about 100 non-merohedrally twinned structures using these methods.

Rietveld analysis is a long time interest.

Some Recent Publication:

"Geometric Isotope Effects in Crystalline Sodium Hydrogen bis-(4-Nitrophenoxide) Dihydrate," M. M. Kreevoy and V. G. Young, Jr., Can. J. Chem. 77, 733 (1999).

"Synthesis, Structure, and Solution NMR Studies of Cyanide-Copper(II) and Cyanide-Bridged Iron(III)-Copper(II) Complexes," D. M. Corsi, N. N. Murthy, V. G. Young, Jr., and K. D. Karlin, Inorg. Chem. 38, 848 (1999).

"Hydrogen-Bonding Cavities About Metal Ions: A Redox Pair of Coordinatively Unsaturated Paramagnetic Co-OH Complexes," B. S. Hammes, V. G. Young, Jr., and A. S. Borovik, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed. Eng. 38, 666 (1999).

"The Homoleptic Lithium Complex [Li(CH₃CN)₄]ClO₄," Y. Yokota, V. G. Young, Jr., and J. G. Verkade, Acta Cryst. C55, 198 (1999).

"Syntheses and Structures of Quinuclidine-Stabilized Four- and Five-Coordinate Mono- and Di-chlorogallane," B. Luo, V. G. Young, Jr., and W. L. Gladfelter, Chem. Comm. 2, 123 (1999).

"Reactivity of Peroxo- and bis-(m-oxo)Dicopper Complexes with Catechols," L. M. Berreau, S. Mahapatra, J. A. Halfen, R. P. Houser, V. G. Young, Jr. and W. B. Tolman, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng. 38, 207 (1999).

"Synthesis and Crystal Structure of the bis-(Allyl)Calcium Complex [Ca{C₃(SiMe₃)₂H₃}₂ ^. (THF)₂]," M. .J. Harvey, T. P. Hanusa, and V. G. Young, Jr., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng. 38, 217 (1999).