Department of Chemistry
Zachariah Heiden

Scholarly Associate Professor
Troy 230
Pullman, WA 99164-4630
(509) 335-0936
zachariah.heiden@wsu.edu
Education
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2011-2013
Pacific Northwest National Lab in Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2008-2011
University of Toronto with Doug Stephan
Ph.D., 2008
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Tom Rauchfuss
B.S. Chemical Engineering/Chemisty, 2004
University of Wisconsin-Madison (undergrad research with Paul Treichel)

Research
Inorganic, Organic, and Organometallic Chemistry
Research in the Heiden group primarily focuses on using catalysis to solve problems in energy and the environment. Please see the group webpage for more information.
Selected Recent Publications
- Thompson, B. L.; Kieffer, I. A.; Heiden, Z. M. Utilization of BODIPY-based redox events to manipulate the Lewis acidity of fluorescent boranes. Chem. Commun. 2022, DOI: 10.1039/d1cc06400.
- Thompson, B. L.; Heiden, Z. M. Tuning the reduction potentials of benzoquinone through the coordination to Lewis acids. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 9822-9831.
- Thompson, B. L.; Simons, C. R.; Heiden, Z. M. Redox Switchable Catalysis Utilizing a Fluorescent Dye. Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 11430-11433.
- Hanson, T. B.; Chudomelka, D. D.; Heiden, Z. M. Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrazine-Appended BODIPY Dyes and the Related Methylamine Complexes. New J. Chem. 2019, 43, 13103-13111.
- Kieffer, I. A.; Allen, R. J.; Fernandez, J. L.; Deobald, J. L.; Thompson, B. L.; Wimpenny, J. D.; Heiden, Z. M. Utilization of a Fluorescent Dye Molecule as a Proton and Electron Reservoir. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 2018, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201713174.