Zuzanna Cygan graduated with a B. S. in chemistry from Louisiana State University in 1999.  She worked on the organometallic chemistry of palladium/germylene complexes and graduated with her PhD in 2003.  After a post-doc at NIST, she is now working at Arkema Group.

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Sequential Insertion of Formaldehyde and Carbon Monoxide into a Sulfide Bridged Pd—Ge Bond followed by Reductive Elimination to form a [1,3,2]oxathiagermolan-4-one.  Z. Cygan, J. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl, Organometallics 2004, 23, 2370-2375.

 Insertion of SO2 into a Sulfide-Bridged M—Ge Bond:  Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of the O-germyl-S-sulfoxylate.  Z. Cygan, J. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl,  Inorg. Chem.  2004, 43, 2057-2063.

 Reactions of Palladium Germylene Complexes:  Formation of Sulfide Bridges, Z. Cygan, J. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl,  Inorg. Chem. 2003, 42, 7219-7226.

 Activation and Catalytic Partial Hydrogenation of Benzophenone.  R. D. Sweeder, Z. T. Cygan, M. M. Banaszak Holl, Jeff W. Kampf, Organometallics 2003, 22, 4613-4615.

 Synthesis and Reactivity of a Novel Palladium Germylene System.  Z. T. Cygan, J. E. Bender, K.E. Litz, J. W. Kampf, M. M. Banaszak Holl  Organometallics  2002, 21, 5373-5381.