Ozerov Group Members

 

Jessica DeMott  

 

Jessica DeMott (Brandeis Class of 2006) is a native of Long Island in New York.  She first joined the Ozerov group as an undergrad in the spring of 2005.  She advanced several loosely related research projects, primarily centered around the use of pincer ligands in the preparation of unusual main-group element hypercoordinate compounds.  In March 2006, she was awarded a travel grant by the NESACS to support her travel to the ACS meeting in Atlanta.  Later in the spring of 2006, after having been admitted to several top chemistry programs, she elected to join the Department of Chemistry at Stanford to pursue her Ph.D. degree.  In May 2006 she graduated from Brandeis with a B.S. degree with highest honors and decided to continue doing research in the Ozerov group during the summer of 2006.  In August 2006 she departed for a cross-country trek to Stanford where she joined the group of Prof. Yandulov.  Jessica received an honorable mention in the NSF Fellowship competition. In 2008, she began research on the Ketosteriod Isomerase sytem in Dan Herschlag's group at Stanford. She returned to the Ozerov group for the summer of 2010, and then decided to stay on with the group as a graduate student.

Jessica’s publications in the Ozerov group:  

(56) DeMott, J.; Bhuvanesh, N.; Ozerov, O.V. "Frustrated Lewis Pair-Like Splitting of Aromatic C-H Bonds and Abstraction of Halogen Atoms by a Cationic [(^FPNP)Pt]⁺ Species", Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 642-649.

(49) DeMott,^U J.; Surawatanawong,^P P.; Barnett,^U S. M.; Chen, C.-H.; Foxman, B. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "Experimental and Computational Exploration of the Dynamic Behavior of (PNP)BF₂, a Boron Compound Supported by an Amido/Bis(Phosphine) Pincer Ligand", Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 11562.

(19)  DeMott,^U J. C.; Basuli, F.;   Kilgore, U. J.;  Foxman, B. M.; Huffman, J. C.; Ozerov, O. V., Mindiola, D. J." Silver(I) and Thallium(I) Complexes of a PNP Ligand and Their Utility as PNP Transfer Reagents", Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 6271.

(18)  DeMott,^U J. C.; Guo, C.; Foxman, B. M.; Yandulov, D. V.; Ozerov, O. V., "Five-coordinate aluminum complexes of a PNP ligand", Mendeleev Commun. 2007, 17, 63 (invited contribution to the Higher Chemical College issue).