Former Ozerov Group Members

 

 

Wei Weng

 

Wei received his B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2001) degrees from Nankai University in Tianjin, China.  His undergraduate research involved studies of luminescent lanthanide complexes.  He joined the Department of Chemistry at Brandeis in 2001 and worked in the group of Prof. Bruce Foxman until joining the Ozerov group in July of 2002.  Wei is one of the two original graduate students in the Ozerov group (together with Slava Papkov).  He also has the distinction of performing the very first experiment in the group.  Wei had had the most diverse research history in the group.  He had contributed to extending the field of available PNP and other pincer ligands, and worked with half a dozen different transition metals.  Wei successfully defended in December 2006 and departed for a postdoctoral position with Prof. Rich Jordan at the University of Chicago.

Wei’s publications in the Ozerov group:

(47) Brammell,^U C. M.; Pelton,^U E. J.; Chen, C. H.; Yakovenko, A. A.; Weng, W.; Foxman, B. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "Hafnium Alkyl Complexes of the Anionic PNP Pincer Ligand and Possible Alkylidene Formation", J. Organomet. Chem. 2011, 696, 4132.

(22)  Gerber,^U L. C. H.; Watson, L. A.; Parkin, S.; Weng, W.; Foxman, B. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "A Bis(methylidene) Complex of Tantalum Supported by a PNP Ligand", Organometallics 2007, 26, 4866.

(20)  Weng, W.; Chen, C.-H.; Foxman, B. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "Palladium Complexes of a P2C= Ligand Containing a Central Carbene Moiety", Organometallics 2007, 26, 3315.

(16)  Weng, W.; Parkin, S.; Ozerov, O. V. "Double C-H Activation Results in Ru Complexes of a Neutral PCP Ligand With a Central Carbene Moiety", Organometallics 2006, 25, 5345.

(13)  Weng, W.; Guo, C.; Çelenligil-Çetin, R.; Foxman, B. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "Skeletal Change In The PNP Pincer Ligand Leads To A Highly Regioselective Alkyne Dimerization Catalyst", Chem. Commun., 2006, 197.

(9)  Weng, W.; Guo, C.; Moura, C. P.; Yang, L.; Foxman, B. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "Competitive Activation of N-C and C-H Bonds of the PNP Framework by Monovalent Rhodium and Iridium", Organometallics 2005, 24, 3487.

(5)  Weng, W.; Yang, L.; Foxman, B. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "Chelate-Enforced Phosphine Coordination Enables a-Abstraction to Give Zirconium Alkylidenes", Organometallics 2004, 23, 4700.