Ozerov Group - March 2020

Front Row: Yihan Cao, Bryan Foley, S. Olivia Gunther, Vinh Nguyen, and Cheng-Han (Andy) Yu

Back Row: Dr. Oleg Ozerov, Patricio Castillo, Ming-Uei Hung, Derek Leong, Brandy Adolph, Qingheng Lai, Sam Lee, Yanwu Shao

OUR RESEARCH:

The projects in our group typically involve transition metal or main group organometallic chemistry but are diverse and cover a wide variety of synthetic and mechanistic work. The ideal-case research scheme consists of:

1) discovery of a new reaction or a structural environment;

2) demonstration of unusual reactivity, structural, or electronic novelty;

3) application of these findings to develop a new catalytic process.

The training of students in our group is not built around a narrow research theme but instead aims to help students mature into problem-solving practicing synthetic chemists through exposure to diverse research experiences.

For more specific areas of research along with representative Ozerov Group publications, please see our Research Page.

RECENT NEWS:

• Congratulations to Olivia Gunther for recieving the AFS Distinguished Graduate Student Award, Excellence in Teaching!
• Formation of an Ag → Al dative bond is avoided in reactions of an alane/tris(phosphine) ligand with monovalent silver is published.
• Examination of a Series of Ir and Rh PXL Pincer Complexes as (Pre)Catalysts for Aromatic C-H Borylation is published.
• Arene Coordination Induces Migration of a Hydride to a Ru-Bound Carbene of a Pincer Ligand is published.
• Nucleopincers? Rhodium Complexes of Pyrimidine-centered PNP Pincer Ligands Derived from Nitrogenous Nucelobases Uracil and Thymine is published as part of a special issue on pincer ligands.
• Highly Efficient Caborane-Based Activators for Molecular Olefin Polymerization Catalysts is published.
• Unexpected B/Al Transelementation Within a Rh Pincer Complex is published.

For a complete list of news, past and present, see: Group News.