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:

• "Combined Experimental and Computational Studies of the Mechanism of Dehydrogenative Borylation of Terminal Alkynes (DHBTA) Catalyzed by PNP Complexes of Iridium" is published.
• Cheng-Han (Andy) successfully defends his Ph.D. Congrats, Dr. Yu!
• ''Redox Communication between Two Diarylamido/Bis(phosphine) (PNP)M Moieties Bridged by Ynediyl Linkers (M = Ni, Pd, Pt)'' is published.
• Yanwu Shao successfully defends his Master's!
• ''Air- and Water-Tolerant (PNP)Ir Precatalyst for the Dehydrogenative Borylation of Terminal Alkynes'' is published.
• Ozerov Group returns to the lab in a socially distant way.
• ''Concerted aryl-sulfur reducitve elimination from PNP pincer-supported Co(III) and subsequent Co(I)/Co(III) comproportionation'' is published.
• Bryan successsfully defends his Ph.D. Congrats, Dr. Foley! 

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