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:

• Unexpected B/Al Transelementation Within a Rh Pincer Complex is published.
• Dehydrogenative Diboration of Alkynes Catalyzed by Ir/CO/^tBuNC System is published.
• Ni Complexes of an Alane/Tris(phosphine) Ligand Built Around a Strongly Lewis Acidic Tris(N-pyrrolyl)aluminum is published.
• Reversible Addition of Ethylene to a Pincer-Based Boryl-Iridium Unit with the Formation of a Bridging Ethylidene is published.
• Palladium Bis-Pincer Complexes with Controlled Rigidity and Inter-Metal Distance is published.
• 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!

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