Ozerov Group - February 2022

Front Row: Vinh Nguyen, Noah Sladek and Derek Leong

Back Row: Jovanny Contreras, Sam Lee and Dr. Oleg Ozerov

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:

• Synthesis of pyrrole-based PSiP pincer ligands and their palladium, rhodium, and platinum complexes is published.
• Isolable fluorinated triphenylmethyl cation salts of [HCB₁₁Cl₁₁]^-: demonstration of remarkable hydride affinity is published.
• Olivia successfully defends her Ph.D. Congrats Dr. Gunther!
• Cooperative C-H activation of pyridine by PBP complexes of Rh and Ir can lead to bridging 2-pyridyls with different connectivity to the B-M unit is published.
• Ming-Uei successfully defends his Ph.D. Congrats Dr. Hung!
Yihan successfully defends her Ph.D. Congrats Dr. Cao!
• 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.

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