Area(s) of Expertise

Development of novel organometallic complexes for catalysis. Kinetic and mechanistic studies of catalytic and novel organometallic reactions. We are interested in the discovery and design of new organometallic catalysts. Our primary focus will be on catalytic oxidation reactions with a particular emphasis on green chemical reactions.

Publications

• Ligand Effects on Migratory Insertion of Carbon Monoxide into Nitridorhenium(V) PNP Alkyl Complexes , Organometallics (2026)
• Sequential Carbon Monoxide and Isocyanide Insertion into Rhenium–Carbon Bonds , Organometallics (2026)
• Non-Innocence of Lutidine-Based PNP Ligands in Nitridorhenium(V) Complexes , Organometallics (2025)
• Synthesis and Reactivity of Oxorhenium(V) Complexes Incorporating 2,6-Bis[(diphenyl)methyl]diamidopyridine (^DPMDAP) Pincer Ligands as the Basic Component of Transition Metal Frustrated Lewis-Pair Catalysts , Organometallics (2025)
• Synthesis of Nitridorhenium(V) Complexes with PNP Ligands and the Thermodynamics of Adduct Formation with Lewis Acids , Inorganic Chemistry (2025)
• Hexafluoroisopropanol as a Bioconjugation Medium of Ultrafast, Tryptophan-Selective Catalysis , Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024)
• Insertions of Isocyanides in Diamidoamine Rhenium(III) Complexes , Organometallics (2024)
• Well-Defined ENENES Re and Mn Complexes and Their Application in Catalysis: The Role of Potassium tert-Butoxide , Organometallics (2022)
• Are all charge-transfer parameters created equally? A study of functional dependence and excited-state charge-transfer quantification across two dye families , Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2021)
• Energy Decomposition Analysis of Lewis Acid/Base Adducts and Frustrated Lewis Pairs: The Use of E_Orb/E_Steric Ratios as a Reaction Parameter , Inorganic Chemistry (2021)

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