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Spring 2012

MacDougall, Tiffany J

The formation of carbon–carbon (C–C) bonds is central to the transformation of small, readily available hydrocarbons into value-added products with useful chemical and physical properties. An important industrial process involving C–C bond formation is the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process which...

Spring 2012

Slaney, Michael E

The facile cleavage of relatively inert chemical bonds followed by their functionalization into value-added products is an important goal in chemistry. Although monometallic complexes are effective at both the cleavage of inert bonds and the subsequent functionalization of the activated...

Spring 2012

Zamora, Matthew Thomas

The study of heterobimetallic complexes (having two different metal atoms) involves combining the unique properties of each metal, which can give rise to interesting contrasts in reactivity compared to either metal alone. With two different metals incorporated into one complex, a more diverse...

Spring 2011

Hounjet, Lindsay

Molecular transition metal catalysts offer unique potential for the production of fine chemicals. Chemical processes carried out in the presence of well defined molecular catalysts often only require mild, easily accessible conditions, fewer sacrificial reagents, and can selectively produce a...

Fall 2009

Samant, Rahul G.

The use of transition metal catalysts - either homogeneous (discrete well-defined metal complexes) or heterogeneous (more poorly-defined metal surfaces) - play an important role in the transformations of small substrates into larger, value-added compounds. Although heterogeneous catalysts have...

Fall 2012

Mobarok, Md Hosnay

Transition metal-mediated E–H (E = Si, Ge) bond activation plays a pivotal role in industrially important processes, such as hydrosilylation and dehydrogenative coupling of organosilanes. Activation of these bonds by mono-metallic complexes is well studied, however, E–H bond activations in...