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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
Catalysis lies at the heart of many unmet chemical challenges. Research efforts in our group focus on development of new catalytic chemistry to impact both chemical synthesis as well as chemical storage of solar energy. Projects span organic, organometallic, and inorganic chemistries and rely on the tools of modern synthetic chemistry and spectroscopy, as well as advanced characterization techniques supported at synchrotron X-ray sources. Representative research interests include: shape-selective catalysis, solar energy storage in organic solar-thermal flow batteries, and aerobic oxidation chemistry for C-H functionalization reactions. We are seeking students who wish to gain expertise in synthetic chemistry and reaction mechanism elucidation.

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Professor and Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0303 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

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0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle And Plasma Physics

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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12 Responsible Consumption And Production

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3407 Theoretical And Computational Chemistry

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Harvard University - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)

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Franklin & Marshall College - (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States)

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Thermal reactions of 7-d- and 8-d-bicyclo[4.2.0]oct-2-enes.

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-Phenethylamine Synthesis via Latent Dual Electrophilicity of N-Pyridinium Aziridines.

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Direct Characterization of a Reactive Lattice-Confined Ru2 Nitride by Photocrystallography.

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Metallopolymerization as a Strategy to Translate Ligand-Modulated Chemoselectivity to Porous Catalysts

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Atomically Precise Crystalline Materials Based on Kinetically Inert Metal Ions via Reticular Mechanopolymerization

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Selective multi-electron aggregation at a hypervalent iodine center by sequential disproportionation.

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Synthesis of Atomically Precise Single-Crystalline Ru2-Based Coordination Polymers

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Dual Polymerization Pathway for Polyolefin-Polar Block Copolymer Synthesis via MILRad: Mechanism and Scope.

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Probing substrate diffusion in interstitial MOF chemistry with kinetic isotope effects

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Atomically Precise Crystalline Materials Based on Kinetically Inert Metal Ions via Reticular Mechanopolymerization

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Monitoring the Stability of Porous Coordination Cages during the Photoreduction of Porous Salt Thin Films.

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Metallopolymerization as a Strategy to Translate Ligand-Modulated Chemoselectivity to Porous Catalysts

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Measuring and Modulating Substrate Confinement during Nitrogen-Atom Transfer in a Ru2-Based Metal-Organic Framework.

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Halogen Photoelimination from Monomeric Nickel(III) Complexes Enabled by the Secondary Coordination Sphere

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Ag(III)Ag(III) Argentophilic Interaction in a Cofacial Corrole Dyad.

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Proteome-Wide Covalent Targeting of Acidic Residues with Tunable N-Aryl Aziridines.

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Synthesis of Secondary Amines via Self-Limiting Alkylation of N-Aminopyridinium Salts

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A fluoride-derived electrophilic late-stage fluorination reagent for PET imaging.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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N-Aminopyridinium reagents as traceless activating groups in the synthesis of N-Aryl aziridines.

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Manipulate - techniques to manipulate the surroundings of a synthetic catalyst to control activity and selectivity: general discussion.

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Manipulation of Charged Porous Cages as Tunable Platforms for Strong Gas Adsorption

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IodineIodine Cooperation Enables Metal-Free CN Bond-Forming Electrocatalysis via Isolable Iodanyl Radicals

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Synthesis of Secondary Amines via Self-Limiting Alkylation.

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Sequential Disproportionation Enables Aggregation of Four Electron-Holes at a Hypervalent Iodine Center

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Atomically Precise Crystalline Materials Based on Kinetically Inert Metal Ions via Reticular Mechanopolymerization.

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Iodine redox catalysts for selective O2 utilization

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Oxidase Catalysis via Aerobically Generated Hypervalent Iodine Intermediates

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Cis-Divacant Octahedral Fe(II) in a Dimensionally Reduced Family of 2-(Pyridin-2-yl)pyrrolide Complexes.

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N-Aminopyridinium Reagents as Traceless Activating Groups in the Synthesis of N-Aryl Aziridines

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Use of photocrystallography to capture critical intermediates in HX energy conversion photocycles

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Make - underpinning concepts of the synthesis of systems where non-covalent interactions are important: general discussion.

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Aziridine Group Transfer via Transient N-Aziridinyl Radicals.

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Nitrogen Atom Transfer Catalysis by Metallonitrene CH Insertion: Photocatalytic Amidation of Aldehydes

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Bidirectional Electron Transfer Strategies for Anti-Markovnikov Olefin Aminofunctionalization via Arylamine Radicals

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Multisite Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Enables Iodanyl Radical Catalysis.

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The Role of lodanyl Radicals as Critical Chain Carriers in Aerobic Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry

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Bimetallic Pd(III) complexes in palladium-catalysed carbonheteroatom bond formation.

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Two-electron HCl to H2 photocycle promoted by Ni(II) polypyridyl halide complexes.

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Phenethylamine Synthesis via Latent Dual Electrophilicity of NPyridinium Aziridines

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Oxidase Catalysis via Aerobically Generated Hypervalent Iodine Intermediates

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cis-Decalin oxidation as a stereochemical probe of in-MOF versus on-MOF catalysis.

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Synthesis and Application of Bioactive NFunctionalized Aziridines

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P-P Coupling with and without Terminal Metal-Phosphorus Intermediates.

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Oxidase Catalysis via an Aerobically Generated Dess-Martin Periodinane Analogue

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Electrocatalytic CN Coupling via Anodically Generated Hypervalent Iodine Intermediates

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Development of high-valent aerobic oxidation catalysis

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Molecular Design Considerations for Azobenzene Anolytes.

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Probing Substrate Diffusion in Interstitial MOF Chemistry with Kinetic Isotope Effects.

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Leveraging Exchange Kinetics for the Synthesis of Atomically Precise Porous Catalysts

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Bifunctional N-Aminopyridinium Reagents Enable CH Amination, Olefin Carboamination Cascades

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Photosynthesis and direct characterization of reactive metal-ligand multiply bonded intermediates

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Photochemical PCO-Group Transfer Provides P-Analogues of Beta-Lactams

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Electrocatalytic CN Coupling via Anodically Generated Hypervalent Iodine Intermediates

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Oxygen-atom transfer photochemistry of a molecular copper bromate complex.

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[1,3] Sigmatropic rearrangement of trans, cis, trans-tricyclo[6.3.0.02,7]undec-3-ene.

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Stereoelectronic Effects in Cl2 Elimination from Binuclear Pt(III) Complexes.

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Kinetic Versus Thermodynamic Metalation Enables Synthesis of Isostructural Homo- and Heterometallic Trinuclear Clusters

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Iodosylbenzene Coordination Chemistry Relevant to Metal-Organic Framework Catalysis.

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Nitrene Photochemistry of Manganese N-Haloamides

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A Transition State Analogue for the Oxidation of Binuclear Palladium(II) to Binuclear Palladium(III) Complexes

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Traceless Benzylic C-H Amination via Bifunctional N-Aminopyridinium Intermediates.

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In Operando Analysis of Diffusion in Porous Metal-Organic Framework Catalysts.

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Conformational Control as a Design Strategy to Tune the Redox Behavior of Benzotriazole Negolytes for Nonaqueous Flow Batteries.

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Iodine-Iodine Cooperation Enables Metal-Free C-N Bond-Forming Electrocatalysis via Isolable Iodanyl Radicals.

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In situ characterization of post-synthetic metalation in porous salt thin films

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On the mechanism of intermolecular nitrogen-atom transfer from a lattice-isolated diruthenium nitride intermediate.

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Cis-decalin oxidation as a stereochemical probe of in-MOF versus on-MOF catalysis

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Prospects and challenges for nitrogen-atom transfer catalysis.

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Cis-Divacant Octahedral Fe(II) in a Dimensionally Reduced Family of 2-(Pyridin-2-yl)pyrrolide Complexes

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Bimetallic Pd(III) complexes in palladium-catalysed carbon-heteroatom bond formation (vol 1, pg 302, 2009)

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C-H Activation of Inert Arenes using a Photochemically Activated Guanidinato-Magnesium(I) Compound.

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Kinetic Probes of the Origin of Activity in MOF-Based CH Oxidation Catalysts

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Characterization of and group-transfer catalysis with lattice-confined reactive M-L multiple bonds

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Bimetallic redox synergy in oxidative palladium catalysis.

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Metal-Free Aziridination of Unactivated Olefins via Transient NPyridinium Iminoiodinanes

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Synthesis and structure of solution-stable one-dimensional palladium wires.

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Oxidation Catalysis by an Aerobically Generated DessMartin Periodinane Analogue

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On the mechanism of palladium-catalyzed aromatic C-H oxidation.

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Bidirectional Electron Transfer Strategies for Anti-Markovnikov Olefin Aminofunctionalization via Arylamine Radicals.

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Metal-Metal Bond-Containing Complexes as Catalysts for C-H Functionalization

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Transient Triplet Metallopnictinidenes MPn (M = PdII, PtII; Pn = P, As, Sb): Characterization and Dimerization

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Evaluating the Origins of Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis with TAM-3, a MOF with Accessible Co(II) Sites and Large Pores

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Electronic Structure of Copper Corroles.

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Oxidation Catalysis by an Aerobically Generated Dess-Martin Periodinane Analogue.

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Unlocking Solid-State Organometallic Photochemistry with Optically Transparent, Porous Salt Thin Films.

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Measuring and Modulating Substrate Confinement during Nitrogen-Atom Transfer in a Ru2-Based Metal-Organic Framework

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Electrocatalytic C-N Coupling via Anodically Generated Hypervalent Iodine Intermediates.

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In Crystallo Snapshots of Rh2-Catalyzed CH Amination

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Characterization of a Reactive Rh2 Nitrenoid by Crystalline Matrix Isolation

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Oxidase catalysis via aerobically generated hypervalent iodine intermediates

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Halogen Photoelimination from SbV Dihalide Corroles.

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Pre-clinical development of a masked tumor activated nectin-4 conditional IL-15 immuno-cytokine (ABBV-622) Free

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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

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Atomically Precise Crystalline Materials Based on Kinetically Inert Metal Ions via Reticular Mechanopolymerization

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Synthesis and Application of Bioactive N-Functionalized Aziridines.

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Bifunctional N-Aminopyridinium Reagents Enable CH Amination, Olefin Carboamination Cascades

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In Crystallo Photochemistry: Reimagining Synthetic Tractability with Transparent Single-Crystalline Flasks

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Diversification of Amidyl Radical Intermediates Derived from C-H Aminopyridylation.

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C-H Amination Mediated by Cobalt Organoazide Adducts and the Corresponding Cobalt Nitrenoid Intermediates.

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Water oxidation catalysis by Co(II) impurities in Co(III)4O4 cubanes.

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Metal-Free Aziridination of Unactivated Olefins via Transient N-Pyridinium Iminoiodinanes

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New redox mediators for aerobic C-H oxidation chemistry

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Multielectron C-H photoactivation with an Sb(v) oxo corrole.

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Copper Complexes with Diazoolefin Ligands and their Photochemical Conversion into Alkenylidene Complexes

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N-Amino Pyridinium Salts in Organic Synthesis.

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Evaluating substrate diffusion during interstitial MOF catalysis

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Synthesis of atomically precise single-crystalline Ru2-based coordination polymers.

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High-Frequency and -Field EPR (HFEPR) Investigation of a Pseudotetrahedral CrIV Siloxide Complex and Computational Studies of Related CrIVL4 Systems.

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Secondary coordination sphere effects promote chlorine photoelimination from monomeric Ni(III) complexes

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ChemInform Abstract: MetalMetal BondContaining Complexes as Catalysts for CH Functionalization

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Nitrene Photochemistry of Manganese N-Haloamides

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Trap-Free Halogen Photoelimination from Mononuclear Ni(III) Complexes.

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Bimetallic reductive elimination from dinuclear Pd(III) complexes.

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Connecting binuclear Pd(III) and mononuclear Pd(IV) chemistry by Pd-Pd bond cleavage.

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Manipulation of Charged Porous Cages as Tunable Platforms for Selective Gas Adsorption

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Traceless Benzylic CH Amination via Bifunctional NAminopyridinium Intermediates

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Bimetallic palladium catalysis: direct observation of Pd(III)-Pd(III) intermediates.

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Gold Corroles as Near-IR Phosphors for Oxygen Sensing.

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Characterization of a Reactive Rh2 Nitrenoid by Crystalline Matrix Isolation.

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Development of Nonclassical Photoprecursors for Rh2 Nitrenes.

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Cis-Divacant Octahedral Fe(II) in a Dimensionally Reduced Family of 2-(Pyridin-2-yl)pyrrolide Complexes

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Exploring Green Chemistry with Aerobic Hypervalent Iodine Catalysis

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Synthesis, characterization, and photochemistry of Ru2(II,III) complexes of chalcogen oxides

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Characterization of a Reactive Rh2 Nitrenoid by Crystalline Matrix Isolation

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Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry as a Platform for Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis

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Synthesis of Atomically Precise Single-Crystalline Ru2-Based Coordination Polymers

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Observation of a photogenerated nitrenoid intermediates in C-H amination

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In Crystallo Snapshots of Rh2-Catalyzed CH Amination

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In Crystallo Snapshots of Rh2-Catalyzed C-H Amination.

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Metallopolymerization as a Strategy to Translate Ligand-Modulated Chemoselectivity to Porous Catalysts

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Multi-Site Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Enables Iodanyl Radical Catalysis

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Copper Complexes with Diazoolefin Ligands and their Photochemical Conversion into Alkenylidene Complexes.

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Tandem redox mediator/Ni(ii) trihalide complex photocycle for hydrogen evolution from HCl.

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Electronic Structure Analysis and Reactivity of the Bimetallic Bis-Titanocene Vinylcarboxylate Complex, [(Cp2Ti)2(O2C3TMS2)].

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Observation of a Photogenerated Rh2 Nitrenoid Intermediate in C-H Amination.

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Kinetic Probes of the Origin of Activity in MOF-Based C-H Oxidation Catalysis

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Palladium(III) in Synthesis and Catalysis.

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Nitrogen Atom Transfer Catalysis by Metallonitrene C-H Insertion: Photocatalytic Amidation of Aldehydes.

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Synthesis of hypervalent iodine reagents with dioxygen

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Transient N -Aziridinyl Radicals in Olefin Functionalization

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Kinetic Versus Thermodynamic Metalation Enables Synthesis of Isostructural Homo- and Heterometallic Trinuclear Clusters

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Hydroxylation stereochemistry as a probe of In-MOF versus On-MOF catalysis

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Characterization of and catalysis with lattice-confined reative intermediates

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Diversification of Amidyl Radical Intermediates Derived from CH Aminopyridylation

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Halogen photoelimination from Ni(III) complexes: An energy storing transformation

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Hydrogen-bond activation enables aziridination of unactivated olefins with simple iminoiodinanes.

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Probing Substrate Diffusion in Interstitial MOF Chemistry with Kinetic Isotope Effects

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Sustainable Methods in Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry

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Kinetic versus thermodynamic metalation enables synthesis of isostructural homo- and heterometallic trinuclear clusters.

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Oxidase catalysis via aerobically generated hypervalent iodine intermediates.

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Analysis of natural buffer systems and the impact of acid rain - An environmental project for first-year chemistry students

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Oxidase Catalysis via an Aerobically Generated Dess-Martin Periodinane Analogue

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Theoretical Analysis of Cobalt Hangman Porphyrins: Ligand Dearomatization and Mechanistic Implications for Hydrogen Evolution

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United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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National Institute of General Medical Sciences - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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CAREER: Aerobic Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry as a Platform for Oxidase Catalysis

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Chemistry; 3255 TAMU

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Texas A&M Chemist David Powers Earns Sloan Research Fellowship