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November 12, 2019

Cooperative CO2 Scission Paper is Out!

This one has been a long time coming, but it has been worth the wait! Check out this fantastic work in Organometallics by Jim Zhang ’18, Teddy Donnell ’17, Paul Peterson ’18, and Mike Trenerry ’18, as well as our awesome collaborators Prof. Buck Taylor (and student Vanessa Eng) and Prof. Daron Janzen. We provide experimental and computational evidence for silicon-assisted CO₂ cleavage by an anomalous insertion mechanism, highlighting another mechanism by which silicon can play a key role in transforming CO₂.

The Whited and Taylor labs explore how M–Si bonds can be tuned to direct CO2 insertion and enable C=O cleavage. Check the results here: https://t.co/TL2opVyVmh pic.twitter.com/9S79vlpIB9

— Organometallics (@Orgmet_ACS) November 12, 2019

March 7, 2019

New Organometallics Paper

Check out our recent collaborative work with Buck Taylor’s (University of Portland) lab on a combined experimental and computational approach to understanding unusual competitive mechanisms in alkene hydrogenation by Rh catalysts! This paper describes work by Kate DeMeulenaere ’18 and Mike Trenerry ’18. Congrats to all involved on this well-deserved recognition of some excellent work!

October 10, 2018

Cobalt Silylene!

We have just reported our collaborative work with the Ozerov group (Texas A&M) preparing the first example of a base-free cobalt silylene (cobalt-silicon double bond) in Organometallics. Congrats to Jim for his excellent work on this project and thanks to all our wonderful collaborators who contributed to the work.

June 11, 2018

Featured Research!

Research from the Whited Lab was recently featured in a special ACS Select Virtual Issue of Organometallics: “Undergraduate Research: Contributions to Organometallic Chemistry”

March 20, 2018

Whited Group at ACS

Several representatives from the Whited group will showcase recent results at the Spring 2018 ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. Check out their awesome work if you are in town for the meeting!

Peterson, P. O.; Donnell, T. M.; Whited, M. T. “CO₂ Bond Scission via a [P₂Si]Rh Silylene Intermediate” INOR-246.
Zhang, J.; Foley, B. J.; Bhuvanesh, N.; Whited, M. T.; Ozerov, O. V. “Synthesis & Reactivity of Novel Silyl/Silylene Pincer Cobalt Complexes” INOR-890.
Ma, S.; Zhang, J.; Whited, M. T.; Janzen, D. E. “Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Pincer-Type Bis(Phosphine)/Silylene [P₂Si]Ru Complexes” INOR-891 and SciMix