Title: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Relevance of High Valent Transition Metal Organometallic Complexes
Abstract: This presentation will describe our group’s recent advances in the design and synthesis of high valent Pd, Ni, and Cu complexes. These M(III) and M(IV) complexes serve as models for catalytic intermediates in a wide variety of Pd, Ni, Cu, Co, and Fe-catalyzed transformations. Novel reactivity of these complexes as well as their applications in catalysis will be discussed.
Bio: Melanie Sanford grew up in Providence, RI. She received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Yale University in 1996 where she worked with Professor Bob Crabtree studying C–F bond functionalization. She then moved to Caltech where she worked with Professor Bob Grubbs investigating the mechanism of ruthenium-catalyzed olefin metathesis reactions. After receiving her PhD in 2001, she worked with Professor Jay Groves at Princeton University as an NIH post-doctoral fellow studying metalloporphyrin-catalyzed functionalization of olefins. Melanie has been a professor at the University of Michigan since the summer of 2003.
Host: Prof. Zach Wickens