Organometallic and Mechanistic Studies

Recently, our group has been studying transition-metal catalyzed reactions from a mechanistic point of view. We use different methods and tools (e.g., in-situ NMR spectroscopy, in-situ IR spectroscopy, gas chromatography, cyclic voltammetry, etc.) to elucidate the key elemental steps of transition-metal catalyzed reactions. Those techniques are combined with physical organic chemistry methods, organometallic chemistry and density functional theory (DFT) calculations.

Selected publications:

• Mechanistic Investigation of the Nickel-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrocyanation of Alkynes (ACS Catal. 2023 external page doi)
  
• Mechanistic Investigation of the Nickel-​Catalyzed Metathesis between Aryl Thioethers and Aryl Nitriles (JACS 2022 external page doi)
  
• Mechanistically informed selection rules for competing β-​hydride and β-​heteroatom eliminations (Nat. Synth. 2022 external page doi)
  
• One to Find Them All: A General Route to Ni(I)–Phenolate Species (JACS 2021 external page doi)