Professor Josh Figueroa Seminar – UCSD
1093 Shelby Hall 250 Hackberry Lane, TuscaloosaProfessor Josh Figueroa from the University of California, San Diego will present a seminar. The Carbonyl-Isocyanide Relationship and Beyond Abstract: Recent results concerning the synthesis and reactivity of low-coordinate transition-metal complexes featuring sterically encumbering m-terphenyl isocyanide ligands are presented. Given the isolobal relationship between organoisocyanides and carbon monoxide, these complexes serve as mimics of the unsaturated binary metal carbonyls. The latter have traditionally been studied in either the gas phase or by matrix-isolation techniques and, consequently, their condensed-phase reactivity [...]