Professor Josh Figueroa Seminar – UCSD

1093 Shelby Hall 250 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa

Professor 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 [...]