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SUMMARY:Cationic Late Transition Metal Complexes for Selective α-C–H Fun
 ctionalization
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20230213T160000
UID:2026-04-16-17-48-34@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260416T174834
Description:Cationic Late Transition Metal Complexes for Selective α-C–H
  Functionalization\n\nAbout the Seminar\n\nWe describe the discovery and d
 evelopment of catalytic α-C–H functionalization reactions of simple uns
 aturated hydrocarbons\, including alkynes\, alkenes\, and allenes\, using 
 cationic cyclopentadienyliron(II) dicarbonyl complexes. These complexes en
 able the development of a new mode of catalytic C–H functionalization in
  which metal coordination to a π-bond facilitates the deprotonation of a 
 neighboring C–H bond. The implementation of this strategy resulted in mi
 ld\, functional group tolerant\, and regioselective transformations for th
 e coupling of unsaturated hydrocarbons with aldehydes\, iminiums\, and oth
 er readily available or easily accessed carbon electrophiles. Investigatio
 ns into the reaction mechanism and the discovery and optimization of new l
 igand systems are discussed.  Extensions of this approach to other transi
 tion metal catalysts for stereoselective transformations are also describe
 d.\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\nYiming Wang was born in Shanghai\, China and g
 rew up in Colorado\, USA.  He graduated with an A.B./A.M. degree in chemi
 stry &amp\; physics and mathematics from Harvard University in 2008 after 
 conducting research in the group of Professor Andrew Myers. After obtainin
 g his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Dean Toste at the Universit
 y of California\, Berkeley in 2013\, he conducted postdoctoral research in
  the laboratory of Professor Stephen Buchwald at the Massachusetts Institu
 te of Technology as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow. 
  He joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh in 
 Fall 2017. 4:00 pm
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