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Jenny Y. Yang
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 74
Citations - 3321
Jenny Y. Yang is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Catalysis & Electrocatalyst. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 66 publications receiving 2539 citations. Previous affiliations of Jenny Y. Yang include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & California Institute of Technology.
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Using nature's blueprint to expand catalysis with Earth-abundant metals
R. Morris Bullock,Jingguang G. Chen,Jingguang G. Chen,Laura Gagliardi,Paul J. Chirik,Omar K. Farha,Christopher H. Hendon,Christopher W. Jones,John A. Keith,Jerzy Klosin,Shelley D. Minteer,Robert H. Morris,Alexander T. Radosevich,Thomas B. Rauchfuss,Neil A. Strotman,Aleksandra Vojvodic,Thomas R. Ward,Jenny Y. Yang,Yogesh Surendranath +18 more
TL;DR: It is asserted that nature’s blueprint provides essential principles for vastly expanding the use of EAMs in sustainable catalysis, pointing to an overarching need for improved theories and computational methods that accurately treat their multiconfigurational electronic structure.
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Mechanistic Insights into Catalytic H2 Oxidation by Ni Complexes Containing a Diphosphine Ligand with a Positioned Amine Base
Jenny Y. Yang,R. Morris Bullock,Wendy J. Shaw,Brendan Twamley,Kendra Fraze,M. Rakowski DuBois,Daniel L. DuBois +6 more
TL;DR: A comparison of the rate and thermodynamics of H(2) addition for this complex to related catalysts studied previously indicates that for Ni(II) complexes containing two diphosphine ligands, the activation of H (2) is favored by the presence of two positioned pendant bases.
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Hydrogen production using cobalt-based molecular catalysts containing a proton relay in the second coordination sphere
George M. Jacobsen,Jenny Y. Yang,Brendan Twamley,Aaron D. Wilson,R. Morris Bullock,M. Rakowski DuBois,Daniel L. DuBois +6 more
TL;DR: The cobalt analogue of a highly active nickel electrocatalyst for hydrogen production has been synthesized and characterized as [Co(PPh2NPh2)2(CH3CN)](BF4)2 as discussed by the authors.
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Moving Protons with Pendant Amines: Proton Mobility in a Nickel Catalyst for Oxidation of Hydrogen
Molly O'Hagan,Wendy J. Shaw,Simone Raugei,Shentan Chen,Jenny Y. Yang,Uriah J. Kilgore,Daniel L. DuBois,R. Morris Bullock +7 more
TL;DR: Density functional theory calculations and molecular dynamics simulations support the experimental observations, suggesting metal-mediated intramolecular proton transfers between nitrogen atoms, with chair-to-boat isomerizations as the rate-limiting steps.
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Reversible Electrocatalytic Production and Oxidation of Hydrogen at Low Overpotentials by a Functional Hydrogenase Mimic
TL;DR: This bis(diphosphine) nickel(II) complex displayed reversible electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen production and oxidation at low overpotentials, which are characteristic for hydrogenase enzymes.