Jerome R. Robinson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey the general thermodynamic and kinetic characteristics and reported potentials for molecular cerium redox chemistry, and illustrate the ligand types that most effectively stabilize each oxidation state.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, comparison of an extensive array of ligands revealed that under the basic reaction conditions the resultant heterobimetallic Pd–NiXantphos catalyst system outperformed all the other mono- and bidentate ligands in a deprotonative cross-coupling process (DCCP) with aryl chlorides.

TL;DR: An alternative approach has been realized using a rare earth/alkali metal/1,1'-BINOLate (REMB) heterobimetallic framework, which uses redox-inactive metals within the secondary coordination sphere to control ligand reorganization.

TL;DR: Self-assembly of novel hydrogen-bonded rare earth metal BINOLate complexes that serve as bench-stable precatalysts for Shibasaki's REMB catalysts, where it is demonstrated that the system performs with comparable or improved levels of stereoselectivity in several mechanistically diverse reactions including Michael additions, aza-Michael additions, and direct Aldol reactions.