个人简介

2014 Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry 2012 Department of Energy Early Career Research Award 2012 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 2010 Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Investigator 2010 Research Corporation, Cottrell Scholar Award 2010 Kavli Frontiers Fellow 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2009 Hellman Faculty Fellow, University of California 2007 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award 2005 National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow 2005 Davison Thesis Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

研究领域

Inorganic Chemistry

Research in the Figueroa Group centers on the design and synthesis of highly tailored and reactive transition metal complexes for small molecule activation chemistry. A major focus is the development of new and useful transformations of stable small molecules such as N2, O2 and CO2. We hope to discover efficient means to utilize these abundant chemical feedstocks in transformations relevant to organic synthesis, industry and alternative energy. A second theme is the modulation and control of redox equivalents in chemical reactions through the explicit use of redox-active ligands and/or spectator agents. Students in the Figueroa group will become well-versed in organic and inorganic synthetic methodologies. In addition, we routinely use a host of spectroscopic techniques including UV-vis, FTIR, EPR and multi-nuclear NMR. X-ray crystallography and quantum-chemical calculations (DFT) are also major components of our research effort and allow us to both predict and interpret molecules of interest.

近期论文

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Barnett, B. R.; Moore, C. E.; Rheingold, A. L.; Figueroa, J. S. "Cooperative transition metal/Lewis acid bond-activation reactions by a bidentate (boryl)iminomethane complex: a significant metal-borane interaction promoted by a small bite-angle LZ chelate.", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, Vol. 136, 10262-10265 [View Abstract] Carpenter, A. E.; McNeece, A. J.; Barnett, B. R.; Estrada, A. L.; Mokhtarzadeh, C. C.; Moore, C. E.; Rheingold. A. L.; Perrin, C. L.; Figueroa, J. S.; "Direct Observation of β-Chloride Elimination from an Isolable β-Chloroalkyl Complex of Square Planar Nickel.", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, [View Abstract] Carpenter, A. E.; Wen, I.; Moore, C. E.; Rheingold, A. L.; Figueroa, J. S. "[1,1-Co2(CO)6(CNArMes2)2]: A Structural Mimic of the Elusive D2d Isomer of [Co2(CO)8]", Chem. Eur. J., 2013, Vol. 19, 10452-10457 Ditri, T. B.; Carpenter, A. E.; Ripatti, D. S.; Moore, C. E.; Rheingold, A. L.; Figueroa, J. S. "Chloro- and trifluoromethyl-substituted flanking-ring m-terphenyl isocyanides: η6-arene binding to zero-valent molybdenum centers and comparison to alkyl-substituted derivatives.", Inorg. Chem., 2013, Vol. 52, 13216-29 [View Abstract] Carpenter, A.E.; Margulieux, G. W.; Millard, M. D.; Moore C. E.; Weidemann, N.; Rheingold, A.L.; Figueroa, J. S.; "Zwitterionic stabilization of a reactive cobalt tris-isocyanide monoanion by cation coordination.", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, Vol. 51, 9412-94166 [View Abstract] Stewart, M.A.; Moore, C. E.; Ditri, T. B.; Labios, L. A.; Rheingold, A. L.; Figueroa, J. S. "Electrophilic functionalization of well-behaved manganese monoanions supported by m-terphenyl isocyanides.", Chem. Commun., 2011, Vol. 47, 406-408 [View Abstract] Margulieux, G. W.; Weidemann, N.; Lacy, D. C.; Moore, C. E.; Rheingold, A. L.; Figueroa, J. S. "Isocyano analogues of [Co(CO)(4)](n): a tetraisocyanide of cobalt isolated in three states of charge.", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, Vol. 132, 5033-5035 [View Abstract] Millard, M. D.; Moore, C. E.; Rheingold, A. L; Figueroa, J. S. "Four-coordinate iridium(I) monohydrides: reversible dinitrogen binding, bond activations, and deprotonations.", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, Vol. 132, 8921-8923 [View Abstract] Fox, B. J.; Millard, M. D.; DiPasquale, A. G.; Rheingold, A. L.; Figueroa, J.S. "Thallium(I) as a coordination site protection agent: preparation of an isolable zero-valent nickel tris-isocyanide.", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, Vol. 48, 3473-7 [View Abstract] Labios, L. A,; Millard, M. D.; Rheingold A. L.; Figueroa J. S. "Bond activation, substrate addition and catalysis by an isolable two-coordinate Pd(0) bis-isocyanide monomer.", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, Vol. 131, 11318-11319 [View Abstract]