个人简介

Peter Chen has been Full Professor of Physical-Organic Chemistry since September 1994. From September 2007 to September 2009 he has been Vice President Research and Corporate Relations of ETH Zurich. Prof. Chen was born in 1960 in Salt Lake City, USA. After attending schools in Akron, Ohio, he studied at the University of Chicago where he earned his degree in 1982. He was awarded a doctoral degree in 1987 by Yale University, New Haven CT. Following this he transferred to Harvard University in Cambridge MA, where from 1988 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor and from 1991 to 1994 Associate Professor. In 1994, he was elected Full Professor at ETH Zurich. Since September 1, 2007 he is Vice President for Research and Corporate Relations. He has been distinguished as "National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator", "Camille and Henry Dreyfus Distinguished New Faculty Fellow", "David and Lucile Packard Fellow", "Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar", "Alfred P. Sloan Fellow" and "American Chemical Society Cope Scholar". Further, he was a member of the Defense Science Study Group, which was sponsored by the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia.

研究领域

Reaction Mechanisms

In his research he combines detailed physical measurements with the planning and synthesis of molecules, making it possible to design and test intuitive models of the energetics and reactivity of reactive intermediates in organic and organometallic chemistry. Under normal conditions of reaction these intermediate products have a very short life span, their behavior provides the key to the understanding and the control of the chemical process.

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Quantitative Description of Structural Effects on the Stability of Gold(I) Carbenes Ringger, David H., Kobylianskii, Ilia J., Serra, Daniel and Chen, Peter (2014) The gas-phase bond-dissociation energies of a SO2–imidazolylidene leaving group of three gold(I) benzyl imidazolium sulfone complexes are reported (E0=46.6±1.7, 49.6±1.7, and 48.9±2.1 kcal mol−1). Although these energies are similar to each other, they are reproducibly... Cyclopropanation of styrenes and stilbenes using lithiomethyl trimethylammonium triflate as methylene donor Sarria Toro, J.M., Hartog, Tim den and Chen, P. (2014) Lithiomethyl trimethylammonium triflate, prepared from tetramethylammonium triflate, cyclopropanates several styrenes and stilbenes with electron-donating and selected electron-withdrawing substituents efficiently. Kinetic data support a stepwise nucleophilic addition-ring closure... A lithiomethyl trimethylammonium reagent as a methylene donor Den Hartog, T., Sarria Toro, J.M., Couzijn, Erik P.A. and Chen, P. (2014) Straightforward deprotonation of soluble tetramethylammonium salts with alkyllithium reagents gives lithiomethyl trimethylammonium reagents. Coordination of the Li cation is crucial to the stability of these ‘N–C ylides’. These reagents were used to prepare epoxides,... New benchmark set of transition-metal coordination reactions for the assessment of density functionals Weymuth, Thomas, Couzijn, Erik P.A., Chen, Peter and Reiher, Markus (2014) We present the WCCR10 data set of 10 ligand dissociation energies of large cationic transition metal complexes for the assessment of approximate exchange–correlation functionals. We analyze nine popular functionals, namely BP86, BP86-D3, B3LYP, B3LYP-D3, B97-D-D2, PBE, TPSS,... Coinage-metal mediated ring opening of cis-1,2-dimethoxycyclopropane Batiste, L. and Chen, P. (2014) N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) supported coinage metal cations proved to react in the gas phase with the electron-rich cis-1,2-dimethoxycyclopropane. Upon Collision Induced Dissociation (CID), several spectrometric fragment-ion signals were observed, one corresponding to the recovery... Experimental gas-phase thermochemistry for alkane reductive elimination from Pt(IV) Couzijn, Erik P.A., Kobylianskii, Ilia J., Moret, Marc-Etienne and Chen, Peter (2014) The gas-phase reactivity of the [(NN)PtIVMe3]+ (NN = α-diimine) complex 1 and its acetonitrile adduct has been investigated by tandem mass spectrometry. The only observed reaction from the octahedral d6 complex 1·MeCN is the simple dissociation of the coordinated solvent molecule... A palladium-catalyzed methylenation of olefins using halomethylboronate reagents Hartog, T.D., Toro, J.M.S. and Chen, P. (2014) Methylenation of electron-rich olefins is a highly challenging reaction, for which we have developed a new methodology exploiting Pd-catalysis and halomethylboronate reagents, the latter replacing diazomethane and zinc carbenoids as methylene donors. Optimization of the reaction... Discovery, Development and Study of Carbenoid Mediated Reactions From Olefin Sarria Toro, Juan M. (2014) Doctoral Thesis and Habilitation Thesis A Mild, Thermal Pentafulvene-to-Benzene Rearrangement Finke, A. D., Haberland, S., Schweizer, W. B., Chen, P. and Diederich, F. (2013) Co-C bond energies in adenosylcobinamide and methylcobinamide in the gas phase and in silico Kobylianskii, Ilia J., Widner, FlorianJ., Kräutler, Bernhard and Chen, Peter (2013) Essential to biological activity of adenosylcobalamin (AdoCbl) and methylcobalamin (MeCbl) is the Co-C bond cleavage step. Hence, we report an accurate determination of the homolytic gas-phase Co-C bond dissociation energies in the related adenosyl- and methylcobinamides (41.5 ±... Rational Design of a Gold Carbene Precursor Complex for a Catalytic Cyclopropanation Reaction Ringger, David H. and Chen, Peter (2013) Host-guest cyclodextrin chemistry in the gas phase Li, Zhongshu (2013) Doctoral Thesis and Habilitation Thesis Homogeneous Model Complexes for Supported Rhenia Metathesis Catalysts Lai, Yu-Ying, Bornand, Marc and Chen, Peter (2012) A series of rhenium trioxo complexes (L-ReO3) was synthesized, characterized, and demonstrated to be active in olefin metathesis. The relationship between perrhenate (ReO4-), perrhenyl (ReO3+), and metathesis-active rhenium complexes (L-ReO3) was elucidated. Their chemical behavior... Non-innocent Character of Oxyanions in Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts Jović, Marija, Torker, Sebastian and Chen, Peter (2011) The synthesis, characterization, reactivity, and selectivity of six novel ruthenium metathesis catalysts containing oxyanions as ligands are described. A drop in chemoselectivity and/or reactivity in alternating ring-opening metathesis polymerization of norbornene and cyclooctene... Structure, Dynamics, and Polymerization Activity of Zirconocenium Ion Pairs Generated with Boron-C(6)F(5) Compounds and Al(2)R(6) Mathis, Déborah, Couzijn, Erik P.A. and Chen, Peter (2011) The activation reaction of the olefin polymerization precatalyst Cp*(2)ZrMe(2) with a boron-C(6)F(5) compound (B(C(6)F(5))(3), [Ph(3)C][B(C(6)F(5))(4)]) and an aluminum alkyl species (Al(2)Me(6), Al(2)(i)Bu(6)) is studied by NMR spectroscopy in order to determine the nature of the... Potential Energy Surface for (Retro-)Cyclopropanation Fedorov, Alexey, Batiste, Laurent, Bach, Andreas, Birney, David M. and Chen, Peter (2011) The gas-phase cyclopropanation and apparent metathesis reactivity of ligand-supported gold arylidenes with electron-rich olefins is explained by quantum-chemical calculations. A deep potential minimum corresponding to a metal-bound cyclopropane adduct is in agreement with the... Transmetalation of Methyl Groups Supported by Pt-II-Au-I Bonds in the Gas Phase, in Silico, and in Solution Serra, Daniel, Moret, Marc-Etienne and Chen, Peter (2011) We report Pt-II-to-Au-I methyl transfer reactions that occur in the gas phase and in solution. The heterobimetallic Pt-II/Au-I complexes {[(dmpe)PtMe2][AuPR3]}(+) (R = Me (2a), Ph (2b), Bu-t (2c)), observed in the gas phase by means of electrospray ionization, were subjected to... Carbene complexes Chen, Peter (2011) Chemo- and Stereoselective ROMP Torker, Sebastian and Chen, Peter (2011) Probing for non-statistical effects in dissociation of the 1-methylallyl radical Gasser, Michael, Frey, Jann A., Hostettler, Jonas M. and Bach, Andreas (2011) The 1-methylallyl radical loses a hydrogen atom following photoexcitation to its lowest valence electronically excited state and displays statistical behavior in decomposition, implying that the presence of methyl rotors cannot be depended upon as an indicator for non-statistical...