个人简介

MIT Everett Moore Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, May 2007 MIT Outstanding UROP Mentor Award, May 2007 NSF CAREER Award, April 2004

研究领域

Catalysis/Energy and Sustainability/Inorganic Chemistry/Synthesis

Research in the Sadighi group focuses on the design and synthesis of late transition metal complexes in unusual coordination environments and oxidation states. We are particularly interested in the synthesis of small clusters of low-coordinate late transition metals, with the goal of achieving difficult bond-forming and bond-breaking processes to develop new catalytic cycles. Metal–metal interactions represent an important aspect of these clusters, with implications for cooperative substrate activation and for multielectron reactions. Catalytic reactions of interest include the transformation of carbon dioxide to liquid fuels. This field has seen remarkable recent advances, but important opportunities and challenges remain. These challenges are complementary to the development of renewable energy: A conversion of CO2 to chemical fuel could make CO2 a currency, rather than a waste product, of energy use. Another area of interest is the reaction chemistry of labile metal fluorides in carbon–fluorine bond-forming reactions. Finally, low-valent late metal clusters show promise in key steps of aerobic oxidation catalysis, with potential industrial and environmental importance.

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Dinuclear μ-fluoro cations of copper, silver and gold. Wyss, C. M.; Tate, B. K.; Bacsa, J.; Wieliczko, M.; Sadighi, J. P. Polyhedron. 2014, Published online June 25.,. dinuclear silver hydride and an umpolung reaction of CO2. Tate, B. K.; Wyss, C. M.; Bacsa, J.; Kluge, K.; Gelbaum, L.; Sadighi, J. P. Chemical Science. 2013, 4, 3068–3074. Bonding and Reactivity of a μ-Hydrido Dicopper Cation. Wyss, C. M.; Tate, B. K.; Bacsa, J.; Gray, T. G.; Sadighi, J. P. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.. 2013, 52, 12920-12923. Synthesis of a Trigold Monocation: An Isolobal Analogue of [H3]+. Robilotto, T. J.; Bacsa, J.; Gray, T. G.; Sadighi, J. P. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.. 2012, 51, 12077-12080. Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation on Reaction of a Copper(I) Stannyl Complex with Carbon Dioxide. Bhattacharyya, K. X.; Akana, J. A.; Laitar, D. S.; Berlin, J. M.; Sadighi, J. P. Organometallics.. 2008, 27, 2682-2684. Reactions of a Stable Monomeric Gold(I) Hydride Complex. Tsui, E. Y.; Müller, P.; Sadighi, J. P. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.. 2008, 47, 8937-8940. Reversible C–F Bond Formation and the Au–Catalyzed Hydrofluorination of Alkynes. Akana, J. A.; Bhattachayya, K. X.; Müller, P.; Sadighi, J. P. J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 2007, 129, 7736-7737. Generation of a Doubly Bridging CO2 Ligand and Deoxygenation of CO2 by an (NHC)Ni(0) Complex. Lee, C. H.; Laitar, D. S.; Müller, P.; Sadighi, J. P. J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 2007, 129, 13802-13803. Catalytic Diboration of Aldehydes via Insertion into the Copper–Boron Bond.. Laitar, D. S.; Tsui, E. Y.; Sadighi, J. P. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2006, 128, 11036-11037. Copper(I) β-Boroalkyls from Alkene Insertion: Isolation and Rearrangement. Laitar, D. S.; Tsui, E. Y.; Sadighi, J. P. Organometallics. 2006, 25, 2405-2408.. Carbene-Stabilized Gold(I) Fluoride: Synthesis and Theory. Laitar, D. S.; Müller, P.; Gray, T. G.; Sadighi, J. P. Organometallics. 2005, 24, 4503-4505. Efficient Homogeneous Catalysis in the Reduction of CO2 to CO. Laitar, D. S.; Müller, P.; Sadighi, J. P. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2005, 127, 17196-17197. Oxidation-resistant, sterically demanding phenanthrolines as supporting ligands for copper(I) nitrene transfer catalysts. Hamilton, C. W.; Laitar, D. S.; Sadighi, J. P. Chemical Communications. 2004, 1628-1629. Synthesis, Structure, and CO2 Reactivity of a Two-Coordinate (Carbene)copper(I) Methyl Complex. Mankad, N. P.; Gray, T. G.; Laitar, D. S.; Sadighi, J. P. Organometallics. 2004, 23, 1191-1193. Synthesis, Structure, and Alkyne Reactivity of a Dimeric (Carbene)copper(I) Hydride. Mankad, N. P.; Laitar, D. S.; Sadighi, J. P. Organometallics. 2004, 23, 3369-3371. Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Pyrrole Anions with Aryl Chlorides, Bromides, and Iodides. Rieth, R. D.; Mankad, N. P.; Calimano, E.; Sadighi, J. P. Organic Letters. 2004, 6, 3981-3983. Conjugate Reduction of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds Catalyzed by a Copper Carbene Complex. Jurkauskas, V.; Sadighi, J. P.; Buchwald, S. L. Organic Letters. 2003, 5, 2417-2420. Copper(I) Complexes of a Heavily Fluorinated β-Diketiminate Ligand:  Synthesis, Electronic Properties, and Intramolecular Aerobic Hydroxylation. Laitar, D. S.; Mathison, C. J. N.; Davis, W. M.; Sadighi, J. P. Inorganic Chemistry. 2003, 42, 7354-7356.