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SUMMARY:Bill Jones (Inorganic Seminar)
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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by: Gordie MillerTitle: “Catalysis with First-Row Tran
 sition Metal Complexes”ABSTRACTOur group has focused on dehydrogenation 
 reactions of alcohols to give ketones and esters using complexes of Earth-
 abundant first row metal complexes of iron\, cobalt\, and nickel.&nbsp\; A
 mines can also be dehydrogenated. Details of the mechanism have been eluci
 dated\, including isolation of catalytic intermediates. Applications to th
 e Guerbet upgrading of ethanol to 1-butanol will be presented. Recent work
  with fused bisoxazoline (FOX) ligands has revealed catalysts for alcohol 
 dehydration rather than dehydrogenation.&nbsp\;BIOGRAPHYWilliam D. Jones w
 as born in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania\, in 1953\, and was inspired to wor
 k in inorganic chemistry as an undergraduate researcher with Mark S. Wrigh
 ton at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS\, 1975).&nbsp\; He obtain
 ed a Ph.D. degree in chemistry at California Institute of Technology (1979
 )\, working with Robert G. Bergman.&nbsp\; He moved to the University of W
 isconsin as an NSF postdoctoral fellow with Chuck Casey\, and in 1980 acce
 pted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester.&nbs
 p\; He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1984 and Professor in 1987\,
  and is now the Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry.&nbsp\; Profess
 or Jones has received several awards\, including an Alfred P. Sloan Resear
 ch Fellowship (1984)\, a Camille &amp\; Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-S
 cholar Award (1985)\, a Royal Society Guest Research Fellowship (1988)\, a
  Fulbright-Hays Scholar (1988)\, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1988)\, t
 he ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry (2003)\, an ACS Cope Scholar Awar
 d (2009)\, the Royal Society of Chemistry Organometallic Chemistry Award (
 2017)\, and a Humboldt Research Award (2018). &nbsp\;He is a Fellow of the
  American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009)\, and a Fellow
  of the American Chemical Society (2010).&nbsp\; Professor Jones was elect
 ed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021\, and to the Natio
 nal Academy of Sciences in 2022.&nbsp\; He also has served as an Associate
  Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society from 2003-2020.&n
 bsp\; Professor Jones' research interests include organometallic research 
 in strong C-X bond cleavage\, catalysis\, model studies\, mechanisms\, kin
 etics\, thermodynamics\, and synthetic applications.&nbsp\;Selected Public
 ations:“On the Nature of Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation at Rhodium and 
 Related Reactions\,” William D. Jones\, Inorg. Chem.2005\, 44\, 4475-448
 4.&nbsp\; (an overview of C-H and C-S activation chemistry from my lab)“
 Isotope Effects in C-H Bond Activation Reactions by Transition Metals\,”
  William D. Jones\, Acc. Chem. Res. 2003\, 36\, 140-146.&nbsp\;“Activati
 on of C-F Bonds using Cp*2ZrH2: A Diversity of Mechanisms\,” William D. 
 Jones\, J. Chem. Soc.\, Dalton Trans. 2003\, 3991-3995. (an overview of C-
 F activation from my lab)“Experimental and Theoretical Examination of C
 –CN Bond Activation of Benzonitrile using Zerovalent Nickel\,” Tülay 
 A. Ateşin\, Ting Li\, Sébastien Lachaize\, Juventino J. García\, and Wi
 lliam D. Jones\, Organometallics2008\, 27\, 3811-3817.“Rhodium-Carbon Bo
 nd Energies in Tp'Rh(CNneopentyl)(CH2X)H: Quantifying Stabilization Effect
 s in M-C Bonds\,” Yunzhe Jiao\, Meagan E. Evans\, James Morris\, William
  W. Brennessel\, and William D. Jones. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013\, 135\, 6994
 –7004.&nbsp\;“Highly Selective Formation of n-Butanol from Ethanol thr
 ough the Guerbet Process: A Tandem Catalytic Approach\,” Sumit Chakrabor
 ty\, Paige E. Piszel\, Cassandra E. Hayes\, R. Tom Baker\, and William D. 
 Jones\, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015\, 137\, 14264-14267.&nbsp\;“Iron-Based De
 hydration Catalyst for Selective Formation of Styrene\,”&nbsp\;Olaf Nach
 tigall\, Andrew I. VanderWeide\, William W. Brennessel\, and William D. Jo
 nes\, ACS Catal. 2021\, 11\, 10885-10891.&nbsp\;\n\nMore information at: h
 ttps://www.chem.iastate.edu/event/2024/bill-jones-inorganic-seminar
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