Our latest pre-print (with Vicky Listyarini, Ryan Oliver, and Kathleen Lao) is now up on ChemRxiv.
doi.org/10.26434/che...
We systematically explore the steric demand of oxidative addition vs halogen atom abstraction for nickel(0) complexes of some mono- and bidentate ligands, using DFT calc's.
doi.org
Understanding the steric demand of the reactions of nickel(0) complexes with aryl halide substrates | ChemRxiv
Nickel complexes are able to undergo reactions with organohalides by a variety of
fundamental steps, which can be either one-electron or two-electron in nature. Two
electron processes are typically so...