Ulrich W. Fekl
Associate Professor | M.Sc., Ph.D.
Research
We are extending the usefulness of transition metal systems for organic transformations and are, at the same time, investigating fundamental properties of transition metal complexes. One example is the activation of unreactive C-H bonds in hydrocarbons and their conversion into useful functionalities. Another field of study is the the reactivity of sulfur-containing metal centers with unsaturated molecules, a field of great promise for industrial olefin chemistry and also the development of Lewis-acids to catalyze organic transformations.
Publications
Antonio G. De Crisci, Jesse Kleingardner, Alan J. Lough, Anna Larsen, and Ulrich Fekl, "A Weakly Coordinating Anion as a Tripodal 'Br3'-Ligand for Platinum(IV): Structure of [(closo-CB11H6Br6)PtMe3]", Can. J. Chem. 2009, 87, 95-102.
Daniel J. Harrison, Alan J. Lough, Antonio G. De Crisci, Mitchell J. Kerr, and Ulrich Fekl, "Nickel Dithiolene Chelate Rings in a New Role as eta5-Coordinating Ligands: Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Redox Reactivity of an ‘Fe2Ni’ Bis-double-decker", Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 10199-10201.
Antonio G. De Crisci, Alan J. Lough, Kanwarpal Multani and Ulrich Fekl, "9,10-Dihydroplatinaanthracenes with Aromatic Diimine Ligands: Syntheses, Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of New Luminescent Materials" Organometallics 2008, 27, 1765–1779.
Daniel J. Harrison, Alan J. Lough, Neilson Nguyen, and Ulrich Fekl, "Push-Pull Molybdenum Trisdithiolenes Allow Rapid Nonconventional Binding of Ethylene at Ligand Sulfur Atoms" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 7644-7647.
Vicki Hsieh, Antonio G. De Crisci, Alan J. Lough, and Ulrich Fekl, "Lewis-Acidity of Trimethylplatinum(IV) with Labile Oxygen-Donor Ligands" Organometallics 2007, 26, 938-944.
Daniel J. Harrison, Neilson Nguyen, Alan J. Lough, and Ulrich Fekl, "New Insight into Reactions of Ni(S2C2(CF3)2)2 with Simple Alkenes: Alkene Adduct versus Dihydrodithiin Product Selectivity is Controlled by [Ni(S2C2(CF3)2)2]- Anion" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 11026-11027.
Ulrich Fekl, Werner Kaminsky, and Karen I. Goldberg, "beta-Diiminate Platinum Complexes for Alkane Dehydrogenation". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 15286-15287.
