In this Academic Employment Initiative symposium, I present my graduate and postdoctoral work on iridium complexes that selectively oxidize inert C-H bonds in alkanes. My graduate work, with Prof. Robert H. Crabtree at Yale University, showed that Cp* (Cp* = C5Me5) iridium complexes are active precatalysts in stereo-retentive C-H hydroxylation. My postdoctoral research focuses on the mechanism of C-H activation and oxidation of methane, using pincer (Phebox)IrIII(X)2(OH2) (X = OAc or O2CF3) complexes, for the conversion of methane to a liquid fuel methanol. This is carried out with Prof. Alan S. Goldman at Rutgers University.

Iridium(III) complexes in selective C-H oxidation

248th National Meeting (2014)

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