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Career

· PhD Student, Stanford University / Institute of Computational & Mathematical Engineering2025–
· PhD Student, Columbia University2024–
· Research Scientist, Microsoft Research2024–
· Machine Learning Engineer / Research Scientist, Uber ATG / Quora2021–
· Research Scientist, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (SITC)2018–2022

Publications (83)

A Radical Mechanism for Frustrated Lewis Pair Reactivity
2017
124
cited
Chemoselective Cross-Coupling Between Two Different and Unactivated C(aryl)-O Bonds Enabled by Chromium Catalysis.
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2020
52
cited
Single Electron Delivery to Lewis Pairs: An Avenue to Anions by Small Molecule Activation.
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017
51
cited
Nitrogen-Based Lewis Acids: Synthesis and Reactivity of a Cyclic (Alkyl)(Amino)Nitrenium Cation.
Angewandte Chemie · 2018
49
cited
Radicals derived from Lewis acid/base pairs.
Chemical Society Reviews · 2019
48
cited
Cyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbene Ligand-Promoted Nitro Deoxygenative Hydroboration with Chromium Catalysis: Scope, Mechanism, and Applications.
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021
45
cited
A Transient Vinylphosphinidene via a Phosphirene-Phosphinidene Rearrangement.
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018
43
cited
N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized parent sulfenyl, selenenyl, and tellurenyl cations (XH+, X = S, Se, Te).
Dalton Transactions · 2017
32
cited
A stable rhodium-coordinated carbene with a σ0π2 electronic configuration
Science · 2024
30
cited
A Phosphorus Lewis Super Acid: η5-Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Phosphorus Dication
Chem · 2018
29
cited
Facile Cleavage of the P=P Double Bond in Vinyl-Substituted Diphosphenes.
Angewandte Chemie · 2018
29
cited
Phosphorus Coordination Chemistry in Catalysis: Air Stable P(III)-Dications as Lewis Acid Catalysts for the Allylation of C–F Bonds
Organometallics · 2018
29
cited
Synthesis and reactivity of copper carbyne anion complexes
Nature Synthesis · 2023
29
cited
Crystalline monometal-substituted free carbenes
Chem · 2022
28
cited
Stable Ketenyl Anions via Ligand Exchange at an Anionic Carbon as Powerful Synthons.
Angewandte Chemie · 2023
28
cited
A Free Aluminylene with Diverse σ-Donating and Doubly σ/π-Accepting Ligand Features for Transition Metals.
Angewandte Chemie · 2021
26
cited
The Arene-Stabilized η5 -Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Arsenic Dication [(η5 -Cp*)As(toluene)]2.
Angewandte Chemie · 2019
26
cited
Phosphaaluminirenes: Synthons for Main Group Heterocycles.
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2019
25
cited
Homolytic cleavage of peroxide bonds via a single electron transfer of a frustrated Lewis pair.
Chemical Communications · 2018
24
cited
Chromium-catalyzed stereodivergent E- and Z-selective alkyne hydrogenation controlled by cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene ligands
Nature Communications · 2023
21
cited
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