The Genuine Carbene Conundrum

Bethany Sawyer, Jesse. L. Peltier*, Rodolphe Jazzar*. Chem. Eur. J. 2025, e202501600.

Harnessing Multi-Center-2-Electron bonds Towards Carbene Metal-Hydride Nanoclusters in Catalysis

Jesse L. Peltier,^† Quentin Pessemesse,^† Skyler D. Mendoza,^† Elguja Gojiashvili, Anne K. Ravn, Jan Lorkowski, Milan Gembicky, Sourav S. Bera, Pierre-Adrien Payard*, Keary M. Engle*, Rodolphe Jazzar*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202419537. ^†Denotes equal contribution. [Preprint]
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An Air-Stable Radical with a Redox-Chameleonic Amide

Jesse L. Peltier, Melinda R. Serrato, Valentin Thery, Jacques Pecaut, Eder Tomás-Mendivil, Guy Bertrand, Rodolphe Jazzar, David Martin*. Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 595–598.

Realizing Metal-Free Carbene-Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions with CO

Jesse L. Peltier, Eder Tomás-Mendivil, Daniel R. Tolentino, Max M. Hansmann, Rodolphe Jazzar, Guy Bertrand*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 18336–18340. 

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Absolute Templating of M(111) Cluster Surrogates by Galvanic Exchange

Jesse L. Peltier, Michele Soleilhavoup, David Martin, Rodolphe Jazzar*, Guy Bertrand*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 16479–16485.

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Influence of Carbene and Phosphine Ligands on the Catalytic Activity of Gold Complexes in the Hydroamination and Hydrohydrazination of Alkynes

Sima Yazdani, Glen P. Junor, Jesse L. Peltier, Milan Gembicky, Rodolphe Jazzar*, Douglas B. Grotjahn*, Guy Bertrand*. ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 5190–5201.

Diastereoselective Coordination of P-Stereogenic Secondary Phosphines in Copper(I) Chiral Bis(phosphine) Complexes: Structure, Dynamics, and Generation of Phosphido Complexes

Sarah K. Gibbons, Christopher R. D. Valleau, Jesse L. Peltier, Matthew F. Cain, Russell P. Hughes, David S. Glueck*, James A. Golen, Arnold L. Rheingold. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 8854–8865. 

“Quick-Silver” from a systematic study of highly luminescent, 2-coordinate, d¹⁰ coinage metal complexes

Rasha Hamze, Shuyang Shi, Savannah C. Kapper, Daniel Sylvinson Muthiah Ravinson, Laura Estergreen, Moon-Chul Jung, Abegail C. Tadle, Ralf Haiges, Peter I. Djurovich, Jesse L. Peltier, Rodolphe Jazzar, Guy Bertrand, Stephen E. Bradforth, Mark E. Thompson*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 8616–8626.

Eliminating nonradiative decay in Cu(I) emitters: >99% quantum efficiency and microsecond lifetime

Rasha Hamze, Jesse L. Peltier, Daniel Sylvinson, Moonchul Jung, Jose Cardenas, Ralf Haiges, Michele Soleilhavoup, Rodolphe Jazzar, Peter I. Djurovich, Guy Bertrand, Mark E. Thompson*. Science 2019, 363, 601–606. 

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Catalyst-free dehydrocoupling of amines, alcohols, and thiols with pinacol borane and 9-borabicyclononane (9-BBN)

Erik A. Romero, Jesse L. Peltier, Rodolphe Jazzar, Guy Bertrand *. Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 10563–10565. 

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Promotors for the Rearrangement of Phosphaketenes to Phosphaheteroallenes: A Case Study for OCP to OPC Constitutional Isomerism

Zhongshu Li, Xiaodan Chen, Zoltán Benkő, Liu Leo Liu, David A. Ruiz, Jesse L. Peltier, Guy Bertrand*, Chen-Yong Su*, Hansjörg Grützmacher*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 6018–6022.

Ancillary ligand-free copper catalysed hydrohydrazination of terminal alkynes with NH₂NH₂

Jesse L. Peltier, Rodolphe Jazzar, Mohand Melaimi, Guy Bertrand*. Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 2733–2735.