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

Peltier, J. L.;^† Pessemesse, Q.;^† Mendoza, S. D.;^† Gojiashvili, E.; Ravn, A. K.; Lorkowski, J.; Gembicky, M.; Bera, S. S.; Payard, P.-A.; Engle, K. M.; Jazzar, R. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202419537. ^†Denotes equal contribution. [Preprint]
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An Air-Stable Radical with a Redox-Chameleonic Amide

Peltier, J. L.; Serrato, M. R.; Thery, V.; Pecaut, J.; Tomás-Mendivil, E.; Bertrand, G.; Jazzar, R.; Martin, D. Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 595–598.

Realizing Metal-Free Carbene-Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions with CO

Peltier, J. L.; Tomás-Mendivil, E.; Tolentino, D. R.; Hansmann, M. M.; Jazzar, R.; Bertrand, G. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 18336–18340. 

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

Peltier, J. L.; Soleilhavoup, M.; Martin, D.; Jazzar, R.; Bertrand, G. 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

Yazdani, S.; Junor, G. P.; Peltier, J. L.; Gembicky, M.; Jazzar, R.; Grotjahn, D. B.; Bertrand, G. 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

Gibbons, S. K.; Valleau, C. R. D.; Peltier, J. L.; Cain, M. F.; Hughes, R. P.; Glueck, D. S.; Golen, J. A.; Rheingold, A. L. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 8854–8865. 

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

Hamze, R.; Shi, S.; Kapper, S. C.; Sylvinson, D.; Estergreen, L.; Jung, M.; Tadle, A. C.; Haiges, R.; Djurovich, P. I.; Peltier, J. L.; Jazzar, R.; Bertrand, G.; Bradforth, S. E.; Thompson, M. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 8616–8626. 

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

Hamze, R.; Peltier, J. L.; Sylvinson, D.; Jung, M.; Cardenas, J.; Haiges, R.; Soleilhavoup, M.; Jazzar, R.; Djurovich, P. I.; Bertrand, G.; Thompson, M. E. 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)

Romero, E. A.; Peltier, J. L.; Jazzar, R.; Bertrand, G. 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

Li, Z.; Chen, X.; Benkő, Z.; Liu, L.; Ruiz, D. A.; Peltier, J. L.; Bertrand, G.; Su, C.-Y.; Grützmacher, H. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 6018–6022.

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

Peltier, J. L.; Jazzar, R.; Melaimi, M.; Bertrand, G. Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 2733–2735.