Yukun Cheng
Ph.D. 2022
Now Employed At: Postdoc, Cornell University (Song Lin)
2020-2021 Wayland E. Noland Excellence Fellowship (UMN)
2020 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize, Global Inorganic Discussion Weekday Poster Competition
2017 B.S. South University of Science and Technology of China (Keith Wong)
9. Mechanistic Study of Pyrazole Synthesis via Oxidation-Induced N-N Coupling of Diazatitanacyles
Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, 9510.
Cheng, Y.; Huh, D. N.; Tonks, I. A.*
8. A Dual Catalyst Strategy for Controlling Aluminum Nanocrystal Growth
Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 5570.
Jacobsen, C. R.; Wu, G.; Alemany, L. B.; Naidu, G. N.; Lou, M.; Yuan, Y.; Bayles, A.; Clark, B. D.; Cheng, Y.; Ali, A.; Tsai, A.-L.; Nordlander, P.; Tonks, I. A.; Halas, N. J.*
7. Ruthenium Hydrides Encapsulated in Sol–Gel Glasses Exhibit New Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics
J. Chem. Phys. 2022, 156, 124502.
Pyles, C. G.; Patrow, J. G.; Cheng, Y.; Tonks, I. A.; Massari, A. M.*
6. Metal-Mediated Reductive C-C Coupling of π-Bonds (Book Chapter)
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV; Tonks, I.A., Ed.; In Press
Cheng, Y.; Butler, S. K.; Huh, D. N.; Tonks, I. A.*
5. α-Diimine Synthesis via Titanium-Mediated Multicomponent Diimination of Alkynes with C-Nitrosos
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 1469.
Preprint available on chemRxiv
Frye, C. W.; Egger, D. T.; Kounalis, E.; Pearce, A. J.; Cheng, Y.; Tonks, I. A.*
4. Multicomponent Syntheses of 5- and 6-Membered Aromatic Heterocycles Using Group 4-8 Transition Metal Catalysts (Perspective)
Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 9574.
Huh, D. N.; Cheng, Y.; Frye, C. W.; Egger, D. T.; Tonks, I. A.*
3. Generation of Masked TiII Intermediates from TiIV Amides via β-H Abstraction or Alkyne Deprotonation: An Example of Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene-Coupled Transfer Hydrogenation
Organometallics 2020, 39, 3771.
Pearce, A. J.; Cheng, Y.; Dunscomb, R. J.; Tonks, I. A.*
2. Spectroscopic Study of Sol-Gel Entrapped Triruthenium Dodecacarbonyl Catalyst Reveals Hydride Formation
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 7394.
Correction: J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2022, 13, 4176.
Patrow, J. G.; Cheng, Y.; Pyles, C. G.; Luo, B.; Tonks, I. A.; Massari, A. M.*
1. Synthesis of Pentasubstituted 2-Aryl Pyrroles from Boryl and Stannyl Alkynes via One-Pot Sequential Ti-Catalyzed [2+2+1] Pyrrole Synthesis/Cross Coupling Reactions
Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 10236
Cheng, Y.; Klein, C. K.; Tonks, I. A.*
Preprint available on chemRxiv