Kerry-Ann Green

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Assistant Professor of Chemistry

413-597-2732
Thompson Chemistry Lab Rm 115
At Williams since 2020

Education

B.Sc. The University of the West Indies, Mona (2006)
D.Phil The University of the West Indies, Mona, Chemistry (2013)
Postdoctoral Fellow at West Virginia University (2020)

Areas of Expertise

Catalysis has revolutionized and continues to drive modern synthetic chemistry. The production of more than 80% of chemical products for commercial purposes relies on at least one catalytic step. Despite this, low catalytic efficiency of many transition metal catalysts and organocatalysts limits their broader application. Moreover, despite the increasing demand for more environmentally benign and sustainable catalytic processes, significant challenges remain for synthetic chemists. Research in the Green lab is directed towards the design and synthesis of new, efficient and broadly applicable catalysts based on earth-abundant transition metals for application in developing and improving cross-coupling reactions. Of particular interest is the activation of traditionally inert substrates, which provides an opportunity to take advantage of many naturally occurring and synthetically accessible starting materials (e.g., phenols) in cross-coupling transformations. Central to these studies is elucidating and understanding underlying mechanistic principles governing the catalysts and the reactions they mediate. Research in this lab will facilitate the development of student researchers in organic & organometallic synthesis and characterization.

Scholarship/Creative Work

Kerry-Ann Green, Aaron P. Honeycutt, Sierra R. Ciccone, Kyle A. Grice, Andreas Baur, Jeffrey L. Petersen, and Jessica M. Hoover. A Redox Transmetalation Step in Nickel-Catalyzed C-C Coupling Reactions. ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 6375−6381.

Kerry-Ann Green, Jessica M. Hoover. Intermediacy of Copper(I) under Oxidative Conditions in the Aerobic Copper-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Thiolation of Benzoic Acids.    ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 3, 1769–1782.

Mark A.W. Lawrence, Kerry-Ann Green, Peter N. Nelson, Shannen C. Lorraine. Review: Pincer ligands—Tunable, versatile and applicable. Polyhedron 2018, 143, 11–27.

Kerry-Ann Green, Paul T. Maragh, Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid, Alan Lough and Tara P. Dasgupta. Benzimidazol-2-ylidene ligated palladacyclic complexes of N,N-dimethylbenzylamine – Synthesis and application to C–C coupling reactions. Inorganica Chimica Acta 2016, 449, 38–43.

Kerry-Ann Green, Paul T. Maragh, Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid, Alan Lough and Tara P. Dasgupta. Alternative Synthetic Methods for PEPPSI-Type Palladium Complexes. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2014, 3600-3607.

Kerry-Ann Green, Paul T. Maragh, Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid, Alan Lough and Tara P. Dasgupta. Imidazolinium salts derived from amino[2.2]paracyclophane compounds: synthesis and hydrolytic ring opening. Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 5085-5087.