Graham Dobereiner
Assistant professor
Department of Chemistry
Temple University
United States of America
Biography
Graham Dobereiner specializes in the study of chemical reactions across alkyl groups. A 2011 recipient of a PhD in chemistry from Yale University, Dobereiner's doctoral thesis won the university's Richard Wolfgang Prize for best by a chemistry student. He has presented his research across the northeast and has been published more than a dozen times, including in the Journal of the American Chemistry Society. He comes to Temple from a role as postdoctoral research associate at MIT.
Research Interest
His group strives to develop new homogeneous transition metal catalysts for use in synthetic chemistry. Catalysis is a crucial area of study, with applications in fine chemicals manufacturing, the petrochemical industry, as well as the drug discovery efforts of medicinal chemistry laboratories. ​The core of his research program is organometallic chemistry, an interdisciplinary area that unites the structural diversity of organic molecules with the remarkable reactivity and properties of inorganic compounds.
Publications
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Dobereiner GE, Yuan J, Schrock RR, Goldman AS, Hackenberg JD (2013) Catalytic synthesis of n-alkyl arenes through alkyl group cross-metathesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 135:12572-12575.
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Chen D, Gau MR, Dobereiner GE (2015) Palladium and Platinum Acyl Complexes and Their Lewis Acid Adducts. Experimental and Computational Study of Thermodynamics and Bonding. Organometallics 34:4069-4075.
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Weerasiri KC, Chen D, Wozniak DI, Dobereiner GE (2016) Internal Alkyne Regioâ€and Chemoselectivity using a Zwitterionic Nâ€Heterocyclic Carbene Gold Catalyst in a Silverâ€Free Alkyne Hydration Reaction. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 358:4106-4113.
