@book_section {CaltechAUTHORS_https://authors.library.caltech.edu/id/eprint/53882,
    title ="Ligands, Reagents, and Methods in Organometallic Synthesis",
    author = "Peters, J. and Thomas, J. C.",
    
    
    
    pages = "59-92",
    month = "January",
    year = "2007",
    doi = "10.1016/B0-08-045047-4/00002-9",
    
    isbn = "0-08-044590-X",
    url = "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150120-125019904",
    note = "© 2007 Elsevier Ltd.",
    revision_no = "11",
    abstract = "This chapter describes some recent trends in organometallic synthesis. We pay particular attention to the types of\nligands, reagents, and methods that have become popular during the past decade, and contextualize them within the\nbroad fields of organometallic and inorganic chemistry more generally. The chapter, which is necessarily limited in\nscope, discusses a range of varied topics including the use of steric bulk in small molecule activation, reversibly\ncyclometallated species, highly electrophilic organometallics and their corresponding non-coordinating anions, zwitterionic\norganometallic species, carbene ligands, secondary coordination sphere interactions, fluorous phases, and\nC atom transfer reagents in organometallic synthesis. Many of the reagents, ligands, and methods employed in these\nvarious areas of synthesis are described, and many relevant references are provided.",
}
@book_section {CaltechAUTHORS_https://authors.library.caltech.edu/id/eprint/27268,
    title ="Bio-organometallic Approaches to Nitrogen Fixation Chemistry",
    author = "Peters, Jonas C. and Mehn, Mark P.",
    
    
    
    pages = "81-119",
    month = "January",
    year = "2006",
    
    
    
    isbn = "9783527313129",
    url = "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20111018-082532542",
    note = "© 2006 Wiley-VCH. We are grateful to the NIH for their generous support: GM-070757 (J.C.P.), post-doctoral fellowship GM-072291 (M.P.M.). We also express thanks to Dr. Johannes Kaestner and Professor Peter Blöchl\nfor providing the coordinate file to generate Fig. 3.14.\n",
    revision_no = "12",
    abstract = "Biological and industrial nitrogen fixation are the processes by which one of the most inert molecules, N_2, is transformed into a bioavailable nitrogen source\n(e.g. NH_3) that can be incorporated into all nitrogen-containing biomolecules [1]. As such, nitrogen fixation is essential to sustaining life on this planet, and has attracted intense scrutiny among biological and chemical communities for decades [2-4]. The mechanism by which nitrogenase enzymes promote the biological reduction of nitrogen under ambient conditions remains an unsolved\nand fascinating problem [4-6]. Nature's solution to fixing nitrogen stands in sharp contrast to that which humanity has adopted, i.e. the Haber-Bosch process for ammonia synthesis that is carried out at approximately 200 atm and\n500°C. This Herculean feat of chemical engineering provides, in net, about 50% of the nitrogen atoms that wind up in all human beings on this planet [7]. From a chemists perspective, however, this remains a brute force and high-energy solution to the nitrogen fixation problem, especially given the knowledge that nature can fix N_2 under ambient conditions.",
}
@book_section {CaltechAUTHORS_https://authors.library.caltech.edu/id/eprint/27269,
    title ="Issues Relevant to C-H Activation at Platinum(II): Comparative Studies between Cationic, Zwitterionic, and Neutral Platinum(II) Compounds in Benzene Solution",
    author = "Peters, Jonas C. and Thomas, J. Christopher",
    
    
    number = "885",
    pages = "334-354",
    month = "January",
    year = "2004",
    
    
    isbn = "0841238499",
    url = "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20111018-083520543",
    note = "© 2004 American Chemical Society.\n\nFinancial support was provided by the Department of Energy (PECASE),\nthe NSF (CHE-0132216), BP, and the ACS PRF. Larry Henling provided\nassistance with crystallographic studies.",
    revision_no = "22",
    abstract = "Cationic late metal systems are being highly scrutinized due to\ntheir propensity to mediate so-called electrophilic C-H\nactivation reactions. This contribution compares the reactivity\nof highly reactive cationic platinum(II) systems with\nstructurally related but neutral species. Our experimental\ndesign exploits isostructural neutral and cationic complexes\nsupported by bis(phosphine) ligands amenable to mechanistic\nexamination in benzene solution. The data presented herein\ncollectively suggests that neutral platinum complexes can be\nequally if not more reactive towards benzene than their\ncationic counter-parts. Moreover, a number of unexpected\nmechanistic distinctions between the two systems arise that\nhelp to explain their respective reactivity.",
}