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This literature discussion LO was created for the ACS National Award Winners 2025 collection. Dr. Greg C. Fu for being the recipient of the Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis 2025 from the American Chemical Society. This LO is based on the article "Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent and Diastereoselective Allenylation of Alkyl Electrophiles: Simultaneous Control of Central and Axial Chirality" published in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 7173-7177. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c00593
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After reading the article and answering the guiding questions, students will be able to....
1) Apply group theory concepts to defining chirality.
2) Describe the nickel complexes found in the article using the Covalent Bond Classification (CBC) method.
3) Interpret data from the article to generate mechanistic information.
4) Draw the mechanism for the formation of species found in a catalytic reaction.
This LO has not been used yet, but we recommend assigning these problems for the students before class, so that they come prepared to discuss the paper in class.
Evaluation
One possible method of evaluation is to collect student answers to the guiding questions before the discussion takes place in class and/or collect student answers after the class discussion and/or collect answers written by small groups during the discussion.
This LO has not been implemented yet.