Jeffery A. Byers
Boston College
39 Papers
158 Citations
Jeffery A. Byers is an academic researcher from Boston College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Catalysis & Polymerization. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 35 publications. Previous affiliations of Jeffery A. Byers include California Institute of Technology & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Papers
Redox-controlled polymerization of lactide catalyzed by bis(imino)pyridine iron bis(alkoxide) complexes.
TL;DR: The reaction displayed characteristics of a living polymerization with production of polymers that exhibited low molecular weight distributions, linear relationships between molecular weight and conversion, and polymer growth observed for up to fifteen sequential additions of lactide monomer to the polymerization reaction.
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Aperture-Opening Encapsulation of a Transition Metal Catalyst in a Metal-Organic Framework for CO2 Hydrogenation.
TL;DR: The aperture-opening process resulting from dissociative linker exchange in zirconium-based metal-organic framework UiO-66 was used to encapsulate the ruthenium complex that was a very active catalyst for the hydrogenation of CO2 to formate.
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Recent advances in iron-catalysed cross coupling reactions and their mechanistic underpinning
Teresa L. Mako,Jeffery A. Byers +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of advances in iron-catalysed cross coupling from 2010 to 2015 is presented, with an emphasis on mechanistic studies that utilize in situ reaction monitoring and the tools used to achieve this goal.
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Block Copolymerization of Lactide and an Epoxide Facilitated by a Redox Switchable Iron‐Based Catalyst
TL;DR: A cationic iron(III) complex was active for the polymerization of various epoxides, whereas the analogous neutral iron(II) complex is inactive as discussed by the authors, which is orthogonal to what was observed previously for lactide polymerization.
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Molecular Encapsulation beyond the Aperture Size Limit through Dissociative Linker Exchange in Metal–Organic Framework Crystals
Joseph V. Morabito,Lien-Yang Chou,Zhehui Li,Cesar M. Manna,Christopher A. Petroff,Rutvin J. Kyada,Joseph M. Palomba,Jeffery A. Byers,Chia-Kuang Tsung +8 more
TL;DR: Under linker exchange conditions, large guests with molecular diameters 3-4 times the framework aperture size have been encapsulated into preformed nanocrystals of the metal-organic framework ZIF-8 to facilitate guest encapsulation under conditions where the dissociative pathway predominates.
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