Dr. Anes Kovacevic

Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

Science Building , Room
CPO

Office Hours: TBA
Phone: 859-985-3325
Fax:

E-Mail: anes_kovacevic@berea.edu

At Berea College since

Degrees

• B.A., Transylvania College, 2000
• Ph.D., Yale University, 2004

Papers and Publications

• Appelhans L. N.; Zuccaccia D.; Kovacevic, A.; Chianese, A. R.; Miecznikowski, J. R.; Macchioni, A.; Clot, E.; Eisenstein, O.; Robert H. Crabtree. “An Anion-Dependent Switch in Selectivity Results from a Change of C-H Activation Mechanism in the Reaction of an Imidazolium Salt with Ir(H)5(PPh3)2″ J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2005, 127(46), 16299-16311.
• Chianese, A. R.; Kovacevic A.; Zeglis, B. M.; Faller, J. W.; Crabtree, R. H. “Abnormal C5-Bound N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Extremely Strong Electron Donors and Their Ir (I) and Ir (III) complexes” Organometallics, 2004, 23, 2461-2468.
• Kovacevic, A.; Gründemann, S.; Miecznikowski, J. R.; Clot, E.; Eisenstein, O.; Crabtree, R. H. “Counter-ion Effects Switch Ligand Binding from C-2 to C-5 in Kinetic Carbenes Formed from an Imidazolium Salt and Ir(H)5(PPh3)2″ Chem. Commun., 2002, 2580-2581.
• Gründemann, S.; Kovacevic A.; Albrecht, M.; Faller, J. W.; Crabtree, R. H. “Abnormal Ligand Binding and Reversible Ring Hydrogenation in the Reaction of Imidazolium Salt and Ir(H)5(PPh3)2″ J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124(35), 10473-10481.
• Gründemann, S.; Albrecht, M.; Kovacevic, A.; Faller, J. W.; Crabtree, R. H. “Bis-carbene Complexes from Oxidative Addition of Imidazolium C-H bonds to Palladium(0)” J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2002, 2163.
• Gründemann, S.; Kovacevic, A.; Albrecht, M.; Faller, J. W.; Crabtree, R. H. “Abnormal Binding in a Carbene Complex Formed from an Imidazolium salt and a Metal Hydride complex” Chem. Commun., 2001, 2274.