Rate My Professor Don Jameson

Jameson's research centers on coordination chemistry and organic synthesis, including tridentate ligands like terpyridine analogues and pyrazolyl ligands, and their metal complexes with ruthenium, osmium, iron, and copper. He studies redox properties, spin state control, ligand substitution reactions, crystal structures, asymmetric transformations, and catalysis. Specific projects involve synthesis, resolution, racemization kinetics, and mechanisms of electron-poor Troger's base derivatives bearing fluoro, trifluoromethyl, and cyano substituents, as well as chiral cobaloximes from camphorquinone dioxime. His scholarship has garnered over 1,670 citations across 53 publications. Key works include "Application of Crystallization-Induced Asymmetric Transformation to a General, Scalable Method for the Resolution of 2,8-Disubstituted Troger's Base Derivatives" (2013), "2,6-Bis(N-pyrazolyl)pyridines: The Convenient Synthesis of a Family of Planar Tridentate N3 Ligands That are Terpyridine Analogues" (2010), "Rhenium(I) compounds bound by tripodal ligands of pyridine and N-methylimidazole" (2008), "Os(II)−Nitrosyl and Os(II)−Dinitrogen Complexes from Reactions between Os(VI)−Nitrido and Hydroxylamines and Methoxylamines" (2004), and "Tuning redox and spin state properties of Fe(II) N-heterocyclic complexes via electronic/steric influence on metal–ligand binding" (2004).