B.S. Chemistry, Minor Math (2009), UW - La Crosse, La Crosse WI
Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry (2014), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA (Advisors: Eric J. Schelter, Patrick J. Walsh)
Research Chemist, Axalta Coating Systems (2014-2016)
Group Website: http://robinsongroup.wixsite.com/brown
Faculty Profile: https://www.brown.edu/academics/chemistry/jerome-r-robinson
| Dong X, Brown AM, Woodside AJ, Robinson JR. "N-Oxides amplify catalyst reactivity and isoselectivity in the ring-opening polymerization of rac-β-butyrolactone." Chem. Commun., vol. 58, no. 17, 2022, pp. 2854-2857. |
| Koller, Angus J., Saini, Shefali, Chaple, Ivis F., Joaqui‐Joaqui, M. Andrey, Paterson, Brett M., Ma, Michelle T., Blower, Philip J., Pierre, Valérie C., Robinson, Jerome R., Lapi, Suzanne E., Boros, Eszter. "A General Design Strategy Enabling the Synthesis of Hydrolysis‐Resistant, Water‐Stable Titanium(IV) Complexes." Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 61, no. 22, 2022. |
| Hamsath, Akil, Lederberg, Oren L., Cui, Qi, Shieh, Meg, Lam, Yannie, Brummett, Brock J., Xu, Shi, Robinson, Jerome R., Xian, Ming. "Intramolecular tetrazine-acryloyl cycloaddition: chemistry and applications." Chemical Science, 2022. |
| Dong J, Robinson JR, Gao ZH, Wang LS. "Selective Semihydrogenation of Polarized Alkynes by a Gold Hydride Nanocluster." J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 144, no. 27, 2022, pp. 12501-12509. |
| Dong, Xiang, Robinson, Jerome R. "The versatile roles of neutral donor ligands in tuning catalyst performance for the ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters." New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 2, 2022, pp. 444-453. |
| Chellali, Jonathan E., Alverson, Alexander K., Robinson, Jerome R. "Zinc Aryl/Alkyl β-diketiminates: Balancing Accessibility and Stability for High-Activity Ring-Opening Polymerization of rac-Lactide." ACS Catalysis, vol. 12, no. 9, 2022, pp. 5585-5594. |
| Vargo NP, Harland JB, Musselman BW, Lehnert N, Ertem MZ, Robinson JR. "Calcium-Ion Binding Mediates the Reversible Interconversion of Cis and Trans Peroxido Dicopper Cores." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., vol. 60, no. 36, 2021, pp. 19836-19842. |
| Panetti, Grace B., Robinson, Jerome R., Schelter, Eric J., Walsh, Patrick J. "Expanding the Rare-Earth Metal BINOLate Catalytic Multitool beyond Enantioselective Organic Synthesis." Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 54, no. 11, 2021, pp. 2637-2648. |
| Shen M, Yu C, Guan H, Dong X, Harris C, Xiao Z, Yin Z, Muzzio M, Lin H, Robinson JR, Colvin VL, Sun S. "Nanoparticle-Catalyzed Green Chemistry Synthesis of Polybenzoxazole." J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 143, no. 4, 2021, pp. 2115-2122. |
| Zuckerman, Linda A., Vargo, Natasha P., May, Claire V., Crockett, Michael P., Hyre, Ariel S., McNeely, James, Elinburg, Jessica K., Brown, Alexander M., Robinson, Jerome R., Rheingold, Arnold L., Doerrer, Linda H. "Thiolate-Thione Redox-Active Ligand with a Six-Membered Chelate Ring via Template Condensation and Its Pt(II) Complexes." Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 60, no. 17, 2021, pp. 13376-13387. |
| Casey, Kerry C., Brown, Alexander M., Robinson, Jerome R. "Yttrium and lanthanum bis(phosphine-oxide)methanides: structurally diverse, dynamic, and reactive." Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, vol. 8, no. 6, 2021, pp. 1539-1552. |
| Vaughn, Brett A., Brown, Alexander M., Ahn, Shin Hye, Robinson, Jerome R., Boros, Eszter. "Is Less More? Influence of the Coordination Geometry of Copper(II) Picolinate Chelate Complexes on Metabolic Stability." Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 59, no. 22, 2020, pp. 16095-16108. |
| Casey KC, Appiah JK, Robinson JR. "Low-Symmetry β-Diketimine Aryloxide Rare-Earth Complexes: Flexible, Reactive, and Selective." Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 59, no. 20, 2020, pp. 14827-14837. |
| Zabula, Alexander V., Dey, Soumyajit, Robinson, Jerome R., Cheisson, Thibault, Higgins, Robert F., Bhargava, Gaurang, Nahas, Robert C., Cinoman, Doug, Kerins, Michael, Houze, Eric C., Schelter, Eric J. "Screening of molecular lanthanide corrosion inhibitors by a high-throughput method." Corrosion Science, vol. 165, 2020, pp. 108377. |
| Dong, Xiang, Robinson, Jerome R. "The role of neutral donor ligands in the isoselective ring-opening polymerization of rac-β-butyrolactone." Chemical Science, vol. 11, no. 31, 2020, pp. 8184-8195. |
| Yu, Chao, Guo, Xuefeng, Yin, Zhouyang, Zhao, Zhonglong, Li, Xing, Robinson, Jerome, Muzzio, Michelle, Castilho, Cintia J., Shen, Mengqi, Yuan, Yucheng, Wang, Junyu, Antolik, John, Lu, Gang, Su, Dong, Chen, Ou, Guduru, Pradeep, Seto, Christopher T., Sun, Shouheng. "Highly Efficient AuPd Catalyst for Synthesizing Polybenzoxazole with Controlled Polymerization." Matter, vol. 1, no. 6, 2019, pp. 1631-1643. |
| Suarez-Martinez, Pilar C., Robinson, Jerome, An, Hyosung, Nahas, Robert C., Cinoman, Douglas, Lutkenhaus, Jodie L. "Polymer-clay nanocomposite coatings as efficient, environment-friendly surface pretreatments for aluminum alloy 2024-T3." Electrochimica Acta, vol. 260, 2018, pp. 73-81. |
| Panetti, Grace B., Robinson, Jerome R., Carroll, Patrick J., Gau, Michael R., Manor, Brain C., Walsh, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J. "Synthesis of novel copper-rare earth BINOLate frameworks from a hydrogen bonding DBU-H rare earth BINOLate complex." Dalton Transactions, vol. 47, no. 41, 2018, pp. 14408-14410. |
| Suarez-Martinez, Pilar C., Robinson, Jerome, An, Hyosung, Nahas, Robert C., Cinoman, Douglas, Lutkenhaus, Jodie L. "Spray-On Polymer-Clay Multilayers as a Superior Anticorrosion Metal Pretreatment." Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, vol. 302, no. 6, 2017, pp. 1600552. |
| Robinson, Jerome R., Qiao, Yusen, Gu, Jun, Carroll, Patrick J., Walsh, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J. "The role of dynamic ligand exchange in the oxidation chemistry of cerium(iii)." Chem. Sci., vol. 7, no. 7, 2016, pp. 4537-4547. |
| Robinson, Jerome R., Gu, Jun, Carroll, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J., Walsh, Patrick J. "Exchange Processes in Shibasaki’s Rare Earth Alkali Metal BINOLate Frameworks and Their Relevance in Multifunctional Asymmetric Catalysis." Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 137, no. 22, 2015, pp. 7135-7144. |
| Robinson, Jerome R., Fan, Xinyuan, Yadav, Jagjit, Carroll, Patrick J., Wooten, Alfred J., Pericàs, Miquel A., Schelter, Eric J., Walsh, Patrick J. "Air- and Water-Tolerant Rare Earth Guanidinium BINOLate Complexes as Practical Precatalysts in Multifunctional Asymmetric Catalysis." Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 136, no. 22, 2014, pp. 8034-8041. |
| Yadav, Jagjit, Stanton, Gretchen R., Fan, Xinyuan, Robinson, Jerome R., Schelter, Eric J., Walsh, Patrick J., Pericas, Miquel A. "Asymmetric Allylation of Ketones and Subsequent Tandem Reactions Catalyzed by a Novel Polymer-Supported Titanium-BINOLate Complex." Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 20, no. 23, 2014, pp. 7122-7127. |
| Zhang, Jiadi, Bellomo, Ana, Trongsiriwat, Nisalak, Jia, Tiezheng, Carroll, Patrick J., Dreher, Spencer D., Tudge, Matthew T., Yin, Haolin, Robinson, Jerome R., Schelter, Eric J., Walsh, Patrick J. "NiXantphos: A Deprotonatable Ligand for Room-Temperature Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings of Aryl Chlorides." Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 136, no. 17, 2014, pp. 6276-6287. |
| Robinson, Jerome R., Yadav, Jagjit, Fan, Xinyuan, Stanton, Gretchen R., Schelter, Eric J., Pericàs, Miquel A., Walsh, Patrick J. "Non-Covalent Immobilization of Rare Earth Heterobimetallic Frameworks and their Reactivity in an Asymmetric Michael Addition." Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, vol. 356, no. 6, 2014, pp. 1243-1254. |
| Williams, Ursula J., Robinson, Jerome R., Lewis, Andrew J., Carroll, Patrick J., Walsh, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J. "Synthesis, Bonding, and Reactivity of a Cerium(IV) Fluoride Complex." Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 53, no. 1, 2014, pp. 27-29. |
| Piro, Nicholas A., Robinson, Jerome R., Walsh, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J. "The electrochemical behavior of cerium(III/IV) complexes: Thermodynamics, kinetics and applications in synthesis." Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 260, 2014, pp. 21-36. |
| Yin, Haolin, Robinson, Jerome R., Carroll, Patrick J., Walsh, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J. "κ2-Coordination of 18-crown-6 to Ce(iii) cations: solution dynamics and reactivity." Chemical Communications, vol. 50, no. 26, 2014, pp. 3470. |
| Robinson, Jerome R., Booth, Corwin H., Carroll, Patrick J., Walsh, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J. "Dimeric Rare-Earth BINOLate Complexes: Activation of 1,4-Benzoquinone through Lewis Acid Promoted Potential Shifts." Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 19, no. 19, 2013, pp. 5996-6004. |
| Nieto, Ismael, Wooten, Alfred J., Robinson, Jerome R., Carroll, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J., Walsh, Patrick J. "Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Heterobimetallic Rare Earth–Zinc Ethyl BINOLate Analogues of Shibasaki’s Catalysts." Organometallics, vol. 32, no. 24, 2013, pp. 7431-7439. |
| Robinson, Jerome R., Gordon, Zachary, Booth, Corwin H., Carroll, Patrick J., Walsh, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J. "Tuning Reactivity and Electronic Properties through Ligand Reorganization within a Cerium Heterobimetallic Framework." Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 135, no. 50, 2013, pp. 19016-19024. |
| Robinson, Jerome R., Carroll, Patrick J., Walsh, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J. "Uranium(IV) BINOLate Heterobimetallics: Synthesis and Reactivity in an Asymmetric Diels–Alder Reaction." Organometallics, vol. 32, no. 5, 2013, pp. 1493-1499. |
| Robinson, Jerome R., Carroll, Patrick J., Walsh, Patrick J., Schelter, Eric J. "The Impact of Ligand Reorganization on Cerium(III) Oxidation Chemistry." Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 51, no. 40, 2012, pp. 10159-10163. |
| Brown, Elizabeth S., Robinson, Jerome R., McCoy, Aaron M., McGaff, Robert W. "Efficient catalytic cycloalkane oxidation employing a “helmet” phthalocyaninato iron(iii) complex." Dalton Transactions, vol. 40, no. 22, 2011, pp. 5921. |
| Robinson, Jerome R., Bahr, Katherine A., Bierman, Matthew J., Guzei, Ilia A., Kieler-Ferguson, Heidi M., McCoy, Aaron M., McGaff, Robert W. "Resolution of enantiomers of a series of chiral alkoxy-modified phthalocyaninato nickel(ii) complexes by enantioselective HPLC." Dalton Transactions, vol. 40, no. 44, 2011, pp. 11809. |
| Guzei, Ilia A., Spencer, Lara C., McGaff, Robert W., Kieler, Heidi M., Robinson, Jerome R. "Constructor graph description of hydrogen bonding in a supramolecular assembly ofN,N′-bis(2-hydroxy-1-methylethyl)phthalamide." Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, vol. 63, no. 4, 2007, pp. o255-o258. |
Rare earth metals (REM’s) are used as key components in a number of diverse technologies including renewable energy, chemical synthesis, electronics, data storage, and biomedicine. Structural control of the ligand environment is critical to enabling the applications of these materials; however, remains a significant challenge due to the high coordination numbers and lability of the ionic REM-ligand bonds. Research in the Robinson Group will focus on developing novel methods for controlling and characterizing ligand-metal lability to specifically enable applications in energy science, green chemistry, catalysis, and materials design.
Researchers in the group will have the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary research in a collaborative, stimulating, and supportive environment. Students will become proficient in organic and inorganic syntheses, the handling of air- and moisture-sensitive materials, and state-of-the-art characterization methods.
Rare earth metals (REM’s) are used as key components in a number of diverse technologies including renewable energy, chemical synthesis, electronics, data storage, and biomedicine. Structural control of the ligand environment is critical to enabling the applications of these materials; however, remains a significant challenge due to the high coordination numbers and lability of the ionic REM-ligand bonds. Research in the Robinson Group will focus on developing novel methods for controlling and characterizing ligand-metal lability to specifically enable applications in energy science, green chemistry, catalysis, and materials design.
Researchers in the group will have the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary research in a collaborative, stimulating, and supportive environment. Students will become proficient in organic and inorganic syntheses, the handling of air- and moisture-sensitive materials, and state-of-the-art characterization methods.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | PhD | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2009 | BS | University of Wisconsin |
| Ph.D. | University of Pennsylvania, Chemistry | 2014-2014 | |
| B.S. | University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Chemistry | 2009-2009 |
| Assistant Professor. Brown University, 2016-2022 |
| Visiting Assistant Professor. 2015-2015 |
| Visiting Assistant Professor. Haverford College, 2015-2016 |
| Research Chemist. Axalta Coating Systems, 2014-2016 |
| CHEM 0330 - Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure |
| CHEM 0500 - Inorganic Chemistry |
| CHEM 1560N - Organometallic Chemistry |
| CHEM 1560P - Applications of Modern Physical Methods in Synthesis |
| CHEM 2310 - Organometallic Chemistry |
