A paper authored by Kerry Barnett, James Howard, Renee Stullich, Adam Shipley, and Colin Treager entitled, "Air-Stable [(R3P)PdCl2]2 Complexes of Neopentylphosphines as Cross- Coupling Precatalysts: Catalytic Application and Mechanism of Catalyst Activation and Deactivation," was published in Organometallics.  This paper describes the use of [(R3P)PdCl2]2 complexes as catalysts in the Suzuki coupling.  A study of the mechanism of conversion of the Pd(II) precatalyst to the Pd(0) active species showed that palladacycle formation was a competitive pathway in acetonitrile.  Switching the solvent to toluene eliminated formation of the palladacycle byproduct.  This solvent switch allowed a 50-fold decrease in catalyst loading.

A collaborative paper involving the Shaughnessy and Martin Bakker groups in Chemistry and the John van Zee group in Chemical & Biological Engineering was published in the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology.  The paper entitled, "Copolymerization of Transition Metal Salen Complexes and Conversion into Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Hierarchically Porous Carbon Monoliths: A One Pot Synthesis," describes the incorporation of metal salen complexes in a carbon sol-gel.  Pyrolysis provides a carbon material with metal nanoparticles.

A paper authored by Ethan Hu entitled, "Mechanistic Study of the Role of Substrate Steric Effects and Aniline Inhibition on the Bis(trineopentylphosphine)palladium(0)-Catalyzed Arylation of Aniline Derivatives," has been published in ACS Catalysis.

Copper-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl and Alkenyl Electrophiles by Kevin Shaughnessy, Engelbert Ciganek, and Rebecca DeVasher has been published by Wiley & Sons.  This book is an updated soft-cover version of Volume 85 of Organic Reactions​ that was published in 2014.

Matt Lauer's paper entitled, "A Trialkylphosphine Derived Palladacycle as a Catalyst in the Selective Cross-Dimerization of Terminal Arylacetylenes with Terminal Propargyl Alcohols and Amides," was published in ACS Catalysis.  Co-authors were Benjamin Headford, Olivia Gobble, and Michelle Weyhaupt.