Eric Yang

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Founder and CEO at Gear Patrol

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Best Product of the Year? This Superlative SUV Checks Every Single Box

Dec 30, 2024 | gearpatrol.com | Eric Yang

Home / Motoring / Adventure Vehicles The Lexus GX550 beautifully blends form and function to become “the Lexus non-Lexus people want.”Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more Boxy is back. And, surprise, it’s Lexus leading the charge with the all-new 2025 Lexus GX. Not only is it the best-looking Lexus SUV of the past decade, it’s one of the most capable, too.
Toyota's Most Popular Truck Is No Longer Trading On Its Name

Dec 28, 2024 | gearpatrol.com | Eric Yang

Home / Motoring / Adventure Vehicles Following years of tweaks, the 2025 Tacoma boasts a comprehensive overhaul. Here’s why Taco lovers should be stoked. Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more The champ is back in the ring and in better shape than ever.
Someone Finally Made an EV for Traditional Driving Enthusiasts

Dec 26, 2024 | gearpatrol.com | Eric Yang

Home / Motoring / Electric Vehicles The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N seamlessly blends old-school performance car soul with modern electric advancement. Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is a gift to driving enthusiasts that nobody saw coming. More than a car, it’s a cultural artifact.
Could Porsche's Love Letter to Rally Racing Be a Legit Daily Driver?

Dec 24, 2024 | gearpatrol.com | Eric Yang

Home / Motoring / Adventure Vehicles The Porsche 911 Dakar is so over-the-top capable, we can’t help but gaze longingly at it while asking the question, anyway. Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more In a marketplace saturated with collector bait, the 2024 Porsche 911 Dakar emerges as a legitimately special vehicle.
Is This Simply the Best Land Rover Defender Ever?

Dec 22, 2024 | gearpatrol.com | Eric Yang

Home / Motoring / Adventure Vehicles Start with the fact that the 2025 Defender OCTA is the fastest and most powerful of the breed, and signs point to yes. Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more The Defender OCTA arrived this year as a bold statement in the frothy realm of luxury off-road performance vehicles.
Land Rover Officially Debuts the New Defender Octa

Jul 2, 2024 | gearpatrol.com | Eric Yang

Home / Motoring / Adventure Vehicles From the creator of the Ford Raptor comes a new rip-snorting Defender, nearly half a decade in the making. Here it is, in all its glory: the Octa, Land Rover’s fastest, most powerful Defender ever. But if you ask its creator, Jamal Hameedi, as I did recently at the vehicle’s LA reveal, the impressive off-roader portends so much more. The Land Rover Defender Octa is a new high-performance, ultra-capable Defender 110.
How Do I Get a BMW X7 on a Kia Budget? Also, Welcome to 'Beyond the Buy.'

May 21, 2024 | gearpatrol.com | Eric Yang

Enjoy this limited sneak peek at the first edition of Beyond the Buy, a new biweekly column by Gear Patrol Founder Eric Yang, available exclusively via email newsletter. Sign up to receive the next edition here. In this issue:First, an introductionHow do you get a BMW X7 on a Kia budget? Also, the 3-row SUV industrial complexLego G-Wagon, Costco S’Mores bites and the Balenciaga Potato Chip bagFirst, introductions: Hi. I’m Eric Yang, the founder of Gear Patrol.
Hydroelementation and Phosphinidene Transfer: Reactivity of Phosphagermenes and Phosphastannenes Towards Small Molecule Substrates

Aug 17, 2023 | chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Joey Feld |Diana Temerova |Eric Yang |Matthew J. Reveley

Abstract We describe the facile synthesis of [(Me3Si)2CH]2E=PMes* (E = Ge, Sn) from the reaction of the tetrylenes with the phospha-Wittig reagent, Me3P–PMes*. Their reactivity towards a range of substrates with protic and hydridic E–H bonds (E = N, O, Si) is described. In addition to hydroelementation reactions of the E=P bonds, we show that these compounds, particularly [(Me3Si)2CH]2Sn=PMes*, also act as base-stabilized phosphinidenes, allowing phosphinidene transfer to other nucleophiles.
Cyaphide‐Azide 1,3‐Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions: Scope and Applicability

Jun 20, 2023 | chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Eric Yang |Andrew Taylor |Paul D. Beer |Alex Mapp

Abstract We report several examples of the cyaphide-azide 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction to afford metallo-triazaphospholes.
Cyaphide‐Azide 1,3‐Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions: Scope and Applicability

Jun 19, 2023 | chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Eric Yang