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Transition metal catalyzed carbonyl additions under the conditions of transfer hydrogenation
(2011-05)
The efficient construction of complex organic molecules mandates that an assortment of methods for forming C-C bonds be available to the practicing synthetic chemist. The addition of carbon based nucleophiles to carbonyl ...
The development and study of materials for optoelectronic devices and sensors
(2018-06-15)
Luminescence is a property of materials that allows for the emission of photons when a given amount of energy is applied. The luminescent properties of both polymeric and small molecule materials can generally be controlled ...
Enantioselective iridium-catalyzed carbon–carbon and carbon–nitrogen bond formations
(2020-08-07)
Formation of new C–C bonds is a mainstay of modern molecule construction, however methods for the asymmetric construction of these scaffolds has been limited by the use of premetalated reagents or the use of catalytic ...
Amphiphilic [pi]-allyliridium catalyzed nucleophilic and electrophilic allylation
(2020-05-06)
Transition metal-catalyzed allylic substitution has emerged as a powerful method for stereoselective C-N bond formation. Chiral iridium-phosphoramidite complexes have proven especially effective as catalysts for regio- and ...
Metal oxide support effects on the hydrogenation of cyclohexene and crotonaldehyde using microwave synthesized rhodium and iridium nanoparticles
(2017-09-15)
Nanoparticles (NPs) are an exciting new class of materials with unique physical and chemical properties, which have been studied for applications in semiconductors, drug delivery, heavy metal sequestration, and heterogeneous ...
Transition metal-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond formation utilizing transfer hydrogenation
(2015-05)
A central tenant of organic synthesis is the construction of carbon-carbon bonds. One of the traditional methods for carrying out such transformations is that of carbonyl addition. Unfortunately, traditional carbonyl ...
Iridium-catalyzed C-C bond formation : development of crotylation and methallylation reactions through transfer hydrogenation
(2012-05)
Under the conditions of transfer hydrogenation utilizing chromatographically purified ortho-cyclometallated iridium C,O-benzoate precatalysts, enantioselective carbonyl crotylation and methallylation can be performed in ...
Optoelectronic devices : synthesis, analysis, and application of functional materials
(2016-05-02)
The field of optoelectronics is booming, as it involves important, functional electrical-to-optical and optical-to-electrical transducers. This dissertation contains efforts in three important areas of optoelectronics – ...
Enantioselective iridium and ruthenium-catalyzed carbonyl reductive coupling via hydrogen transfer
(2021-07-24)
Carbonyl addition is one of the most frequently utilized methods for C−C bond formation in Process Research and Development. Despite its importance, the majority of methods for carbonyl addition rely on the use of ...
Total synthesis of the acetyl CoA carboxylase allosteric inhibitor soraphen A and the development of new catalytic methods using palladium, iridium and rhodium
(2022-07-14)
Metal catalysis with palladium, iridium, and rhodium has provided a lexicon of synthetic transformations extensively utilized in the construction of complex molecules. The total synthesis of soraphen A, a type 1 polyketide ...