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Synthetic Shortcuts: Advances in C-H Activation Chemistry
Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EDT
WEBINAR
Presented By
The New York Academy of Sciences
Over the past 15 years, Carbon-Hydrogen (C-H) bond activation and subsequent fucntionalization has revolutionized the way organic chemists approach target-oriented synthesis. The ability to target and manipulate specific C-H bonds in molecules allows chemists to efficiently functionalize, and in some cases, re-purpose existing drugs.
In This Webinar, You’ll Learn
- Why C-H activation is such an effective tool for synthetic organic chemists
- The limitations of C-H activation and why certain C-H bonds are more/less reactive than others
- New strategies for C-H activation and the formation of new bonds to carbon
- How certain existing drugs can be re-purposed efficiently and cost-effectively using this technique
- Future directions for C-H activation chemistry
Melanie Sanford, PhD
University of Michigan
Melanie Sanford is the Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. She studied C–F bond functionalization with Professor Bob Crabtree during her undergraduate education at Yale University, and worked on metal-catalyzed olefin metathesis reactions with Nobel Laureate Bob Grubbs at Caltech for her PhD. She moved to the University of Michigan in the summer of 2003 after an NIH-postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University with Jay Groves. Her current research focuses on catalytic transformations of organic molecules using organometallic complexes.
Igor Larrosa, PhD
The University of Manchester
Igor Larrosa is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at The University of Manchester. He grew up in Spain and received his undergraduate and graduate education at the Universitat de Barcelona. There he worked with Felix Urpi and Pere Romea during his graduate studies and then went on to do two separate postdoctoral research stints with Erick Carreira at ETH Zurich, and then Anthony G. M. Barrett at Imperial College London. He moved to Manchester in 2014 after rising to the rank of Reader at Queen Mary University of London. His current research focuses on transition metal catalysis in C–H activation.
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