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- 1McDonald, Rory
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Fall 2017
The field of organic chemistry has seen remarkable advances throughout the decades. Of all advances, catalysis is playing a crucial role, since it can lower the activation energy of normally inert starting materials for further chemical reactions. In this context, the catalytic direct activation...
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Fall 2015
Organic chemistry has its foundations in the 19th century; since, it has grown into a number of industries affecting our daily lives such as the manufacture of goods and life saving pharmaceuticals. The need for new and increasingly efficient synthetic methods has grown in response to the...
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Spring 2015
Asymmetric allylboration is a very useful and potent method for the synthesis of chiral homoallylic alcohols, a structural motif present in many natural products and biologically relevant molecules. B/Si double-allylation reagents have also been reported that can lead to chiral homoallylic...
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Enantioselective Preparation of a cis-β-Boronyl Cyclobutylcarboxyester Scaffold and Its Highly Diastereoselective Nickel/Photoredox Dual-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling
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Chiral cyclobutanes are components of numerous bioactive natural products and consequently they have also gained significant attention in medicinal chemistry. Optically enriched cyclobutylboronates can serve as valuable synthetic intermediates for the synthesis of a broad variety of chiral...
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Fall 2011
In the Introduction of this thesis, consideration is given to historical and ongoing value of investing research efforts in the total synthesis of natural products. Following this discussion is an explanation of the factors that guided the selection of palmerolide A as a synthetic target. The...
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Spring 2023
Catalysis is essential to the modern chemical industry. Catalytic strategies can enable new synthetic methods with improved atom economy and reduced chemical waste under mild conditions, representing an indispensable approach to the development of green chemical processes with improved...
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Preparation and Application of Cyclic Chiral Organoboron Compounds for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Vacquinol-1 Analogs, and Trisubstituted Cyclobutylboronates
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Boron is a versatile atom in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry. The formation of a variety of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, and the ability to act as a pharmacophore makes boron a powerful tool in drug discovery. An area of drug discovery that remains underexplored with boron...
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Novel Aromatic Boron-Nitrogen Heterocycles: Synthesis, Properties and Applications in Biomedicine and Optoelectronics
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Heterocyclic chemistry often calls for an interdisciplinary approach to research. Novel structures invite study from both a fundamental and applied standpoint, and a given scaffold may have properties relevant to synthesis, medicine, catalysis, optoelectronics, and more. In recent decades, boron...
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α-exo-Alkylidene γ-lactones and γ-lactams via 2-alkoxycarbonyl allylboronates: mechanistic studies, diversity-oriented synthesis and target-oriented synthesis
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Allylboration reactions have been thoroughly utilized in organic chemistry since it was discovered that they could add in a nucleophilic fashion to aldehydes and ketones in 1964. Modification of allylboronates and the substrates that they can react with has been the focus of many research groups...