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- 1Elford, Timothy
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- 1Kwok, Samantha, P
- 1McDonald, Rory
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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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Fall 2014
Rosette Nanotubes (RNTs) are a class of self-assembled organic nanomaterials generated through the spontaneous hierarchical organization of guanine-cytosine (G˄C) bases with a built-in self-assembling ability. Driven by non-covalent intermolecular forces in solution, G˄C bases self-assemble into...
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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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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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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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Expanding the Scope of Boronic Acid Catalysis: New and Improved Reactivity, Asymmetric Transformation
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Catalysis is one of the 12 Principles of green chemistry and offers numerous advantages over the conventional stoichiometric chemical procedures, such as reduction of waste, better atom economy, and lower energy consumption. Furthermore, the ability to lower the activation energy allows direct...
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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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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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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...