4 pm
Thursday 26th November 2015
Physics Lecture Theatre (PLT)
Royal Society of Chemistry Seminar Series
New Catalytic, Rearrangement and Cycloaddition Reactions
Prof. Joe Sweeney
Chemical Sciences, University of Huddersfield
The design of novel, sustainable methods for the manufacture of chemicals is a key
challenge for synthetic chemists: catalytic processes and rearrangement reactions
offer real advantages in terms of efficiency of resource consumption and for
minimisation of waste streams (via improved atom economy). This lecture will
describe how efficient access to useful chemical materials can be gained using a
range of novel methodology, including new catalytic reactions which deliver
unprecedented heterocycles, and new cycloaddition‐rearrangement reactions to
make functional synthetic chemicals.