Sigma-Aldrich Lecture Featuring Prof. Greg Fu, California Institute of Technology. "Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions"

May 2, -
Speaker(s): Professor Gregory Fu - Caltech
The annual Sigma-Aldrich Lecture will be presented by Prof. Greg Fu and hosted by Prof. Steven Malcolmson.

"Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions"

Abstract: Classical methods for achieving nucleophilic substitutions of alkyl electrophiles (SN1 and SN2) have limited scope and are not generally amenable to enantioselective variants that employ readily available racemic electrophiles. In this presentation, I will describe how the combination of radical chemistry and transition-metal catalysis has opened the door to addressing the challenges of reactivity and of enantioselectivity in nucleophilic substitution reactions of secondary and tertiary alkyl electrophiles.

To learn more about Prof. Gregory Fu research, please visit:
http://fugroup.caltech.edu/gregory-fu.html
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Sigma-Aldrich Lecture Featuring Prof. Greg Fu, California Institute of Technology. "Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions"

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