Atom Economic Transformations Catalysed by Low-Valent Cobalt Complexes

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• Professor Gerhard Hilt (Marburg University)
• Thursday 24 September 2009, 17:00-18:00
• Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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Reductive activation of simple cobalt(II) complexes leads to highly reactive catalyst systems for various carbon-carbon bond forming processes. The catalysts can be used to generate various cyclical systems from four-membered rings up to eight-membered rings in unprecedented intermolecular transformations. Also, acyclic 1,4-dienes can be generated from simple starting materials. The high functional group tolerance is remarkable and opens the way to a wide variety of follow-up reactions. Mechanistic insights will elucidate the reasons which permit the cobalt catalysts to be tuned, which leads to the very destinct observed reaction pathways.

This talk is part of the Organic Chemistry series.

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