Synthetic Chemistry Interest Group

Virginia Tech Department of Chemistry

$$$Funding$$$: We thank Profs. Etzkorn, Kingston, Santos, and Carlier for providing refreshments for our meetings! We thank the National Science Foundation (Grant 0750006) for supporting Prof. Carlier's involvement in this series (see full acknowledgement below)

Organic synthesis is a key enabling technology for many research groups in VT Chemistry. New reactions of wide scope and high efficiency are being reported every week. But if you've never read the paper, or heard the talk, you can't use the reaction in your project!

To improve our individual synthetic "repertoires", we meet at 5:00 pm in Hahn North 402 on the SECOND THURSDAY of each month, September to April, to hear presentations by students, post-docs and faculty on new synthetic methods. All are welcome, and refreshments are provided!

As we did in Academic Year 10/11, this year we will focus on informal "Journal Club"-type talks. These "Journal Club" talks will generally involve two individual presenters, each presenting a new "hot" synthetic methods paper (published within the last 3 months). We will also occasionally hold "Technology" talks to make members aware of advances in information retrieval and other areas likely to be of interest to the group. Finally we are fortunate to occasionally host outside speakers in organic syntheis-related fields from NMR spectroscopy to Chemical Biology.

For more information, to sign up for a Journal Club or Technology presentations, contact Paul Carlier.

The template for Journal Club powerpoint presentations is available: Journal Club Template

Schedule:

Date	Speaker	Group(s)	Topic
9/8/11	Amanda Nelson Mithun Raje	Santos	Regio- and stereoselective alkene synthesis via alkyne carbozincation and Pd cross-coupling reactions Asymmetric anion catalysis of the Overman rearrangement
10/13/11	Brandon Thorpe Eugene Camerino	Santo Carlier	Pd-catalyzed intermolecular amination of sp3-C-H bonds Fe-catalyzed C-H activation to form benzylic imidazoles
11/11/10	Astha Anton Sizov	Carlier Reineke	Formation of functionalized organoaluminums by direct insertion of Al metal into unsaturated halides Innate trifluoromethylation of heterocycles
1/12/12	Shraddha Patil Stephanie Bryson	Tanko Carlier	An "accelerated serendipity" method to discover an alpha-amino C-H amination reaction Enantioselective addition of carboxylic acids to allenes
2/09/12	Joe Calderone Joseph Clement	Santos Carlier	Cyanation of Aryl C-B and Arene C-H bonds Ir-cat. addition of acid chlorides to terminal alkynes
3/15/12	Prof. Reza A. Ghiladi Dept of Chemistry NCSU	tba	Special Seminar (tba)
4/12/11	Xi Guo Gary Richoux	Santos Carlier	tba
May	no scheduled meeting

List of AY 10/11 presentations (with links to papers)

List of AY 09/10 presentations (with links to papers)

List of AY 08/09 presentations (with links to papers)

This material (seminar program, published presentations, and associated web pages) is in part based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant 0750006 (Carlier, PI). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.