Advances in Alpha Elimination: Catalytic Organoelement Synthesis Seminar
- Time:
- 15:00
- Date:
- 9 April 2014
- Venue:
- Room 2003, Building 27 Chemistry University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Geoff Hyett at G.Hyett@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Prof Rory Waterman presents a seminar as part of the Molecular Assembly Function and Structure Groups seminar series.
Expansion of α elimination, a rare class of deinsertion reactions that product low valent fragments, has been sought. Silanes with π-donating substituents, RXSiH2 (X = NMe2, Cl, etc), react with triamidoamine-supported zirconium with evidence of silylene formation. Thus, in situ, catalytic N–Si dehydrocoupling allows for α-silylene elimination. Success in organoelement synthesis has been realized with iron catalysts. These compounds appear to dehydrocouple phosphines by α-phosphinidene elimination and engage in catalytic preparation organophosphines by transfer of ‘PR’ to a substrate.
Speaker information
Prof Rory Waterman , University of Vermont. Prof Waterman works in the areas of synthetic inorgnic chemsitry, organometallic chemistry and catalysis.