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Group meeting, April 17th, 2017
Eric Meggers

1. Asymmetric Catalysis with an Inert Chiral-at-Metal Iridium Complex
2. Asymmetric photoredox transition-metal catalysis activated by visible light
3. Aerobic Asymmetric Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling between Two C-H Groups Catalyzed by a Chiral-at-Metal Rhodium Complex
4. Catalytic, Enantioselective Addition of Alkyl Radicals to Alkenes via Visible-Light-Activated Photoredox Catalysis with a Chiral Rhodium Complex
5. Catalytic Asymmetric Csp3-H Functionalization under PhotoredoxConditions by Radical Translocation and Stereocontrolled AlkeneAddition
6. Octahedral Ruthenium Complex with Exclusive Metal-Centered Chirality for Highly Effective Asymmetric Catalysis

Group meeting, Jun 27th, 2016
Two recent synthesis

1. Enantioselective synthesis of an ophiobolin sesterterpene via a programmed radical cascade, Maimone et al.
2. Concise Enantiospecific Total Synthesis of Tubingensin A, Garg et al.

Group meeting, Jun 13th, 2016
Daniel Weix

1. Replacing Conventional Carbon Nucleophiles with Electrophiles: Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Alkylation of Aryl Bromides and Chlorides.
2. Mechanism and Selectivity in Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Aryl Halides with Alkyl Halides.
3. Nickel-Catalyzed Regiodivergent Opening of Epoxides with Aryl Halides: Co-Catalysis Controls Regioselectivity.
4. Multimetallic catalysed cross-coupling of aryl bromides with aryl triflates.
5. Decarboxylative Cross-Electrophile Coupling of N-Hydroxyphthalimide Esters with Aryl Iodides.

Group meeting, April 4th 2016
Synthesis

1. Concise Total Synthesis of Enigmazole A - Frustner et al.
2. A Unified Strategy to ent-Kauranoid Natural Products: Total Syntheses of Trichorabdal A and Longikaurin E - Reisman et al.

Group meeting, March 7th 2016
Matthew Sigman

1. Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Oxidations of Alcohols Using Molecular Oxygen
2. Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Aerobic Dialkoxylation of Styrenes:? A Profound Influence of an o-Phenol
3. A Highly Selective and General Palladium Catalyst for the Oxidative Heck Reaction of Electronically Nonbiased Olefins
4. Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Cross-Coupling Reactions of Primary and Secondary Homoallylic Electrophiles
5. Enantioselective Heck Arylations of Acyclic Alkenyl Alcohols Using a Redox-Relay Strategy
6. Enantioselective construction of remote quaternary stereocentres
7. Enantioselective Dehydrogenative Heck Arylations of Trisubstituted Alkenes with Indoles to Construct Quaternary Stereocenters

Group meeting, February 22nd 2016
Examples of productive beta-hydride elimination in organic methododology

1. G. Fu et al., A Mild, Palladium-Catalyzed Method for the Dehydrohalogenation of Alkyl Bromides: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies
2. V. Dong et al., Rh-catalyzed C-C bond cleavage by transfer hydroformylation
3. T. Newhouse et al., Palladium-Catalyzed alpha,beta-Dehydrogenation of Esters and Nitriles
4. T. Newhouse et al., Amide alpha,beta-Dehydrogenation Using Allyl-Palladium Catalysis and a Hindered Monodentate Anilide

Group meeting, February 8th 2016
Mary Nguyen practice talk

Group meeting, January 25th 2016
James Morken

1. Thermographic Selection of Effective Catalysts from an Encoded Polymer-Bound Library
2. Pt-Catalyzed Enantioselective Diboration of Terminal Alkenes with B2(pin)2
3. Enantioselective Construction of All-Carbon Quaternary Centers by Branch-Selective Pd-Catalyzed Allyl-Allyl Cross-Coupling
4. Nonracemic Allylic Boronates through Enantiotopic-Group-Selective Cross-Coupling of Geminal Bis(boronates) and Vinyl Halides
5.Catalytic conjunctive cross-coupling enabled by metal-induced metallate rearrangement