Time： March 28（Friday）10:00 am
Location：Energy Building 1#, 1st Floor Conference Room
Lecturer：Dr. Weiwei Zuo
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada
Introduction：
Education:
Ph.D. in Organometallics and Polymer Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China, Sept. 2005-Jun. 2008.
Master of Polymer Physics, Donghua University, China, Sept.2002-Mar. 2005
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Suzhou University, China, Sept. 1998-Jun. 2002
Employment summary:
Postdoctoral Associate in Organometallics and Catalysis, University of Toronto, Canada, Nov. 2011-present
Postdoctoral Associate in Organometallics and Catalysis, University of Strasbourg, France, Jan. 2009-Jun. 2011.
Areas of primary scientific interest:
Green Chemistry, Asymmetric Catalysis, Iron based Organometallic Chemistry, Polymerization, Cross-Coupling Reactions Catalyzed by Iron based Catalysts.
Abstract:
Metal based homogeneous catalysts are used in the pharmaceutical, fragrance, flavoring, and fine chemicals industries for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure organic molecules such as alcohols, amines, and amino acids. Iron is an element essential to life and is abundant in mineral ores and thus its use is preferable for economic and health reasons. We validate a prior mechanistic hypothesis that partially saturated amine(imine)diphosphine ligands (P-NH-N-P) activate iron to catalyze the asymmetric reduction of the polar bonds of ketones and imines to valuable enantiopure alcohols, amines and amino acids, with isopropanol as the hydrogen donor, at turnover frequencies as high as 200 per second at
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