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SUMMARY:Harnessing Non-Covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challen
 ges in Catalysis
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20211118T160000
UID:2026-04-25-06-14-50@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260425T061450
Description:About the Seminar:\n\nNon-covalent interactions play a crucial 
 in all manner of chemical and biological processes. In recent times\, the 
 incorporation of non-covalent interactions into the design of small molecu
 le catalysts has revolutionised the field of enantioselective catalysis. O
 ur research is centred around applying catalyst designs incorporating non-
 covalent interactions to tackle selectivity challenges in synthetic chemis
 try\, concerning both positional selectivity and enantioselectivity. This 
 talk will discuss work in which such an approach is used to direct reactiv
 e transition metals through the use of novel bifunctional ligands. It will
  also cover non-covalent strategies for control of enantioselectivity in r
 adical reactions.\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nRobert received his undergradua
 te degree from Imperial College London in 2006. He moved to the University
  of Cambridge to complete his PhD (2010) with Prof. Matthew Gaunt. In 2011
 \, he moved to the University of California\, Berkeley on a Marie Curie Po
 stdoctoral Fellowship with Prof. F. Dean Toste in the area of asymmetric f
 luorination using chiral phosphoric acid catalysts. In 2013 he returned to
  Cambridge for the return year of the Marie Curie Fellowship and in 2014 h
 e was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship\, which allow
 ed him to commence independent research from October 2014. In 2017 was awa
 rded an ERC Starting Grant and in 2019 was a recipient of the RSC Harrison
 -Meldola Memorial Prize. He was appointed as an Associate Professor at Cam
 bridge in October 2021. 4:00 pm
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