About the Seminar:

Organophosphorus chemistry is an essential component of agrochemistry, pharmaceuticals, and metal-catalyzed transformations. The air-sensitivity of many phosphines limits the transformations and functionality that can be achieved after incorporation of phosphorus. New methods that functionalize organophosphorus substrates diversity the types of structures that are accessible. This talk will focus on using phosphorus as a directing group in C-H borylation reactions to achieve sp2 and sp3 C-H borylation reactions. Examples of transformations involving conversion of the newly installed C-B bond will also be discussed.

About the Speaker: 

Tim Clark received his bachelor’s degree from the University of San Diego in 2001, followed by his PhD from the University of California, Irvine in 2006 where he worked with Keith Woerpel on silacyclopropenes. He then moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to do a post-doc with Charles Casey. In 2007 he started a faculty position at Western Washington University. In 2011, he moved back to his alma mater at the University of San Diego where he is now Full Professor. He has served as Associate Chair and is currently the Director for Undergraduate Research for the University.

His research has focused on metal-catalyzed organoboron chemistry, which has been funded by NSF, NIH, ACS-PRF, the Dreyfus Foundation, and Research Corporation.