Award Address (Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry, sponsored by Elsevier). Molecular design of the catalyst for organic synthesis

ORGN 332

Hisashi Yamamoto, yamamoto@uchicago.edu, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
New reagents and catalysts have unlimited potential for the future of organic synthesis. This research group has been interested in Lewis and Brønsted acid catalysis for a number of years. This lecture will focus on several of these acids and related catalysts from molecular design and engineering.