Join us to hear from Zachary Wickens about his research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!

Abstract: This seminar will focus on two new strategies to generate reactive organic intermediates that enable precise control over their downstream reactivity to unlock a collection of new synthetic methods. In the first system, we will examine a new protocol for Z-selective C–H functionalization of alkenes. This method exploits electrochemical cell design as a key parameter to access a metastable dicationic intermediate that violates textbook E2 rules. In the second system, we will describe a new catalytic strategy to promote outer sphere redox events with selectivity profiles fully independent of redox potentials.  

Host: Shauna Paradine, sparadin@UR.Rochester.edu

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