Date : 22nd September 2016 (Thursday)
Time : 10.30 AM – 12.00 PM
Venue : Theatre Room 1, Ibnu Sina Institute (N31), UTM Johor Bahru, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
Carbon-carbon bond-formation reactions are important processes in chemistry, because they provide key steps in the building of complex organic molecules. They are also vital in developing the new generation of ingeniously designed organic materials with novel electronic, optical, or mechanical properties. During the past 40 years, most important carbon-carbon bond-forming methodologies have involved using transition metals to mediate the reactions in a controlled and selective manner. The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between different types of organoboron compounds and various organic halides or triflates in the presence of base provides a powerful and general methodology for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds. These coupling reactions have been actively utilized not only in academic laboratories, but also in industrial processes including pharmaceutical (antihypertensives, anticancer drugs, antiHIV drugs, antibiotics etc), agrochemical industries, liquid crystal and OLED production.
