On Thursday 8th August, an additional Chemistry Department Research Colloquium will be given by Professor H Akio Kamimura, of Yamaguchi University, Japan. His talk is entitled “A practical preparation of optically active b-amino-a-methylene esters and their use for heterocyclic synthesis“.
This talk will present a tandem reaction strategy for preparing beta-amino-alpha-methylene esters from chiral sulfinimines and recent progress in heterocyclic synthesis using these compounds. This will include a radical cascade procedure including SH2 type substitution and a regioselective cascade Migita-Kosugi-Stille coupling reaction
This will take place at 11:00 AM in Chemistry LTG and will be preceded by refreshments in the Chemistry Foyer at 10:45 AM.