Prof. Eva Hemmer
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
Phone: +1-613-562-5800 ext. 1987
Website: www.hemmerlab.com
2023 CBGSA / Tito-Scaiano Lecture
Recent Developments in Shuttle Catalysis
Feb 8, 2023 — All day
The Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences hosts guest speakers from the industry, research institutes, other universities, and from our own campus as part of a regular seminar series during the Fall and Winter terms.
Abstract
In this presentation, the concept of shuttle catalysis will be introduced and several recent examples of such reactions, including their application to synthesis and waste valorization, will be presented. Next, another emerging class of reversible transformations, single-bond metathesis, will be presented including new catalytic methods as well as their application to materials science.
Speaker
Bill Morandi
Professor Bill Morandi studied at ETH Zürich (2003–2008), receiving a BSc in Biology and a MSc in Chemical Biology. From 2008 to 2012, he pursued his PhD in organic synthesis at the same institution in the labs of Professor Erick M. Carreira. Afterwards, he moved to the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) for a postdoctoral stay with Professor Robert H. Grubbs. From 2014 to 2018, he was an independent Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim, Germany), before subsequently returning to ETH Zürich as a Professor in 2018. He is currently Full Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry and heads the Institute of Organic Chemistry (Laboratorium für Organische Chemie) at ETH Zürich.
His research program targets the design and development of new catalytic reactions for the synthesis of small molecules and materials, as well as the valorization of renewable feedstocks and waste material. He has received numerous awards, among them a Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry, the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize from the German Chemical Society and a selection as a C&EN's Talented 12. He is currently an Associate Editor for Organic Chemistry Frontiers, a journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Details
No registration needed. Everyone is welcome.