Organic Chemistry Seminar

Wednesday, February 21st
Professor Karl Scheidt
"New Developments and Applications of Unconventional Bond Forming Methodology"

4:15pm - 5:15pm
Braun Lecture Hall
S.G.Mudd Chemistry Building
Stanford University



This seminar is free and open to the public. All Stanford University Chemistry students are encouraged to attend this special event.

About the Seminar:
The development of new polarity reversal methodology using azolium catalysis will be presented. The catalytic generation of carbonyl anions, homoenolates and acylvinyl reagents can be accomplished from the combination of various carbonyl-containing starting materials in the presence of N-heterocyclic carbenes.

About Scheidt:
Karl Scheidt is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Professor Scheidt received his B.S. in 1994 at the University of Notre Dame where he began his research career in the laboratories of Professor Marvin J. Miller. His graduate studies were conducted at Indiana University (1994-1997) and the University of Michigan (1997-1999) under the direction of Professor William R. Roush in the areas of reaction development and the synthesis of the natural product bafilomycin A1. Following his graduate research, he was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Professor David Evans at Harvard University (1999-2002) where he developed new asymmetric reactions catalyzed by chiral copper(II) and scandium(III) complexes. Since starting his independent career at Northwestern in 2002, his research has focused on the development of new Lewis base-catalyzed methods and their applications in organic synthesis. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Northwestern University Distinguished Teaching Award, and young investigator awards from Boehringer-Ingelheim, Abbott Laboratories, Amgen and 3M.

Questions
Please contact Patricia Dwyer at 650-723-4770.