[Todos] VIE 18/11- 11hs Seminario Quimica Organica - Samir Z. Zard-VIERNES 18/11- 11hs

[Carola Gallo]

SEMINARIO DE QUIMICA ORGANICA 2011

Viernes 18 de noviembre, 11 hs

Aula de Seminario, Departamento de Química Orgánica, FCEyN

 

Prof. Samir Z. Zard

 

Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, 91128
France

 zard en poly.polytechnique.fr

 

Serendipity and Design:

Some New Reactions for Organic Synthesis

 

 

Our research group is mostly concerned with the discovery and development of
new reactions and processes that could be useful in organic synthesis.  As
is usually the case in scientific research, the interplay between conjecture
and chance observation underlies much of our work. Unexpected events often
bring a fresh lighting to the system being examined and open doors hitherto
unsuspected. Misconception has thus played an important role by allowing us
to uncover a number of new radical and non radical reactions of some
generality involving sulfur compounds, acetylenes, oximes, and related
derivatives: we simply followed the logical consequences of our observations
and went where the chemistry took us. In this lecture, the story behind the
discovery of some of these reactions will be presented and the various
mechanistic and synthetic implications will be discussed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samir Z. Zard was born in 1955 in Ife, Nigeria. His training as a chemist
started at the American University of Beirut, then at Imperial College,
London, and finally at the Université Paris-Sud, France, where he received
his doctorate under the supervision of Professor Sir Derek Barton. His main
research interests concern the study and development of new reactions and
processes, with a special interest in radicals, organosulfur derivatives,
alkynes, and nitro compounds. In addition to a number of academic awards, he
received in 2007 the Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

 

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