Carbon-carbon coupling reactions have generated a lot of interest over the past few years to make novel structures and expand the possibilities that chemists have at their disposal. In general, these reactions are carried out using homogeneous metal-based catalysts that need to be removed from the final products, often requiring lengthy steps. New solid-supported catalysts are now appearing on the market. These catalysts do not carry the drawbacks of their homogeneous counterparts as they can be removed from the desired products by simple filtration, are easier to handle, and, in some cases, are easily reused.This presentation will present results from Suzuki, Sonogashira, and Heck coupling reactions run in parallel using novel silica-based catalysts for screening and library generation.
Guest presenter - Dr François Béland of SiliCycle Inc
François Béland is the Vice-President of R&D at SiliCycle Inc. He received his PhD in 1999 from Laval University in Quebec City where he studied silica based catalysts by different spectroscopy methods. After his PhD he went to Montpellier, France for post-doctoral studies at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier where he studied different catalytic reactions in organic chemistry catalyzed by silica-based heterogeneous catalysts. He started working at SiliCycle as a researcher after his post-doc. A year later he was promoted to R&D Director where his focus was to develop the SiliaBond product line. In 2006, Dr. Béland also became responsible for marketing. Recently he was named Vice-President Chemistry. François has 15 years of experience with silica-based product for different applications in chromatography and organic chemistry. Dr. Béland hosts seminars at customer’s sites worldwide and provides, with his group, technical support and training to the sales representatives, agents, distributors, and clients for all of SiliCycle’s product lines.
Interactive
At the end of this online seminar, there will be an interactive Q&A session providing you with the opportunity to ask questions relevant to your particular application.
Related Topics: parallel synthesis, SiliCycle, Francois Beland, MiniBlock, carbon-carbon coupling, reaction screening, library generation