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Posted: Wednesday, April 17, 2013Spring 2013 Chemistry/Physics Seminar Series
Michael Coleman, visiting assistant professor of chemistry at the Rochester Institute of Technology, will present his research talk "Cyclopropane and Cyclopropene Compounds: From Obscurity to Moiety" during Bengal Pause (12:15–1:30 p.m.) Thursday, April 18, in Science Building 272. An abstract of his talk appears below.
This seminar is sponsored by the Auxiliary Services Grant Allocation Committee, the Vice President for Student Affairs Office, and the Faculty-Student Association.
Abstract
Three-membered carbocyclic compounds are an important class of synthetic building blocks due to their unusual bonding and inherent ring strain, which has yielded numerous novel chemical transformations. Cyclopropyl-containing compounds, in specific, are also important subunits commonly found in natural and synthetic products with a wide range of biological activities. In this regard, the synthesis of cyclopropanes from cyclopropenes is an efficient retrosynthetic approach. Our research efforts toward the synthesis of cyclopropene compounds and their applications in biology and imaging science will be presented.
