LAB-SMART · Lewis Acidic Borocations: improving Suzuki couplings, Material synthesis, Alkylation and Radical Transformations""

Carbon-carbon bond formation is arguably the most important reaction in synthetic chemistry, exemplified by the award of five noble prizes. The most recent Nobel prize was awarded for the development of palladium catalysed cross coupling, of which Suzuki cross coupling is the most widely applied version in industry and academia and utilizes organo-boronates (RB(OR)2) as the nucleophilic component. The aims of this project are