英国曼彻斯特大学Michael Greaney教授做客第256期化苑讲坛

报告题目：Organic chemistry and Clean Energy

报 告 人 ：Michael Greaney教授

报告时间：2017年5月9日（周二）下午14:30

报告地点：化学楼二楼一号会议室

报告人简介：

Michael Greaney took his undergraduate degree at Oxford, completing his part II research project in the group of Sir Jack Baldwin in 1996. He then moved to London to carry out PhD work with William Motherwell at UCL, completing his thesis in the area of new fluorinating agents in 1999. He then left the UK on a GlaxoWellcome scholarship to take up a postdoctoral position with Jeffrey Winkler at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on the total synthesis of the tumour-promoting diterpene ingenol. He returned to the UK in early 2002, to a lectureship position at the University of Edinburgh.  He was awarded an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship in 2008, and in 2011 moved to the University of Manchester to a personal chair in organic chemistry.

The Greaney group works in organic chemistry, developing new methods that enable faster, cleaner and better synthesis. Principal research themes are: 1) Capturing the benzyne reactive intermediate for arene synthesis; 2) Transition metal catalysed C-H activation; 3) Tandem reactions for natural product synthesis; 4) Dynamic covalent chemistry in chemical biology.