Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Chong, Michael"
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Asymmetric Conjugate Additions of Boronates to α,β-Unsaturated Trifluoromethyl Ketones and Strategies Towards Asymmetric Conjugate Additions of N-Boc-Pyrrole Boronic Acid
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-24)An important class of organic molecules are those that contain fluorine. Fluorinated molecules have found widespread use in medicinal chemistry, as well as in agrochemicals. This is due to the ability of fluorine to act ... -
Stille Coupling of α-Acyloxybenzylstannanes with Acid Chlorides
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-19)Two widely-accepted models (open- and cyclic- transmetalation) are applied to explain the stereochemical outcome of the Stille coupling with organotin compounds containing an sp3 chiral center. However, it is still not ...