The development of enantioselective catalysts is driven largely by empiricism and thus limited by the skill, creativity, and chemical intuition of the practitioner. Join Scott Denmark as he presents a complementary approach to catalyst discovery and optimization in which statistical methods are used at each stage to streamline development. In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- Novel approaches for rational catalyst design
- Best ways to harness descriptors and metrics for catalyst performance
- How to use computer-assisted optimization of enantioselective catalysis
Presenter: Scott E. Denmark
Scott E. Denmark is the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Among other honors, he is the winner of the 2019 EROS Best Reagent Award for his work on developing the bis(phosphoramide) reagents as novel Lewis base catalysts for enantioselective asymmetric addition. He has pioneered the concept of chiral Lewis base activation of Lewis acids for catalysis in main group synthetic organic chemistry. He was a founding editor of the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis and served as Editor in Chief of Organic Reactions from 2008 to 2018.
