Professor Daniel J. Weix of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will give a seminar titled "New chemical space from cross-electrophile coupling" on Zoom from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 27. The talk is free and open to the public.

Weix graduated from Columbia University in 2000, where he conducted research on helicenes with Thomas Katz. During his Ph.D. work with Jonathan Ellman at the University of California (2000-2005), Weix worked on improved methods for the synthesis and the use of tert-butanesulfinamide. Following postdoctoral work on Ir-catalyzed allylation chemistry with John Hartwig, he began his independent career at the University of Rochester in 2008 and in 2017 moved to the University of Wisconsin as the Wayland E. Noland Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. Weix has been the recipient of an NSF pre-doctoral fellowship, an NIH postdoctoral fellowship, Green Chemistry awards from Pfizer-Groton, a Thieme Journal Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Novartis Early Career Award, a JSPS Research Fellowship, a Cope Scholar Award, and was elected a fellow of the AAAS. His research program is currently supported by the NIH, the NSF, Pfizer, and the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharma Roundtable.

In this talk, Weix will briefly introduce the mechanistic underpinnings of selectivity in cross-electrophile coupling reactions and then discuss recent developments and new reactions. In particular, this seminar will explore the use of new types of electrophiles, such as N-hydroxyphthalimide esters and N-alkylpyridinium salts, and less reactive electrophiles, such as organic chlorides, ketones, and organic sulfonate esters. Finally, applications to industrial challenges both large and small will be presented.

To attend the seminar, please visit the Zoom link.
Meeting ID: 862 5015 5151
Passcode: Fall@2021