Thieme Cheminar #35: Radical Chemistry in Organic Synthesis II

The introduction of photoredox catalysis as a tool in organic synthesis has transformed radical chemistry from being a curiosity with low practicability into an extremely powerful area of synthetic methodology. 

Some highlights of this chemistry, as well as coverage of more fundamental radical chemistry, are presented in the Science of Synthesis volumes on free radicals, edited by today's chairs Louis Fensterbank and Cyril Ollivier.

Speaker line-up:

• Prof. Leyre Marzo (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) – Harnessing the Potential of Ketones in Radical Chemistry: Chemical Complexity from Simple Building Blocks
• Prof. Luca Dell'Amico (University of Padua, Italy) – Design and Development of Novel Photocatalytic Systems: From Energy-Transfer to Electron-Transfer Processes
• Prof. David Nagib (Ohio State University, USA) – Harnessing Radical and Carbene Polarity