Professor Varinder Aggarwal

Summary

My research interests include; the development of new catalytic processes for asymmetric synthesis; the development of chiral carbenoids and their use and subsequent applications in catalysis and synthesis; the development of new methodology and its applications in synthesis; total synthesis of biologically important targets.

Keywords

• catalytic processes
• asymmetric synthesis
• reactive intermediates
• synthesis
• carbenes
• carbenoids

Memberships

Organisations

School of Chemistry

Chemistry staff

• Chemistry academic staff

Research sections

• Organic and Biological Chemistry

Research areas and groups

• Catalysis
• Supramolecular, Structural and Mechanistic Chemistry
• Synthesis

Links

• Aggarwal Group Homepage

Recent publications

• Coulthard, G, Erb, W & Aggarwal, VK 2012, ‘Stereocontrolled organocatalytic synthesis of prostaglandin PGF(2 alpha) in seven steps’. Nature, vol 489., pp. 278-281
• Yar, M, Fritz, S, Gates, P, McGarrigle, E & Aggarwal, V 2012, ‘Synthesis of N-vinyloxazolidinones and morpholines from amino alcohols and vinylsulfonium salts: analysis of the outcome’s dependence on the n-protecting group by nanospray mass spectrometry’. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol 2012., pp. 160 - 166
• Hesse, MJ, Butts, CP, Willis, CL & Aggarwal, VK 2012, ‘Diastereodivergent Synthesis of Trisubstituted Alkenes through Protodeboronation of Allylic Boronic Esters: Application to the Synthesis of the Californian Red Scale Beetle Pheromone’. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol 51., pp. 12444-12448
• Sonawane, R, Jheengut, V, Rabalokos, C, Larouche-Gauthier, R, Scott, H & Aggarwal, V 2011, ‘Enantioselective Construction of Quaternary Stereogenic Centers from Tertiary Boronic Esters: Methodology and Applications’. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol 50., pp. 3760 - 3763
• Larouche-Gauthier, R, Elford, T & Aggarwal, V 2011, ‘Ate-Complexes of Secondary Boronic Esters as Chiral Organometallic-Type Nucleophiles for Asymmetric Synthesis’. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 133.
• Yar, M, Unthank, M, McGarrigle, E & Aggarwal, V 2011, ‘Remote Chiral Induction in Vinyl Sulfonium Salt-Mediated Ring Expansion of Hemiaminals into Epoxide-Fused Azepines’. Chemistry - An Asian Journal, vol 6., pp. 372 - 375

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