Date of Award

1-1-2016

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Degree Name

M.S.

Organizational Unit

Chemistry and Biochemistry

First Advisor

Brian W. Michel, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Sandra Eaton

Third Advisor

Bryan Cowen

Fourth Advisor

James Fogleman

Keywords

8-Vinylquinoline, Alkene, Catalyzed, Difunctionalization, Oxidation, Palladium

Abstract

The synthesis of quinoline derivatives is a continuing issue facing organic chemists in both academia and industry. To address this problem, palladium-catalyzed alkene difunctionalization was developed to be a powerful and straightforward strategy of synthetic transformations for adding diversity to organic molecules. In this thesis, Pd-catalyzed olefin difunctionalization reactions of vinyl-quinoline type substrate via generating Pd-alkyl intermediates were mainly described. The reactions described herein are pursuing three significant goals: 1) to isolate and recrystallize Pd-alkyl complexes; 2) to achieve oxidation reactions on Pd-alkyl intermediate; and 3) to investigate stereochemistry of nucleopalladation step on vinyl-quinoline starting materials.

Publication Statement

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Rights Holder

Lusha Xu

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

54 p.

Discipline

Chemistry



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