Thesis advisor: Kian L. Tan / Thesis advisor: James P. Morken / Described herein are four different research projects spanning over two different research groups. The first two projects describe the development and application of scaffolding catalysts for the (1) site-selective silylation of ribonucleosides and (2) the distal and diastereoselective hydroformylation of homoallylic alcohols. These projects emphasize the effectiveness of scaffolding catalysts to bind a hydroxyl-containing substrate and control the site- or regioselectivity of a reaction using said substrate. The third project describes a hydroxyl-directed diboration of homoallylic and bis-homoallylic alcohols. The hydroxyl-containing 1,2-bis(boronates) are valuable intermediates for further synthetic manipulations. One such manipulation, a hydroxyl-directed Suzuki cross-coupling reaction, is the focus of the final project. This directed cross-coupling reaction forges carbon-carbon bonds in a stereoselective manner, highlighted in the total synthesis of the naturally occurring compound, debromohamigeran E. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Chemistry.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BOSTON/oai:dlib.bc.edu:bc-ir_104626 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Blaisdell, Thomas Powers |
| Publisher | Boston College |
| Source Sets | Boston College |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, thesis |
| Format | electronic, application/pdf |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted. |
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