Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Synthetic chemist in the fields of fluorine chemistry, organic chemistry, transition metal chemistry, catalysis, main group chemistry. Multilingual (German, English, French).
Development of proprietary ALD precursors and small molecule chemistries for the electronics sector. Development of safe scale-up syntheses. Technical project coordination.
Development of catalytic systems based on main-group elements and transition-metals for catalytic reduction, heterofunctionalization and C-C bondformation.
SNF Postdoctoral Fellow. Synthesis of early transitions metal (group 4) complexes as catalysts in (enantio) selective hydroamination reactions of alkynes and alkenes. Synthesis and application of group 4 and 5 based catalysts for α-CH functionalization of primary and secondary amines. Design of asymmetric syntheses using nitrogen containing building blocks.
R & D, asymmetric synthesis of enantiopure P-chiral ferrocenyl-phosphine based ligands of the Josiphos-, Ferriphos-, and Ferrocenyloxazoline-type and their application to homogeneous asymmetric catalysis (Rh-catalyzed hydrogenation of dehydroamino acid derivatives).