美国特拉华大学化学与生物化学系Douglass F. Taber教授将于5月15日上午来我校做学术报告，请研究生及有兴趣的教师参加。

时间：5月15日（周六）上午9：30

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Douglass F. Taber

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716， USA

Computational Organometallic Chemistry: Synthesis of (-)-Cameroonan-7a-ol

There has been a great deal of attention paid recently to the conversion of aryl C-H bonds to C-C bonds, and the selective oxidation of aliphatic C-H bonds.  Much less has been reported about the intramolecular conversion of aliphatic C-H bonds to C-C bonds. In the course of a synthesis of the tricyclic sesquiterpene (-)-cameroonan-7a-ol from the acyclic (+)-citronellal, we have converted six sp³-hybridized C-H bonds to C-C bonds, and established three rings and four new stereogenic centers.

Biography

Douglass F. Taber was born November 11, 1948 in Berkeley, California.  He earned a B.S. in Chemistry with Honors from Stanford University in 1970, and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Columbia University in 1974 (G. Stork).  After a postdoctoral year at the University of Wisconsin (B.M. Trost), Taber accepted a faculty position at Vanderbilt University.  He moved to the University of Delaware of Delaware in 1982, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry (http://valhalla.chem.udel.edu).   Taber is the author of 190 research papers on organic synthesis and organometallic chemistry.  He is also the author of the weekly Organic Highlights published at http://www.organic-chemistry.org/