Versatile and Environmentally Friendly New Reaction Methodologies for Synthetic Organic Chemistry with Application to Natural Product Synthesis.
Category
FP7 Project with U.S. partner
Short name and number
CASCADES (236941)
Area
Environment including Climate change
Description
Enantioselective catalysis is the most important frontier of synthetic organic chemistry today. As nature uses enzymes to catalyze highly stereoselective reactions, it was long assumed that large and complex structures are essential to attain high enantioselectivity.
Participating Countries
United Kingdom and United States.
Name of US Partner
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Contact
UNIVERSITY OF YORK (UK) / HUDSON David