Synthesis, Properties and Chemistry of Cyclophanes Containing Nonplanar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Title:

Synthesis, Properties and Chemistry of Cyclophanes Containing Nonplanar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Schedule:

Date: 25^th April, 2024 (Thursday)

Time: 4:30 - 5:30 pm (HKT)

Venue: Lecture Theatre P2, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building

Speaker:

Prof. Graham Bodwell

Department of Chemistry

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John's, Canada

Biography:

Graham Bodwell studied chemistry at the University of Victoria and graduated with a B.Sc. (Honours) in 1984. He stayed at UVic to work in the group of Reg Mitchell and received his M.Sc. in 1986.He then moved to join the group of Henning Hopf in Braunschweig, West Germany. He was awarded his doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1989 for his work on cyclophane chemistry. After spending 3 years as a post-doc at Oxford working on asymmetric synthesis in the group of Steven Davies, he started his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1992. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997, Full Professor in 2001 and University Research Professor in 2014. His research interests are centred on the synthesis and study of structurally unusual aromatic compounds.

Abstract:

Nonplanar aromatic compounds are interesting molecules because they provide opportunities to learn how chemical and physical properties are affected changes in structure. Such compounds are challenging synthetic targets due to fact that they are strained, and the level of synthetic challenge typically increases with the amount of strain. As a result, powerful synthetic methodology and effective general strategies are required to enable the synthesis of such compounds, especially those that are at more highly strained. Details of our work aimed at the synthesis and study of cyclophanes that contain bent aromatic systems will be presented.

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