Iija Ljapkalo

The research in our team is primarily involved with the invention of new reagents and synthesis techniques and in the application of these developments to the synthesis of naturally occurring and designed molecular structures. A continuing theme of the study in this laboratory is the relationship between structure, reactivity and selectivity in a variety of functional organic and organo-element systems. In recent years this interest has been focused on palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reactions with alken-1-yl perfluoroalkanesulfonates. Design and synthesis of new metal-free uncharged nitrogen bases, stable lipophilic organic cations as phase-transfer catalysts, asymmetric nucleophilic and Lewis-acid catalysis of carbonyl addition reactions are newly emerging areas of our activity.