Organic Chemistry

The goal of the PhD project will be the development of new helically chiral ligands and metal complexes to be explored in enantioselective catalysis. The attention will be paid to asymmetric synthesis of helicene-derived N-heterocyclic carbenes, cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes, 2,2'-bipyridines and cyclometallated helicenes. These chiral ligands/metal complexes will be applied to selected enantioselective reactions catalysed by transition metals such as alkyne cycloisomerisation, olefin metathesis or hydrogenation.