Non-photochemical routes to diazahelicenes


50000403v1538

Promoter: Wim Dehaen

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Description: Helicenes containing nitrogen heteroatoms will be prepared by constructing bicyclic and tricyclic building blocks, connecting them and carrying out a cyclisation or cycloaddition by non- photochemical ways.
Thus, racemic helicene compounds are obtained that can be resolved by using the formation of diastereoisomers, chiral (HPLC) chromatography, or crystallisation techniques. Another alternative is the enantioselective helicene formation.
The helicenes will be substituted with functions that will allow to study the NLO properties together with the research team of Prof. Dr. Koen Clays (GOA-project). Other applications are enantioselective catalysis.
There is a material relevance, but basically this is a study of synthetic methodology.

Remark : please only apply if you are eligible for the Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window

Key words: synthetic methodology heterocyclic chemistry helicenes chirality cyclisation reactions

Latest application date: 2010-05-01

Financing: Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window

Type of Position: scholarship

Source of Funding: EMECW

Duration of the Project : 4 years

Research group: Department of Chemistry

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