Late Transition Metal Catalysts for Organic Synthesis

描述(由申请人提供)：合理和可预测地制备功能化有机分子的能力，无论是单独制备还是在图书馆中制备，都是有机合成、药物化学和制药工业的核心。这项工作的目的是开发新的和/或改进的方法来形成碳-氮和碳-氧键，并将这种化学应用于制备各种医学上有兴趣的化合物。这项工作包括开发制备杂环化合物的新战略和技术，这些杂环化合物是药物化学和制药工业的基石。此外，从这项工作中获得的信息将有助于理解正在开发的过程的机制，以便提高我们正在研究的技术的改进率。有机合成新方法的开发是整个有机化学领域发展的关键。这里描述的形成碳-氮和碳-氧键的方法通常被制药工业中的人用于制备具有更高效力和更少副作用的类似物。此外，该方法可用于制备大量用于临床前和临床试验的新物质以及用于药剂的实际制造。正在开发的技术使这些重要职能能够以比以前更快、更有效的方式执行。此外，它们还允许制备以前无法获得的新物质。这些新化合物有可能在药物化学和制药工业中具有重要的生理性质。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ability to prepare functionalized organic molecules rationally and predictably, whether individually or in libraries is central to organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry. The aims of this work are to develop new and/or improved methods for the formation of carbon-nitrogen and carbon-oxygen bonds and to apply this chemistry for the preparation of a variety of medicinally interesting compounds. Included in this work is the development of new strategies and techniques for the preparation of heterocyclic compounds, which are the building blocks of medicinal chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry. Further, information gained from this work will help to understand the mechanism of the processes that are being developed in order to increase the rate of improvement of the techniques that we are studying. The development of new methods for organic synthesis is key to the development of the field of organic chemistry as a whole. The methods for carbon-nitrogen and carbon-oxygen bond formation, described herein, are regularly used by those in the pharmaceutical industry for the preparation of analogues with increased potency and reduced side effects. Moreover, the methods can be employed for the preparation of quantities of new substances for preclinical and clinical testing and for the actual manufacture of a pharmaceutical agent. The techniques that are being developed allow for these important functions to be carried out in a more rapid and efficient fashion than previously possible. Moreover, they allow for the preparation of new substances, which have previously been inaccessible. These new compounds have the possibility of having physiological properties of great importance in medicinal chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry.