Extending the frontiers of organocatalysis: New reactions involving nucleophilic carbenes

New technologies for the assembly of functional material will play a central role in creating solutions to the problems of tomorrow. This fellowship will enable the discovery of a new family that exploit an emerging field of organocatalysis. The transformations will focus on increasing our capacity to assemble, in an efficient and rapid fashion, complex targets. The application of the new materials discovered in this fellowship is potentially far reaching, in fields such as medicinal chemistry and materials science.