报告人：Professor David W. Knight 
报告题目：Ringing the Changes: making Alkenes and Alkynes fond of Nucleophiles
报告时间：2016年10月20日  下午15:00
报告地点： 生科院学术报告厅

Professor David W. Knight

      School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

RESEARCH INTERESTS
 Natural product synthesis
 The development of novel synthetic methods
 Heterocyclic synthesis
 New chemistry of reactive intermediates
AWARDS
1995  Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship.
2005/6  RSC Tilden Lectureship.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
1.Pattisson S, Nowicka E, Gupta U N, et al. Tuning graphitic oxide for initiator-and metal-free aerobic epoxidation of linear alkenes, Nature Communications, 2016, 7, 12855.
2. Liu X, Fabos V, Taylor S, et al. One-Step Production of 1, 3-Butadiene from 2, 3-Butanediol Dehydration. Chemistry-A European Journal, 2016, 22, 12290-12294.
3. Aldosari O F, Iqbal S, Miedziak P J, et al. Pd–Ru/TiO2 catalyst-an active and selective catalyst for furfural hydrogenation, Catalysis Science&Technology, 2016, 6, 234-242.
4. Haider M H, Dummer N F, Knight D W, et al. Efficient green methanol synthesis from glycerol. Nature chemistry, 2015, 7, 1028-1032.
5. Liu X, Conte M, Sankar M, et al. Liquid phase oxidation of cyclohexane using bimetallic Au-Pd/MgO catalysts, Applied Catalysis A, General, 2015, 504, 373-380.
6. Nowicka, E.et al. Selective oxidation of alkyl-substituted polyaromatics using ruthenium-ion-catalyzed oxidation, Chemistry-a European Journal, 2015, 21, 4285-4293.
7. Nowicka E, Sankar M, Jenkins R L, et al. Selective Oxidation of Alkyl-Substituted Polyaromatics Using Ruthenium-Ion-Catalyzed Oxidation, Chemistry-A European Journal, 2015, 21, 4285-4293.
8. Gupta U N, Dummer N F, Pattisson S, et al. Solvent-free aerobic epoxidation of dec-1-ene using gold/graphite as a catalyst, Catalysis Letters, 2015, 145, 689-696.
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