Modern Organoaluminum Reagents

Simon Woodward is a Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry at Nottingham University, UK. He has been Director of both The European Ligand Bank (a facility for the exchange of ligand ideas between groups interested in selective catalysis, 2004-present) and an International Marie Curie Ph.D. School (INDAC-CHEM, 2007-2010) in "Catalysis of Organic Reactions" encompassing the Universities of Nottingham, Geneva, Sassari and Dortmund. He is also the Chair of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action D40 in "Innovative Catalysis" (2006-2011) and a member action CM0903 in "Biomass Utilisation". The flexibility of his research group is highly strengthened by extensive collaborative with over 20 other groups, both throughout Europe and beyond, involved in the selective catalysis of organic reactions. He has authored over 110 publications in the areas of organic methodology, organometallic chemistry, and selective/asymmetric catalysis.

Janusz Lewinski and Andrew E. H. Wheatley: Simple trivalent organoaluminum species: perspectives on structure, bonding and reactivity.- Stephan Schulz: Organoaluminum complexes with bonds to s-block, p-block, d-block, and f-block metal centers.- Samuel Dagorne and Christophe Fliedel: Low valent organoaluminium (+I, +II) species.- Rudolf Wehmschulte: Organoaluminum species in homogeneous polymerization catalysis.- Paul Knochel, Tobias Blümke, Klaus Groll and Yi-Hung Chen: Preparation of Organoalanes for Organic Synthesis.- Yuki Naganawa and Keiji Maruoka: Reactions Triggered by Lewis Acidic Organoaluminum Species.- Usein M. Dzhemilev and Vladimir A. D'yakonov: Hydro-, Carbo- and Cycloalumination of Unsaturated Compounds.- Andreas Kolb and Paultheo von Zezschwitz: Organoaluminum Couplings to Carbonyls, Imines and Halides.- Oscar Pàmies and Montserrat Diéguez: Conjugate Addition of Organoaluminum Species to Michael Acceptors and Related Processes.