This handy reference covers all the important methods for preparing functionalized organometallic reagents of main-group and transition metals as well as lanthanides. In addition, the synthetic scope and typical synthetic procedures are reported for each preparation method. The result is a definite must-have for any synthetic chemist in academia and industry wanting to synthesize new products efficiently.
Author
Paul Knochel was born in 1955 in Strasbourg (France). He studied at the University of Strasbourg and completed his PhD at the ETH Zurich with Prof. D. Seebach (1982). He spent four years with Prof. J.-F. Normant (Paris) and one year with Prof. M. F. Semmelhack (Princeton) as a postdoctoral researcher. After professorships at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and at the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany), he moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany) in 1999. He is a recipient of the prestige Leibniz-Prize (1996), Karl-Ziegler Prize (2009), EROS (Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis) Best Reagent Award (2011) and Gold Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry 2012. His research interests include the development of new synthetic methods with organometallic reagents, new asymmetric catalysts, and natural product synthesis.
Marc Mosrin was born in 1981 in Bourges (France). After undergraduate studies at the Paul Cezanne University in Marseille (France) and in Basel (Switzerland), he joined the group of Prof. P. Knochel in 2005. He obtained his PhD in 2009 on the regio- and chemoselective functionalization of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds with applications to the synthesis of biologically active compounds. Currently, he is lab leader at Bayer CropScience in Frankfurt (Germany).
Tobias Thaler was born in Munich in 1981. He studied chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich from 2001 to 2007. He first joined Professor Knochel's group in 2004 for his Bachelor's thesis and later, in 2006, for his Master's thesis. He obtained his PhD in the group of Professor Knochel in 2011 on asymmetric organometallic chemistry. Currently, he is a postdoctoral research fellow in the group of Professor Christina White at the University of Illinois (USA).
