{"id":649,"date":"2020-01-20T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-sisc\/?p=649"},"modified":"2023-12-26T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T16:32:40","slug":"colloquium-from-dr-rebecca-melen-cardiff-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/2020\/01\/20\/colloquium-from-dr-rebecca-melen-cardiff-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium from Dr Rebecca Melen (Cardiff University)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her talk is entitled <strong>Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis using Lewis Acidic Boranes<\/strong> and will take place in <strong>Ingram Lecture Theatre at 2 pm on Wednesday 29th Jan<\/strong>.\u00a0 All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p>As main group chemistry, in particular boron chemistry, has expanded and developed over the past 20 years, one reagent has risen to prominence as well. Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane, B(C<sub>6<\/sub>F<sub>5<\/sub>)<sub>3<\/sub>, (commonly known as BCF) has demonstrated extensive applications in a wide variety of chemistry, including borylations, hydrogenations, hydrosilylations, frustrated Lewis pair chemistry, Lewis acid catalysis\u00a0 and more. The high Lewis acidity of B(C<sub>6<\/sub>F<sub>5<\/sub>)<sub>3<\/sub> is achieved from the electronic effects of its three C<sub>6<\/sub>F<sub>5<\/sub> rings, rendering it a versatile reagent for a great number of reactions. The talk will show our recent uses of Lewis acidic boranes in small molecule activation and catalysis.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about Rebecca&#8217;s research at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melengroup.com\/index.html\">her group website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Her talk is entitled Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis using Lewis Acidic Boranes and will take place in Ingram Lecture Theatre at 2 pm on Wednesday 29th Jan.\u00a0 All are welcome to attend. Abstract: As main group chemistry, in particular boron chemistry, has expanded and developed over the past 20 years, one reagent has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}