Pyridine-2,6-bis(oxazolines), Helpful Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysts

Giovanni Desimoni was born in 1936. He received his laurea degree from the University of Pavia. After a research and teaching period in the same university and one year with Alan Katritzky at UEA, in 1975 he joined the Science faculty at the University of Pavia as full professor. He was Dean of the Faculty and Director of the Department of Organic Chemistry. His recent research interests concern the development of new catalysts for enantioselective reactions, especially those derived from optically active heterocycles used as chiral ligands, and the understanding of their mechanism in inducing selectivity.

Giuseppe Faita was born in 1962 and received his degree in Chemistry in 1986 at the Univeristy of Pavia. In 1990 he obtained his PhD at the same University under the supervision of G. Desimoni and he became Researcher at the Organic Chemistry Department in Desimoni group. In 2000 he became Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry. His research interests concern the optimization of asymmetric catalysts involving box and pybox as chiral ligands and solid-phase organic syntheses.

Paolo Quadrelli was born in 1961. He received his degree in chemistry in 1986 at the University of Pavia. In 1990 he obtained his PhD at the same University under the supervision of G. Desimoni. Then he moved to the R&D Laboratories of ENI Group until 1992, when he returned as Researcher at the University of Pavia in P. Caramella group. In 1996 he joined the group of R. Grigg at the University of Leeds. He currently holds a Docent position at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Pavia. His research interests center around pericyclic reactions, the chemistry of 1,3-dipoles, transition metal catalyzed reactions, and solid-phase syntheses.