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William Wulff

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Research

Synthetic  Organic Chemistry

Wulff Group Research is concentrated in the area of organic synthesis and catalysis. We are motivated by the pursuit of novel approaches in synthetic organic chemistry involving design and development of new asymmetric organocatalysis, organometallic chemistry, mechanistic studies and total synthesis of natural products.

Research Field Highlights

1) New Enantioselective Organocatalysis

2) Fischer Carbene Chemistry

3) Mechanistic Investigations on Organocatalysis

4) Total Synthesis of Natural Products

Contact

 530A CEM

 517-353-0503

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Area(s) of Interest

Organic (Or)

Organometallic (Om)

Selected Publications

Self-Assembly of a Library of Polyborate Chiral Anions for Asymmetric Catalysis, Desai, A. A.; Vetticatt, M. J.; Guan, Y.; Odom, A. L.; Majumder, S.; Wulff, W. D. Tetrahedron Lett. 2015, 56, 3481.

Catalytic Synthesis of 2H-Chromenes, Majumder, N.; Paul, N. D.; Mandal, S.; de Bruin, B.; Wulff, W. D., ACS Catalysis 2015, 5, 2329-2366.

The Nature of Meso- and Pyro-borate Precatalysts to the VANOL and VAPOL BOROX catalysts, Zhao, W.; Yin, X.; Gupta, A. K.; Zhang, X.; Wulff, W. D., Synlett 2015, 26, 1606-1614.

Catalyst Controlled Multi-Component Aziridinatons of Chiral Aldehydes, Mukherjee, M.; Zhou, Y.; Dai, Y.; Gupta, A. K.; Reddy, V. R.; Staples, R. J.; Wulff, W. D., Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 2552-2556.

Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylative Carbocyclization of Enallenes via Cross-Dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) with Terminal Alkynes: An Efficient Construction of α-Chirality of Ketones, Yang, B.; Qiu, Y.; Jiang, T.; Wulff, W. D.; Yin, X.; Zhu, C.; Backvall, J.-E., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 4535-4539.

Multi-Component Cis- and Trans-Aziridinations in the Syntheses of all Four Stereoisomers of Sphinganine, Zhou, Y.; Mukherjee, M.; Gupta, A. K.; Wulff, W. D., Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 2230-2233.

Pyro-borates, Spiro-borates and Boroxinates of BINOL – Assembly, Structures and Reactivity, Hu, G.; Gupta, A. K.; Huang, L.; Zhao, W.; Yin, X.; Osminski, W. E. G.; Huang, R. H.; Wulff, W. D; Izzo, J. A.; Vetticatt, M. J., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 10267-10285.

Multi-Component Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Trans-Aziridines, Zhou, Y.; Gupta, A. K.; Mukherjee, M.; Zheng, L.; Wulff, W. D. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 13121-13140.

Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of Aldehydes with Two VANOL-Derived Chiral Borate Catalysts, Gupta, A.K.; Yin, X.; Mukherjee, M.; Desai, A.A.; Mohammadlou, A.; Jurewicz, K.; Wulff, W.D., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 3361.

CV

B.S., 1971, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Ph.D., 1979, Iowa State Univ.

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 1979-80, Princeton Univ.

Awards/Honors

Year Award Organization
2013 CNS Distinguished Faculty Award  
1999 Professor Michigan State University
1998 Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science
1992 - 1999 Professor The University of Chicago
1986 - 1992 Associate Professor The University of Chicago
1986 - 1987 Young Scholar Award Eli Lilly
1980 Assistant Professor The University of Chicago
1979 - 1980 Postdoctoral Fellowship National Institutes of Health
1979 Ph.D. Iowa State University
1979 - 1980 Postdoctoral Fellow Princeton University with Professor M.F. Semmelhack
1979 - 1980 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow National Institutes of Health
1974 - 1979 Research Assistant Iowa State University with Professor T.J. Barton
1972 - 1974 Laboratory Technician Saint Agnes Hospital (Baltimore, Maryland)
1972 - 1974 Laboratory Technician 1st United States Army Medical Laboratory (Fort Meade, Maryland)
1972 Microwave radio repair United States Army Signal Corps (Fort Monmouth, New Jersey)
1971 Bachelor of Science University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
1968 - 1971 Research Assistant University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with Professor L.G. Schnack
  Member American Chemical Society
  Member Chemical Society (London)