The Department of Organic Chemistry kindly invites to the following talk:

Speaker: Prof. Douglas W. Stephan, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada

Title: „ Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Reactivity across the Periodic Table”

The concept of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) has emerged from the discovery of transition metal-free hydrogen activation. While initially exploited for hydrogenation catalysis, it has been extended to enantioselective reductions as well as the activation of a wide range of other small molecules. While this has led to a number of applications in organic chemistry, the concept has proved more general, being extended to material science, polymer chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis and even transition metal chemistry. In this lecture, we will describe recent advances of new applications of FLP chemistry exploiting group 13 and 15 species. In addition, we demonstrate the broader generality of the concept, further demonstrating that this concept of FLPs is a useful paradigm for new stoichiometric or catalytic reactivity across the periodic table.