Stereoselective Heterocycle Synthesis Via Alkene Difunctionalization: Bulky Phosphine Ligands Enable Pd-Catalyzed Arylhalogenation, Arylcyanation and (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319775067)

David A. Petrone was born in Scarborough, Canada in 1989. He obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry with Honors from the University of Guelph in 2011 and his Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. Mark Lautens. He was awarded both the Boehringer Ingelheim Award of Excellence in Organic Chemistry and the Chair's Doctoral Medal for the work contained in this thesis. He is currently an NSERC postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Erick M. Carreira's group at the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at the ETH Zürich.