Developments of environmentally friendly organic transformations

ORGN 66

Shui-Ling Chen, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore, 117543, Singapore and Teck-Peng Loh, the Natonal Uinversity of Singapore.
Developments of new and novel organic transformations which can be carried out under environmentally friendly conditions are well sought-after. Recently, this area has attracted great attention and received much recognition. A lot of effects have been put on this area due to the many economical, as well as environmental advantages. We believe that green chemistry will become a great and important evolution in organic chemistry. Therefore, we are interested in water-based organic reactions as well as organic reactions under solvent-free conditions. In this presentation, a new strategy of using recycled catalyst for organic reactions in water was introduced. We would also present some of our recent works in the asymmetric Mannich-type reaction in both methanol and ionic liquids.