Professor Michael North

Professor of Organic Chemistry and joint director of the URC in Catalysis and Intensified Processing

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Cyclic Carbonates as Solvents

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1. M. North and M. Omedes-Pujol ‘Catalytic, asymmetric cyanohydrin synthesis in propylene carbonate’ Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 4452-4454.

2. M. North, F. Pizzato and P. Villuendas ‘Organocatalytic, asymmetric aldol reactions with a sustainable catalyst in a green solvent’ ChemSusChem 2009, 2, 862-865.

3. M. North, and P. Villuendas ‘A Chiral Solvent Effect in Asymmetric Organocatalysis’ Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 2378-2381. Highlighted in Synfacts 2010, 7, p827.

4. W. Clegg, R.W. Harrington, M. North, F. Pizzato and P. Villuendas ‘Cyclic carbonates as sustainable solvents for proline-catalysed aldol reactions’ Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2010, 21, 1262-1271.

5. M. Morcillo, M. North, and P. Villuendas ‘Amino Acid Catalysed Aldol Reactions in Cyclic Carbonate Solvents’ Synthesis 2011, 1918–1925.

6. C. Beattie, M. North, and P. Villuendas ‘Proline Catalysed Amination Reactions in Cyclic Carbonate Solvents’ Molecules 2011, 16, 3420–3432.

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