Environmentally Sustainable Catalytic Asymmetric Oxidations

The discovery of simple, efficient catalyst systems for the asymmetric oxidation of hydrocarbons is an important and challenging task of modern chemistry. Synthetic chiral compounds are represented in various areas of everyday life: for example, 6 out of 15 top worldwide sold drugs are chiral synthetic compounds. On the other hand, the demand for novel efficient and sustainable regio- and stereoselective catalyst systems for the oxidation of organic substrates is continuously growing in line with toughening economic and environmental constraints. This book addresses these issues.

Konstantin P. Bryliakov was born in Yoshkar-Ola (USSR) in 1977 and graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 1999. He earned a Cand. Chem. Sci. (PhD) in chemical physics from the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (Novosibirsk) in 2001 under the direction of Professor E. P. Talsi. In 2008, Dr. Bryliakov was awarded a Dr. Chem. Sci. in catalysis from the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (Novosibirsk). Dr. Bryliakov is a leading research scientist at the Boreskov Institute. He has co-authored more than 90 papers, book chapters, and patents. His research interests include transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric oxidations, single-site olefin polymerizations, and mechanistic aspects of those transformations.