Professor Insu Kim's research team decorates OCF cover paper
- 약학대학
- Hit3605
- 2019-09-13
Development of New Synthesis Method of 2-naphthol Derivatives by Carbon-Hydrogen Conversion Using Rhodium Catalysts
Prof. Insu Kim's research team (1st author: Sang-Hoon Han) made the cover of the Organic Chemistry Frontiers (IF 5.455, JCR ranking 8.8%) magazine, published in November.
Synthesis of 2-naphthol is known by several traditional synthesis methods and methods using metal catalysts exist, but there are disadvantages in that they require a chemical equivalent reaction or a multi-step reaction in order to use a metal catalyst.
Therefore, the first results on the synthesis of 2-naphthol derivatives through the carbon-hydrogen direct conversion reaction can be said to have greater utility than the conventional synthesis method in terms of economics and efficiency.
In addition, various derivatives of 2-naphthol, which is a product, can be used not only as an important skeleton for natural product synthesis but also as a core precursor for various ligand synthesis.