Metal homoenolates from siloxycyclopropanes.- Gem-Dihalocyclopropanes in organic synthesis.- Through-bond modulation of reaction centers by remote substituents.
Henning Hopf, born in 1940, is Director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the TU Braunschweig. After studying chemistry in Goettingen and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he gained his doctorate 1967, he qualified as a professor in 1972 at the University of Karlsruhe. Three years later he was offered a chair at the University of Wuerzburg and from there followed an offer of a professorship at Braunschweig in 1979. Hismain areas of research concern hydrocarbon chemistry (alkines, allenes, cumulenes, aromats, cyclophanes, polyolefines, etc.) and mechanistic investigations of high-temperature reactions.
Tse-Lok Ho is Professor of Organic Chemistry at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. His research interests are in organic synthesis, including total synthesis of natural products and methodology. He has written 12 books, including, most recently, Stereoselectivity in Synthesis, available from Wiley. Dr. Ho holds degrees from National Taiwan University and the University of New Brunswick, Canada.