People - Faculty - Professor: Curtis B. Anderson Field(s): Organic Chemistry  Email: canderson@chem.ucsb.edu   Phone: (805) 893- 2554   Fax: (805) 893- 4120 Office: 2132 Chem   Selected Publications Go to Research Group website Bio: Dr. Anderson received his B.S. in chemistry at the University of Minnesota in 1956 and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at UCLA in 1963. He joined the faculty at UCSB in 1962. Current Research My general interest is understanding the organic reactivity of noble metals like palladium, platinum and rhodium with unsaturated hydrocarbons and attempting to develop practical synthetic procedures. Compounds of such metals find use as catalysts in a host of industrial and energy-related processes as well as many reactions of synthetic utility. Recently I have been looking for improved catalysts for hydrosilylation and have produced good yields of silylated alkenes, dienes, and alkenes which can be useful synthetic intermediates. Another interesting reaction has been palladium catalyzed carbonylations of dienes like bismethylenecyclohexane and cyclooctadiene which lead to interesting stereochemistry or bicyclic compounds. Selected Research Publications Novel Ring Closure Carbonylation Reaction of 1,5-Cyclooctadiene in the Presence of Pd(II) Catalysts, C.B. Anderson and R. Markovic, Coll. Czech. Chem. Commun. 116, 2374-2382 (1992)  Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylation of 1,5-Cyclooctadiene Effects of Temperature and Pressure, C.B. Anderson and R. Markovic, Coll. Czech. Chem. Commun. 56, 663-672 (1991).  (E,E)-1-Methoxy-4-trimethylsilyl-1,3-butadiene: A Diene for the Diels-Alder Synthesis of Methoxy-substituted allyl silanes, J.J. Pegram and C.B. Anderson, Tetrahedron Lett. 32, 2197-2198 (1991).

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