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Dr. Al-Masum's Research Areas

• Developing New Methods for Organic Transformations
• Potassium Organotrifluoroborates and Its Application in Organic Synthesis
• Transition Metal Catalyzed Microwave Synthesis, Specially Palladium Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Chemistry
• Environmental Sciences Focusing Green Chemistry

The great development of our understanding of transition metal catalysis in organic chemistry has opened a major avenue for invention of new processes and improvement of existing ones. Palladium enjoys two stable oxidation states, the +2 state and the Zerovalent state and it is the facile redox interchange between these oxidation states which is responsible for the rich reaction chemistry that palladium complexes display. More recently, it is found that potassium organotrifluoroborates show very high reactivity in palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. Potassium organotrifluoroborate is very reactive, non-toxic, environmentally labile and water soluble organic species. In modern chemistry, it is novel and it has tremendous aspect in organic transformations and this field will be explored.