Dr. Victor Snieckus

Victor Algirdas Snieckus, Bader Chair in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, has contributed significantly to the discovery and development of new organometalation reactions for chemical synthesis. His work on the directed 'ortho' and remote metalation reactions and transition-metal catalyzed cross coupling processes has provided fundamental concepts enabling the evolution of new strategies and tactics in aromatic and heteroaromatic synthesis. These methodologies are marked by directness and simplicity and have resulted in practical and broad range applications in synthetic aromatic chemistry.