Dr. Umar Farid
B.Sc. (Hons) 2008
GCU, Lahore - Pakistan
Ph.D. 2013
Cardiff University - UK
phone: +353-1-896 (4229)
Research interests include exploring the reactivity of enolisable anhydrides with bifunctional organocatalysts.
'Stereoselective diamination with novel chiral hypervalent iodine catalysts'
P. Mizar, A. Laverny, M. El-Sherbini, U. Farid, M. Brown, F. Malmedy and T. Wirth*, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 9910.
'Stereoselective rearrangements with chiral hypervalent iodine reagents'
U. Farid, F.
Malmedy, R. Claveau, L. Albers and T. Wirth*, Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 7018.
Selected as a HOT PAPER
'Hypervalent iodine reagents as powerful electrophiles'
M. Brown, U. Farid and T. Wirth*, Synlett 2013, 24, 424.
'Highly stereoselective metal-free oxyaminations using chiral hypervalent iodine reagents'
U. Farid and T. Wirth*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3462.
'5,6,7,8-Tetrafluoro-1-hydroxy-1-oxobenziodoxol-3(1H)one (Tetrafluoro-IBX)'
U. Farid and T. Wirth*, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis [Online], John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2012.
'Stereoselective synthesis with hypervalent iodine reagents'
U. Farid and T. Wirth*, Asymmetric Synthesis – The Essentials II, Edited by: Stefan Bräse and Mathias Christmann, John Wiley & Sons, 2012, 197.