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  • Asymmetric Ring-Opening Polymerization
    • Novel catalytic systems for the asymmetric ring-opening polymerization and copolymerization of heterocycles (epoxides, lactide, etc.) using macromolecular transition metal complexes
    • Ligand design for asymmetric ring-opening reactions using long range- induced chirality mechanism

  • Green Chemistry
    • Asymmetric catalysis in water using amphiphilic block copolymer micelles
    • Biocompatible polymeric ligands for high-load micellar catalysis in aqueous media

  • Surface-Supported Catalytic Transformations
    • Chiral self-assembled monolayers for surface-initiated asymmetric catalytic transformations
    • Well-defined chiral polymeric brushes

  • Catalytic Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution
    • Synthesis and catalytic application of transition metal fluorides in aromatic nucleophilic substitution
    • Mechanistic studies of key catalytic steps in nucleophilic aromatic reactions with transition metals: Oxidative Addition, Reductive Elimination, Bond Metathesis

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See Picture of the Vigalok Group
Group Members: Shlomi Elias, Inna Dubinski, Ariela Kaspi, Anat Molad, Tal Sela, Mili Kravchik, Adam Sherf