Farnaz Jafarpour

• Our group is focused on evaluating some transition-metal-catalyzed transformations. In this regard synthesis of condensed heterocycles specially those with interest to the pharmaceutical industry via palladium-catalyzed reactions are investigated. Furthermore, C-H functionalizations via metal-catalyzed reactions for regioselective direct installment of various functionalities on arenes and heteroarenes are of our particular interest.

  Next, as a greener approach to construction of interesting biologically active compounds we are focused on metal-free procedures. This protocol is an alternative to metal-catalyzed reactions in attempt to reduce toxic reagents