Multisubstituted Olefins: Platform Synthesis and Applications to Materials Science and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

The concept of platform synthesis has been successfully demonstrated as a useful strategy for making multisubstituted olefins in a programmable and diversity-oriented format. As well as applications to the synthesis of pharmaceutically important molecules such as tamoxifen and CDP840, applications to materials science, which have led to the discovery of interesting fluorescent materials and properties, are also described.