Shannon Vinson UNC at Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry CB# 3290 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290 phone: (919) 962 0278 email: svinson@email.unc.edu

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Projects:

	Past: Studying the hydrogenation of methyl-trans-cinnamate by a polymer immobilized diphosphine Rh(I) catalyst under fluorous bihasic conditions.
	Present: Further investigations into fluorous biphase and application to scCO2 both in asymmetric hydrogenation and hydroformylation of olefins.

Publications & Presentations:

Can a fluorous biphase solvent system improve a polymer immobilized heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst? Chem. Commun. 2001, submitted for publication.

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Areas of interest:

Further investigations into fluorous biphase and application to scCO2 both in asymmetric hydrogenation and hydroformylation of olefins.