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Senior Projects 2012-2013

Team Helio-Tech

Members:

Benjamin Holbrook
Brett Newill
Travis Pendell
Blaine Roushia
Matthew Wagner

Faculty Advisor:

Paul Weber
Joe Moening

Company:

3 M, Maplewood, MN

Industrial Contact:

Tim Hebrink

Project Description: Concentrated Photovoltaic System

Team HT (Helio-Tech) will be designing, constructing, and testing a prototype window module that contains solar cells to allow for both transmission of light as well as electrical engergy generation. Furthermore, the design will incorporate 3 M Brand Prestige Film to incresase the amount of the energy that the cells produce. This Building- Integrated PhotoVolaic(BIPV) window module will replace either vertical windows or skylights in residential and commercial buildings.

Links to the 2012-2013 Teams:

Asymmetric Synthesis Using Chiral Auxiliaries and Titanium Enolates

Michael Overbeek

Chiral auxiliary-mediated asymmetric aldol additions are an important method for asymmetric carbon-carbon bond formation. Dr. Daveid A. Evans from Harvard University has developed the use of a boron enolate to allow for specific stereochemistry, often called an “Evan’s Aldol Reaction’. The use of a titanium enolate, instead of a borony enolate, has been documented to create the opposite stereocenters when utilizing the Evan’s Aldol methodology. This project describes an attempt to form an anti-Evans product with the addition of phenylacetaldehyde to R-(-)-4-Benzyl-3propionyl-2oxazolidinone. The use of an aldehyde substrate when utilizing a chiral titanium enolate has not been well documented in the literature.

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