Science: Chemistry: Organic: Research Groups: M

Enantioselective laboratory synthetic route(s) to the tetracycline antibiotics.

Kinetic studies of carbocation-carbanion combinations.

Identification of natural products with interesting, often novel, structures and useful biological properties that may lead to medicinal agents for treatment of cancer, cardiovascular disorders and infectious diseases.

Chemistry, bioorganic chemistry of marine natural products with novel structural and biological properties.

Development of new, creative methods and strategies in organic synthesis. Construction of a novel type of DNA binding molecules.

Natural product synthesis, synthetic methods development, and design of new transition metal catalyzed reactions.

Mechanisms of chemical reactions in aquatic environments: photochemistry in surface waters with an emphasis on reactive oxygen species and metal-mediated dehalogenation reactions.

Catalytic enantioselective processes of broad utility to organic and medicinal chemists.

Molecular glycosciences: complex glycoconjugate synthesis and carbohydrate-based molecular recognition.

Total synthesis.

Stereoselective organic reactions, synthesis of enantiomerically pure compounds and natural product syntheses.

Development of bidentate Lewis acid chemistry. Molecular design of chiral phase-transfer catalysts. Precise design of bowl-shaped artificial enzymes. Hypercoordination chemistry. Development of new radical reaction processes and novel methodologies.

Synthetic macromolecular chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and material sciences.

Development of new reaction methods of broad utility, enantioselective catalysis and the synthesis of natural products and biologically important molecules.

Applications of organometallic chemistry to problems in materials deposition, methodology for organic synthesis, and catalysis.

Studies conjugated polymers, physisorbed monolayers and crystal polymorphism.