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.

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

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

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

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

Studies conjugated polymers, physisorbed monolayers and crystal polymorphism.

Syntheses of natural and unnatural products that are of biological or structural interest.