Science: Chemistry: Organic: Research Groups: W

Design and development of new asymmetric catalysts and the application of these catalysts to the synthesis of useful chiral building blocks.

Asymmetric synthesis and total synthesis.

Synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry and catalysis.

Flourine chemistry, fluoroolefin peptidomimetics, precursor design for the chemical vapor deposition of metals, catalyst systems for the syndiotactic polymerization of styrene, pyrazinamide, analogs and the mechanism of action of an antituberculous agent.

Development of new stereoselective carbon-carbon bond-forming processes and employing these methods in organic synthesis

Development of new chemical and enzymatic strategies and methods for the synthesis of biologically active compounds and designed molecules as mechanistic probes and inhibitors of carbohydrate-mediated biological recognitions, sequence-specific RNA recognition, and enzymatic reactions.

Total synthesis.

Dye assemblies and materials: supramolecular dye chemistry and electrooptic materials.

Molecular recognition. New synthetic methodologies. Total synthesis of natural products.