Former Group Members

Randall S. Smith, Ph.D. 1994
The Mechanism of Lewis Acid Promoted Nucleophic Additions to Acetals

Saleh N. Al-Busafi, M.S. 1994
Studies of New Annulation Methods Using Sakurai Reaction

Martin A.Berliner, Ph.D. 1996
Remote Stereocontrol in the Ionic Diels-Alder Reaction

Hallie A. Latham, Ph.D. 1996
Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of the Metalation of Chiral Ferrocenyl Oxazolines: Preparation and Reactivity of Chiral α-Ferrocenyl Cations

Douglas McCord Sammond, M.S. 1997
Development of New Synthetic Methods, a New Synthesis of Substituted Furans

T. Brian Hurley, Ph.D. 1999
The Development of Bifunctional Hydroxy-Directed Acyl Transfer Catalyst

Eric Stangeland, Ph.D. 1999
Substituted Ferrocenyl Compounds as Ligands in Asymmetric Synthesis and New Applications of the Halogen Dance Reaction for the Synthesis of WS75624B and Caerulomycin C

Kjirsten A. Wayman, Ph.D. 2000
The Development of Amino Alcohols and Chiral Pyridine Derivatives as Acyl Transfer Catalysts

Ganghyeok Kim, Ph.D. 2001
Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of (+) – Dihydrocompactin and the Synthesis of Chiral Pyridines for Acyl Transfer Catalysis

David P. Soulsby, Ph.D. 2001
New Ferrocenyl Ligands for the Asymmetric Heck Reaction and the Development of Catalysts for Hydroxyl-directed Epoxidation

Wendy A. Richmond, M.S. 2002
1,5- Asymmetric Induction with Methyl Ketones and Investigation of Silyl Triflates

Sarah A. Strong, M.S. 2002
Studies of the Scope of the 2-Acyl-4-Aminopyridine Class of Hydroxyl-Directed Acyl Transfer Catalysts

Mark J. Mitton-Fry, Ph.D. 2002
Strategies for the Synthesis of the Oxo-Polyene Macrolide Antibiotics. Application to the Total Synthesis of RK-397 and Dermostatin A

Deidre M. Johns, Ph.D. 2003
Remote Stereo control in the Intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction; Application to the Total Synthesis of (+)-Dihydrocompactin

Mark Charles Whitcomb, Ph.D. 2003
The Tin Dance Reaction, Synthesis of Heterocycles and Studies on a Model System for the Synthesis of Diazonamide A

Christian A. Clarke, M.S. 2004
Investigations into the Scope of a Remote Stereocontrolled Asymmetric Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction

Timothy Minger, Ph.D. 2005
Ring-Opening-Ring-Closing Metathesis of Bicyclo[2.2.2] Octenes: A Novel Synthesis of Decalins and Hydrindanes and Studies of the Scope and Source of Selectivity of a Chemo-and Diastereoselective Elimination Reaction

Daniel P. Parker, M.S. 2005
Remote Stereocontrol in an Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction

Gregory T. Notte, Ph.D. 2006
The Development of Chiral O-Nucleophilic Acyl Transfer Catalysts and Their Application to the Kinetic Resolution of Activated Esters and Derivatives

Aaron J. Cullen, Ph.D. 2006
Studies in Polyketide Synthesis: Development of a Highly Selective Reduction of β-Alkoxy Ketones, Completion of the Total Synthesis of RK-397, and Progress Towards the Total Synthesis if Arenolide

Yingchao Zhang, Ph.D. 2007
Highly Selective Asymmetric Acetate Aldol Reactions and Their Application to the Total Synthesis of Dermostatin A

Matthew F. Sammons, Ph.D. 2008
Studies Directed Towards the Total Synthesis of (-)-Diazonamide A

Joseph A. Abromite, Ph.D. 2008
Intramolecular Yammamoto Vinylogous Aldol Reaction and the Total Synthesis of (+)-Peloruside A

Xin Hao, Ph.D. 2009
Stereoselective Synthesis of 1,2-Diols via Oxocarbenium Ion Intermediated and Small Molecule Inhibitors of Bacterial Biofilm Formatoin

Clemente A. duCastel, M.S. 2009

Patricia A. Bailey, M.S. 2009
Silylene Opening-Trapping Strategy for the Functionalization of 1,3-Diols

Morin M. Frick, M.S. 2010
Synthesis of Morphine Derivatives as Glial Activation Inhibitors and Synthesis of Corticosterone-Glucuronide

Cheng-Kang Mai, Ph.D. 2011
The Formal Total Synthesis of Diazonamide A

Carolynn M. Aprin, Ph.D. 2011                                                                              
Cross-Metathesis of Electron-Deficient Polyenes and an Approach to the Total Synthesis of Arenolide

Jeffrey Gazaille, Ph.D. 2012                                                                                  
The Development of a Novel Lewis Acid for Intramolecular Vinylogous Aldol Reactions, its Application to the Synthesis of (+)-Peloruside A, and the Design and Synthesis of Lanthanide-Binding Nucleosides for Solution Phase Characterization of RNA by NMR

Ryan Michael, Ph.D. 2013                                                                                     
New Methods for the Synthesis of All-Carbon Quaternary Centers via the Reactions of N-Vinyl Nitrones and Phenyl Hydrazines with Ketenes

Rachel Chambers, Undergraduate,                                                                 
The enantioselective thio Bellus-Claisen rearrangement

Dennis Kutateladze, undergraduate,                                                             
The use of allenoates in cycloaddition/sigmatropic rearrangement reactions

William T. Hartwig, Ph.D. 2015                                                                                           
The Vinylogous Aldol Reaction of Furoate Esters and the Synthesis of Unnatural Enantiomer Morphinans as TLR4 Inhibitors

Katelyn Chando, Ph.D. 2015                                                                                                
The Synthesis of Hindered Carbon-Carbon Bonds via the Reaction of N-Vinyl Nitrones and Heterocumulenes, and the Selective Protection of 1,3-Diols