Organic Synthesis
Organic synthesis focuses on the study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions and preparation of carbon-containing compounds and materials.
Since nature primarily uses carbon and hydrogen as the elements of choice for creating the machinery necessary for life, organic chemistry is often considered the “chemistry of life.”
Research Topics
- Synthesis of unnatural peptide libraries
- Light enabled drug delivery of cancer therapeutics
- Asymmetric synthesis of complex natural product and drug molecules
- Development of stereoselective synthetic methodologies for the synthesis of organic compounds
- Development of new tools to study protein function
- Structure-activity relationships in drug development
- Expansion of the genetic code through organic synthesis
- Engineering biocatalysts for chemical synthesis
Faculty
Research Assistant Professor
Natural Product Biosynthesis
Biocatalyst Development and Engineering
Biomimetic Organic Synthesis
Professor
Organic chemistry
Synthetic genetic code expansion
Ubiquitin protein chemistry
Assistant Professor
Protein function
Protein inhibition
Membrane model development
Professor
Organic chemistry
unnatural peptide libraries
light-enabled drug delivery
Associate Professor
Organic synthesis
asymmetric catalysis
medicinal and process chemistry