Mission and Funding

Research in our group focuses on the development of metal-catalyzed carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formation through C-H activation and total synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of biologically active natural products. Current research programs in our laboratory include: 1) transition metal-catalyzed C-H functionalization: investigation of novel transformations on aromatic and aliphatic substrates; 2) transition metal-catalyzed cascade reactions; 3) synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of selective aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitors.