Melinda Chan

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Havellockate and Investigation into Chiral Palladium Enolate: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Applications

Allison Stanko

Assembly of Complex Carbocyclic Architectures via Palladium and Nickel-Catalyzed Cyclizations

Alex Cusumano

Asymmetric Pericyclic Transformations from Reactive Palladium Intermediates

Tyler Casselman

Unveiling Incipient Reactivity via Tandem Hydrosilylation Reaction Cascades and the Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of (–)-Cylindrocyclophane A

Alexia Kim

Enantioselective Syntheses of Tetrahydroisoquinolines (THIQs) via Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of (+)-Cyanocycline A

Zachary Sercel

Synthesis of Organic Building Blocks and Synthetic Strategies Toward Aleutianamine

Tyler Fulton

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (–)-Myrifabral A and B, Havellockate, and New Strategies for Acyclic Stereocontrol

Nick Hafeman

Synthesis and Applications of Terpenoid Natural Products: Total Synthesis of Scabrolide A and Havellockate, and Synthesis of Pinene Oxidation Products for Atmospheric Investigations

Fa Ngamnithiporn

I. Development of Nickel- and Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation Reactions. II. Enantioselective Syntheses of Tetrahydroisoquinoline–Based Natural Products and Unnatural Analogs

2020

David Schuman

Development and Mechanistic Investigation of Potassium Tert-Butoxide Catalyzed C–H Silylation.

Eric Alexy

Development of Enantioselective Transition-Metal Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation Methodologies

Carina Jette

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alpha Functionalization of Nitrogen and Oxygen-Containing Heterocycles

Austin Wright

Evolving Strategies Toward the Synthesis of Curcusone C.

Chris Reimann

Convergent Synthetic Strategies toward Heterodimeric Bisindole Alkaloids and Polyoxygenated Diterpenoids

Elizabeth Goldstein

Synthesis of Enantioenriched (Poly)Fluorinated Building Blocks, 2,2-Disubstituted Pyrrolidines and [7,7]Paracyclophanes

Jiaming Li

Concise Total Syntheses of ∆¹²-Prostaglandin J Natural Products Using Stereoretentive Metathesis.

Zainab Al-Saihati

C(sp³)–H Activation via Dehydrogenation of Cyclic and Heterocyclic Alkanes by Single-Site Iridium Pincer Ligated Complexes

Steven Loskot

Applications of the Enantioselective Allylic Alkylation Toward the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products.

Alexander Sun

Stereoselective Synthesis of Diazaheterocycles by Decarboxylative Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation.

2018

Samantha Shockley

Development of Stereoselective Iridium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation Methods.

Shoshana Bachman

Development of Cu- and Ni-Catalyzed C–C and C–N Bond Forming Reactions.

Kelvin Bates

Isoprene Oxidation Mechanisms and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Under HO2-Dominated Conditions.

Douglas Duquette

Highly Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation Reactions of Carbocyclic Enaminones and Acyclic Substrates.

Beau Pritchett

Studies in Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation: Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Structurally Diverse Alkaloids.

Nicholas O’Connor

Methodological Developments and Synthetic Applications of Strained Rings and Allylic C–H Functionalization of Hindered Substrates.

Kelly Kim

The Synthesis and Late-Stage Diversification of the Cyanthiwigin Natural Product Core and Synthetic Insights Derived Therein.

Christopher Haley

Aryne Reactions in the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Molecules.

Seojung Han

I. Synthetic Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products – Communesin F, Perophoramidine, and Ineleganolide. II. Nickel-Catalyzed Intramolecular C–O Bond Formation.

Robert Craig II

Progress Toward the Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Ineleganolide and the Polycyclic Norcembranoid Diterpenes and Construction of the Ineleganoloids.

Chung Whan Lee

Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Curcusone C and Mechanistic Elucidation of an Unexpected Rearrangement.

Jonny Gordon

Applications of a Concise and General Strategy for the Syntheses of Transtaganolide and Basiliolide Natural Products.

Yiyang Liu

Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative and Decarbonylative Transformations in the Synthesis of Fine and Commodity Chemicals.

Corey Reeves

Strategies for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Carbon Quaternary Centers via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkylation of Enolate Compounds.

2014

Jeffrey Holder

The Development of an Asymmetric Palladium-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition and Its Application Toward the Total Syntheses of Taiwaniaquinoid Natural Products.

Nathan Bennett

Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation: Insights, Application Toward Cyclopentanoid and Cycloheptanoid Molecules, and the Total Synthesis of Several Daucane Sesquiterpenes.

Hosea Nelson

A Unified Synthetic Approach to the Transtaganolide and Basiliolide Natural Products.

Allen Hong

Development of a Novel Ring Contraction Strategy and Application to the Total Synthesis of Presilphiperfolanol Natural Products.

Alexander Goldberg

Synthetic Applications and Methodological Developments of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes.

Pamela Tadross

Exploiting the Reactivity of Arynes in the Total Synthesis of Natural Products.

Christopher Gilmore

Aryne Annulation Reactions Toward the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Molecules.

John Enquist

Total Synthesis of Cyanthiwigin Natural Products via Double Asymmetric Catalytic Alkylation and Investigations into the Nature of Double Asymmetric Processes.

Michael Meyer

Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions in Natural Product Synthesis: Efforts Toward Bielschowskysin and Phalarine.

Sandy Ma

Progress Toward the Cortistatin A Carbocyclic Core and the Development of the Catalytic Enantioselective Alkylation of 3-Helooxindoles.

Nathaniel Sherden

Mechanistic Investigations into the Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylic Alkylation of Ketone Enolates Using the PHOX Ligand Architecture.

Kevin Allan

Development of Versatile Strategies for Aryne Annulation: Applications in Methodology and Natural Product Total Synthesis.

Justin Mohr

Enantioselective Reactions of Palladium Enolates.

Michael Krout

Progress Toward the Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Variecolin and Gas-Phase Studies of the Twisted Amide 2-Quinuclidone.

Jennifer Roizen

Progress Toward an Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Ineleganolide.

Jennifer Stockdill

Forays into the Synthesis of Zoanthenol: Intriguing Patterns in Reactivity and Selectivity.

David Ebner

Development and Applications of the Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols.

Ryan McFadden

Applications of Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Decarboxylative Alkylation in Natural Products Total Synthesis.

Daniel Caspi

The Adaptive Nature of Palladium Reactivity in Synthesis.

2007

Douglas Behenna

Progress Toward the Synthesis of (+)-Zoanthenol and the Development of an Asymmetric Tsuji Allylation Reaction.

Eric Ashley

The First Total Synthesis of (–)-Lemonomycin and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of (+)-Cyanocycline A.

Uttam Tambar

Convergent Methods for Synthesizing Rings in the Context of Natural Product Synthesis: I. Development of a Tandem Stille-Oxa-Electrocyclization Reaction, and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Saudin. II. Development of the Direct Acyl-Alkylation of Arynes, and its Application Toward the Total Synthesis of Amurensinine.

Jeffrey Bagdanoff

Development of the Enantioselective Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols and Natural Products Total Synthesis.

Raissa Trend

Concerning the Mechanism and Selectivity of Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation Reactions.

Jeremy May

I. Synthesis and Utilization of Diazocompounds for Applications in Solution-Phase and Gas-Phase Chemistry. II. Progress Toward the Communesin Alkaloids.

Eric Ferreira

The Design and Development of Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Transformations.

Neil Garg

The Total Synthesis of Dragmacidins D and F.

Blake Greene

Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Salvadione-A and Related Diterpenoids. Master’s Thesis.

John Zepernick

The Development of a Tandem Stille-Oxa-Electrocyclization Reaction. Master’s Thesis.