Jason Brethorst

Time in the Lab

Fall 2011–Summer 2017

Education & Experience

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2017)

Thesis: Development of Carbon‒Carbon, Carbon‒Nitrogen, and Carbon‒Hydrogen Bond Functionalization Methodologies and Efforts Toward the Total Synthesis of Dragmacidin E 

Organic Chemistry Lecturer (CHM 352), Augsburg College (2017)

B.A. Chemistry, Saint Cloud State Unviersity (2011)

Advisor: Mark Mechelke 

Douglas Group Publications

Palladium and Lewis-Acid-Catalyzed Intramolecular Aminocyanation of Alkenes: Scope, Mechanism, and Stereoselective Alkene Difunctionalizations. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 3331–3338.

Diastereoselective Intramolecular Cyanoamidation with Alkenes. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 45–48. 

Intramolecular Oxyacylation of Alkenes Using a Hydroxyl Directing Group. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 11383–11394.