Matt Eastwood

Time in the Lab

Summer 2014–Fall 2019

Education & Experience

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2019)

Thesis: Development of Stereoselective Cyanoamidation Reactions and Their Application to Natural Product Total Synthesis 

B.A. Chemistry, MidAmerica Nazarene University (2014)

Advisor: Faith Jacobsen

Douglas Group Publications

Synthesis of the Madangamine Alkaloid Core by a C–C Bond Activation Cascade. J. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 6149–6154. 

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