The Hull Group

Development of New Catalytic Methods

Given our current knowledge, organic chemists have the ability - granted unlimited time and resources - to make almost any organic scaffold. Thus the fundamental motivations in modern chemistry have shifted to the development of efficient processes that accelerate synthesis and reduce associated waste. Research in the Hull group focuses on the development and mechanistic evaluation of transition metal-catalyzed methodologies with the direct goal of reducing the time and waste associated with synthetic organic chemistry. A common goal of all of our research is to strategically design new methodologies that either utilize or override the inherent reactivity of simple functionalities to generate desirable products. We aim to reduce multi-step sequences into a single transformation on easily accessible starting materials to form complex products.