Research

Research in my group is involved with the discovery, design, and development of new chiral catalysts and catalytic methods for chemical synthesis. We focus on developing practical and effective catalysts that enable the use of simple and abundant starting materials for useful carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond forming reactions.

We are interested in understanding reaction mechanisms (efficiency and selectivity) as well as demonstrating and challenging our catalytic transformations (reliability) in efficient enantioselective total synthesis of complex biologically important molecules. Areas of interest include catalysis, stereoselective organic synthesis, and organometallic chemistry.