Our goal is to identify significant problems in chemistry that impact society and human health and develop practical and creative solutions. Complex biologically active molecules are the inspiration and driving force for our research. We seek to build high-impact, novel, and practical chemical transformations and creative synthesis strategies that allow rapid access to complex natural products with potential application in treating human diseases. Our target molecules are structurally complex, biologically active compounds that demand innovative solutions. We welcome the opportunities to develop novel and impactful chemical transformations that ultimately advance state-of-the-art organic chemistry. The synthesis routes we aim to develop are atom-, step- and redox-economical, practical, and scalable to prepare large quantities of the target molecules for biological testing minimizing costs, energy expenditure, and waste generation. It is equally important that our strategies are versatile to enable facile preparation of analogs for further investigating structure/activity relationships, metabolism, and target identification studies paving the way to future medicine development.
