Research Directions
Our research interests is to harness the power of transition-metal catalysts to address the challenges in the arena of chemoselectivity and multi-step synthesis. Our research philosophy is guided by three questions:
1) What would be the most efficient way to introduce functional groups into (small or large) organic molecules?
2) What would be the most efficient method to synthesize various molecular skeletons (bridged or fused rings) with high complexity?
3) What would be the most efficient strategy to access mutiple structurally complicated and biologically important natural products and their analogues in a rapid fashion?
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NEWS
Alex is now Dr. Rago!
Congratulation to Alex for his successfully defense! He will soon start his next journey in AbbVie! We had a celebration party in person for the first time in two years!
Congratulations Prof. Ming Chen
Congratulations to our former incredible postdoc Dr. Ming Chen on recently starting his independent career at Changzhou University in China as a professor! Stay tuned for his awesome chemistry coming from Chen Lab