Alexa Connors ’24 – Alexa began by tackling the alkylation of ketones with unsymmetrical allyl propionates. Now she’s moved on to target a tandem aldol addition-cyclization reaction.
Greg Hughes ’24 – Greg studies the reaction of hydroxylamines with chalcones and subsequent TMSOTf-promoted elimination to yield 4-isoxazoles.
Helen Xia ’24 – Helen studies the Friedel–Crafts alkylation of indoles and benzofurans.
Katie Marchione ’25 – Katie develops one-pot enol silane formation-alkylation reactions of simple ketones.
Joshua Pae ’25 – Joshua is looking at how carbamates can be alkylated with propargyl carboxylates and then cyclized.
Lauren Rausch ’25 – Lauren is pioneering a Povarov reaction using Greg Hughes’s 4-isoxazoles as substrates.
Mark Strigel ’25 – Mark performs one pot enol silane formation-Mannich additions of nitrones, followed by reduction to yield 3-hydroxyamino alcohols.
Sai Dulam ’26 – The cyclization of congested aldol products is Sai’s new domain.
Remi Graff ’26 – Remi has tackled the addition of carbamates with propargyl propionates and their potential for cyclization.
Cat Jalbert ’26 – Cat studies the N- and C-alkylation of amides with allyl propionates and related reactions.
Allie Mock ’26 – Allie is in on the ground floor of an exciting new carbonyl ene reaction with styrene nucleophiles.
Eric Zhou ’27 – Eric has taken on the hydroxyalkylation of 3-alkylated indoles.