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The W Lab @ TempleOur lab aims to develop a multifaceted research program focusing on asymmetric methods development and natural product synthesis as the means for fueling biological investigations. Our research program will provide students with training across multiple scientific fields and aid in their understanding of the interplay between chemistry and biology. Representative research areas include C–H activation, asymmetric C–C bond formation, novel methods to access carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen containing ring systems, and the synthesis of natural products targeting cancer metastasis.
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Excited about our research? Interested in becoming a member of the W lab?
Click here to apply to the Temple Chemistry Graduate Program! Now accepting applications for Fall 2018!
Click here to apply to the Temple Chemistry Graduate Program! Now accepting applications for Fall 2018!
Congrats to Felipe and Tony on their review "Hypervalent Iodine Reagents in High Valent Transition Metal Chemistry" which has been published in Molecules. Check it out here: http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/22/5/780/
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Undergrads Maria, Nate, and Aimee participate in Temple URP Poster Symposium |
W Lab undergraduates Maria Velopolcek, Nate Greenwood and Aimee Dubin were recognized for their outstanding undergraduate research at the annual Temple Undergraduate Research Symposium on October 7th. Maria and Nate also brought home two second place awards! Congrats to both the students and their mentors!
What have our undergrads been up to: Nate has been working with Jess on the synthesis of novel chiral hypervalent iodine scaffolds. Maria has been working with Mell on applying our ring expansion to the synthesis of novel anti-cancer molecules. Aimee, supported as a Frances Velay Fellow this past summer, has worked extensively on oxidative ring expansions and now has moved on to novel (mono)cationic hypervalent iodine scaffolds. |
The W lab has been awarded their first
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The W lab has received our first R01 from the NIH to fund our work on novel approaches to the synthesis of medium-sized rings and the further development of novel (poly)cationic hypervalent iodine reagents! We are so excited for this opportunity and thankful to the NIH for their generous support of our work!!
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