Research Areas
1) The conversion of plant biomass into organic molecules of interest as fuels and value-added products
2) The concise synthesis of medicinally important molecules, particularly cannabinoids, extracyclic indole alkaloids, antioxidant fatty acids, and allium derivatives
3) The design and synthesis of topologically and theoretically interesting organic molecules, particularly bowl-shaped heterotriquinanes and heteroacepentalenes
4) The computational investigation of non-covalent interactions and their application to novel receptor design
5) Semiconducting polymers as materials for new generations of organic optoelectronics
6) Highly selective cation and anion sandwich complexation in cylindrophane hosts