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Organic Chemistry

The faculty engaged in Organic Chemistry research have interdisciplinary programs that span the field of chemistry, including bioorganic mechanisms, complex carbohydrates, molecular recognition, biotechnology, natural products structure elucidation, new materials, organometallic synthesis, polymers, supramolecular assembly, synthetic methodology, total synthesis, and theoretical investigations of molecular structure.  Our program offers the chance to obtain graduate education in chemistry in a department with state-of-the-art facilities and an active faculty.

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Protein- and lipid-bound saccharides play essential roles in many molecular processes impacting eukaryotic biology and disease. Progress in glycoscience is, however, hampered by the inaccessibility of well-defined oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates for biological and biomedical studies. My laboratory is addressing these issues by developing…

Organic Chemistry

Research in our group is focused on the development of new synthetic transformations, primarily centered around transition metal catalysis.  Critical to the invention of these methods is our ability to derive inspiration from both reaction mechanisms and natural products.  Our understanding of intermediates…

The research programs in our laboratory are centered on the materials properties of polymers and plastics. Our research activities involve organic and polymer synthesis, thermomechanical characterization, rheology, extrusion, and polymer processing. We also assess the end-of-life fate for plastic materials, with a special emphasis on…

We are currently engaged in the development of organic methodologies toward the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Our recently patented methodology for the decarboxylation of natural and synthetic amino acids utilizes microwave promotion to yield bioactive amines. This work is supported by Innovation Gateway at UGA and the Georgia…

The art and science of organic synthesis has reached a level where one can envision a synthetic route to almost any designed or natural molecule. Despite this spectacular achievement, the ability to access meaningful quantities of complex organic molecules is often impossible via current means. Traditionally, complex targets are synthesized…

Enzymes are remarkable biocatalysts, not only for the dramatic rate accelerations (up to 1020 fold) that they provide, but also for the high degree of substrate specificity, regiospecificity and stereospecificity that these reactions exhibit. The work in my laboratory is focused on the chemical basis for how enzymes achieve such high rates and…

Photoswitchable bioactive compounds: Photoactivation of drugs, enzymes, and other bio-molecules allows for achieving of the spatial and temporal control of their action. We design and synthesize compounds that are inactive in the dark but are converted into bioactive form upon irradiation with light of an appropriate wavelength. One of our…

We are interested in organocatalytic reactions and methods (thioureas, oligopeptides), nanodiamonds (diamondoids) as building blocks and materials (e.g., organic electronics), matrix isolation of reactive intermediates (e.g., carbenes) and computational chemistry . Our group consists of scientists from the People's Republic of China, Germany,…

Prof. Michael Sherburn, Professor, Research School of Chemistry/ANU College of Science (Australian National University)

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Nicolas Osorio-Morales, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Prof. Kami Hull, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry (University of Texas at Austin)

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Avery Smith, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Jay Lawrence, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Prof. Roman Manetsch , Associate Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Northeastern University)

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Prof. Zachary Wickens, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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Prof. Mingji Dai , Asa Griggs Candler Professor, Department of Chemistry (Emory University)

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Dahai Ding, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Nicolas Osorio Morales, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Jarvis Hill, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Patrick Foster, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Prof. Liming Zhang, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (University of California at Santa Barbara)

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Geeta Goyal,

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Prof. Mark Levin, Associate Professor of Chemistry (University of Chicago)

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Prof. Andrew Roberts, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (University of Utah)

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Daniil Ahiadorme, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Prof. Jón Njardarson, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (University of Georgia)

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Patrick Foster, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Wei-Chih Lo, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Prof. Alexander Greer, Professor, Department of Chemistry (The City University of New York, Brooklyn College)

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Thomas Buckley, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Ishanka Manatunga, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Yan-Ting Ke, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Shivani Nagode, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)

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Prof. Peter Schreiner, Professor/Liebig Chair, Institute of Organic Chemistry (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany)

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Thomas Beckler, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)
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Margaret Solecki, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)
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Jacob Garber, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia)
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Prof. Yang Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (UC Santa Barbara)
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Amanullah Mohammed Sani,
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Prof. Marvin Parasram, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (NYU)
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Prof. Brian Stoltz, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (California Institute of Technology)
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