Organic chemistry at JHU bridges both synthetic and physical organic chemistry. Current activities include research in synthetic methodology, materials, natural products, medicinal chemistry, and chemical biology. Our recent research has found application in medicine (Lectka, Toscano), biology (Greenberg, Rokita, Townsend), and materials science (Klausen, Tovar).
Groups: Greenberg, Huang, Klausen, Lectka, Rokita, Toscano, Tovar, Townsend
Group Highlights
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The Leckta Group publishes: “Catalysis of Free C–C Bond Rotation: C–F—H–X H-Bonds Find a Catalytic Role”
There are few dynamic processes in organic chemistry that are more central to the molecular structure than C–C bond rotation. It is notable, however, that there exist few (if any) […]
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Longer-Lived, Tougher Plastics by Single Atom Exchange
The Klausen Research Group publishes in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that replacing a small number of carbon atoms with silicon atoms makes polymer networks two-times stronger. This […]
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Metal Ion-Induced Large Fragment Deactivation
Complex natural product functionalizations generally involve the use of highly engineered reagents, catalysts, or enzymes to achieve site-selectivity by lowering a selected transition state energy. We invert this strategy by […]