Nelson Group Alumni
Graduate Students
Thesis Title
Current Affiliation
Timothy Lipski
Investigations toward a catalytic, asymmetric McMurry pinacol reaction
 
Keith L. Spencer
ß-Lactones as asymmetric synthesis intermediates: ß-Amino acid synthesis
Array Biopharma
(Boulder)
Mark A. Hilfiker
Investigations in asymmetric catalysis and applications to the synthesis of
laulimalide (2001)
GlaxoSmithKline
(King of Prussia)
Timothy J. Peelen
Catalytic, asymmetric aldol reaction equivalents: development and mechanistic
studies of Lewis acid-catalyzed acyl halide-aldehyde cyclocondensations (2002)
Lebanon Valley College
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry
Zhonghui Wan
Catalyzed asymmetric acyl halide-aldehyde cyclocondensation: A new strategy for
catalyzed asymmetric aldol bond construction (2001)
Eli Lilly & Co
Magdalena A. Stan
Efficient asymmetric construction of building blocks for natural products synthesis
(2003)
 
Vasu Rajaraman
Development of novel Al(III)-Triamine complexes as Lewis acid catalysts for
ß-lactone synthesis (2003)
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Andrew J. Kassick
Catalytic, Asymmetric Acyl Halide-Aldehyde Cyclocondensations In Complex
Molecule Synthesis And Application To The Installation Of Quaternary Carbon
Stereocenters (2004)
Merck Research
Laboratories (Rahway)
Jeremy M. Raelin
Extension of ketene-mediated asymmetric methodology (2006)
Novartis
(Cambridge)
Junping Zhao
Catalytic Asymmetric Polypropionate Synthesis (2006)
Roche
(Palo Alto)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Ph.D. Institution
Current Affiliation
Dr. Beon Kyu-Kim
North Dakota State University (Boudjouk)
PPG Industries (Monroeville)
Dr. Wing Shun Cheung
University of Hong Kong
Johnson & Johnson (Cranberry)
Dr. Christopher J. Bungard
University of Canterbury (Jonathan Morris)
Merck Research Laboratories (West Point)
Dr. Cheng Zhu
University of Rochester (Mike Calter)
Merck Research Laboratories (Rahway)
Dr. G. Greg Zipp
University of California, Irvine (Larry
Overman)
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (Princeton)
Dr. Zuosheng Liu
Ohio State University (Leo Paquette)
Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research
Foundation (La Jolla)