POWRE: Chiral Vinylsulfonium and Oxovinylsulfonium Salts in Asymmetric Syntheses

Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick NJ

Investigators

Abstract

This POWRE award by the Chemistry Division will allow Dr. Leslie Jimenez to pursue research in synthetic organic chemistry at Rutgers University/New Brunswick aimed at developing intermediates in the synthesis of the clinically important antitumor agent mitomycin C and analogous compounds. Dr. Jimenez will involve both graduate and undergraduate co-workers in this study and these students will be exposed to new areas of synthetic organic chemistry in addition to being trained in a variety of standard synthetic techniques and methods of characterization of organic materials.