Organic Chemistry and Synthesis

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Organic and Medicinal Chemistry

Research in our lab is an interdisciplinary blend of synthetic organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and pharmacology.

Total Synthesis of Natural Products
Natural products represent a highly diverse and structurally complex natural library of compounds with remarkable biological and medicinal properties. Our lab develops new chemical methodologies to prepare natural products and natural product mimics with the goal of unraveling new mechanisms of protein regulation and their medicinal implications.

Chruma

Professor Chruma is teaching organic chemistry lecture and laboratory courses, with a particular focus on organic laboratory for non-majors/minors on a pre-health career track. Over the past two decades, he established a highly collaborative international research portfolio in organic synthesis. Independent research interests involved the development of new methods for the synthesis of biologically-active natural products, drug-like scaffolds, and luminescent small molecules, with a particular focus on using 2-azaallyl anions as imine umpolungs and super-electron-donors. Moreover, Prof.

Harman

For decades, the dearomatization of arenes has been recognized as a chemical transformation of fundamental importance. It provides the connection between this robust and abundant source of hydrocarbons and the alicyclic frameworks common to many biologically active products. Thus, dearomatization methods have become powerful tools for organic synthesis.

Samonina

Dr. Jelena Samonina joined the faculty of the UVA Chemistry Department in 2019, where her teaching interests include Organic Chemistry and Chemistry for the Health Sciences. She earned her M.S. and her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Warsaw University. After two postdoctoral trainings at the University of Virginia and at Stanford University she joined the faculty of Washington and Lee University.

Frantz

Alicia Frantz is an instructor for Organic Chemistry lecture. She earned a B.S. in Forensic Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. She is currently focusing on implementation of guided inquiry based learning in courses with large enrollment. Attending a large school herself, Alicia understands the importance for dedicating more of class time to group work and evidence-based techniques than the traditional lecturing.

Welch

Professor Kevin Welch is interested in developing curricula for undergraduate instruction in general chemistry and organic chemistry.  In particular, his focus is on updating these courses to accommodate the diverse educational background in chemistry of the students enrolling in chemistry at the University of Virginia, as well as providing a strong chemical foundation for the students as they continue on in their educational and post-educational careers in a variety of fields.  In the past, he has taught undergraduate courses in general chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, en

Serbulea

Professor Serbulea is teaching organic chemistry courses, including the accelerated organic chemistry lectures and laboratories. She is actively involved in the development of the organic chemistry curriculum, focusing on improving the coordination between the topics in the lecture course and the experiments that are carried out in the laboratory. In the accelerated organic chemistry laboratories, students gain hands-on experience in the synthesis, purification, and characterization of organic compounds using modern analytical instruments and laboratory equipment.

Pu

Organic, Polymer and Organometallic Chemistry; Asymmetric Catalysis; Chiral Sensors; Optically Active Materials

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