Jeremy May
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Jeremy May
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2006
B.S., University of Utah (Cum Laude), 2000
Department of Chemistry
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-5003
Office: 5025 - SERC
Phone: 832.842.8808
jmay@uh.edu
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Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Methods Development
The goal of the May group is to make molecules of interest and
utility. This goal encompasses the development of powerful synthetic
methodologies as well as their application to the synthesis of complex
molecules. For example, chemical transformations using transition metal
catalysts that stabilize carbene and ylide-like intermediates are
sought to form densely functionalized bonds of great utility to the
synthetic chemist and to do so with chemo- and stereoselectivity.
Furthermore, cascade reactions allow for a variety of bond forming and
bond breaking events to occur in one reaction setup, thus providing
significant chemical transformation with high efficiency. Target molecules, such as those shown below, are principally
complex natural products that exhibit a challenging architecture and
intriguing biological properties. Other targets include molecular
recognition motifs for directed chemical reactions or molecular biology
applications. These compounds have value for therapeutic target
identification, pharmaceutical development, protein sequencing, and
chemical biology.
Training in the lab includes education in the fields of
organometallics, organic synthesis, reaction development, mechanism
elucidation, natural product chemistry, structural elucidation,
scientific writing, and other skills necessary for the practice of
chemistry in an academic or commercial environment.
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