My group’s research interests are broad, and very collaborative throughout academia and industry, but are grounded on advanced and extensive fundamental organic chemistry knowledge.
Representative areas of interest :
investigating strategies towards the synthesis of complex natural products (diterepenes, diterpene alkaloids, and tetranortriterpenes);
designing and discovering novel biologically active molecules for potential use as medicines (antifungals, analgesics, anticancer, neurodegeneration, scabies, anticoagulants) and agrichemicals (herbicides);
design and develop new synthetic methods for new modes of constructing chemical bonds that are synthetically useful (catalysts and general synthetic methodology);
physical organic chemistry (fundamental molecules, computational chemistry, impact sensitive molecules);
micro- and nanoelectronics (photolithography monomers); and natural product isolation/elucidation of structurally intriguing novel molecules from the Australian desert, and (sub)tropical rainforests.