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Dixon Group Research

The Dixon group invents new synthetically powerful methodologies – founded on new catalyst-enabled reactivity – that simplify the synthesis of structurally complex scaffolds, natural products and molecules of biological significance. We enjoy tackling reactions that have no precedent in the literature and strive to make the resulting methodologies attractive to synthesis chemists by developing protocols that are operationally simple, predictable, efficient, selective and scalable. A predominant focus of our group is catalytic stereoselective synthesis and we have published extensively on new, highly enantioselective methods development, total synthesis of complex natural products, new cooperative catalyst designs, and new cascade reactions.