ASDRP - Aspiring Scholars Directed Research Program

Students from ASDRP are here at In Indianapolis presenting their research on labdane diterpenoids!

Our latest student publication is online at ACS Omega! A huge congratulations to Rosie Chen (Wilcox '24), Pratyush Singh (American '23), Sarah Su (Los Altos '23), Selin Kocalar (Leigh '22, MIT '26), Xina Wang (Amador '23), Neha Mandava (Santa Clara '22, UCLA '26), Srishti Venkatesan (Leigh '24), Adrienne Ferguson (Prospect '23), Aishi Rao (Mission San Jose '22, UC Berkeley '26), and Emma Le (Amador Valley '22, UCLA '26), lab technician Casey Rojas, and ASDRP scientist and organic chemist Edward Njoo. Nanalysis American Chemical Society

Synthesis + 19F NMR spectroscopy + Phys Org + DFT calculations + bio active small molecules!

Link to full Article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.3c00290 - "Benchtop 19F nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy provides mechanistic insight into the Biginelli condensation towards the chemical synthesis of novel trifluorinated dihydro- and tetrahydropyrimidinones as antiproliferative agents."

Link to Supporting Information - four hundred pages! -https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acsomega.3c00290/suppl_file/ao3c00290_si_001.pdf