Jordan K Thompson
Graduate Student, Caltech
Jordan is a graduate student in Sarah Reisman's lab working on natural product total synthesis. He completed his undergraduate at UC Berkeley working with Tom Maimone on the synthesis of 6-epi-ophiobolin A.
Appearances
- We are taking a convergent fragment coupling approach to synthesize a novel pentacyclic grayanane, auriculatol A. Key reactions involve a unique vinylogous mukaiyama aldol reaction of a chiral silyloxyfuran with a bicyclic aldehyde unit…
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Graduate Student, Caltech - DateMarch 26, 2023We are taking a convergent fragment coupling approach to synthesize a novel pentacyclic grayanane, auriculatol A. Key reactions involve a unique vinylogous mukaiyama aldol reaction of a chiral silyloxyfuran with a bicyclic aldehyde unit…
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Graduate Student, Caltech - DateMarch 17, 2024The grayanane diterpenoids are a class of biologically active natural products that were first discovered as the active ingredients in “mad honey”, a honey that elicits intense drowsiness, numbing, and nausea. However, traditionally, these compounds have been used as alternative medicines…
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Graduate Student, Caltech
