By Angela Chavez '23, Miranda Wu '22, Abby Perce '24, Danny Joubran '24, Anh Truong '25

Medicinal chemistry requires oxygen alkylation due to specificity of the human body. We’re doing this using the Chan-Evan-Lam mechanism in order to avoid dangerous reagents.

Chan-Evans-Lam Oxidative O-Alkylation; poster session deriving from AEMES, special studies, and STRIDE research with Dave Gorin, associate professor of chemistry and Rea Farjo, research assistant in chemistry