Top: Middlesex college
Bottom: University college

The group, winter 2010: (top row) The Boss, Avedis, Kasia, Rosa.
(bottom row) Terry, Shawn, Mike E., Poly, Sara, Huck, Kirby, Mike J.


We are engaged in the development of new and useful synthetic chemical methods and their application to the chemical synthesis of complex targets. Please have a look at our list of publications or read a research summary.

We are located in the Chemistry Department at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Western Chemistry
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario

Recent Publications

  1. Nucleophilic Ring Opening of Cyclopropane Hemimalonates Using Internal Bronsted Acid Activation
    Emmett, Michael R; Kerr, Michael A.
    Org. Lett 2011, 13, 4180-4183. DOI: 10.1021/ol201486x
  1. Synthesis of Highly Substituted Indoles via Diels-Alder/Plieninger Indolization Sequence: Applications in Total Synthesis
    Sapeta, Katarina; Lebold, Terry P.; Kerr, Michael A.
    Synlett 2011, 11, 1495-1514. DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1260579

73. Grover, Huck K.; Lebold, Terry P.; Kerr, Michael A. Tandem Cyclopropane Ring-Opening/Conia-ene Reactions of 2-Alkynyl Indoles: A [3 + 3] Annulative Route to Tetrahydrocarbazoles. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 220-223 DOI: 10.1021/ol102627e

72. Johansen, Michael B.; Kerr, Michael A. Direct Functionalization of Indoles: Copper-Catalyzed Malonyl Carbenoid Insertions. Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 4956-4959. DOI: 10.1021/ol1020948

71. Karadeolian, Avedis; Kerr, Michael A. Total Synthesis of (+)-Isatisine A. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 6830-6841. DOI: 10.1021/jo101209y

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