Hofmeister, Kohen and students publish research

Gretchen Hofmeister, Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of the College, and Dani Kohen, Professor of Chemistry, have published an article in the Journal of Organic Chemistry with student co-authors Katie…

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Gretchen Hofmeister, Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of the College, and Dani Kohen, Professor of Chemistry, have published an article in the Journal of Organic Chemistry with student co-authors Katie Blise ’15, Milan Cvitkovic ’13, Nolly Gibbs ’11, Sean Roberts ’12, and Reid Whitaker ’14, which describes the energetic basis of chiral discrimination by a desymmetrization catalyst. The catalyst facilitates a reaction used in the synthesis of the epilepsy and anti-anxiety medication, pregabalin (Lyrica).