Uttam K Tambar
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA
Biography
Uttam K Tambar received his AB degree from Harvard University in 2000 and his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 2006 with Professor Brian Stoltz. After he completed his NIH Post-doctoral Fellowship at Columbia University with Professor James Leighton in 2009, he began his independent research career at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Biochemistry Department, a W W Caruth, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research, and a Sloan Research Fellowship. He is interested in asymmetric catalysis, natural product synthesis and medicinal chemistry
Abstract
Abstract : Allylic functionalization of unactivated hydrocarbons