Rich G. Carter - Oregon State University

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Rich G. Carter

Organic Chemistry

Associate Professor

Education: B.S. Gettysburg College (1993); Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (1997); NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Oregon State University (1997-99).

Awards: Esther Brandt Chemistry Award (1992); Stine Chemistry Prize (1993); John B. Zinn Chemistry Research Award (1993); David Burton Jr. Fellowship Award (1996); National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow (1997-99); NIH NIAID Peer Review Panel for Cooperative Research for the Development of Vaccines, Adjuvants, Therapeutics, Immunotherapeutics, and Diagnostics for Biodefense (2003); NIH Peer Review Panel, Medicinal Chemistry A (MCHA) June Study Section, Ad Hoc Reviewer (2003, 2004); Awarded Early Tenure from Oregon State University (2004); NIH Peer Review Panel, Chemical and Bioanalytical Sciences Fellowship Review Panel, Ad Hoc Reviewer (2005, 2006); NIH Peer Review Panel, Synthetic and Biological Chemistry A, Ad Hoc Reviewer (2006); Jorunal Awardee, Synthesis / Synlett Editorial Board - Thieme Publishers (2007); NIH Peer Review Panel, Synthetic and Biological Chemistry B, Ad Hoc Reviewer (2007); NIH Peer Reveiw Panel, S10 Shared Instrumentation (2007); Sugihara Young Faculty Research Award (2007).

Email: rich.carter@oregonstate.edu
Office: GILB 301
Phone: (541) 737-9486
Fax: (541) 737-9496

Research Group Website:
http://www.chemistry.oregonstate.edu/carter/

Organic and Bioorganic Website:
http://www.chemistry.oregonstate.edu/organic/

Research Interests

Our research efforts are focused toward the construction of structural motifs not well addressed by existing synthetic approaches. A portion of this research is directed toward the synthesis of complex, biologically active natural products covering the spectrum in structural diversity: spiroketals, macrolides, terpenes, alkaloids and cyclic peptides. We also are interested in developing new methods for synthesizing non-natural organic compounds. One current area of research in this direction is the development of novel approaches for the synthesis of highly functionalized biaryl compounds. A more detailed description of these projects can be found on our research group website.

Representative Publications

Diels-Alder Approach to Tetra-ortho-Substituted Biaryls Employing Propargylic Tertiary Alcohols as Dienophiles. J. Org. Chem., 2007, 72 (26), 10220-10223.
Diels-Alder Approach for the Construction of Halogenated, ortho-Nitro Biaryl Templates and Application to the Total Synthesis of anti-HIV Agent Siamenol. J. Org. Chem., 2007, 72 (26), 9857-9865.
Synthesis of Tetra-ortho-substituted, Phosphorus-Containing and Carbonyl-Containing Biaryls Utilizing a Diels-Alder Approach, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129 (29), 9109-9116.
Synthesis of the Southern FGHI Ring System of Azaspiracid-1 and Investigation into the Controlling Elements of C₂₈- and C₃₆-Ketalization, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 7622-7626.
Diels-Alder Approach to Poly-substituted Biaryls: Rapid Entry to Tri- and Tetra-ortho-substituted Phosphorus-Containing Biaryls, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 6737-6741.
Synthesis of the C₁-C₂₆ Northern Portion of Azaspiracid: Kinetic versus Thermodynamic Bisspiroketal Formation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 1787-1790.
Synthetic Studies Toward Amphidinolide B₁: Synthesis of the C₉-C₂₆ Fragment, Org. Lett. 2005, 7 (19), 4209-4212.