Maleczka Research Group

Our research program is directed toward a) green chemistry, b) the invention of new reactions and strategies in organic synthesis, and c) target synthesis of natural products and molecules of materials science interest.

Among the synthetic methods currently being investigated, we are particularly interested in the chemistry of organoboranes, especially catalytic CH borylations.  We are also studying organosilanes in Wittig rearrangements and in the chemistry of a class of inorganic-organic hybrid molecules known as silsesquioxanes. A central aim of these studies is the use of such compounds in efficient and environmentally benign reactions and strategies.

Application of our methods to target synthesis is an essential part of our research program. Thus once new reaction sequences have been established we apply them to the synthesis of molecules of pharmaceutical and material science relevance.